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The International Broadcast Centre is a temporary hub for broadcasters during major sporting events. It provides a shared space where television and radio channels can produce and transmit coverage to their home countries. The facility is also known as the International Press Center or Main Press Center.
The inaugural Olympic IBC was created for the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. It operated out of the NHK Broadcasting Center and was the first Olympics to be telecast internationally without tapes being flown overseas.
The Munich IBC at the 2006 FIFA World Cup covered 30,000 square meters at the Munich Fairgrounds and was built using 966 tonnes of fir wood. It housed 15 television studios and allowed 120 television and radio channels to broadcast coverage to around 190 countries.
Olympic Broadcasting Services provides each rights-holder a video and audio feed from every competition venue, along with beauty shots from around the host city and transmission facilities.
The International Broadcast Centre for the 2026 FIFA World Cup will be located in Dallas.
Some Olympic IBCs have occupied improvised spaces. In Lake Placid for the 1980 Winter Games, the IBC was placed in a Highway Department garage. In Nagano for the 1998 Winter Games, the facility operated from a renovated former textile mill.