Olympic TV thread

[ShearMagic9]

I picked up a Sunday Mail on Sunday (z0mg, sif) and in it there was a TV guide for the whole Olympics.

Since some people wouldn't have the luxury, I'll post it all in here:

*NOTE, ALL TIMES AUSTRALIAN EASTERN STANDARD TIME

Subtract 30 minutes for South Australia, Northern Territory
Subtract 2 hours for Western Australia*

Friday 8th August:

CHANNEL 7

9:50pm - Opening Ceremony

Saturday 9th August:

CHANNEL 7

9:00am - Opening Ceremony of the Games (REPLAY)

11:00am - Basketball (Women's): Australia vs. Belarus

1:00pm - Cycling: Men's Road Race (Cadel Evans, Stuart O'Grady)

4:00pm - Rowing: Womens Single Sculls/Pairs/Double Sculls/Mens Single Sculls/Pairs/Double Sculls/Four

7:00pm - Games of the XXIX Olympiad: Johanna Griggs and Matthew White

8:30pm - Swimming: Mens 400m Individual Medley (Travis Nederpelt), Womens 100m Butterfly (Libby Trickett & Jessica Schipper), Mens 400m Freestyle (Grant Hackett, Craig Stevens), Womens 400m IM (Stephanie Rice, Samantha Hamill), Mens 100m Breaststroke (Brenton Rickard & Christian Sprenger), Women's 4 x 100m Freestyle relay
Cycling: Men's Road Race REPLAY
Rowing: Womens Single Sculls/Pairs/Double Sculls/Mens Single Sculls/Pairs/Double Sculls/Four
Gymnastics: Men's
Beach volleyball: Men's and Women's
Equestrian: Three Day Event - Dressage
Boxing: Men's Middle Weight 75kg

SBS

11:00am - Handball: Women's Prelims

12:30pm - Beach Volleyball

1:00pm - Cycling: Mens Road Race

7:30pm - Football: Women's, Sweden vs. Argentina

8:45pm - Beach Volleyball: Women's

9:45pm - Football: Women's, China vs. Canada

11:30pm - Boxing: Prelims

12:15am - Baskbetball: Women's, Russia vs. Latvia

Other days will be updated over the next couple of days.

 

[TorresIsGod]

Fantastic!

Each day either myself of FC will update this thread

 

[ShearMagic9]

Sunday 10th August: (14 goal medals to be won today)

CHANNEL 7

12:30pm - Swimming: (Finals), Men's 400m Individual Medley, Mens 400m Freestyle, Women's 400m Individual Medley, Women's 4x100m Freestyle

3:30pm - AFL - Round 19: Crows vs. Tigers
Shooting: Women's Air Pistol Final, Men's Trap Final
Water Polo: (Men's), Australia vs. Greece
Rowing: Women's Light Weight Double Scull/Quad Scull/Eight, Men's Light Weight Double Scull/Light Weight Four/Quad Scull/Eight
Gymnastics: Women.

7:00pm - Rowing: Women's Light Weight Double Scull/Quad Scull/Eight, Men's Light Weight Double Scull/Light Weight Four/Quad Scull/Eight
Football: (Men's), Australia vs. Argentina
Swimming: Women's 100m Backstroke (Sophie Edington, Emily Seebohm), Men's 200m Freestyle (Kenrick Monk, Nicholas Sprenger), Women's 100m Breaststroke (Leisel Jones, Tarnee White), Men's 100m Backstroke (Ashley Delaney, Hayden Stroeckel), Women's 400m Freestyle (Bronte Barratt, Linda MacKenzie), Men's 4x100m Freestyle relay
Gymnastics: Women's
Hockey Women's, Australia vs. Korea
Basketball: Men's, Australia vs. Croatia, US vs. China
Boxing: Men's Welter Weight 69kg, Men's Light Welter Weight 64kg

SBS

11:00am - Basketball: Men's, Russia vs. Iran

12:45pm - Water Polo: Men's, Spain vs. Canada

1:45pm - Volleyball: Men's Prelims, Serbia vs. Russia

3:15pm - Boxing

4:00pm - Cycling: Women's Road Race

7:30pm - Football: Men's, Brazil vs. New Zealand

8:45pm - Beach Volleyball: Women's

9:45pm - Football: Men's, Italy vs. Korea

11:30pm - Boxing: Prelims

12:00am - Volleyball: Men's, Poland vs. Germany

1:30am - Boxing

 

[dont bowl there]

Thanks heaps FC!

 

[OzBomber]

Is there going to be any Roy & HG?

 

[ShearMagic9]

Is there going to be any Roy & HG?

Pretty sure they've got an early morning radio gig but as far as I know they're not on TV.

 

[OzBomber]

Damn, that sucks. They're always great fun.

 

[TheMightyPies]

ch7 and sbs could get stuffed up

 

[OzBomber]

All the better for Cadel.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Ch 7's press release about there coverage and which commentators they will use for which sports.

http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2008/07/beijing-olympics-2008-one-world-one.html

The games of the XXIX Olympiad will officially kick off at 9:50pm Friday August 8 on Channel Seven.

It will be hosted by Matthew White, with commentary from Bruce McAvaney, Sandy Roberts, Sonia Kruger and Ric Birch. In Sydney and Brisbane it is preceded by an Olympics Countdown from 9pm. On Thursday August 7 there will also be a football match between Australia and Serbia at 9pm.

Sporting events then kick off at 11am Saturday August 9 with Women's Basketball (Aus v Belarus).

Seven's schedule will consist of Sunrise (6am), Yum Cha (9:30am), Olympic events (11am), Seven News / Today Tonight (6 / 6.30pm) and more Olympic events from 7pm to 2am daily.

David Koch and Mel Doyle will present Sunrise direct from Beijing from August 4 for one week. Anna Coren will also travelling to Beijing to present Today Tonight.

Press Release:

The biggest event on television is only days away.

8 July 2008: The biggest event on television in 2008, and the single largest undertaking by any network since Seven’s coverage of the Games of the XXVII Olympiad in Sydney in 2000, is now only days away with the Games of the XXIX Olympiad in Beijing.

This will be Seven’s 12th Olympic Games. It will be first Olympic Games to be completely broadcast in high definition – with Seven accessing more than 1,200 broadcast cameras, 61 outside broadcast production trucks, 375 production vehicles, 70 separate vision feeds and 15 dedicated satellite links to create the most extraordinary television coverage of a major event. Seven will use 3,000 hours of satellite and digital video network time, and will have equivalent of 150 videotape machines and be using 500 television monitors, in addition to the global television coverage technology for the Games.

It’s a lifetime away from Seven’s first coverage of an Olympic Games: Melbourne in 1956. Then, Seven’s coverage was based on three black and white cameras and one small outside broadcast unit that covered track and field at the Olympic Stadium (the Melbourne Cricket Ground) and then as dusk fell, transferred those cameras and outside production unit to the Olympic Swimming Pool during the evening.

Seven’s coverage in Beijing is being led by Seven’s Head of Sport, Saul Shtein, Executive Producer, Andy Kay and General Manager of Sport Operations, Col Southey.

“We can’t wait for the Games. We are ready. Our people are ready. It will be an extraordinary 17 days of television,” Mr Shtein said. “Nothing is bigger than an Olympic Games and we are about to embark on an extraordinary journey. The sheer size of our television coverage commitment is amazing but when we drill down past the statistics, you will see our coverage tell the real story of the Olympics: the athletes, their passion, their emotion, the drama. It will be fantastic.”

Seven will produce more than 633 hours of television coverage for Seven and SBS. More than 500 Australians will be involved in the television coverage – Seven’s biggest production commitment since the Olympic Games in Sydney.

In addition to these 500, more than 100 specialists from Seven will also play a critical role in the global television coverage with Seven again contracted by the Beijing Olympic Broadcasting Organisation to provide technology and crew and to produce television coverage of all swimming, diving, water polo and synchronised swimming events in Beijing. Seven produced the global television coverage of all swimming events in Sydney and Athens as well as coverage of all Freestyle Skiing events at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino. Eighteen months ago, Seven was recognised by the International Olympic Committee as the leader in the coverage of the Olympic Games.

Seven was awarded the highest honour - the gold award in the Olympic Golden Rings, a prestigious international competition in which the International Olympic Committee seeks to promote and award excellence in television coverage of the Olympic Games.

In all Seven won gold, silver and bronze in three of the four broadcasting categories – competing against television networks around the world in the biggest sports event on television, an Olympic Games. In a great recognition of Seven’s technology and production capabilities, Seven was awarded in the category: Best Olympic Sports Production.

Commenting, Mr Kay said: “We’ve assembled a group whose broadcasting experience and expertise in Olympic sports combines to give Australian viewers front row seats for an Olympic coverage never before seen.

“And the biggest technological breakthrough in Olympic television history happens this year when the entire coverage will be telecast in high definition for the first time in Australia. The quality of hosts and commentators will match that of the pictures.”

Anchoring the coverage will be Johanna Griggs, Matthew White and Sandy Roberts, reprising the roles they performed in Athens – a coverage which won the Seven Network the Golden Rings Award for the Best Olympic Coverage in the world as voted by the IOC, eclipsing broadcasters like America’s NBC and the BBC in England.

They’ll be joined in the studio by Andrew Daddo as host of the China-based program Yum Cha. Kylie Gillies will present regular news updates.

Johanna, Sandy and Matthew will direct traffic from their studio in the International Broadcast Centre in Beijing’s Olympic Green and take viewers to all parts of the country and as far as Hong Kong for coverage of the equestrian competition.

Bruce McAvaney will anchor Seven’s covering of swimming and track and field. Joining Bruce at the pool is Olympic gold medallist and accomplished swimming commentator Duncan Armstrong, while at the pool deck another former gold medallist, Daniel Kowalski, joins Seven for his first Olympic commentary role. Daniel will be the first person to greet the swimmers as they leave the pool following their events.

When Bruce ventures across to track and field, he’ll meet a commentary team also boasting a wealth of Olympic glory and experience. Olympic silver medallist Raelene Boyle, Olympic gold medallist Steve Ovett, World Championship medallist Steve Moneghetti and Olympic finalist David Culbert bring years of athletic and broadcasting experience to the microphone and can’t wait to share that experience with millions of Australian viewers.

Seven’s commentary team boasts some of Australia’s best known athletes and experts. Kerri Pottharst and Julien Prosser at beach volleyball; Lauren Burns at taekwondo; Andrew Gaze and Rachael Sporn at basketball; Dean Pullar at diving; Debbie Watson at water polo; Phil Liggett and Mike Turtur at cycling; Rechelle Hawkes and David Wansbrough at hockey; Nick Green at rowing, Damian Brown at weightlifting; Kerri Tepper at table tennis and Greg Welch at triathlon are just some of the former superstar athletes who will join Seven’s commentary team for this project, which has been some seven years in the planning.

Hosts
Andrew Daddo, Kylie Gillies, Johanna Griggs, Sandy Roberts, Matthew White

Ceremonies
Ric Birch, Sonia Kruger, Bruce McAvaney, Sandy Roberts, Rebecca Wilson

Archery
Eddie Butler

Athletics
Raelene Boyle, David Culbert, Bruce McAvaney, Steve Moneghetti, Steve Ovett, Pat Welsh

Badminton
Peter Blackburn, Kerryn Pratt

Basketball
Chris Dittmar, Andrew Gaze, Rachael Sporn, Basil Zempilas

Beach Volleyball
David Culbert, Kerri Pottharst, Julien Prosser

Boxing
Jim Neilly, Richie Woodhall

Canoe-Kayak
Peter Colquhoun, Michael Felgate, Tom Williams, Basil Zempilas

Cycling
Peter Colquhoun, Neil Kearney, Phil Liggett, Mike Turtur, Tom Williams

Diving
Peter Donegan, Dean Pullar

Equestrian
Simon Marshall, Garry Wilkinson

Football
Gordon Bray, Mike McCann

Gymnastics
Liz Chetkovich, Simon Reeve

Handball
Peter Colquhoun, Michael Felgate, Darryl McCormack

Hockey
Gordon Bray, David Christison, Rechelle Hawkes, David Wansbrough

Judo
Nicola Fairbrother, Nick Mullins

Rowing
Michael Felgate, Nick Green, Basil Zempilas

Sailing
Nick McCallum, Shirley Robertson, Richard Simmons

Shooting
Gordon Bray

Softball
Joyce Lester, Kerryn Pratt

Swimming
Duncan Armstrong, Daniel Kowalski, Bruce McAvaney

Table Tennis
Peter Donegan, Kerri Tepper

Taekwondo
Gordon Bray, Lauren Burns

Tennis
Peter Donegan, Kerryn Pratt, Garry Wilkinson

Triathlon
David Culbert, Daniel Kowalski, Phil Liggett, Steve Moneghetti, Greg Welch

Volleyball
Jonathan Fogarty, Mike McCann

Water Polo
Jon Harker, Debbie Watson

Weightlifting
Damian Brown, Peter Colquhoun, Pat Welsh

Seven will broadcast from 9.30am each morning – after an Olympic flavoured Sunrise program – until 2am the following morning. This will be complemented by Seven News at 6pm and Today Tonight at 6.30pm.

Add four hours per day of highlights on Yahoo!7 and Seven’s mobile coverage on Telstra Big Pond and Australians will have access to the most comprehensive and stunning Olympic Games coverage ever.

Seven’s News Team In Beijing
Jessica Adamson
Mike Amor
Chris Bath
Matt Carmichael
Dylan Howard
Paul Kadak
Chris Reason
Jim Wilson

Seven’s Today Tonight Team In Beijing
Anna Coren
Rodney Lohse
Bryan Seymour

Sunrise
The Sunrise Olympic journey begins on August 4 when David Koch and Mel Doyle present the show direct from Beijing.

They'll tour the venues, chat to our athletes and sample the sights and sounds of China.

Then Brekky Central becomes Games Central from Monday August 11.

Relatives of our Olympians will form a massive Aussie cheer squad each day in our studio. The Sunrise team will be joined by our hand-picked panel of experts - including Jodie Henry and Matt Shirvington.

Sunrise will have Australia's most comprehensive wrap of overnight action – including exclusive replays of the big medal wins.

Our Beijing coverage will be led by Mark Beretta, who will keep viewers up-to-date with all the latest sports news, as well as Grant Denyer and Monique Wright, who have full access to daily events and will join our Olympians each night as they soak up the Olympic City's nightlife.

And only Sunrise can take you inside the Athletes' Village each morning for live interviews with our team's big performers.

But the close of the Games doesn't spell the end of our coverage.

Sunrise will also broadcast LIVE from Sydney Airport on Tuesday August 26 to welcome home our Australian team.

Yum Cha
One of the most exciting and yet challenging telecasts of the Beijing project will be the morning program Yum Cha, which begins on day two of the Games in the 90 minutes before competition begins and will run each day until the day of the closing ceremony.

It’s a great opportunity for Seven’s Andrew Daddo to reprise a similar role he carried out so successfully on Olympic Sunrise during the Sydney Games in 2000 (a program he still rates as one of the highlights of a career spanning more than two and a half decades).

Yum Cha will be a panel based program where Andrew can call on a myriad of guests to join him in the studios of Beijing’s International Broadcast Centre to join him in serious and not so serious discussion regarding any element of the games, be it the sports competition both preview and review, the Chinese culture and how they are handling the Games, the latest news surrounding the Games and just straight out fun.

The program has been in development for several months and producers have a long list of Australian and international guests lined up – and not just sporting personalities.

And as the sports competition and telecast will finish as 2am each morning AEST, Yum Cha also provides the opportunity to highlight events viewers may have missed in the late night hours. It will also target the more extraordinary moments not necessarily shown in the normal coverage.

Personalities such as Sonia Kruger, Rebecca Wilson, Tom Williams, Duncan Armstrong, Phil Liggett, Steve Ovett and Raelene Boyle will all make regular appearances while rising network star Kylie Gillies will also be a large part of the show, not just presenting news updates but using her wealth of sporting knowledge to add to each day’s discussion.

Yum Cha runs from Day 2 at 9.30am AEST until 11am on all days of the Games except the middle two Sundays where it will start even earlier to make way for the telecasts of the men’s and women’s marathons.

 

[w00dy]

does anyone know why 7 aren't using their HD and other channels they have running in the 70's to show different events at the same time?

especially with the footy, it would've worked well... footy on 7, olympics on 7HD...

olympics would've been the perfect time for them to really launch their digital tv coverage properly...

 

[OzBomber]

Opening Ceremony boosts Seven's ratings

Watched by 7.8mil people! That is amazing. Still 2.4mil were watching at 1am to see us walk out.

 

[OzBomber]

Why can't Channel 7 do what the yanks and the Poms do and have the olympics live on the net? It'd be so good if we'd be able to choose what WE want to watch.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

David Basheer is calling the Canada v China women's football match. Not sure if he is in the studio or in Beijing but likely in the studio. I guess we will have to listen to Mike McCann and maybe Gordon Bray for Olyroo games and Basheer will call all the other games on SBS.

 

[Cotchin 9]

David Basheer is calling the Canada v China women's football match. Not sure if he is in the studio or in Beijing but likely in the studio. I guess we will have to listen to Mike McCann and maybe Gordon Bray for Olyroo games and Basheer will call all the other games on SBS.

Is Gordon Bray the guy who calls the Rugby Union for 7?

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Is Gordon Bray the guy who calls the Rugby Union for 7?

Yep. Not sure if he is Beijing or in the studio. He has called Tri nation games involving SA and NZ from the studio before so plenty of experience at it.

 

[Cotchin 9]

Yep. Not sure if he is Beijing or in the studio. He has called Tri nation games involving SA and NZ from the studio before so plenty of experience at it.

Ok cheers.

 

[jonesy86]

ch7 are shocking...they are showing the women's hockey on about 1hr delay when the boomers are currently in a big game against croatia at the moment

 

[OzBomber]

http://www.hydrapinion.com/index.php/play/2008/08/08/beijing-television-s-last-take-it-or-lea

In other words, Seven's coverage will be for patriots with short attention spans while SBS will get the scraps. Thankfully between them they'll apparently broadcast 800 hours of Olympic coverage. You'll also get some of Seven's coverage on Next G mobile phones, plus there'll be 100 hours of streaming from Yahoo!7 - but these will most likely just be Seven's telecast reformatted rather than extra coverage. It's also unclear how much of the online and mobile coverage will be live.

Where, when what?

 

[dont bowl there]

ch7 are shocking...they are showing the women's hockey on about 1hr delay when the boomers are currently in a big game against croatia at the moment

Its been a bullshit coverage so far.

 

[ShearMagic9]

Ahh, sorry folks, I've been out all day and haven't had time to update this for tomorrow.

I'll do Tuesday and Wednesday tomorrow though.

 

[magnusio]

sad to see hardly any sailing on

 

[w00dy]

Ahh, sorry folks, I've been out all day and haven't had time to update this for tomorrow.

I'll do Tuesday and Wednesday tomorrow though.

it's not like they actually show what they put in their press release anyway...

we just get replays of the swimming finals all night...

Sunday 10th August:
CHANNEL 7

Hockey Women's, Australia vs. Korea (delayed, small part of the match shown, and only when they make a massive comeback)

Basketball: Men's, Australia vs. Croatia (less than a quarter shown)

i was a little disappointed i was going to be away in England for the Olympics, but given the job 7 have done so far, i'm not bothered in the slightest now...

 

[ShearMagic9]

Tuesday 12th August: (19 gold medals to be won today)

CHANNEL 7

12:00pm - Swimming: (Finals), Men's 200m Freestyle, Women's 100m Backstroke, Men's 100m Backstroke, Women's 100m Breaststroke

4:00pm - Diving: Women's synchronised 10m Platform Final (Melissa Wu, Bree Cole)
Hockey: Women's, Australia vs. Spain
Water Polo: Men's, Australia vs. Spain

7:30pm - Rowing: Women's Light Weight Double Sculls/Quad Sculls/Eight, Men's Light Weight Double Sculls/Light Weight Four/Quad Sculls/Eight
Swimming: Men's 100m Freestyle (Eamon Sullivan, Matthew Targett), Women's 200m Butterfly (Samantha Hamill, Jessicah Schipper), Men's 200m Breaststroke (Brenton Rickard, Christian Sprenger), Men's 4x200m Freestyle Relay
Basketball: Men's, Australia vs. Argentina
Softball: Australia vs. Japan
Equestrian: Eventing Team Jumping Final, Eventing Individual Jumping Final
Weightlifting: Women's 63kg, Men's 69kg
Boxing: Men's Fly Weight 51kg, Men's Bantam Weight 54kg
Beach Volleyball:

SBS

11:00am - Basketball: Men's, Iran vs. Lithuania

12:45pm - Water Polo: Men's, Canada vs. Montenegro

2:00pm - Badminton:

2:30pm - Volleyball: Men's, USA vs. Italy

4:00pm - Handball: Men's, China vs. France

5:30pm - Water Polo: Men's, Greece vs. Hungary

7:30pm - Football: Women's, Germany vs. North Korea

8:45pm - Basketball: Men's, China vs. Spain

9:45pm - Football: Women's, Norway vs. Japan

11:30pm - Boxing

12:00am - Volleyball: Men's, Japan vs. Bulgaria

1:30am - Weightlifting

 

[PHX]

THree games of basketball tomorrow.

All three dont have much hope of being close but still, it's basketball.