Cable Network to Join CBS in Televising Winter Olympics

The Olympic Games will go on cable television for the first time under a $50-million deal worked out between CBS Inc. and Turner Broadcasting Systems Inc. that covers the 1992 and 1994 Winter Olympics.

Turner Network Television will air about 50 hours of programming for each Olympics. CBS, which paid $243 million for the 1992 Games at Albertville, France, and $300 million for the 1994 Games at Lillehammer, Norway, will air about 120 hours of each Olympics.