[MUSIC] [BLANK_AUDIO]. Hello. As we have pointed out, television and other media transformed a local event like the Olympic Games into a global one. Constructing the reality of the event for the public who was not in the stadium. The games have traditionally been a privileged test to the lab, and a platform to launch new audio visual and telecommunication technologies. In addition, the Olympic games have been a showcase to disseminate the new technological advances among the general public. Based on the introduction of these technologies and communicative innovation, we have derived the history of the relationship between the Olympics and the media in 4 different periods. [BLANK_AUDIO]. The media in the boost of the modern Olympism. The first [UNKNOWN] to cover since the first Olympic Congress to the moment previous to the introduction of the television during the 1932 Los Angeles Olympic Games. It was the time when the cinema was born, almost simultaneously to the Olympics and also when the radio started. The revival of the Olympics was supported by the newspapers of the epoch. As well we see afterwards, that radio will face the faculties for its consolidation as a media that reports about the Olympics. So, television and media internationalization of the Olympics. This period encompasses since the, the birth of television during the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, to the starting of the internationalization of the games in 1960 in the Rome Olympics. During this period the television was not only consolidated from a technological point of view but it was also discovering its own language and the ways to, of [UNKNOWN] too. At that time, it was a black and white media. At the end of the period, [UNKNOWN] the international coverage of the event. To be more precise, the European coverage of the Olympic Games. [BLANK_AUDIO]. 3, the Global Olympic Games. It started with the first color television broadcasting during the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, which also inaugurated the era of the satellite broadcasting of the games, the period. And during the 1992 Barcelona Olympic games, the last games without the internet. It was a period of consolidation of the television as a mass media, and a time of great technological development. During this period, television became a media [UNKNOWN] in all the household around the world. From the economic point of view, the globalization of the Olympics paved the way for the emergence of a model of commercialization of the games, with the selling of the TV rods, as the fundamental cornerstone. A wide range of technologies such as the color television, satellite broadcasting, high definition television, fiber optics, or the digitalization of some processes were introduced during these period, which lasted less than 30 years. 4, Internet, the social Web and the commercialization of the Olympic Games. The centennial games, the 1996 Atlanta Olympics were the first where the internet was used as a communication media. The World Wide Web as a popular system of access into the internet had been inaugurated after the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. At the same time, the commercialization system established by Juan Antonio Samaranch of the, the Moscow games, is clearly consolidated and is accessibly based on 2 main pillars. The selling of the TV rights and the top sponsors product,. It is precisely the combination of bowls, the secret formula that explains the success in the commercialisation of the Olympics, as we will explain during the fifth, week of this course. The 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games were the first games in where social media were just at the same time. The games continue being a showcase of new television technologies like the ultra high-definition television and 3D television as it could be seen in London 2012. This is a sort of introduction, a global introduction to the different period in which we have divided the history of the Olympics and the media technology. We will deepen in every one of these periods in the following videos. [BLANK_AUDIO]