According to Sun Weijia, the director of the Media Operation
Department of Beijing Organizing Committee for Olympic Games
(BOCOG), 2007 World Broadcaster Briefing will be held in Beijing
from September 23 to 29, when the issue of the broadcast of 2008
Beijing Olympic Games will be discussed.
More than 300 broadcasters from around the world will
participate in the briefing, and Beijing Olympic Broadcasting
(BOB), the official broadcaster of 2008 Beijing Olympic and
Paralympic Games, will give an introduction to their arrangement of
broadcasting operation. BOCOG will also give a report on the
events, stadiums and gyms, traffic, hotels, technologies,
presswork, tickets, etc. The Paralympic Games will also be a topic
of the briefing.
This will be the third and the last briefing of its kind, after
the two previous ones in 2005 and 2006, all hosted by BOCOG and
BOB.
During the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, 16,000 personnel of
200-plus authorized broadcasters will come to Beijing , when more
than 4 billion people in the world will be covered by the broadcast
of the Games, including both radio and television.
(Chinanews July 6, 2007)