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Already mentioned on the NBC Sports press release and on Variety and TechCrunch, which the latter two delve into further detail. But will mention the following here. Moreover, Snap will curate daily Our Stories during the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games and event coverage during the 2020 Team USA Olympic Trials from Olympic photo and video content generated by fans, Team USA athletes, journalists and influencers, as well as behind-the-scenes content from NBC. All parties will capture things like life in the Olympic Village and highlight Tokyo’s food, music, art and nightlife with easy usage to submit in the public Our Story. Then the Snapchat editors "will edit into one story and add graphics and text to provide additional context." Like to see Peacock and the NBC Sports app include these as part of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics programming roster. Snap's two daily Olympics highlights shows--one overall and one single event--premiere in June with the other two, the daily NBC Olympic studio show and Chasing Gold, both coming in July. All are obviously intended for NBC and Snap expanding through their third consecutive Olympics partnership to capture the desired young 12-35 American demographics, many of which use Snapchat daily, with advertisers at a time there's serious cord-cutting from them. Social media and Internet platforms are starting to make real money like for NBC but won't generate huge revenue by themselves yet: https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/nbc-tokyo-olympics-snapchat-daily-shows-1203476764/ https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/23/nbc-partners-with-snapchat-on-four-daily-shows-for-2020-tokyo-olympics/ France Televisions bring aboard surfer Justine Dupont and the ex-snowboarder Mathieu Crépel to comment on the surfing, accompanied by resident play-by-play guy Christian Choupin, at the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games starting in July from Chiba. Crépel has already commented for France Televisions on snowboarding at Pyeongchang but eager to learn about "those big waves" (surfing shares some similarities with snowboarding and skateboarding) and may later take part in the Tokyo skateboarding expertise, but Dupont makes his Olympic TV broadcasting debut here: https://fr.sports.yahoo.com/news/jo-2020-médias-justine-dupont-133600108.html https://fr.sports.yahoo.com/news/surf-justine-dupont-mathieu-crépel-135500194.html Basic early info about TVP Polska and its upcoming Summer Olympics coverage. TVP Polska is the place to be for the Polish TV broadcasting coverage of Tokyo 2020 through TVP1, TVP2, and TVP Sport and will place heavy emphasis on showing every Polish Tokyo 2020 Olympian performance. Online/mobile streaming will be available at sport.tvp.pl. Eurosport Poland will also show them, although the only detail made known is of course everything from Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics will get made available through online streaming on Eurosport Player: https://www.eska.pl/cinema/news/olimpiada-tokio-2020-transmisja-w-tv-online-gdzie-obejrzymy-io-tvp-eurosport-aa-ieiB-vnL3-2zzS.html TVR Moldova's Objectiv Commu (Common Objective) took a look at and discuss the preparations of hopeful future champions for the Olympics and about the most important sports competitions transmitted to TVR MOLDOVA on Tuesday in the countdown the joy, pain, agony, preparation, qualification, desire, impatience, and determination in the quest for an Olympic medal. Guests of this show were Nicolae Jurevschi--president of the National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Moldova; Andrei Golban--President of the Judo Federation of the Republic of Moldova; Anastasia Nichita--European wrestling champion in wrestling and already qualified for Tokyo that was apparently hosted by Elena Gutu with an accompanying report featuring a couple of Moldovan judokas on their Olympic prospects. This Common Objective show started at 5:00 pm Moldova time and can be watched live on TVR MOLDOVA, live on Facebook, and tvrmoldova.md: http://tvrmoldova.md/recomandari/despre-pregatirea-sportivilor-din-romania-si-republica-moldova-pentru-tokyo-2020-discutam-astazi-la-obiectiv-comun/ In a related story from Romania and Moldova about TVR, the TVR Board of Directors pulled the plug on TVR HD late last year not only as the other TVR channels make their much anticipated digital transition to HD but also speaking of the failure to convert TVR HD into a worthy sports channel after TVR kept losing the Romanian TV broadcasting rights in team handball and soccer: https://www.prosport.ro/fotbal-intern/adio-canal-de-sport-la-tvr-consiliul-de-administratie-al-postului-public-a-decis-sa-retraga-licenta-tvr-hd-18933313

Match! TV from Russia apparently is closing in on nabbing not just the Russian Tokyo 2020 Olympic TV broadcasting rights but also the UEFA EURO 2020 soccer tournament (a portion of the latter is played in St. Petersburg) at a time when the Russians are seriously facing an Olympic ban in front of them following new doping allegations that the IOC waits upon a CAS decision. No word yet on how free-to-air Match! TV will exactly cover them. My guess is it will use its multiple channels over at the pay-TV side like the Match! TV Football, Arena, and Planet channels for wide breadth of its coverage with maybe more channels like it did with Rio 2016 like with the Opening Ceremony, which it split with Channel 1 and pay-TV NTV Plus amid the doping controversy going on back then. Channel 1/Perviy Kanal dealt with only events involving Russians like the gold medal-winning women's handball team with the coverage there not running marathon-like parallel to Brazil's TV Globo then. And we don't know about Channel 1 and NTV Plus plans, if they're planning. Then again, NTV and Match! TV pretty much joined forces in recent years thanks to Gazprom Media. Restricted article here: https://sportcal.com/News/Search/125124 China’s General Administration of Sport and the National Radio and Television Administration--a result of a broadcasting merger of state-owned media like China Central Television (CCTV), China Global Television Network (CGTN), China National Radio, and China Radio International--agreed to create a new Olympic content platform designed to cover both summer and winter disciplines and broaden the appeal of sports across the country through high-quality content. Focusing on Chinese athletes and Olympic events, with a particular interest in winter sports and youth-interest sports, the announcement comes two years ahead of the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing to focus. The aforementioned Chinese media entities will carry the Olympic content, starting with coverage from Tokyo 2020, exploring development of further and greater media integration, while exploring the more innovative 5G, 4K and 8K streaming mediums, and artificial intelligence applications. The Olympic Channel China is one forthcoming example: http://www.sportspromedia.com/news/china-olympics-content-platform-tokyo-2020-beijing-2022 Coming up next is some interesting developments on the 4K/8K Olympic front: Japan appears to be the leader in 8KTV but shockingly lags behind North America and Western Europe and maybe even Australia when it comes to 4K. China leads in production of 4KTVs but definitely not in producing the needed content. There won't be a lot of Japanese people (or those in the West for that matter) gobbling up UHD TV sets that can come near 50% by 2020, although the numbers will certainly increase after 2020 and already knowing there's 8K Olympic NHK coverage. But it reflects the amount of 8K coverage from NHK this summer when 0.1% of the Japanese population (around a tiny number of 62,000) with this being an important move for the industry as the quality of content produced is far superior. Yet nearby in China, CCTV plans to have an 8KTV Olympic channel for broadcasting as the only one worldwide, so there's going to be 8K content there soon with Beijing 2022 as the first major focus: https://www.digitalstudiome.com/broadcast/delivery-transmission/34213-how-far-are-we-from-8k For Italy outside of RAI, it's not clear that further Italian TV Tokyo 2020 broadcasting rights are shared with Eurosport and DAZN based on conflicting reports. Or even whether there's an actual legit agreement to share the coverage be it live and summary formats. For now, Italians do have the Eurosport Player to watch until there's official word on the details. Remember, RAI's Viale Mazzini signed an agreement with Discovery-Eurosport for the transmission of the IOC-mandated Summer Olympics 200 hours minimum live and free-to-air. All 200 hours will be broadcast on a single linear channel, which should be--as per tradition with the Olympics--on RAI 2. But the bad news for all Italian Olympic fans is that RAI renounced the streaming and mobile rights of Tokyo 2020 (there is talk of 20 million euros "spared" for RAI) as part of the agreement. This means nothing from the Tokyo Olympics will be broadcast on Rai Play, even on-demand, and the Olympic Channel will be devoid of actual live Olympic action. A bummer considering the recent re-launch with great pomp of Rai Play: https://simonesalvador.it/diritti_televisivi_sport/dove-vedere-eventi-sport-in-tv-e-streaming-2020 Does seems to appear, thanks to visiting the Spanish version Wikipedia's 2020 Summer Olympics broadcasters list, that Bolivia's Red Bolivision will cover the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics since it presently holds the rights to the Lausanne 2020 Youth Winter Olympic Games as part of winning the Olympic broadcasting package. Though there's no explicit evidence on that yet. But it will have to show at least 200 hours from Tokyo: https://www.facebook.com/482954511766660/posts/2793265327402222/

Newest member aboard on the upcoming 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games broadcasting that we now know of is Ecuador's RTS. All we know about it, aside from Wikipedia's 2020 Summer Olympics broadcasters list, is the following Tokyo 2020 general promo shown here, save for the RTS Tokyo 2020 official channel title card, on that just borrows Olympic footage for those broadcasters who lack the significant budgets to devise their own. Some of this could be used as Tokyo 2020 Olympic programming segment intros. Visited RTS' website and conducted a Google search but found no further info on RTS' plans as of right now. Even America TV in Peru and SNT in Paraguay have even more info as neighbors upon their announcements than RTS:

Japan's five private and commercial TV broadcasting partners of the Japan Consortium--TBS, Fuji TV, Nippon TV, TV Tokyo, and TV Asahi--plan to rotate their days of the Japanese Tokyo 2020 TV broadcasting programming coverage intended to counter public broadcaster NHK, which will proceed daily. Nippon TV gets 4 days of coverage, 3 days each to TV Asahi, Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, and Fuji Television Network, and 2 days to TV Tokyo out of the 15 competition days. When one of these networks is airing their portion from early morning to late night of its Olympic broadcast day, the other commercial partners must sit them out. So it'll pull Germany's ZDF and ARD during their Olympics presentation that we're already familiar with, only with more members. I take the days prior to and the Opening Ceremony are reserved for NHK, who will determine with the commercial network partners which sports they'll take after discussion and decision. Why is Nippon TV getting 4 days and TV Tokyo only 2 among this? We already know NHK will air competitions on 4K and 8K ultra-high-definition satellite channels and the internet, while the private networks are planning on jointly distributing the programs on the internet and broadcasting them on 4K satellite channels: https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2020/01/596c06b474e6-japan-tv-networks-to-rotate-olympics-broadcasting-on-daily-basis.html The Tokyo Media Center is now accepting media card accreditation applications under the official concept "Connect In Tokyo" during the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics. Even media who don’t have accreditation for the Tokyo 2020 Games are still permitted to use TMC’s services: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200109005899/en/Media-Coverage-Base-Tokyo-2020-Games-Tokyo Up in Canada and like Kia Nurse, Bridget Carleton, Natalie Achonwa, Kim Gaucher, Ruth Hamblin, Miah-Marie Langlois, and Nayo Raincock-Ekunwe? CBC Sports, shown on CBC TV, CBC GEM, and streaming on CBCSports.ca, will air all of the Canadian women's basketball teams' FIBA Women's World Olympic Qualification Tournament games live from Ostende, Belgium, presented by DAZN (pronounced "da zone"), although the Canada-Sweden match on CBC TV will come immediately after Hockey Night in Canada at 12:30am CT as tape-delayed. CBC Sports' Andi Petrillo will host the pre-game, halftime and post-game shows: https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/fiba-women-basketball-cbc-live-dazn-1.5432135 Still possible for ESPN and FOX Sports in the Latin America region as of the new year to get some Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics action: https://futbol.radioformula.com.mx/fuera-de-juego/juegos-olimpicos-tokyo-2020-televisoras-transmitiran-mexico-competencia/

Peacock's other original Olympic docs include the United States of Speed (on the rich American sprinting tradition and the current generation of new ones ready to retake the legacy) and Run The Line on Phil Knight and Nike. The USA Basketball doc series has a title and is called Dream Team 2020--and actually doesn't include unfortunately the women's team based on the quick synopsis. That historic swimming USA vs. France relay at Beijing is called The Greatest Race. Seems for the live 5-hour Tokyo 2020 daily programming coverage on Peacock it will focus on the marquee Olympic events for users in addition to analyst commentary, athlete profiles, and more. Not unlike when NBC started using VR in a sense: https://olympics.nbcsports.com/2020/01/17/peacock-olympics/ https://www.nbcumv.com/news/peacock-content-addendum?division=1&network=7201292

And that's not all with Peacock. NBC Universal announces five live hours daily of Olympic programming from Tokyo along with those dedicated streaming-only studio shows provided for free. Other Olympic features outside the USA Basketball and Ryan Lochte documentaries include a documentary series involving past Olympics and Tokyo 2020 Summer Games like one revisiting the USA's 4 X 100 swim relay comeback victory over France in Beijing 2008–a team led by former Olympic star Michael Phelps. On the advertising front, Peacock has Eli Lilly and Company, State Farm, Target, Apartments.com, and Unilever as early partnering sponsors for Peacock during its investor presentation in agreements come with a guarantee that each brand will have exclusive ad placement across NBC Sports during all 17 days of the Tokyo Olympics: https://frntofficesport.com/nbcuniversal-peacock-sports/ TBS, one of the Japanese TV networks that's part of the Japanese Consortium, has a talk show entitled Good Morning Good Athlete on Saturday mornings at 7am Japan time that started July 6 as part of TBS' Tokyo Victory 2020 series bringing top Japanese Olympic hopeful athletes and some Japanese Olympic legends from various Olympic sports as guests as they focus for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, and explore the athletes' lives, “attractive attractions” (whatever that means--maybe some silly fun and games, which is commonplace on Japanese TV), and “how people should enjoy the Tokyo Olympics. Co-hosted by TBS' Junna Yamagata and Shinichiro Yasumi. https://www.tbs.co.jp/sports/tokyovictory/index.html Another TBS Olympic program is Yeahhh! Go To 2020, a special part of TBS' Yeahhh! Sports series, profiling Japanese Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic hopefuls (with the odd foreigner trying making theirs) as they work towards making their goals with Team Japan and slices in their lives like making the Tokyo 2020 Japanese Olympic and Paralympic Team: http://www.tbs.co.jp/Yeahhhsports/goto2020/

Good point on the mobile/online aspect of things for NBC Sports like its apps. It gotta have to make them available there too and not just turn to another media platform if needed. Peacock also announces today it will soon stream an untitled USA Basketball behind-the-scenes docuseries on its superstars-filled teams on their Tokyo campaigns in co-production with the NBA. Will naturally carry The Olympic Channel: The Home of Team USA and more than 1000 hours of live exclusive streaming coverage of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics: https://deadline.com/feature/peacock-tv-nbc-universal-streaming-service-1202832718/ And when I was referring to the NBC Olympic archives, I was talking about having it with the NBC commentary included. Not sure about the US rights issues with the IOC/OTAB in how that might get into play over the streaming service. Swimmer Ryan Lochte will have his own programming on Peacock called Hot Water: In Deep With Ryan Lochte. Jeah! US Soccer should get something similar to what USA Basketball is getting: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/peacock-unveiled-all-programming-details-far-1254230 CT will present its 320-hour live coverage to Czech Republic viewers with naturally a strong Czech Olympic Team focus and their performances, capturing all their starts. In carrying on the tradition from London 2012, Czech Television will have its own studio in Tokyo under 30 accreditations being in the final stages of staffing by trying to get more media members on the roster partly in their mobility in "arranging interviews with our competitors immediately after races" and being in more places. Specific Czech Television Tokyo 2020 programming and scheduling is TBD once the Czech qualifying is settled: https://sport.ceskatelevize.cz/clanek/olympijske-hry/tokio-2020/oh-v-ct-pres-300-hodin-prenosu-a-studio-v-tokiu-vyrazne-posilime-mobilitu-reporteru-slibuje-zaruba/5e160257fccd259ea418bef1 Brazil's Globo will reach the Summer Olympics-mandated broadcast minimum of 200 hours. Globo/SporTV Tokyo 2020's Time Ouro will consist of Rio 2016 holdovers Fabi (volleyball), Carlão (soccer), Nalbert (volleyball), Gustavo Borges (swimming), Hortencia (basketball), Marcelinho (soccer), Claudinei Quirino (track & field/athletics), Flávio Canto (judo), Daiane dos Santos (artistic gymnastics) and Lars Grael (sailing), as well as the rookies, who will be in their first Olympics as commentators: Bernardinho (soccer), Diego Hypólito (artistic gymnastics), Fabiana Murer (track & field/athletics), Tiago Camilo (judo), and Thiago Pereira (swimming). GloboEsporte.com will present live broadcasts, charts, analysis, real-time coverage and videos with the best moments to not miss anything that happened in the early hours of the Olympics from Tokyo. Volleyball coach Bernardinho and former gymnast Daiane dos Santos both offer their thoughts on the upcoming Tokyo coverage this year now being on the other side. Bernardinho will not only be limited to volleyball analysis. The former Brazilian national volleyball player and coach will also participate in special SporTV programs and moments of Globo programming: https://globoesporte.globo.com/olimpiadas/noticia/globo-tera-cobertura-especial-da-olimpiada-de-toquio-com-mais-de-200h-de-conteudo-na-tv-aberta.ghtml Globo targets making R$581.4 million through 6 ad sponsorship quotas at the expected R$96.9 million each through its three platforms: Sponsorship on TV Globo is the most expensive, with R $ 52.7 million, followed by SporTV (R$34.2 million) and Globoesporte.com (R$10 million) with greater integration with the three as opposed to separate. But value is at 62% lower than in Rio since Brazil is not the hosts this time but more for the competition times going from (in Brazil time) early morning and into the morning: https://www.poder360.com.br/midia/globo-deve-faturar-r-5814-milhoes-com-olimpiadas-de-toquio/ https://observatoriodatv.bol.uol.com.br/noticias/2020/01/com-jogos-de-madrugada-globo-vai-faturar-62-menos-com-olimpiadas-de-toquio RTVS in Slovakia gets closer to launching the revived all-sports channel this June as its fourth TVS channel known simply as Sport. It will re-air well ahead of time for the start of the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics without needing to compete with other Slovak sports channels. Sport's programming will feature all the popular Slovakian and Olympic sports (and sometimes not so popular there) that appeal to a wide Slovakian audience but also on new and unconventional sports, with some emphasis on boosting interest in domestic sports competitions like opening round Slovak Cup soccer competitions when televising at small cities' club stadiums that aren't as friendly to media hookups like cameras: https://www.teraz.sk/najnovsie/rtvs-sport-ma-zacat-vysielat-od-le/435276-clanok.html

BREAKING NEWS: Just coming off 22 minutes ago! Deadline's Dade Hayes reveals the first explicit Peacock streaming's NBC Tokyo 2020 programming details. Will be extensive with, as expected, some exclusives: The live ceremony presentations prior to the NBC primetime airings was somewhat expected along with the daily Olympic shows. Possible we'll see a Tokyo 2020 preview program before even the OC and a review one after the CC. Doesn't say about the Spanish-language exclusives from Telemundo at least not yet...could see similar things like perhaps a Spanish-language ceremonies commentary. Definitely there's more in store as we get closer to the launch. Hopefully we'll also see NBC Olympic archives from Seoul 1988 onwards (with the odd, surviving Tokyo Olympics 1964 footage in bringing it full circle): https://deadline.com/2020/01/peacock-release-date-price-streaming-service-comcast-nbcuniversal-olympics-1202832785/

Telemundo starts revealing its Tokyo 2020 Spanish-language TV coverage plans. Expect lots of soccer to anchor the coverage as it's "doubling down" with "more women's soccer matches than ever before...on both platforms (Telemundo and NBC Universo) as we can live. And we'll stream the rest." If CONCACAF and CONMEBOL can bring out several Spanish-speaking nations and Brazil out from the qualifying tournaments, that will be an incentive for Telemundo to show many of these teams as possible and grant them high broadcasting priority as both networks will have simultaneous Olympic soccer matches coverage instead of one after another on one network. I hope this will be true for Telemundo with Olympic basketball to a lesser extent since we can reasonably expect Spain having both men's and women's basketball teams qualifying, for example. Mexico's baseball team will get serious play too. Andres Cantor and Manuel Sol will head to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics to commentate games on-site with an eye on Miguel Gurwitz returning as the host of the soccer coverage during the live windows like pre-game, halftime, and post-game. Ana Jurka, who really did an amazing job during last year's Women’s World Cup, will be back hosting portions of the day, but won't be on location from Tokyo due to her other broadcasting commitments during the course of the broadcast day. Likely as studio anchor down in Miami. Likely this Cantor-Sol tandem will serve as Telemundo's only on-location commentators: https://worldsoccertalk.com/2020/01/14/telemundo-interested-in-copa-america-rights-and-planning-for-tokyo-2020-soccer-coverage/ This video clip comes from Telemundo Deportes' late night program Titulares y Mas (Headlines & More) and actually comes right at the one-year countdown mark as Telemundo puts up its own Tokyo 2020 promo from the NBC family of networks to present and promote by Ana Jurka, Carlos Hemosillo, and Miguel Gurwitz with their own Japanese-style NBC Tokyo fans. Note Telemundo uses the English name for Tokyo and not the Spanish one Tokio along the English commentary for the sports montage. Moreover, baseball and softball aren't new Olympic sports as indicated in this video, although the formats, qualifications included, are different from the past even as demonstrations. I would like Canada to be included in the list of Americas Olympic medal count table from the previous three Summer Olympics since it does have plenty of Spanish/Portuguese-speakers (with the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico included into the list too), but I guess Canada's aren't as significant demographic-wise--and PR and DR weren't winning medals consistently enough in that Olympic timeframe shown: With SKY TV NZ currently holding the Olympic broadcasting rights at this stage in New Zealand, we would safely assume that the free-to-air TV coverage would automatically head towards its brethren at PRIME like it does. Wrong. SKY TV made a mean curveball and instead sent the FTA rights to rival TVNZ, where it would be shown on TVNZ ONE under a sublicensing partnership deal to give them its first Olympics coverage since Beijing 2008 for a confidential fee and will air 200+ hours. TVNZ 1 will broadcast 12 consecutive hours throughout the afternoon and evening including key events involving New Zealand's athletes with live streaming provided on TVNZ OnDemand-- but won't have same on-demand catch-up options as Sky's various digital platforms., breaking only for TVNZ evening news like 1 News at 6 and Seven Sharp. SKY Sports NZ meanwhile will stream and broadcast all the upcoming Tokyo 2020 action across its 12 high-definition TV channels in HD, about five more than what Eurosport plans to use, and its Sky Go and Sky Sports Now streaming platforms. TVNZ was chosen by SKY TV NZ largely because of its well-run sports broadcasting pedigree and national wide viewership for "draw on the promotional power and partnership of our collective platforms to encourage viewership of Tokyo 2020 by the widest range of New Zealanders." So I guess PRIME's And The Crowd Goes Wild team will not participate as much: https://www.sportbusiness.com/news/sky-sublicenses-tokyo-2020-rights-to-tvnz-adds-more-rugby/ https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/sport/2019/11/tokyo-olympics-2020-sky-tv-confirms-tvnz-as-free-to-air-partner.html https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/117768769/tvnz-1-will-have-daily-coverage-of-tokyo-olympics-following-surprise-deal-with-sky https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12289040 https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/sport/other/tvnz-deliver-12-hours-free-air-coverage-daily-tokyo-olympics-in-partnership-sky Had to conduct some serious translations regarding SOMETHING about the Japanese TV coverage for its Tokyo 2020 hosting. Fuji TV will have Shingo Murakami from the sports program Shingo Murakami: The Beat of Passion will be appointed as its main anchor caster at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Previously did the 2018 FIFA World Cup for TV Asahi as he steadily gains sportscasting experience. Shinichiro Azumi becomes the main Tokyo 2020 sportscaster over at TBS taking over from longtime TBS host Masahiro Nakai after eight consecutive Summer Olympics. Makai's immediate role at TBS remains unclear: will he appear in some capacity (as his many fans would like) or has he left the company altogether? NHK will have Arashi as Tokyo Oripara host and already has 2020 Stadium program focusing on every event. Shoji Sakurai has been the primary caster of the Olympic Games since 2008 for six consecutive games in summer and winter at Nippon TV, but he has since become NHK's main studio anchor. Nippon is looking for a replacement All of these situations have connections to Johnny's Office from the late Johnny Kitagawa (aka Johnny Talent): https://wezz-y.com/archives/68546 TV Asahi may turn to 51-year old former tennis player Shuzo Matsuoka as its Tokyo 2020 primary host and has hosted 8 consecutive Summer and Winter Olympics since Athens 2004. Kamenashi Kazuya from KAT-TUN was bypassed to be NHK's Olympic host due to its strong relationship with Arashi as a five-member NHK official supporter https://taishu.jp/articles/-/67923?page=1 Akashiya Sanma, Shinya Ueda, and Yumiko Yukino will appear as sportscasters on Nippon Television's Tokyo 2020 broadcasts: https://www.crank-in.net/news/71034/1 Wikipedia's CCTV-5 entry says that its Chinese Tokyo 2020 TV coverage will come on CCTV-1, CCTV-5, CCTV-5+, and CCTV News (now CCTV-13). We could see Olympic-specific channels like CCTV-22 and perhaps CCTV-16, which is the Olympic Channel China, get used. Or other non-sports-related ones like CCTV-7 and CCTV-12 were Beijing and London and have programming blocks set aside daily for it, if not 24-7 coverage. The latter is set to be launched later this year definitely in time for the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCTV-5

We're only just into the beginning of the College Football National Championship Game at New Orleans' Mercedes-Benz Superdome. We got the #1 LSU Tigers from the Southeastern Conference and a rising dynasty in the #3 Clemson Tigers from the Atlantic Coast Conference as both teams seek to become 15-0 to finish the season. Given that this is in New Orleans, Clemson must endure playing in front of a massive purple and yellow environment almost entirely engulfing the dome. Which Tigers team will roar the loudest and the proudest tonight? Lot of people nationally are pulling for LSU tonight. Both the Clemson and Louisiana State marching bands will entertain at halftime, and Chris Coyte from the Pac-12 is your ref. Both ESPN and ESPN Radio is covering this live with Chris Fowler (play-by-play), Kirk Herbstreit (analyst), Maria Taylor and Tom Rinaldi (sidelines), Adam Amin, Dan Orlovsky, Pat McAfee, and Steve Levy (Field Pass sideline reporters) with a TSN simulcast feed in Canada on TSN1, TSN3, TSN4, TSN5 and TSN Direct. Sean McDonough, Todd Blackledge, Holly Rowe, Ian Fitzsimmons, and Steve Shaw all handling things for ESPN Radio. Taking a page from Turner Sports Final Four involvement, there's Hometown Radio casting from the local radio team casts with Clemson (on the ACC Network): Don Munson, Tim Bourret, Brad Scott, and Reggie Merriweather and LSU (on the SEC Network): Chris Blair, Doug Moreau and Gordy Rush. ESPN Deportes all-Spanish language call comes from Eduardo Varela, Pablo Viruega, and Raul Allegre. Interestingly, this will be shown on ESPN Brasil with Rômulo Mendonça (play-by-play) and Weinny Eirado (analyst) in Portuguese. I'll start providing the scores and links after this. Check out this press release from ESPN on its coverage: https://espnpressroom.com/us/press-releases/2020/01/espn-presents-the-college-football-playoff-national-championship-through-cutting-edge-technology/ LSU's tight end Thaddeus Moss in the game is the son of Pro Football Hall of Famer Randy Moss.

Tokyo is where NBC continues its Olympic TV broadcasting streak. Tokyo was where NBC got started in the American Olympic TV broadcasting now 56 years ago. Well, would be come October, more accurately. NBC showed 15 hours in total coverage over 15 days that was conducted in an average of 45 minutes daily highlights package a few hours after the competition for the $1.5 million price tag (first time an Olympics surpassed the $1 million barrier). At the time, it took advantage of the latest communication tech advancements like using the Syncom 3 satellite for direct broadcasts and the advent of color TV, which NBC's opening ceremonies showing in 1964 marked the first color broadcast televised live via satellite from 12-2am US CT back to the United States and that itself took a few hours. Yet NBC's Olympic competition airing itself was broadcast only in black-and-white. Outside the Syncom 3 satellite, videotape canisters were flown across the Pacific Ocean and were broadcast to American viewers the following day. Serving as NBC Tokyo 1964 anchor was Bill Henry, then NBC News Tokyo bureau chief, who had extensive experience in both print and broadcast news. Play-by-play commentators included Bud Palmer and Jim Simpson, while former Olympic gold medalists Rafer Johnson (track and field) and Murray Rose (swimming) served as analysts. If there's anything NBC is remembered for out of the Tokyo 1964 Summer Olympics with the competition, it's the excitable "Look at Mills! Look at Mills!" call on hard-charging unknown Billy Mills' huge upset on heavy faves Australia's Ron Clarke and Tunisia's Mohammed Gammoudi in the men's 10,000m final. NBC track analyst Dick Bank brought all the drama and shock with that screaming above call with Bud Palmer more oblivious to what was unfolding until slightly too late. For that seeming lack of professionalism, Bank got fired. NBC's Tokyo Olympics 1964 logo was pretty nice. Even if it was just in B/W. Although NBC's current Tokyo 2020 broadcast logo is very good with the Japanese caliagraphy-inspired design, maybe an updated version could've been interesting to use as we look back under a callback mode. Very interesting now there were sponsorships with Kent Cigarettes, Schlitz beer, and Texaco. Needless to say and my oh my, lots of technological developments and advancements came forth in between these Olympics. https://olympics.nbcsports.com/2019/10/10/nbc-1964-olympics-tokyo-broadcast/

Still a very new entity in the Olympic universe. It takes time--years really--to develop for better renown in the mainstream sports public at a time where there's presently a very crowded sports scene. Does have potential to, if it hasn't already, cultivate a niche. But it's a solid outlet for young athletes around the world in a smaller scale (like venues) to showcase their talents and develop valuable international experience, especially for those from nations where some sports like the winter ones are largely alien. Like being a UAE ice hockey player. May lack star power for some. But that's not the point of YOGs.

Profile on France Televisions' newest member Cecile Gres will definitely have a lot on her plate including being one of France Televisions studio host anchors as the major one this year. Funnily enough, she left Eurosport a short time before it acquired the French pay-TV Olympic rights from Canal + https://www.lequipe.fr/Tous-sports/Article/Cecile-gres-je-ne-suis-pas-la-pour-faire-la-meteo/1096920 Couldn't get to read this Le Figaro in its entirety because of its subscription restrictions. But from what I could gather in it, Eurosport plans to devise seven additional 24-hour exclusive Olympic Games channels for its Tokyo 2020 going along with the primary Eurosport and Eurosport 2 channels for the TV portion. All seven likely each centering on a theme and assigned a sport like one each for basketball, soccer, handball, gymnastics, swimming and track and field and also on Eurosport Player. The main Eurosport channels likely will have the top main draw action along with perhaps ones catering to the national athletes along with the ceremonies. This format seems likely will become the cross-European pattern for all the national Eurosports in various languages with maybe a change here and there depending on the territory. According to the same article, the Eurosport Player service will offer in addition to live and on-demand replays, the choice of cameras, and new Olympic-themed content arriving daily under a ultra-customizable structure for Olympic fans: https://www.lefigaro.fr/medias/eurosport-veut-etre-la-reference-ultime-pour-la-diffusion-des-jo-20200108

Repretel Costa Rica announces it will carry the exclusive Costa Rican Tokyo 2020 TV coverage today in a preamble move ahead of the 2020 Youth Winter Olympics Games starting today in Lausanne, Switzerland with a daily summary on Channel 11 and a special on the following Sunday on Channel 6. For the Tokyo Summer Olympics, all of the Costa Rican athletes and competition will be live with substansial news coverage on Repretel's channels 4, 6, and 11 with Repretel showing daily footage on repretel.com. Monumental Radio will handle the Olympic radio coverage. Very early from them these days with this news: http://www.repretel.com/deportes/los-juegos-olimpicos-tokyo-2020-seran-transmitidos-por-repretel-en-exclusiva-173844

Just got this in: Yannick Agnel returns from the previous world swimming championships as France Televisions' swimming analyst for its Tokyo 2020 coverage, as reported by Le Parisien. There with France Televisions Agnel joins Emilie Andeol over at judo and Stephane Diagana at track and field/athletics. Le Parisien also reports France Televisions Tokyo 2020 coverage kicks off with the Entre-Deux podcast series where famous French Olympians tell stories in discussing their careers starting with swimmer Laurent Manadou, gold medalist in London 2012 and Rio 2016 Olympic runner-up in the 50m freestyle and Géosport, which recalls the geopolitical dimension of the Games--hope to get a link to that very soon for all to listen. Pole vaulter Renaud Lavillenie already this past Sunday help launch the Tokyo 2020 Olympics countdown on Stade 2. After 4pm France time during the Olympic Games, a daily magazine show will then air on France Televisions to summarize and show all the action images from the Olympic day. Journalists Laurent Luyat, Cécile Grès, and Matthieu Lartot will follow one another from the Club France in Tokyo as a common thread between the main disciplines: https://swimswam.com/yannick-agnel-to-lead-french-broadcast-team-for-tokyo-olympics/ http://www.leparisien.fr/culture-loisirs/tv/tokyo-2020-france-televisions-emmene-stephane-diagana-yannick-agnel-et-emilie-andeol-04-01-2020-8229003.php