Hangzhou Asian Games

Media And Broadcast Plans Take Shape At Iconic Expo Centre

The local and international media play a huge part in the success of the Asian Games, and there is no doubt they will be well looked after in Hangzhou.

The Main Media Centre is located in the Hangzhou International Expo Centre, close to the “Big Lotus” main stadium, the new aquatics centre and gymnasium and the “Little Lotus” tennis stadium.

The MMC covers an area of almost 50,000 sq metres, including four exhibition halls and their lobbies on the ground floor and a dining area and volunteer centre on basement level one.

Rights-holding broadcasters will be in Exhibition Hall B; the Main Press Centre will be in Hall C and the International Broadcast Centre in Hall D. The host broadcaster is China Media Group.

Yang Meng, Deputy Director of the HAGOC Public Relations Department, announced that the MMC would be open for equipment installation from August 15 to September 8, and that pre-Games trials operations would run from September 9-17. The MMC will be fully functional from September

18, five days before the opening ceremony.

The second World Press Briefing and second World Broadcasters Meeting are due to be held in June.

“During the meeting, the progress made in preparations for the Games, broadcast services and RHB (rights-holding