NEW DELHI: DD News will telecast daily a 30-minute special sports programme titled Beijing 2008 – Quest for Glory, from 7-25 August at 7 pm.

The programme will have inputs from the live coverage of the events that will be telecast from the games venue and the discussions on the day’s round up at the Olympic Games.

While India’s participation in the Olympics in Beijing will be telecast live on the national network of Doordarshan DD 1, the entire games will be telecast live/deferred live on the pubcaster’s sports channel DD Sports.

In addition, DD 1 and DD Sports will telecast live the opening and closing ceremonies on 8 August and 24 August respectively

On the first day, the live anchoring/discussion will commence from 5:30 pm followed by the Opening Ceremony which is expected to go on till around 9:05 pm.

The Closing Ceremony of the Olympics will be telecast live from 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm or till the end. DD Sports will telecast live all India participating events with customized commentary.