China Media Group (CMG), the exclusive all-media rights-holding broadcaster for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games on the Chinese mainland and Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR), issued a statement on national broadcast rights on Wednesday.

CMG's TV channels, including CCTV-1, CCTV-13, CCTV-5, CCTV-16 (CCTV Olympic Channel) and CCTV-8K UHD; radio channels The Voice of China, China Radio International (CRI) News Radio, and new media platforms will broadcast the opening ceremony of the Games on February 4.

The national broadcaster authorized provincial TV channels on the Chinese mainland (excluding their new media platforms) and Macao SAR to simultaneously broadcast the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympics, subject to the copyright rules of the International Olympic Committee and the International Paralympic Committee.