Which Summer Olympics were the first to be televised live to a local audience?

The 1936 Berlin Olympics were the first Summer Olympics televised live to a local audience.

Television coverage was provided in Berlin and nearby viewing rooms, where spectators watched live pictures on large screens. The broadcasts used experimental technology and reached a relatively small audience compared with modern Olympic coverage.

The Games were also recorded and transmitted through a combination of television cameras and film technologies. Their organizers used broadcasting as part of a wider effort to present the Olympics as a modern mass spectacle.

Berlin 1936 is sometimes described simply as the first televised Olympics, but the scale was very different from later international broadcasts. The 1964 Tokyo Games became the first Summer Olympics broadcast internationally by satellite, making live coverage available across much wider distances.