Yes they were covered extensively. The first Olympics to be televised were in 1936 when they were held in Berlin.
1956
The first televised Olympics were the 1936 Berlin Olympics which were broadcast on closed-circuit television across Berlin and during the 1964 Tokyo Olympics a satellite was used to broadcast the Olympics to various countries for the first time.
Australia had its first colour television broadcast on March 1 1975. It was called C Day.
The Germans broadcast the first live television 'show' during the 1935 Olympics in Berlin.
1956 also the year television was made.
English and French(it is going to be in Canada!!)
8PM EDT on NBC will be the first broadcast Television time for the USA
They paid $894 million for the television broadcast rights in the United States.
The first television broadcast in Australia was by TCN-9 in Sydney on the 16th of September, 1956, with announcer, Bruce Gyngell, introducing TV to the audience. Melbourne's HSV-7 followed on the 26th of September, and GTV-9 went to air on the 27th of September, 1956. ABC-2 commenced transmission on the 5th of November, 1956.
The network station NBC has not always broadcast the Olympics. However they have held the broadcast rights for the Summer Olympics since 1988 and for the Winter Olympics since 2002.
The Cisco Kid. Commercial color television broadcasting began in 1951, with the first television show filmed and broadcast in color being The Cisco Kid which was broadcast in 1954. The Cisco Kid was on the air from 1950 to 1956, but few Americans were able to see it in color because a color television was much too expensive for most people.
The first words ever spoken on Australian television were "Good evening and welcome to television". They were spoken by Bruce Gyngell in 1956.