Durban Sandshark Posted February 21, 2020 Report Share Posted February 21, 2020 Former German gymnast Fabian Hambüchen, Rio 2016 gold medalist in the men's horizontal bars, announces at the SPOBIS Sports Business Congress in Dusseldorf he will perform double duty for Eurosport as both a gymnastics analyst and a German House reporter after already having some Eurosport reporter experience in Pyeongchang. Hambuchen misses competing, needless to say: https://www.sponsors.de/news/medien/hambuechen-vor-olympia-rueckkehr-als-tv-experte-wehmuetig-emotionale-geschichte ZDF and ARD had more personnel on site in Rio De Janeiro four years ago (480) than members of the 2016 German Olympic Team (452). ZDF chairman Thomas Bellut in a January press conference in Berlin says this time the ARD and ZDF broadcast center is on the Lerchenberg in Mainz with the NDR in charge of the ARD side. Both will have an "economical" joint team in Tokyo using a common sending facility, "much like we did in Korea." They will do parts of the final production, cutting equipment on the Lerchenberg with likely the majority there, and the carpenters are already present in Tokyo, Japan. Because Tokyo is very expensive, Ballut says, there's an attempt to limit the number there this time but he couldn't say the exact number of "adequate" staff bound for Tokyo yet working under time rules like everyone else, like cannot work around the clock But don't expect the Tokyo staff be more than the 2020 German Olympic Team based on that: http://www.planet-interview.de/interviews/zdf-pressegespraech/51248/ Eurosport Player from the digital platform upon its post-Pyeongchang 2018 improvements will have "every single minute shown" with coverage of all disciplines with a "digital-first approach" in better engagement with younger viewers that act as borderless communities across Europe in "passion verticals" including additional streams of live events, expert and technical insight that taps into viewers’ interests, segments on how athletes train, which uses VR, different camera angles and extra in-depth analysis, and using Golf TV (viewer matches and live streams, alternative angles, golfing tutorials and other interactive elements): https://www.ibc.org/manage/every-single-minute-of-tokyo-2020-to-feature-on-eurosport/4209.article Olympic cycling in all disciplines will come through France Televisions on France 2 and France 3 will the more fuller offering at France TV Sport on the digital side: https://www.3bikes.fr/2020/02/12/medias-la-saison-2020-a-suivre-sur-france-televisions/ Why is it solely BandSports and not with TV Bandeirantes on the free-to-air side covering this Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics this time? Left it exclusively to Globo and its 200 hours there. Simply put in one word, money. For two related factors. The Sao Paulo-based broadcaster lacks the funds it would have to pay an amount above R$50 million to the IOC with this one at a time when Band can't under its current financial condition. Time zone differential with Tokyo--12 hours between Tokyo and Sao Paulo and Rio De Janeiro--convinced Band that its TV audience and financial reward hopes weren't going to be there for the network when the desired competition for Brazilians will take place during the late night--early morning hours. Moreover, Record admits not getting involved this time for similar reasons as the Tokyo 2020 programming could coincide and interfere with the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God programming normally shown under those time slots. However it still likes to get itself involved with some big R$16 million ad revenue push through Brazilian athletes and Tokyo-related programming at that time. ESPN Brasil, as of early November, still has a shot in getting into this. But time is running short and fast for it: https://observatoriodatv.bol.uol.com.br/noticias/2019/11/falta-de-verba-e-fuso-horario-fazem-band-desistir-oficialmente-de-toquio-2020-na-tv-aberta https://observatoriodatv.uol.com.br/noticias/2019/12/mesmo-sem-direitos-de-transmissao-record-tv-quer-faturar-r-16-milhoes-com-olimpiadas-de-2020 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Durban Sandshark Posted February 25, 2020 Report Share Posted February 25, 2020 Brazilian TV presenter Sabrina Sato and singer Claudia Leite were chosen to be 2020 Time Brasil's godmothers by the Brazilian Olympic Committee. Basically, their function will be to summon Brazilian fans, usually clad in yellow, to accompany the country's athletes to Tokyo with a large Brazilian delegation expected to compete there and cheer them on. Bit of significance for Sato since she's of Japanese heritage. Social media plays a role in their selection as godmothers for they share a combined and strong 90 million social media followers with their influence: https://globoesporte.globo.com/olimpiadas/noticia/sabrina-sato-e-claudia-leitte-sao-escolhidas-madrinhas-do-brasil-nas-olimpiadas-de-toquio.ghtml Bia and Branca Feres, Brazil's synchronized swimming twins, will cover the Tokyo 2020 Olympics for BandSports' Lado B program. But before that, Branca will marry Gustavo Frota in June in Portugal during a 3-day event with family based there. We'll talk more about BandSports' programming details very soon--like, next week--that will include Bia and Branca, among other things: https://revistaquem.globo.com/Carnaval/camarotequem/noticia/2020/02/bia-e-branca-feres-vao-olimpiadas-de-toquio-com-programa-empolgadas.html For Eurosport Poland (or Eurosport Polska), we can expect its staff of Polish cycling sportscasters to appear for Tokyo getting involved--ambassadors Dawid Kubacki and the most successful Polish Olympian, Robert Korzeniowski. Experts and commentators include: Jakub Kot, Tomasz Sikora and Dariusz Baranowski, with recognized journalists Tomasz Jaroński, Marek Rudziński, Igor Błachut, Karol Stopa, Adam Probosz, Rafał Jewtuch, and Przemek Kruk, although not all named here may or may not be involved in reporting cycling and would head over to other Olympic sports. Polish viewers can also learn about the opinions of international Eurosport experts expected to be involved, among which there are many former world-class stars, including Martin Schmitt, Sven Hannawald, Mats Wilander, Boris Becker, John McEnroe, Alberto Contador, and Sir Bradley Wiggins as the roster takes shape: https://media2.pl/media/160263-Wiosna-pelna-sportowych-emocji-w-Eurosporcie.html Czech TV's (Ceska Televize) standard TV advertising price rates for this year's major sporting events will cost extra for the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics, the 2020 World Ice Hockey Championships, and Euro 2020 in comparison to the flat (unchanged, that is) TV ad rates of CZK 27,000 for a 20-second spot to an audience of 15+ years for other programming by 100% with the same events if no Czech Team representation by 50%. As part of expected revenues from advertising and sponsorship sales as well as barter operations to earn CZK 75 million more to reach CZK 483 million this year: https://www.mediaguru.cz/clanky/2019/12/ct-nezvysuje-cenu-reklamy-loh-ci-euro-jsou-ale-drazsi/ https://www.mediaguru.cz/clanky/2020/02/ct-ma-letos-navysit-prijmy-z-reklamy-a-sponzoringu-o-tretinu/ CT Sport had a profile on Czech mountain climber Adam Ondra for 15 minutes on Tema Pro Hosty last week on February 18 at 16:10 Czech time: https://www.ceskatelevize.cz/ivysilani/10127554193-tema-pro-hosty-ct-sport/320297371420003 Telenor, the Norwegian operator of Canal Digital, has signed "a new and forward-looking agreement" to distribute eleven Discovery channels (Kanal 5, Kanal 9, Kanal 11, Discovery Channel, Eurosport 1, Eurosport 2, TLC, Animal Planet, Discovery Science, Investigation Discovery and Animal Planet HD) in Norway, as well as the Dplay streaming service, that will pave the way for Eurosport's Tokyo 2020 coverage that will include surely those upcoming exclusive Olympic-specific channels: https://advanced-television.com/2020/02/12/telenor-discovery-carriage-agreement/ https://kampanje.com/medier/2020/02/ny-tv-avtale-mellom-telenor-og-discovery/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Durban Sandshark Posted March 5, 2020 Report Share Posted March 5, 2020 NBC proudly announces earlier this week on Tuesday afternoon that it eclipses its own Summer Olympics national advertising revenue record with $1.25 billion for its upcoming Tokyo 2020 coverage from its Rio De Janeiro $1.2 billion record in 2016 at 90% of the Tokyo inventory there with the Paralympic ad sales inventory now complete. Major brands are involved. This with Tokyo being multiple time zone hours away from the continental US than with Rio De Janeiro. At this same time, it also came to light from NBC, through Comcast, it took out insurance in case of cancellation or postponement due to coronavirus outbreak concerns to mitigate any forthcoming losses, but it's "still full steam ahead" for Tokyo 2020 still under schedule. Not unlike NBC did when the US boycott forced to take out money ($1 million, if I recall correctly) from Lloyd's of London, taking a $22 million red bath. Cancelling the Tokyo Summer Olympics would definitely be problematic with lots of logistics and years of planning and money going down the drain. But it would potentially cause serious media ramifications like losing younger viewers and on its importance, ancillary viewership, and a massive female viewership attracted to the Games. Nevertheless it is still monitoring the corona situation: https://www.businessinsider.com/cancelling-summer-olympics-cause-media-disaster-hurt-nbcu-2020-3 https://www.adweek.com/tv-video/nbcu-surpasses-1-25-billion-in-tokyo-olympics-ad-sales-as-part-of-full-steam-ahead-push/ https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/04/business/media/nbc-olympics-coronavirus.html https://www.inquirer.com/business/comcast/coronavirus-comcast-nbcuniversal-tokyo-olympics-20200303.html https://deadline.com/2020/03/comcast-olympics-coronavirus-1202873314/ https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/348018/a-canceled-summer-olympics-is-tvs-worst-case-scen.html Regarding a little bit on NBC's new Peacock streaming service. Comcast/NBCU expects to spend about $2 billion in Peacock's first two years and to reach profitability by its fifth year with "big plans for streaming in 2020" obviously starting in April in its "investment years" with Tokyo 2020 as a tentpole event to gather around with. Comcast's Xfinity Flex for streaming/smart home users is offered for free to broadband-only customers with NBC's family of networks Tokyo 2020 coverage surely included. Comcast CEO Brian Roberts even mentions the coronavirus scare may force an uptick in American digital Olympics viewing consumption. Discovery meanwhile says it took out insurance adding it "not going to have any adverse impact on our financials” if cancelled: https://www.lightreading.com/cable-video/2020-set-up-as-an-investment-year-for-comcast-ceo-says-/d/d-id/757955 https://www.thewrap.com/coronavirus-scare-home-indoor-digital-viewing-comcast-ceo-brian-roberts/ https://www.reuters.com/article/us-olympics-2020-cancellation-economy-fa/money-money-money-whats-at-stake-if-olympics-fall-victim-to-coronavirus-idUSKBN20Q0MD Seven Network is also concerned too with the coronavirus over how "commercially sensitive" it is, anticipating how this could the most watched Olympics and Paralympics in Australian media history with a more desirable time zone and very heavy national promotion for its upcoming coverage since 2019: https://www.smh.com.au/national/it-would-be-devastating-athletes-fears-over-future-of-olympics-20200226-p544kr.html BandSports is investing R$4 million for its Tokyo 2020 Olympics TV and digital coverage with Bia and Branca Feres (synchronized swimming), Daniele Hypólito (gymnastics), Ricardo Prado, Marcelo Negrão and Fofao (volleyball), Andre Domingos (track and field), announcer Álvaro José, presenting studio hosts Elia Júnior, Oliveira Andrade, and journalist Dudu Vaz as notable names as part of a 30-person staff traveling to Tokyo will all travel details cemented. Falls under a pro-Brazillian focus. Programming should consist of live broadcasts of the sporting event daily, from 8am-12 pm Brazil time with hopes to have a commentator for every Olympic sport. Priority goes especially to when there's a Brazilian performing live. Entire regular TV schedule becomes all-Olympic Channel. When not covering the live Olympic action from Japan not limited to Tokyo, BandSports will offer Olympic-related journalistic programming. Feels it's got something better to offer than what Globo/SporTV plans to do: https://www.uol.com.br/esporte/ultimas-noticias/2020/02/27/bandsports-investe-r-4-milhoes-e-contrata-ex-atletas-para-a-olimpiada.htm https://tvefamosos.uol.com.br/colunas/flavio-ricco/2020/02/25/o-que-vale-a-pena-ver-de-novo-depois-de-avenida-brasil.htm Globo plans to send 102 professionals on location to Tokyo, Japan. Logistical professional hirings to Japan has been delayed until further notice. Both Globo and BandSports are assessing the coronavirus situation and treating things with extreme caution while planning and scheduling. Band in particular vows not to put any of its Japan-bound personnel at risk if the disease remains a threat: https://www.uol.com.br/esporte/ultimas-noticias/2020/03/04/coronavirus-faz-globo-e-band-estudarem-mudar-planejamento-de-toquio-2020.htm RAI Pubblicita selects Tembo for developing creative campaigns for major events like the 2020 Summer Olympics, Euro 2020, and other national and international events this year: https://www.touchpoint.news/2020/03/05/rai-pubblicita-sceglie-tembo-per-le-campagne-creative/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Durban Sandshark Posted March 10, 2020 Report Share Posted March 10, 2020 The 2020 US Olympic and Paralympic Committee Media Summit in Los Angeles scheduled for yesterday is one of many shelved or cancelled sports-related events until further notice over growing coronavirus concerns involving mass social gatherings. It was expected to feature more than 100 US Olympians and Paralympians to participate: https://supersport.com/general/news/news/200310_US_Olympic_chiefs_axe_media_summit_over_virus_fears https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2020/03/09/us-olympic-media-summit-tokyo-games-canceled-coronavirus-fears/5005587002/ Just because NBCU just now sold its Snapchat stake for $500 million doesn't mean it will also sever its 2020 Tokyo Olympic content partnership with Snap and its joint scripted content venture called Indigo: https://www.tubefilter.com/2020/03/10/nbcuniversal-sells-500-million-stake-snap/ ZDF has a four-part, each in 16 minutes, documentary series accompanying the 15 rowers fighting since November 2018 pursuing a lifelong dream for the 7 coveted spots on the German Rowing Association's Tokyo 2020 Olympic roster filled with hard training preparation, being in shape, and the competition involved up to selection on their way to Tokyo. Documentary series is called SXULLS: The Selection by Matthias Wolf and Guido Weihermüller. Viewers can experience the finale of the documentary series as part of the ZDF Olympic coverage in a 30-minute reportage from Tokyo. Four shorter 8-minute episodes are broadcast in the “ZDF SPORTreportage” on Sundays from 5.10 pm. ZDF, in what you see here, also goes into the digital extension available as 15-minute long version in the ZDFmediathek with more videos and clips. Will be available until November 22: https://www.zdf.de/sport/zdf-sportreportage/zdf-sportreportage-sxulls-auf-dem-weg-zu-den-olympischen-spielen-2020-tokio-teil-1-die-selektion-100.html A $44.8 million/40 million euro Tokyo 2020 technology hub opened up by Discovery in Hilversum, Netherlands that not only "will provide access to a private cloud for remote live sports productions from Discovery-owned broadcaster Eurosport’s channels" across the continent but also "will create greater scalability and flexibility for its sports production business, which spans 75 markets and territories, [presenting] more than 20 commentary centres, ten production centres, 150 editing and post-production suites, 40 live transmission rooms, 26 production control rooms and 13 production centres for digital." This follows up a 2018 announcement Eurosport made about creating a European operations base and move its European pay-TV licenses to The Netherlands: https://www.sportspromedia.com/news/discovery-eurosport-tokyo-2020-technology-hub Eurosport also secures the exclusive Nordic broadcasting rights to the six Olympic Handball Qualification Tournaments this March (three women) and April (three men) for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics that was facilitated by the Lagardère Sports agency, the global media-rights agency of the International Handball Federation in Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Denmark. France's commercial TV broadcaster TF1 holds the French free-to-air commercial rights because one of men's tournaments is held at Paris' AccordHotels Arena/the Palais Omnisports De Bercy: https://www.sportbusiness.com/news/eurosport-secures-nordics-rights-to-tokyo-2020-handball-qualifiers/ https://www.sportbusiness.com/news/discovery-to-follow-norways-bid-to-reach-tokyo-2020-handball-competition/ Telia's 770,000 customers were blocked from viewing Discovery's Channel 5, Channel 9, Channel 11, Eurosport 1, Eurosport 2, Discovery Channel, Investigation Discovery, Animal Planet, TLC and Discovery Science on their subscriptions in Sweden. But that's now resolved in an agreement and will get to see the upcoming Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games and Allsvenskan soccer. Channels return on Telia this coming Sunday: https://www.expressen.se/sport/fotboll/allsvenskan/efter-tv-braket-nu-ar-parterna-overens/ And Record in Sao Paulo, Brazil has given up on charging up to R$16 million for its Tokyo 2020 Olympic news coverage advertising package because of no commercial sponsor interest. Never mind its history of generous discounts to companies. Still will conduct Olympic news on Record: https://www.uol.com.br/esporte/olimpiadas/ultimas-noticias/2020/03/09/cotas-olimpicas-de-r16-mi-empacam-e-record-desiste-de-vender-toquio-2020.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Durban Sandshark Posted March 16, 2020 Report Share Posted March 16, 2020 Bruce McAvaney is as excited as ever for the Olympics as the beloved Australian sportscasting legend makes his 11th Olympics assignment dating back to 1984 in Los Angeles on Network Ten as his whole world class Seven Network Tokyo 2020 sportscasting team was announced in Sydney that's a mix of vets and newcomers, assembled with 14 of Australia's greatest Olympians. Mel McLaughlin (primetime), Johanna Griggs (also doing Australia's #1 "brekky" show Sunrise), 7 returnee Sonia Kruger, and Hamish McLachlan (primetime) with him as host anchors along with cricket star Trent Copeland, Lisa Sthalekar, Abbey Way (late night) as newcomers with the added responsibility of also guiding the 43 channel streams from 7, 7TWO, and 7 Plus. Australian gold medallists Ian Thorpe (swimming), Anna Meares (cycling), Steve Hooker, Nick Green (rowing, Oarsome Foursome member), Giaan Rooney, Scott McGrory, Russell Mark (shooting), and Debbie Watson (water polo), while Olympians Andrew Gaze, Rachael Sporn (basketball), Tamsyn Lewis-Manou, David Culbert (track & filed/athletics), Kate Bates (cycling), and Ash Nelson (field hockey) all headline Seven’s coverage. Master broadcaster Basil Zempilas leads an impressive team of callers including "the global doyen of cycling commentary" Phil Liggett, Dave Christison (field hockey), John Casey (basketball analyst), and accomplished callers Michael Zappone, Mark Braybrook, Brenton Speed and Matt Hill. Pat Welsh will be trackside with Nathan Templeton will conduct similarly poolside interviewing the Olympic stars post-race. Edwina Bartholomew and Zempilas were granted the honour of commentating the cultural components of the Opening Ceremony and will be joined by Hamish McLachlan, Johanna Griggs and Australian flagbearer at the Olympic Games Sydney 2000 Andrew Gaze for the Parade of Nations on his 20th anniversary of that honor. Jason Richardson, Emma Vosti, and James Tobin are 7's roving reporters all over Tokyo "bringing all the color". 7NEWS Chief Correspondent Chris Reason and 7NEWS Sports Editor Jim Wilson will lead a team of reporters on the ground in Tokyo–including Alex Hart, Sharnelle Vella, Rob Scott, Max Futcher, Laurel Irving, Matthew Carmichael, Pat Welsh and Nathan Templeton–operating 24 hours a day reporting news from the International Broadcast Centre as "Australia's Official Olympic News Service" with info also coming from 7news.com.au: Bruce McAvaney Headlines Once Again As Seven Network Australia's Announces Its Tokyo 2020 Olympics Broadcasting Team Moreover, Seven West Media can be repaid its Australian broadcasting costs should the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics get cancelled altogether this year due to the Coronavirus pandemic, which will of course impact its cross-promotional opportunities with its other TV programming and sponsorship impact despite a debt. Has A$90 million raised in advertising revenueStill preparing and closely monitoring the situation: https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/seven-west-media-to-be-refunded-if-olympics-gets-cancelled-20200315-p54a9g.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hightowerio86 Posted March 21, 2021 Report Share Posted March 21, 2021 Now, that international spectators have been banned from Japan I think that NBC is going to broadcast the games and have the daytime, primetime, and late night shows from their studios in Connecticut. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quaker2001 Posted March 22, 2021 Report Share Posted March 22, 2021 3 hours ago, Hightowerio86 said: Now, that international spectators have been banned from Japan I think that NBC is going to broadcast the games and have the daytime, primetime, and late night shows from their studios in Connecticut. I don't think so. NBC already said they wouldn't limit the number of people they're sending to Japan, but they're not going to have Mike Tirico host from a studio in Stamford. Technology has advanced to where I believe NBC used their control room in Stamford as the base for the NBCSN coverage even though the hosts were in Korea. So they could do something similar here. They will absolutely have a presence on site in Tokyo, even if it's not as obvious how many behind the scenes folks aren't there with them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quaker2001 Posted April 2, 2021 Report Share Posted April 2, 2021 2 hours ago, danderson4500 said: NBC could have some issues with their NHL coverage, now that the Canucks have to cancel a bunch of games due to COVID-19 protocol. How will NBC manage that now? NBC doesn't have to manage anything. The NHL has to manage this. And I'm guessing their plan will be to finish the Stanley Cup Finals before the Olympics at all costs. So there won't be an issue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quaker2001 Posted April 3, 2021 Report Share Posted April 3, 2021 24 minutes ago, danderson4500 said: The NHL will cancel games before they mess with the Olympics. My point exactly. So why is there any issue or question as to how NHL will manage it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quaker2001 Posted April 20, 2021 Report Share Posted April 20, 2021 4 minutes ago, danderson4500 said: Who does NBC have in line to rpelace Tom Hammond and Al Trautwig this year? Track & Field - Leigh Diffey Gymnastics - Terry Gannon Both of them have been covering those respective sports, so it's all but a given at this point they'll be on the call for Tokyo Also of note, this just came out today (although it's largely confirming what we already had planned for)... TOKYO OLYMPICS ARE COMING TO PEACOCK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Palette86 Posted May 26, 2021 Report Share Posted May 26, 2021 From next host country France. Tokyo2020 promotion by France television. https://www.facebook.com/Moving.Picture.Company/videos/311054720500030/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjLfqX-gXZ0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Durban Sandshark Posted June 5, 2021 Report Share Posted June 5, 2021 I certainly plan to return with lots of Tokyo 2020 Olympic broadcasting/online news starting next week to catch up with now that I can stay in the library much longer like I did pre-pandemic--and wrecked my writing that I hope to recover from! Won't start writing until than, so watch this space! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quaker2001 Posted June 7, 2021 Report Share Posted June 7, 2021 Here it is, the one we've been waiting for... NBCUNIVERSAL TO PRESENT UNPRECEDENTED 7,000 HOURS OF PROGRAMMING FOR TOKYO OLYMPICS THIS SUMMER Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rio2016man Posted June 8, 2021 Report Share Posted June 8, 2021 6 hours ago, danderson4500 said: USA Network is listed to carry swimming, track & field, diving while Olympic Channel is going to be the home of the Olympic tennis and wrestling tournaments. I could see USA starting their night coverage on Monday after wwe Raw (11:00 EST) and Tuesday after wwe NXT (10:00 EST) These two time slots could be the only non-Olympic coverage for the two weeks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quaker2001 Posted June 8, 2021 Report Share Posted June 8, 2021 1 hour ago, rio2016man said: I could see USA starting their night coverage on Monday after wwe Raw (11:00 EST) and Tuesday after wwe NXT (10:00 EST) These two time slots could be the only non-Olympic coverage for the two weeks I was having a conversation with some people on another site.. they said the same thing. It's probably why USA is advertised as "round-the-clock coverage nearly every day" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Durban Sandshark Posted June 9, 2021 Report Share Posted June 9, 2021 OK, here we go with my presentation of the news developments... Seven Network confirms that Ian Thorpe will join its Tokyo 2020 swimming commentary team with Basil Zempilas and Giaan Rooney--but not on location in Tokyo and will be based in Seven's Melbourne's studios. Reporter Nathan Templeton will be poolside though. Thorpedo was announced last year but his contract with Seven expired with the pandemic forcing the postponement and thus had to restart the negotiations (and not announcing Ian Thorpe's name in the renamed 7's Tokyo 2020 commentary team. Also, there's shaping up to be some additions, subtractions, and reshuffling down in Australian along with Anna Meares and former champion ironwoman Candice Warner joining for cycling. Melanie McLaughlin was set to be the Australian primetime anchor for Seven's coverage that will now see her planned studio partner Hamish McLachlan paired with Abbey Gelmi in Melbourne but will instead head over to Tokyo and lead the reporters. Cycling commentator Phil Liggett and QLD-based presenter and Seven 6-time Olympic vet as trackside reporter Pat Welsh got dropped from the original lineup. Instead it will be Jason Richardson serving as the trackside interviewer. Seven's commentary team will include Bruce McAvaney, Basil Zempilas, Greg Clark, John Casey, Tamsyn Lewis, Brenton Speed, David Culbert, and Matt Hill. Seven has partnered with production house Gravity Media for its coverage of the games with the broadcast being produced and presented from Melbourne’s Dockland studios. TV Blackbox reports that because of COVID-19 "Seven will still be sending a team of approximately 40 reporters and crew to Tokyo including Mel McLaughlin, Mark Beretta, Jason Richardson and Nathan Templeton to capture the action at venues and across the city." Seven is prepared for the fact further it may need to further reduce its team in Tokyo should COVID travel restrictions change. Another change comes in Seven’s 2020 strategy of presenting the games on a temporarily upgraded 7two HD channel has also been cut with the network now opting to broadcast coverage on Seven and 7mate. TV Blackbox "understands Olympic coverage will move to 7two only during the 6pm news and when the network has AFL commitments." Digital coverage on streaming platform 7plus will feature 43 channels and two simulcasts, including 36 channels curated by Seven, 6 pre-created channels direct from Tokyo and one existing Olympic channel. There's that revised commentary coverage lineup: https://tvblackbox.com.au/page/2021/05/24/seven-finally-confirms-ian-thorpe-will-join-its-tokyo-olympics-commentary-team/ https://www.mediaweek.com.au/seven-unveils-its-coverage-team-for-the-tokyo-2020-olympics/ https://swimswam.com/ian-thorpe-to-join-seven-network-for-olympic-swimming-coverage/ Swimming Australia ditches 7 and moves towards Amazon Prime in presenting the 2021 Australian Swimming Trials June 12-17 that will make up the Australian Tokyo 2020 Olympic Swimming Team--the Dolphins. Amazon Prime's well-decorated commentary team reporting from Adelaide will be host Matt White, Jon Harker, Grant Hackett, Swimming Australia president Kieren Perkins, Nicole Livingstone, Giaan Rooney, and Annabelle Williams. Will include daily pre-and post-match programming: https://www.mediaweek.com.au/matt-white-and-the-a-team-covering-swimming-trials-for-amazon-prime-video/ https://www.mediaweek.com.au/amazon-prime-video-unveils-australian-swimming-trials-commentary-team-and-racing-schedule/ Supersport will have MultiChoice prepared 8 dedicated channels for the Olympic games for its DStv customers and also available for The DStv app and 4 channels for GOtv customers for the Olympics--2 on GOtv Max, 1 on GOtv Plus and 1 on the GOtv Value package. The Paralympics event will have two channels. It will also plan to air all 339 gold medal events with the Grandstand channel on DStv carrying the best events at any given time: https://www.kahawatungu.com/supersport-air-tokyo-olympics-euro-2021-games/ Globo has a goal to nab 10 sponsors for its Toquio 2020 coverage on terrestrial, SporTV, and digital/streaming/online. So far, the Brazilian media behemoth lassoed in Bradesco, Ambev, Nivea, Netflix, Natura and Alpargatas-and is in a rush to acquire four more. Fiat and Claro dropped out last year but could return as we get closer to the kickoff. That's far less than what Big Brother Brasil manages to get with 22 advertisers including 8 sponsors, to put it in perspective. Netflix is quite a surprise as an Olympic first for a streaming service though being a bronze buyer: https://veja.abril.com.br/blog/radar-economico/globo-corre-para-vender-anuncios-das-olimpiadas-de-toquio/ https://www.uol.com.br/esporte/futebol/ultimas-noticias/lancepress/2021/05/26/netflix-fecha-contrato-com-a-globo-e-e-patrocinadora-oficial-das-olimpiadas-de-toquio-na-emissora.htm In that article, like with this one, says Globo will air over 200 hours under 12 hours daily with SporTV having four cable channels, and 45 channels coming from the Globoplay+ channels with 270 degree studio. The broadcast will be in the best "home office" style, with most of the team involved in the event in Brazil and only 50 professionals stationed in Japan. Expect soccer, volleyball, basketball, swimming, beach volleyball, track and field, and gymnastics (both artistic and rhythmic) to dominate: https://propmark.com.br/midia/tv-globo-tera-12-horas-diarias-de-cobertura-da-olimpiada-de-toquio/ Globo originally planned to have a 102-person team last year but due to the pandemic of course that's reduced to 50%: https://www.uol.com.br/esporte/colunas/gabriel-vaquer/2021/04/26/globo-corta-50-da-equipe-e-deixa-narradores-fora-de-grupo-enviado-a-toquio.htm Barbara Coelho, Globo's Sports Spetacular Sunday host, will be among the 50 professionals reporting directly from Tokyo, ready to make daily entries and present Olympic highlights while Lucas Gutierrez staying put in Rio De Janeiro focusing on the domestic sports. Despite not getting the Olympic FTA side, Band will send Sports Show co-hosts Elia Júnior and Glenda Kozlowski, and Álvaro José (nicknamed Mr. Olimpíada for his lengthy Olympic journalism track record). Junior and Kozlowski will continue to conduct their program that also airs on Sundays over there and will produce it for BandSports' Olympic coverage while having journalists support them back in Brazil: https://www.uol.com.br/esporte/colunas/gabriel-vaquer/2021/05/19/globo-e-band-vao-ter-programas-de-domingo-direto-do-japao-nas-olimpiadas.htm?cmpid=copiaecola ZDF Sports director Thomas Fuhrmann says "only around 180 people will appear on site in Tokyo from both ARD and ZDF" with an additional 300-400 instead work in shifts based in Mainz 9000km away. Can "still run their studio, in a sense our shop window for the Olympic Games, in Tokyo. We are breaking new ground: the direction remains in Mainz. The moderators only receive their instructions via the button in their ear.": https://www.dwdl.de/interviews/82811/thomas_fuhrmann_wir_planen_vom_worst_scenario_aus/?utm_source=&utm_medium=&utm_campaign=&utm_term= MARY CARILLO, ANDREA JOYCE, AND JIMMY ROBERTS RETURNING AS VETERAN NBC TOKYO 2020 COMMENTATORS Rai Pubblicità and Toyota created a cross-media intregrated storytelling brand path divided into 3 moments entitled The Unbreakables, Olympians and Paralympians "out of the ordinary, who bravely faced and overcome very difficult challenges, physical or emotional, and that in the face of failure or adversity they are reborn stronger than before" and based on Toyota's global "Start Your Impossible" campaign. It profiles Bebe Vio, Arianna Fontana, Vanessa Ferrari, Clemente Russo, and Francesca Piccinini, each getting 15-minute profiles, and is on RaiPlay and Rai1: https://www.corrieredellosport.it/news/motori/news-motori/2021/06/07-82408286/rai_pubblicita_e_toyota_presentano_la_storytelling_the_unbreakable_ https://www.engage.it/campagne/rai-pubblicita-e-toyota-presentano-il-progetto-di-brand-integration-the-unbreakable.aspx The Portuguese will get the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games that will take place from 23 July – 8 August 2021 and will be broadcast live to Portugal via RTP1, RTP2 and RTP Play. More details will arrive next time: https://publicidade.rtp.pt/portfolio-item/jogos-olimpicos-toquio-2020/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Durban Sandshark Posted June 11, 2021 Report Share Posted June 11, 2021 Some other NBC Olympics Tokyo 2020 news and developments that we have to touch upon and possibly overlooked, some just breaking: TONY HAWK, STEVE KORNACKI, TARA LIPINSKI, AND JOHNNY WEIR JOIN NBC OLYMPICS TOKYO 2020 TEAM THIS SUMMER AS CORRESPONDENTS NBCU PROVIDES AND DISTRIBUTE LIVE 4KHDR COVERAGE OF NBC TOKYO 2020 PRIMETIME SEGMENT FOR THE FIRST TIME AND FOR THE GOLF CHANNEL AND THE OLYMPIC CHANNEL: HOME OF TEAM USA NBC WILL BROADCAST AN UNPRECEDENTED 13 NIGHTS OF A RECORD 50 HOURS OF PRIMETIME COVERAGE OF THE 2020 USA OLYMPIC TEAM TRIALS (83.25 HOURS OVERALL OUT OF 22 DAYS) IN DIVING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, AND TRACK & FIELD ACROSS NBC, NBCSN, OLYMPIC CHANNEL: HOME OF TEAM USA, AND PEACOCK SHEPARD SMITH AND MEGHAN TRIPLETT (CNBC), CAROLYN MANNO (OLYMPIC CHANNEL: HOME OF TEAM USA), AND DAMON HACK AND CARA BANKS (NBCSN) NAMED AS NBC'S TOKYO 2020 COVERAGE HOSTS NBC OLYMPICS PRESENTS 14 HOURS OF LIVE DIVING COVERAGE OF THE 2020 US OLYMPIC DIVING TRIALS ON THE OLYMPIC CHANNEL AND PEACOCK STARTING THIS TUESDAY NBC OLYMPICS WELCOMES 17 NEW PLAY-BY-PLAY VOICES FOR TOKYO 2020 OLYMPICS NBC OLYMPICS ANNOUNCES LAUNCH OF THE WEEKLY PODCAST SERIES THE PODIUM, RUNNING FOR 12 WEEKS, WITH PLANS FOR A DAILY PODIUM PODCAST DURING TOKYO 2020 MIKE TIRICO HOSTED 2-HOUR TOKYO OLYMPICS: DREAMS LIVE ON SPECIAL MARCH 26 ON NBCSN AND OLYMPIC CHANNEL NBC OLYMPICS AND TWITTER EXTEND LIVE CONTENT PARTNERSHIP UP TO THE TOKYO 2020 AND BEIJING 2022 OLYMPICS MIKE TIRICO TO ANCHOR NBC OLYMPICS PRIMETIME SEGMENT FROM OUTDOOR STUDIO OVERLOOKING THE PICTURESQUE TOKYO SKYLINE IN AN NBC OLYMPICS FIRST AHMED FAREED, LIAM MC HUGH & KATHRYN TAPPEN NAMED USA NETWORK HOSTS FOR TOKYO OLYMPICS NBC OLYMPICS AND TWITCH JOIN FORCES TO PROVIDE LIVE AND INTERACTIVE TOKYO 2020 EVENT CONTENT AND COVERAGE NBC OLYMPICS PRESENTED EXCLUSIVE LIVE COVERAGE OF 2020 US OLYMPIC TEAM WRESTLING TRIALS FROM FT. WORTH ON NBCSN, NBCSPORTS.COM, NBC SPORTS APP, AND PEACOCK ON APRIL 2-3ROB 18x SPORTS EMMY WINNER ROB HYLAND NAMED NBC OLYMPICS' PRIMETIME SHOW PRODUCER IN WORKING HIS 10TH OLYMPICS OVERALL The following is a Eurosport Sweden ad brochure indicating like they do among for potential sponsors in the price level of their chosing under the Discovery family--in Sweden's case, it's Kanal 5 (the flagship channel), Kanal 9, Kanal 11, Eurosport, Eurosport 2, and DPlay. Includes an interview with former hurdler Susanna Kallur, who acts as Discovery Networks Sweden's analyst for track and field: https://airtime.se/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/OS21-broschyr-Ny-dec-2020.pdf Sanna now has some company in track and field in 2004 heptathlete gold medalist Caroline Kluft and long jumper Michel Torneus. Kluft, a hosting vet with Viasat Sweden's recent Olympic coverage, joins host Jonas Karlsson in guiding the Swedish viewers during the track and field competitions at the Olympic Stadium that take place during the second week of the Olympics, especially during the live events. But she will also be present at the morning broadcasts the next day when major competitions take place during the night. Also makes known the team around the track & filed/athletics broadcasts also includes Tommy Åström who comments on the competitions on site in Tokyo together with Peter Häggström and Camilla Enström who is an on-site reporter. More experts will be attached to the broadcasts later in the spring https://press.discoverynetworks.se/post/nya-experter-klara-for-sommar-os-i-tokyo In the middle of this Aftonbladet article, we can see the Discovery Network Sverige Tokyo 2020 commentary team taking shape with more personnel to be announced soon. Much of the commentary will take place back home in Sweden with a much slimmer personnel bound for Tokyo. Nor Discovery has plans to create a studio there, either: https://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/a/dlyPJA/os-2021-i-tokyo-allt-infor-sommar-os--tv-och-program-dag-for-dag This is quickly becoming one of my favorite Olympic TV commercials of all time--and the games have been delayed. Surely this Europort Tokyo 2020 commercial takes its inspiration from manga comics, Tokyo's futuristic look and colors, anime, and all the side and backyard shops and restaurants there. And yes, the Eurosport Cube, medal zone, and The Dome are back! Hong Kong's Special Administrative Region Government managed to purchase HK's Tokyo 2020 TV broadcasting rights for an "undisclosed but reasonable price...and less than what was paid by commercial broadcasters in past games" in the name of better promoting sport in Hong Kong to five broadcasters in "a one-off arrangement" when local broadcasters were reluctant to step up themselves. The IOC's and Dentsu's $70 million asking price scared them off. Later reduced to HK$270 million ($34.7 million). Thanks to Hong Kong's government, the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games will be aired on 5 licensed broadcasters TVB, ViuTV, and Hong Kong Open TV (formerly Fantastic TV, making its Olympic broadcasting debut) as well as pay-TV channels Hong Kong Cable Television and NowTV. All must show events involving Hong Kong athletes. Government station RTHK will not be broadcasting the games because it "lacked the funding and the manpower to cover the Games". There were those who said this act shouldn't happen. https://www.sportspromedia.com/news/hong-kong-government-2020-tokyo-olympics-tv-rights https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3131628/2020-olympics-hong-kongs-government-must-step-if-we-want-watch https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3132989/hong-kong-buys-2020-summer-olympics-broadcast-rights-will https://www.sportcal.com/News/FeaturedNews/136284 For i-CABLE's part in the Tokyo 2020 broadcasting, "CABLE News and CABLE Sports channels will also provide highlights as well as the latest information of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. CABLE Sports has produced and broadcast the training activities of the Hong Kong Team in the past year, it will continue to cover the preparation activities of our athletes in coming months and give them the greatest support. CABLE TV will select the contests that the public care about and broadcast through CABLE Sports (HD 601 / SD 661), Sports Plus 1 (HD 602 / SD 662), Sports Plus 2 (HD 604 / SD 664), and Sports Plus 3 (HD 605 / SD 665). Moreover, a team of subject experts will be invited to provide professional commentary for the contests, hoping to witness every wonderful moment of China and Hong Kong athletes at the Olympics.": http://www.i-cablecomm.com/newsroom/index2.php?newsroomid=644 Fantastic TV will be repped by Channels of "Fantastic TV, Ch.77 Hong Kong Open TV and Ch.76 Hong Kong International Business Channel, will carry the Olympic items that are most popular among the people of Hong Kong. Professional sports commentators will host special Olympic programmes on our channels and share with our audience every exciting moment created by athletes from Hong Kong and Mainland China": http://www.i-cablecomm.com/newsroom/index2.php?newsroomid=645 Singapore's Mediacorp remains committed in broadcasting the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics despite the COVID-19-enforced delay. Industries and businesses being unable to pay in full for advertising and sponsorship raise a concern though: https://www.straitstimes.com/sport/olympics-mediacorp-remains-committed-to-broadcasting-tokyo-games-in-2021 The Olympic Games will take place in Tokyo for Belgium's Flemish contingent from Friday July 23 to Sunday August 8, which means a time difference of seven hours with Belgium for VRT's Sporza, maybe EEN and Canvas. In Tokyo Live , Maarten Vangramberen will cover the most important sports competitions at night from the Japanese capital, with the emphasis on our compatriots. In the morning Frank Raes receives a few guests every day in a breakfast program and Catherine Van Eylen then bundles the most important sports news in Studio Tokyo . Then Imke takes over Courtois in Tokyo Live for live coverage again. In the afternoon, at the end of Het journaal, there will be a fixed Studio Tokyo Olympic news block. After that, live coverage from the games will follow again. In addition to the evening news, Studio Tokio is back with a summary of the most important sports news. Each evening ends with an Olympic talk show with Karl Vannieuwkerke. Radio 1 starts from July 24 The Olympic Morning , between 6-9 am Belgium time In the afternoon (from 1-5 pm) there is Sporza Tokyo with live coverage, interviews, reports and analyses. The highlights are bundled daily on sporza.be. In addition, there will be three additional live streams with even more action images from Tokyo. On the occasion of the Olympic Games, Een is broadcasting documentaries about basketball player Ann Wauters (Wednesday 21 July) and gymnast Nina Derwael (Thursday 22 July). Linde Merckpoel follows the European Basketball Championship of the Belgian Cats online--and may cover them for Sporza. From Thursday 17 to Sunday 27 June she will provide a look behind the scenes of the basket European Championship: https://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20210525_93374725 Austria's ORF is not surprisingly taking a more remote direction from Tokyo in covering and producing its Tokyo 2020 coverage in cutting costs because of the pandemic by staying in Vienna: https://www.sportbusiness.com/news/orf-plans-tokyo-2020-remote-production-amid-cost-cuts/ An evening show directly from TVNorge's studio in Nydalen will be the focal place for the Discovery +, TVNorge, and Eurosport's Norwegian Tokyo 2020 coverage with . When today's competitions are over and the athletes charge their batteries, there will be an evening show in Oslo - directly from the studio in Nydalen. There, the effort will be celebrated, the winners will be celebrated and comfort will be given to those who need it. Olympic night will be co-hosted by the sports mad Henrik Elvestad and Olympic veteran Anne Rimmen. In the studio, they take the tempo of the championship, summarize the day, bring interviews with Norwegian athletes, and build expectations for what lies ahead in the coming Olympic day. To solder the Olympic atmosphere around our elongated country, Anne and Henrik have brought with them reporter Gita Simonsen. Among other things, she will visit the Norwegian Olympic heroes' homes and families during the games. In Tokyo, ring fox Pål Gordon Nilsen is in place to interview the participants, while newcomer Erik Follestad will report his squinting glances from the colorful world metropolis. Together, they will ensure that the Norwegian people get in a real Olympic mood through the 17 intense days the world's largest sporting event takes place, Discovery reports in a press release on Thursday morning: https://direkte.vg.no/sportsdognet/news/berit-kjoell-valgt-til-nytt-styremedlem-i-eoc.syvAbJTBa Bruce McAveney revisits Stadium Australia/ANZ Stadium--now completely devoid of its track lanes--and reminisces over the scene where Cathy Freeman's golden 400m race stopped Australia as he and Raylene Boyle called it amazingly over 20 years ago. Now, a new grown up generation of young Australian Olympic hopefuls inspired by what happened in Sydney by the likes of her and Ian Thorpe gets a chance to shine in Tokyo and inspire those after them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Durban Sandshark Posted June 16, 2021 Report Share Posted June 16, 2021 Some NBC Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics basketball broadcasting news to kick off this post. Bob Fitzgerald, the Golden St. Warriors play-by-play man on NBC Sports Bay Area, will call all of Team USA men's and women's basketball games during Tokyo 2020 for NBC in second foray in handling Olympic basketball play-by-play (London 2012) and his fifth NBC Olympics venture overall. Previously, he conducted water polo at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and handled radio play-by-play for basketball in Athens for Westwood One Sports in 2004 and swimming in Atlanta in 1996. Fitzgerald also currently calls NFL and college football games for Sports USA Radio. Also being tapped for basketball broadcasts and making her NBC Olympics debut will be Kate Scott, who herself possess some Golden St. Warriors broadcasting ties in recently being part of an all-female Golden St. Warriors radio broadcasting crew. In March, she led the first all-woman cast to call a Golden State Warriors game. Already, Kate Scott's done a lot of firsts in sports play-by-play broadcasting in NFL radio games, Pac-12 Network football, and with an all-female NHL broadcasting crew on NBCSN in March in the USA. Scott will serve her Tokyo 2020 Olympic basketball play-by-play work over at NBC's International Broadcasting Center in Stamford, Connecticut with Fran Fraschilla (second NBC Olympics assignment, analyst) and Monica McNutt (NBC Olympics debut, analyst): https://www.nba.com/warriors/news/bob-fitzgerald-tokyo-olympics-20210615 A strong mix of experience and newcomers is heading into NBC's Tokyo 2020 Olympic basketball broadcasting roster. Former Team USA basketball gold medalists Vince Carter, Candance Parker, and Kara Lawson will join Fitzgerald making their debuts as analysts in Tokyo. Parker will also coach the USA 3x3 women's basketball team while there. The aforementioned Scott and Fraschilla will be joined in Stamford by another debutant in Monica McNutt: https://awfulannouncing.com/nba/vince-carter-kara-lawson-candace-parker-among-nbcs-olympics-basketball-broadcasters.html Chicago White Sox's announcer Jason Benetti will call Tokyo 2020 Olympic baseball for NBC as play-by-play in his Olympic broadcasting debut in Stamford up to at least semifinal medal round and will miss "a week or so of White Sox games" with "the green light" granted from the White Sox franchise and ESPN. Adds to his rapidly growing resume with this great gig: https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/olympics/ct-olympics-chicago-white-sox-jason-benetti-nbc-20210603-mancleukxvafjcrjhqjhhj3cnm-story.html https://www.soxon35th.com/white-sox-broadcaster-jason-benetti-to-call-olympic-baseball-for-nbc-this-summer/ Peacock, along with the Michael Phelps 3-parter, On Her Turf, Ryan Lochte, Jordan Burroughs, and the 2008 swimming relay race docs, announced two additional ones premiering this week that flashes back to the Atlanta 1996 Centennial Summer Olympics dealing with focusing on those women who excelled there and inspired each other with the connection of the fruits of women's sports in Title IX and its global impact from the gold medal-winning USA women's teams upon the 25th anniversary of Atlanta 1996. At a time when women's soccer and softball were included into the Olympic program for the first time. The features are The '96 Effect (another 3-parter) and The Sisters of 1996 (on the US women's soccer team, the first Olympic women's soccer champions). Plus, the USA-China gold medal women's soccer game will be shown on Peacock for the first time ever available in full televised: https://awfulannouncing.com/nbc/nbc-rolling-out-1996-olympics-features-on-peacock-for-25th-anniversary-of-atlanta-games.html Rich Eisen will host Peacock's daily hour-long Olympic highlights, interview, analysis, and in-depth segment show Tokyo Gold on Tokyo NOW, streaming 10–11am CT daily as competition concludes in Tokyo and will repeat every hour between 11am–6pm CT Monday – Saturday and 11A-5P CT on Sunday: https://www.nbcumv.com/mediavillage/interactive/2929fed4187b40648b79a9839e70e91fproduct169208/index.html#/show/ffb5d1a3-b068-4af5-b100-37e750b5c266/press-releases/3cbc2a0f-95b1-484a-9a79-5830b5256f05 Confident now that the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics will proceed as scheduled after a long after, NBC anticipates that Tokyo 2020 will have the family of networks swimming in a record profit as its most profitable broadcast ever still under the specter of a pandemic with some pent-up demand for support. Even with a decline in TV viewership for the Summer Olympics. Obviously, NBC has a huge financial stake in the matter, hoping that its summer programming built around the Olympics with its massive 7000-hour coverage on its multiple platforms will provide a huge boost in viewership being counted on. Promoting and seeing American athletes succeed towards glory obviously will help: https://awfulannouncing.com/nbc/nbc-anticipating-record-profit-olympics-coverage-year-long-delay-tokyo-games.html https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/nbcuniversal-ceo-says-tokyo-olympics-could-be-most-profitable-ever-company-2021-06-14/ https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2021-06-14/nbcu-jeff-shell-tokyo-olympics A little more on NBC's broadcasting of the now-ongoing 2020 US Olympic Trials coverage going into high gear that's not in the form of a NBC Sports Group press release: https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-2020-tokyo-olympics-olympic-games-sports-e34bbb6380f79ed05ac8eee0a78d619d NBC Olympics' IP solutions, infrastructure, media audio and video routing solutions alongside control and monitoring systems for its Tokyo 2020 coverage and production will be supplied by Grass Valley: https://www.sportsvideo.org/2021/06/08/grass-valley-to-supply-ip-solutions-for-nbc-sports-coverage-of-tokyo-olympics/ Canon's lenses are set to be used for NBC's on-field and in-studio broadcasts like the wide range of Canon's 4K (UltraHD) as well as HD (1080p) broadcast optics will be employed by NBC at each of its sporting venues and studios in Tokyo. In particular, Canon notes that its UHD-DigiSuper 90 long-zoom field lens will be part of the NBC crew's optical outfit: https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/uk/news/canon-is-the-first-olympic-champion-chosen-by-nbc-for-tokyo-2020-coverage NBC Olympics taps Tunity to measure "out-of-home" TV viewership figures of its Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic coverage, particularly its primetime segment from the linear NBC networks: https://www.sportsvideo.org/2021/06/02/nbc-olympics-taps-tunity-to-measure-out-of-home-viewership-of-summer-games-in-tokyo/ Cari Champion gets to co-host a new nightly Olympic show on Peacock from Stamford, Connecticut doing interviews and highlights. Odds are very good she'll be joined there by beloved fellow ESPN SportsCenter alum Kenny Mayne, who she knows well (although they never worked together there): https://barrettsportsmedia.com/2021/06/15/cari-champion-peacock-show/ https://awfulannouncing.com/peacock/cari-champion-and-kenny-mayne-will-host-nightly-olympics-recap-on-peacock.html Pablo Carillo from Grupo Imagen proudly announces it will carry its portion of Tokyo 2020's Mexican TV broadcast. Evoking his memories of being in person for the Mexico City 1968 Summer Olympics and how he fell in love with the Olympics ever since. Doesn't detail exactly what and how much Television Imagen will cover yet: https://www.excelsior.com.mx/adrenalina/opinion/pablo-carrillo/privilegio/1452676 Kenya's Kenyan Television Network, from the ownership of The Standard Group Ltd., will provide the Tokyo 2020 coverage on its free-to-air television commercial channel. It owns four channels--KTN Home, KTN News, KTN Farmers and BTV--and three radio stations--Radio Maisha, Spice FM and Vybes Radio--that the latter will also be involved in the Olympic deal: https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1104372/tokyo-2020-free-to-air-in-kenya https://www.michezoafrika.com/news/ktn-to-air-tokyo-olympics-live/26181 ATV's Tokyo 2020 coverage video promo in Peru anchors a very small report mentioning on its transmission rights for it starting in July: https://www.atv.pe/noticia/atv-transmitira-en-exclusiva-los-juegos-olimpicos-tokio-2020-desde-julio-del-2021 Honduras' Olympic TV coverage for Tokyo 2020 will come from VTV, a member of the Albavision broadcasting family across Latin America. It operates channels 2, 9, and 13 there. Naturally it will focus on Team Honduras with the U23 Honduras 2020 Olympic soccer team playing Group B. In-house studios hosts will be Circi Hernandez and Luis Flores with its band of reporters/sportscasters Henry Gómez, Octavio Lemus, Samuel Coello, Daniel Ramírez, Alejandro Cáceres, Odair Amiera, and Caleb Alvarado. Gomez and Nicol Pavon were originally set to do this a year ago before the postponement, but La H managed to qualify. Don't know about what happened to Pavon. Polache brought in the musical announcement and it makes note of its sister Albavision channels gaining their own Tokyo 2020 rights like Red Bolivision (Bolivia), Repretel (Costa Rica), RTS Ecuador, Antena Channel 7 (Dominican Republic), and RSM as one of the media networks with the greatest presence in Latin America, having exclusive reports from Tokyo, from the stages where the competitions commence. That will be presented by Maynor Solano, Richard Pereira, Zully Rodriguez, Javier Luna, and Jose Luis Arevalo: https://www.vtv.com.hn/noticia/lanzamiento-vtv-juegos-olimpicos-tokio-2020/ https://www.vtv.com.hn/noticia/repeticion-del-encendido-antorcha-olimpia-rumbo-a-tokio-2020/ The 77-year old Phil Liggett rejoins the Seven Australian Tokyo 2020 Olympic broadcast team for cycling after all! This time with Australian cycling greats Anna Mears and Scott McGrory...but will conduct them remotely in London this time. Just a matter of negotiations too: https://7news.com.au/sunrise/on-the-show/renowned-cycling-commentator-phil-liggett-joins-channel-sevens-olympic-team-c-3123651 Eurosport Deutschland's original plan for its Tokyo 2020 coverage was to have its Deutschland Haus on location in Tokyo to broadcast daily there. Fabian Hambuchen and analyst/expert Gerhard Leinauer planned to be live on the air in-studio at The Home of Team Germany (Team Deutschland) "to capture all the emotions and reactions from Tokyo" with Hambuchen later reporting direct from the Germany House, bringing his flair from Tokyo daily at 5pm CET/Germany time on Eurosport 1. The show was called #TeamD--Live from the Deutschland Haus" presented with highlights with the duo and German Olympians. Uncertain exactly how the pandemic-enforced plans will change this. Very likely no Deutschland Haus on location in Tokyo with Japan's ban on foreign visitors. Eurosport 1 will offer round-the-clock coverage regardless. Will have to offer something different for TeamD but may still have a Medal Zone live conference. Live daily Olympic competition action will come 6am-5pm Germany time where it's exciting and preferably involves German athletes. Will be interesting to see the updated developments very soon: https://www.digitalfernsehen.de/news/medien-news/international/eurosport-gibt-tv-plaene-fuer-olympia-2020-bekannt-552368/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quaker2001 Posted June 23, 2021 Report Share Posted June 23, 2021 Big drop of info today concerning Peacock... PEACOCK TO STREAM TOKYO OLYMPICS COVERAGE LIVE INCLUDING GYMNASTICS, TRACK & FIELD, AND BASKETBALL They'll have live streaming *for free* of track and field plus gymnastics. In addition to previously announced programming. The only thing that will be on the paid tier is coverage of USA basketball. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Durban Sandshark Posted June 23, 2021 Report Share Posted June 23, 2021 Claro Sports and its fellow America Movil-owned entity Marca Claro newspaper will offer 20 free and simultaneous digital Olympic streams through Marca Claro's portal at marcoclaro.com that will carry over 4000 hours of Tokyo 2020 coverage both live and on-demand online and mobile. On the TV side, 4 Claro Sports HD channels will present 1600 hours under a 24/7 transmission across almost the predominantly Spanish-speaking Latin America (followed in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela): https://ensegundos.do/2021/06/09/claro-transmitira-los-juegos-olimpicos-tokio-2020/ Singapore's Mediacorp shows off its incredible new pro-Singapore and very colorful Tokyo 2020 microsite and news portal promoting its unprecedented coverage. Even more so now with a gold medal for the nation thanks to Joseph Schooling beating his idol Michael Phelps in Rio De Janeiro with 30 days to go. The fee that Mediacorp paid from Dentsu and the IOC as part of the specific Asian territorial broadcasting rights is kept confidential but has to be around at least S$5-7 million. This much we now know about Mediacorp's Singapore Tokyo 2020 coverage, the widest and most comprehensive it's ever conducted: across its multiple platforms including Mediacorp’s digital service, meWATCH service, meWATCH, Channel 5, and the Mediacorp Entertainment YouTube channel. Viewers can catch both the Opening and Closing Ceremonies and the sporting action from Tokyo 2020 LIVE and on-demand across up to 14 dedicated channels on meWATCH. Viewers can also catch daily news updates across all of Mediacorp’s news bulletins and cna.asia, todayonline.com and 8world.com. Mediacorp's sports that will be featured in our daily coverage: track & field, badminton, diving, soccer, gymnastics, swimming, table tennis, basketball, and volleyball, subject to availability of the coverage that likely will add more. meWATCH starts with the Opening Ceremony on 23 July (why not all those soccer and softball on the two days prior to the Opening Ceremony). Mediacorp will bring you the coverage of the Games across up to 14 dedicated Internet streaming channels on meWATCH dedicated to Tokyo 2020. You can access the full coverage of Tokyo 2020 anytime, anywhere, LIVE or on-demand, via the free meWATCH app also, available on iOS and Android devices, Smart TVs, Apple TV, Chromecast, or on your computer. You will need to sign in to meWATCH to watch Tokyo 2020 for free and users can do so via your meCONNECT or Social account. meCONNECT is the universal sign-in to Mediacorp’s digital services and personsalized experience on meWATCH, meLISTEN, meREWARDS, CNA and 8world. Not have an account? Create one for free at mewatch.sg/register. The coverage of Tokyo 2020, like along with the 30th SEA Games in 2019 and the Winter Youth Olympic Games earlier this year, are a few of the free LIVE events implemented mandatory sign-in on meWATCH and meCONNECT as part of Mediacorp's efforts to improve services, and provide a more targeted and personalized experience for you. Those who don't have the sign-in account can watch a curated coverage of Tokyo 2020 on Channel 5, as well as highlights of the sporting events on meWATCH’s YouTube channel at youtube.com/MediacorpEntertainment. Mediacorp, obviously owing to the pandemic, is not hosting any Olympic-related on-ground events this time around. Nor is it selling any Tokyo 2020 merchandise 9wish it could offer some Team Singapore merchandise). One thing I wish, and it maybe could still do, is offer some Chinese and Hindi language coverage on its other related channels like in the recent Summer Olympics through its channels: https://www.mediacorp.sg/en/tokyo2020/ MIKE TIRICO AND SAVANNAH GUTHRIE WILL CO-HOST NBC'S PRESENTATION OF THE TOKYO 2020 OPENING CEREMONY THIS SUMMER Quaker beat me to it but...Live Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics coverage will be prominently streaming on Peacock found at a dedicated hub/specific destination (hopefully it will have an easy-to-navigate interface). Not surprising at all the major and popular Olympic sports to Americans will be made available and get the draw-in to the new service Both men’s and women’s gymnastics (with two-time medalist Laurie Hernandez providing studio analysis), men’s and women’s track and field will be featured as part of Peacock’s live coverage each morning from Tokyo, both free. Morning coverage will also include Tokyo Live, hosted by Matt Iseman and Akbar Gbajabiamila. Team USA men's basketball games will get the Peacock treatment (no surprise...but NOT the women too?!; hopefully they too will get on board with an announcement very soon, especially with who are the analysts) but on the paid Premium tier with Vince Carter, Kara Lawson, and Candace Parker alongside play-by-play announcer Bob Fitzgerald and analyst Fran Franschilla. Among the new featured Olympic docs forthcoming on Peacock just now announced include For Ball and Country, which chronicles USA Basketball and some of the great teams that have been assembled during the past 30 years and beyond like the Dream Team afterwards. Golden, produced by LeBron James and Maverick Carter’s Uninterrupted, will follow Hernandez and other Olympic hopefuls as they prepare for the delayed Tokyo Games in gymnastics. Other Peacock Tokyo 2020-related Olympic programming include On Her Turf at the Olympics that will focus on women’s sports, hosted by Lindsay Czarniak, Lolo Jones, and MJ Acosta-Ruiz. And Amber Ruffin brings her late-night talk show to Tokyo. Even a light-hearted Olympics highlights show starring Kevin Hart and Snoop Dogg doing commentary on them produced by Hart's LOL Studios. All of those shows will be available on Peacock’s Tokyo NOW channel. Five other channels will also be offered, including Great Moments, Meet the Olympians, Must-See Moments, Team USA, and Tokyo Flame (literally a live stream of the Olympic flame) Makes me wonder why NBCU has Team USA basketball under this paid streaming status, though: https://awfulannouncing.com/olympics/peacock-announces-live-tokyo-olympics-coverage-live-gymnastics-track-and-field-and-basketball.html ESPN's Jessica Mendoza, short track speed skating legend Apollo Anton Ohno, NBC News' Sam Bock, Anne Thompson, New England Revolution sideline reporter Naoka Funayama, Dr. John Torres, Tanith White, NBC Sports Digital's Corey Robinson, Natalie Morales, Gus Kenworthy, Winter Olympics snowboarding reporter Tina Dixon, and NASCAR On NBC's Rutledge Wood are the latest wave in a mix of NBC Tokyo 2020 sportscasters and reporters joining the team and bound for Tokyo. NBC Olympics has not stated what roles exactly they will be involved in like sports and/or features. Can safely assume Jessica Mendoza would cover baseball and softball given she analyses MLB and the Little League World Series on ESPN. Ohno may do Japan-centric features. Although both may conduct different things with other former Olympians. Tokyo's ongoing pandemic woes and some athletes' potentially forced out of Olympic competition due to testing positive, however, likely will fall on the reporters' focus with Torres providing the sports science insight with COVID-19: https://awfulannouncing.com/nbc/jessica-mendoza-among-those-heading-to-tokyo-as-reporters-for-nbc-olympics-coverage.html Milwaukee Bucks sideline and digital reporter for FOX/Bally Sports Wisconsin Zora Stephenson, also a sports radio host for WTMJ-Radio, The Truth, and ESPN Radio in Milwaukee, joins NBC Olympics Tokyo 2020 sportscasting/reporting team making her Olympic debut as a basketball reporter primarily on Team USA's men's and women's basketball teams: https://nbcsportsgrouppressbox.com/2021/06/21/zora-stephenson-joins-nbc-sports-to-debut-as-nbc-olympics-basketball-reporter-in-tokyo/ Circle K is the exclusive sponsor for RTÉ’s coverage of the Tokyo Olympic Games across television, online and mobile. As official sponsor of the RTÉ Olympic coverage, and official partner of Team Ireland in Tokyo, Circle K will feature prominently in all RTÉ Olympic programming, including live and catch-up coverage on RTÉ2, RTÉ Player and RTÉ.ie. This edition of the Summer Olympic Games will be the first time that RTÉ will broadcast coverage directly from the host city instead of being just in Dublin. RTÉ Sport’s Evanne Ní Chuilinn will present from Tokyo with a team of RTÉ reporters covering the Irish Olympic story on the ground. Peter Collins and Darragh Maloney will present the coverage from Dublin, with expert analysts joining them to review Team Ireland’s performances as well as all the biggest stories of the Games as they unfold. This agreement with RTÉ further strengthens Circle K’s association with the Irish Olympic Team. Since 2019, Circle K has been a proud partner of Team Ireland and has supported Ireland’s athletes on their journey to Tokyo through its in-store Here for Ireland initiative that Circle K customers generated more than 218m digital coins, worth approximately €750,000 for Ireland's athletes to use on Circle K products such as miles fuel, coffee, snacks, and other in-store items. 172 Irish athletes from around the country have signed up to Here for Ireland and since the initiative first launched they have redeemed enough miles fuel to travel to Tokyo an incredible 155 times: https://olympics.ie/circle-k-to-exclusively-sponsor-rtes-coverage-of-the-tokyo-2021-olympic-games/ Lithuania's Olympic broadcasting rights holders is again TV3 Lietuva. As TV3 Lietuva presents Tokyo 2020 an opportunity with the most broadcasting hours in Lithuanian TV history, it will present the most favorite, important, and interesting sports to Lithuanians like basketball, now in both formats, special emphasis on events involving members of the 2020 Lithuanian Olympic Team. Actually, this will require showing Tokyo 2020 on two national channels for the first time in the TV3 Group--TV3 and TV6. Already announced last year, TV3 plans to send the biggest ever broadcasting team to Tokyo in producing the Lithuanian TV coverage, promising that it will be in high-professional quality. That won't change with the pandemic. It will start with TV3 broadcasting the Kaunas-hosted portion of the FIBA men's Olympic Qualification Tournament later next week: https://aina.lt/tokijo-olimpines-zaidynes-ivyks-jas-transliuos-tv3/ Basic details regarding Schweizer Fernsehen (or SRF to officially include its radio arm) and its Tokyo 2020 Swiss-German coverage that will of course be expanded and elaborated: SRF broadcasts live from Tokyo every day for 14 hours from 2:00 am to 4:00 pm Swiss time on SRF2. Between 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm--also on SRF2--you can see daily highlights. Every day at 8:05 pm the Tokyo 2020 Olympic events get summarized of the Olympic Day through the 45-minute program “Tokyo Konpakuto” also on SRF2. In the "Olympia Player" in the SRF Sport App, you are your own director: You can choose between 9 streaming channels and put together your own personal Olympic program: https://www.srf.ch/sport/tokyo-2020/fragen-antworten-zu-olympia-wann-geht-s-los-welches-sind-die-highlights-und-wie-sendet-srf SABC's 18-page provision on how it will tackle its Tokyo 2020 coverage as South Africa's sole FTA Olympic broadcasting rights holder on TV, radio, digital, and marketing. What's relevant here on this thread is that the brand-new SABC Sport Channel acting as the primary (or "hero") TV carrier for its Tokyo 2020 coverage along its 18 SABC radio stations and the SABC Sport app. SABC 1, 2, and 3 are all regulated to supporter status with TelekomONE, Openview, and OTT. SABC previously had SABC 2 as the principal Olympic home for SABC, you may recall. It mentions the need to develop a SABC Olympic media campaign tagline, TV, digital, and radio stings, promos, and bumpers, toolkits, Team South Africa profiles, live radio and digital news reports, and buying non-SABC-owned digital and print ad media, daily media creatives, and daily audience interactive contests. SABC Radio promotions will involve 12 different languages. SABC Sport Channel will more than likely carry both ceremonies and be close to 24 hours daily in its coverage in many sports with news and highlights and lifestyle segments--and be varied and diverse in its Olympic sports presentation while still focusing on Team South Africa. My guess is SABC 1-3 as supporters will present a few hours of daily highlights with perhaps, based on its Rio 2016 coverage, SABC1 will broadcasting soccer, rugby sevens, basketball, and gymnastics. SABC2 could handle tennis, beach volleyball, and golf. SABC3 could deal with swimming, water polo, field hockey, rowing, cycling, and surfing. But that's all TBD right now: file:///C:/Users/Internet/Downloads/Tokyo-Olympics-RFQ.pdf Polish viewers can catch the Polish men's national basketball team's quest for qualification at the Kaunas Olympic Qualification Tournament next week on TVP Sport, sport.tvp.pl, and the TVP Sport app. Poland's Biało-czerwoni/Orly (Red and White/Eagles) is made up of a mixture of European-based and Energa Polish Basketball League professional players coached by Mike Taylor. Facing at least Slovenia and Angola in their Kaunas, Lithuania group. TVP Sport basketball commentary is provided by Piotr Sobczyński and Ryszard Łabędz: https://sport.tvp.pl/54437481/tokio-2020-turniej-kwalifikacyjny-w-kownie-kto-rywalem-reprezentacji-polski-z-kim-zagraja-polscy-koszykarze-kiedy-i-gdzie-obejrzysz-mecze-koszykarskiej-reprezentacji-polski-w-kownie Laurie Delhostal departed from Canal+ in April after 10 years, but she just landed a studio hosting Eurosport France Olympic morning show job surrounded by those Eurosport Olympic experts airing at 8am France time. She formerly presented "Sunday evening sports" at Canal +. 20 people formerly working at Canal+'s sports department, including her, have left its door: https://www.ouest-france.fr/jeux-olympiques/eurosport-recrute-laurie-delhostal-pour-les-jeux-olympiques-de-tokyo-d0476a90-cabc-11eb-ac72-70abdfa83133 Good news for Czechs: CT Sport will show 300 TV hours of Tokyo 2020 coverage focusing on the Czech Republic's Olympic athletes with excellent TV operational coverage and productions. Bad news for the Czechs: the reporters must abide by coronavirus restrictions being in a strict bubble with no contact with the Japanese public (not the unexpected part here) but--worse--Ceske Televize will NOT bring their experts to Tokyo with them alongside the play-by-play personnel, meaning the play-by-players will perform both jobs: https://sport.ceskatelevize.cz/clanek/olympijske-hry/tokio-2020/ct-sport-nabidne-z-tokia-kompletni-ceske-vykony-kvuli-podminkam-se-vsak-skrtli-experti/60d39acad60dfef4a4818da7 Globo/SporTV officially welcomed its latest wave of Brazilian sports idols from 9 different sports--volleyball, basketball, swimming, skateboarding, surfing, boxing, gymnastics, track & field/athletics, and judo--as announcers for its upcoming Tokyo 2020 coverage in May. A few like Murer actually were with Globo at Rio. Like Bob Burnquist, Janeth Arcain, Diego Hypolito, Fabiana Murer, Tiago Camilo, volleyball coach Bernardinho, Serginho Escadinha, Fabiana Claudino, Thaísa Menezes, Talita Antunes, Thiago Pereiera, Gustavo de Conti, Miguel Pupo, and Robson Conceicao: https://www.lance.com.br/fora-de-campo/globo-confirma-selecao-astros-esporte-como-comentaristas-nas-olimpiadas-toquio-veja-lista.html I'll delve into the Mexican Tokyo 2020 coverage more in full, but this just came out with TV Azteca having Goku and Vegeta, "the most powerful warriors in the universe", from Dragon Ball Z to appear for a funny news show called Games Z during its Tokyo 2020 Olympics coverage. Actually it will be the Latin American (Spanish) dubbed voices to Goku and Vegeta, Mario Castañeda and Rene Garcia, narrating that show. Isn't clear yet whether the actual characters would be granted permission from Toei Animation and Akira Toriyama to appear. Or their phrases and terms. Just lending their voices for now. Was wondering will we see some Japanese anime ties to Olympic broadcasters: https://es.digitaltrends.com/entretenimiento/goku-vegeta-relataran-juegos-olimpicos-tokio/ https://www.record.com.mx/empelotados/tokio-2020-goku-y-vegeta-en-la-programacion-de-tv-azteca-para-los-juegos-olimpicos https://bolavip.com/mx/otros/Tokio-2020-TV-Azteca-contara-con-voces-de-Dragon-Ball-Z-en-narracion-de-Juegos-Olimpicos-20210622-0033.html TRT confirms it will broadcast the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics for Turkey. Mostly on TRTSpor. Details are sparse ight now but of course will be forthcoming: https://ajansspor.com/haber/olimpiyatlar-hangi-kanalda-yayinlanacak-aciklandi-215512 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quaker2001 Posted June 25, 2021 Report Share Posted June 25, 2021 55 minutes ago, danderson4500 said: I think that Chris Marlowe is the only one still left from NBCs crew in 88. Does anybody remember who his partner was that did play-by-play. Chris started on PBP in 92. Bob Trumpy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Durban Sandshark Posted June 30, 2021 Report Share Posted June 30, 2021 5 hours ago, neneu10 said: BBC trailer That excellent BBC promo trailer as planned to make its premiere right for the England Round of 16 match. Encapsulates so much of contemporary Japanese pop culture like manga, anime, Japanese TV programming with singing and dancing costumed girls, neon signage, back alley street shops, and large Hirogama and Katakana TV graphics. Would make for a perfect broadcasting segment intro! And a music video! Keeping and starting this edition of the post with host nation Japan. Fuji TV announces its Tokyo 2020 TV broadcast schedule that it will be on the air for only three days during the Summer Olympics on July 26 and 28 and August 2. Fuji TV's live Tokyo 2020 broadcasting run starts on July 26 with the airing of the mixed doubles table tennis semifinals, bronze, and gold medal matches at 8-10pm hoping that the pair of 20-year-old Mima Ito and 32-year-old Jun Mizutani ("Junma") will appear battling for gold. June 28 will see action move to the aquatics swimming pool from 10:30am-1:05pm with the daytime medal winning session with the Men's 200m Butterfly Final, Women's 200m Individual Medley Final, and other swimming events, where Japan's swimming team is expected to have a medal rush on this day. Later that day, get ready to expect for some primetime TV Olympic men's soccer action with Japan's (mostly) U24 men's national soccer team, aiming for its first medal in 53 years, taking on France in the final round of group play. Fuji TV finally concludes its broadcast turn on August 2 after a few days with the men's singles badminton semifinals, bonze and gold medal matches. World champion and #1 ranked Kento Momota, the most decorated Japanese badminton player, hopes to bring Japan's first ever men's badminton gold. Fuji TV's sportscasting team is Shingo Murakami and Fuji TV announcer Miyaji Manami (main caster), Tadahiro Nomura (Olympic caster), and Ai Miyazato (athletes' maincaster): https://www.fujitv.co.jp/tokyo2020/index.html NHK, the main broadcaster in the Japanese TV Consortium, broadcasted the 105th Japan Championships in Athletics on NHK-G, BS1, and BS8K June 24-27 at the Yanmar Stadium Nagai in Osaka. It was "held as a representative selection for the Tokyo Olympics, and a maximum of three Olympic representatives will be appointed for each event. However, since Nozomi Tanaka has already decided on the women's 5000 meters at the Japan Championship last year, the maximum number of players who will be decided at this tournament will be two. The representative of Japan will be decided by the results of this tournament, the standard record of participation, and the world ranking," but there were conditions for the unofficial decision: https://sports.nhk.or.jp/dream/japan-athletics/ Like in track and field, NHK transmitted the 60th NHK Cup of Gymnastics that also determined who would represent Japan in gymnastics back in May 15-16 at Nagano's Big Hat Multipurpose Sports Arena. May 15 was entirely women competitions (E-Tele at 1pm) with May 16 (BS1 at 11:55am and then E-Tele at 2pm) being the men's turn. NHK Sportscasting team was Anna Nakagawa (overall host), Naoya Tsukahara (men's commentary), Rie Tanaka (women's commentary), Miki Uemura (commentary), Hisatsugu Funaoka (live), Noritaka Nishikawa (reporter), Takehiro Kashima (commentary), Yasuhiko Matsuno (live), and Keisuke Hoshino (reporter): https://sports.nhk.or.jp/dream/nhk-gym/ Eurosport France in association with former French pay-TV Olympic rights holders Canal+ and Freebox announce the arrival of 7 ephemeral Eurosport channels--Eurosport 3-9--for Tokyo 2020 that will place great emphasis on team sports like team sports, soccer, rugby, basketball, golf, racket sports (tennis, badminton, table tennis) but also combat ones (boxing, judo, karate, taekwondo). For their part, Eurosport 1 and 2 will focus respectively on major events and French performances. The group will also launch Eurosport 4K with more than 200 hours of live programming. No less than forty consultants will be on hand to animate the competition with their expertise. Arriving in the coming weeks: https://www.universfreebox.com/article/491062/freebox-avec-tv-by-canal-eurosport-va-lancer-7-nouvelles-chaines-ephemeres-pour-les-jo-de-tokyo Supersport's Tokyo 2020 Olympic broadcasting plans will include "DStv multiplatform offering will extend to live streaming services for the first time (Showmax and DStv) with all the expected features (website, app and social with news, video, medals tables, TV guide, curated notifications and much more) for the ultimate in Olympic viewing pleasure.” Also states popular sorts news channel SuperSport Blitz will provide breaking Olympic news, highlights, and results with a particular focus on African athletes in Tokyo: https://kawowo.com/2021/06/28/supersport-to-broadcast-olympic-games-on-8-dedicated-channels/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Durban Sandshark Posted July 7, 2021 Report Share Posted July 7, 2021 Kyrgyzians can watch their national TV presentation of the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics live thanks to KTRK and its sister channel KTRK Sport while cheering on for Team Kyrgyzstan. The latter will likely be 24 hours a day in this like it was with the Rio De Janeiro edition. Announced on May 31: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ky&u=https://koom.press/kyrgyzstandyktar-tokio-olimpiadasyn-t%D2%AFz-efir-k%D3%A9r%D3%A9-alyshat-2/&prev=search&pto=aue Once again for sadly the final time, several Team USA men's and women's pre-Olympic exhibition basketball games this month will be aired live on NBCSN versus Australia's Boomers (men) and Opals (women), Nigeria, and Spain (men only) as part of The Road To Tokyo. The American women's match with Nigeria will be seen on the Olympic Channel: The Home of Team USA, though: https://nbcsportsgrouppressbox.com/2021/07/01/nbc-sports-presents-usa-basketballs-road-to-tokyo-olympics/ Austria's ORF kicks off its Tokyo 2020 broadcasting coverage with tomorrow's live 1-hour and 5-minutes presentation of the XXXII Summer Olympics Tokyo 2020 Lotteries Farewell Celebration in Vienna on ORF 1 at 6:20pm Austria/CET. This is where the Austrian Olympic Committee names its 75-person 2020 Austrian Olympic Team (or Team Austria). We already know that sailors Thomas Zajac and Tanja Frank will be the flag bearers for Austria at the opening ceremony in Tokyo, and those two will be there. Your hosts for this show are Karoline Rath-Zobernig and Lukas Schweighofer and will deal with of course Austria’s Olympic athletes and their medal hopes as contenders in a wider circle of events like sailing, wrestling, swimming, judo, triathlon, rowing, canoeing and mountain biking while having their say, as do ÖOC President Karl Stoss and ÖOC General Secretary Peter Mennel. Comes with the ORF1 promo. This will not be the last pre-Olympic Tokyo 2020 Austrian ORF programming. Thursday will see a 30-minute live farewell to Team Austria with later a 1-hour farewell party with Austrian Federal President Alexander van der Bellen from Vienna at 8am and 10am, respectively, Austria time both on ORF Sport+ jetting off to Tokyo. ORF Sport + re-airs the farewell celebrations on Monday July 18 and Tuesday July 19 at 19:00 and 23:00, respectively: https://tv.orf.at/program/orf1/xxxiiolymp104.html https://tv.orf.at/suche104~_category-Olympische+Spiele_-7398217c55918bec8de3e880ce3722aa9600568b.html?categories=Olympische+Spiele Neighboring Slovenia has TV Slovenija just announcing it will carry 250 hours--and maybe more with Luka Doncic and his Slovenian charges clinching their Olympic men's basketball ticket this past weekend--with an emphasis on Team Slovenia and their performances and the broadcast of the vast majority of all other final decisions, and of course the opening and closing ceremonies of the games on TV Slovenija 2. The second program of Television Slovenia, which will be completely dedicated to the Olympic Games for sixteen days, will start with live broadcasts at around 3 am. At 8 o'clock in the morning, TV Slovenija 2 will enrich them with an accompanying studio program live from Ljubljana, hosted by Tomaž Hudomalj. The emphasis of the accompanying studio program will be on informing viewers about Olympic Games events and all performances of Slovenian athletes. TV Slovenija 1 will expand its informative sports shows, particularly with news from Tokyo completely fresh right after Prvi dnevnik at 1pm and after Reports at 5pm, the novelty will also be Olimpijski Dnevnik, a half-hour show with Urban Laurenčič, which will upgrade Šport at 19:45 Slovenian time. Every day, the team from Tokyo will also report on all daily news broadcasts, record the statements of both Slovenian and foreign athletes, prepare special Olympic stories, and try to conjure up the Olympic pulse from the Japanese metropolis to Slovenia. At the same time and interestingly to all those liable to pay the RTV Slovenia fee are already able to watch the Olympic Games on the programs of Television Slovenia anywhere within the European Union. But Slovenians must register, for which instructions can be found on the website https://www.rtvslo.si/racun/prispevek. BTW, The head of this Olympic Games project on Television Slovenija is Mile Jovanović. The day before the official start of the Olympics on July 22, Slovenian TV viewers will be able to watch a new part of the Slovenian Olympic Century documentary series, their stories, this time about the Rio 2016 Games, on TV SLO 2 at 9 pm. Narrator and host is Jolanda Bertole, who talked to the main members of the Rio De Janeiro 2016 Slovenian national team at the Games, with all four medal winners and also other athletes with interesting stories who remembered the Olympic events, their successes and experiences. Its radio station campaign hashtag is Val 202: #tokiodoma. If Slovenian fans are not able to follow the sports heroes in the stands in Tokyo, radio station Val 202 will blow up the Olympic atmosphere in Slovenia. Among the listeners, they will go with a field studio and a fan zone, where fun monitoring of sports events will be provided, and reporters will take care of the live broadcasts in Tokyo. The field part of the study program will be broadcast every day during the Olympic Games between 10.00 and 15.30 Sundays until 18:30. Aleš Smrekar, Uroš Volk, and their team will act as the field leaders for all 16 days. With the entire offer of activities, it stops in Bled between July 24-26, July 27-28 in Zagorje ob Savi, on July 29-30 in Hrastnik, July 31 and August 2 with additional stops in Ptuj August 3-5 in Ljubljana and ending August 6-8 in Izola. Visitors will have the experience of interactively creating a radio program with questions to guest sports interlocutors and the opportunity to playfully experiment as a sports reporter. There will be an entertainment program with concerts and presentations of various sports. At the same time, they will be able to follow the decisive performances directly on the venue and cheer for Slovenian athletes, who will probably be able to greet them at individual locations after their return to their homeland. Sports events at Val 202 will be upgraded in terms of content by highlighting Slovenian tourist locations and stories of tourist workers. On the website side of things, rtvslo.si prepared a special support rtvslo.si/sport/oi-2020, which is entirely dedicated to the Summer Olympics. Even before the start of the Olympic Games, there will take great care of many interesting content, interviews and chats. Be also able to watch live events from Tokyo at MMC. The MMC team will be on call 24 hours a day so nothing will be missed and can see all the interesting excerpts from the downloads, statements and analyzes in its 4D archive. MMC journalist Tilen Jamnik will also be on the scene in Tokyo: https://www.rtvslo.si/rtv/za-medije/sporocila-za-javnost/olimpijske-igre-tokio-2020-na-rtv-slovenija/586753 Model Camila Stuardo return to TVN Chile in reuniting with Pedro Carcuro and Gustavo Huerta in Sunday afternoon's Sports Zoom: Great Sports Moments to provide "a feminine touch" onto the show interviewing different Chilean athletes and their preparations towards Tokyo in sharing their stories starting with athlete Esteban Bustos: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=https://redgol.cl/tiempolibre/Camila-Stuardo-TVN-zoom-deportivo--Modelo-vuelve-a-la-senal-estatal-para-sumarse-al-equipo-del-iconico-programa-20210510-0061.html&prev=search&pto=aue Discovery Finland strikes an agreement with online company Digita in getting Discovery Finland-owned free-to-air TV5 serving as the only TV channel in Finland to have round the clock 24-hour presentation of not just Tokyo 2020 but also the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics entirely on HD quality in its TV broadcasts and on Digita's TV5 channel position on Channel 27: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fi&u=https://press.discoveryfinland.fi/post/tv5-nayttaa-olympialaisia-ympari-vuorokauden-hd-laadulla-antenni&prev=search&pto=aue Kanal 2 in Estonia has its own preview serial TV program that has lasted since last year called Tokyo Olympic Start Count (Tokyo OM Stardiloebdus): https://kanal2.postimees.ee/saated/Tokyo-OM-stardiloendus Horizon Tokyo comes from Ireland's RTE One last week on a Monday at 10:35pm as a 3-part documentary on how both the Irish athletes--9 of them in this--cope during the pandemic like with training and not competing and dealing with their own lives' issues hoping their exploits make them wider names while Japan undergoes another wave and struggles with rising cases. Adding another layer to the 9 Irish athletes' anxiety in planning to participate: https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio-web/tv-guide-18-of-the-best-shows-to-watch-this-week-beginning-tonight-1.4602411 The National Television and Radio Company of Uzbekistan won the rights to broadcast the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics this summer. I can see its domestic Uzbek channel Sport with maybe UzReportTV and Futbol TV will primarily take care of that: https://kun.uz/uz/news/2021/04/01/sport-telekanali-yechl-yevropa-ligasi-va-yana-uchta-musobaqani-translatsiya-qilish-huquqini-qolga-kiritdi Following is Caracol Television's Tokyo 2020 promo from Colombia. Naturally it places some emphasis in this clip on Colombian athletes like BMX bikers Mariana Pajon and Carlos Ramirez, gymnast Jossimar Calvo, triple jumper Catherine Ibarguen, cyclist Esteban Chalvez, and judoka Yuri Alvear with Caracol reports on the scene taken from the last Summer Olympics from Rio De Janeiro along with footage of various Olympics sports from the final seconds of preparation with the countdown beeps to the action, interspersed with Rio and past Olympics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihiC1VOY6QI General overview of the two major Brazilian TV rights holders for Tokyo 2020--Globo/SporTV and BandSports. Globo will air 12 hours of programming daily exclusive to the event on the free-to-air side and hopefully concurrently. The broadcasting time range will be from 10 pm to 11 am the following day. Because of the pandemic, the network has reduced the number of professionals who will travel to Japan for this Olympic coverage. There will be 50 people (including reporters, producers and cameramen) in the Asian country, half of the total previously foreseen. Globo thus opted to create a virtual studio in its facilities in Rio de Janeiro. From there, journalists and commentators will be able to interact directly with the team live in Tokyo, Japan On the pay-TV side, SporTV, part of the Grupo Globo, will offer four simultaneous channels for the exhibition of Olympic sports and another 45 free signals on Globo and GloboPlay applications. The channel also reinforced the team of commentators. In addition to its traditional or usual team, it will feature some former athletes such as former boxer Popó, former basketball player Janeth Arcain, Serginho from volleyball, as well as former swimmers Joanna Maranhão and Thiago Pereira. SporTV's Summer Olympic broadcast will also feature special programs created to cover the competition, such as "Ohayo Tokyo", which will open the days on the main channel and will be led by Marcelo Barreto and volleyball coach Bernardinho. BandSports will also present its own special coverage in Tokyo. Grupo Bandeirantes' closed channel will be live 24 hours a day with content focused on the Olympic Games. Elia Júnior, Glenda Kozlowski and Álvaro José will participate directly from Tokyo. In addition, the channel will have a special program called the "Pódio BandSports" with the participation of Olympic medalists commenting on the disciplines and the participation of Brazilian athletes in Tokyo. Among the commentators will be the ex-judoka Henrique Guimarães, the ex-volleyball players Fofão and Marcelo Negrão, in addition to the twins Bia and Branca, who stood out in the synchronized swimming. During the Olympics, the BandSports signal will be open to all closed TV subscribers who have the channel in their channel package. I will present further details about these next time: https://www.uol.com.br/esporte/olimpiadas/ultimas-noticias/2021/07/01/saiba-quais-canais-de-tv-transmitem-as-olimpiadas-de-toquio.htm RAI's "platoon" for Tokyo coming from Milan, Italy will be made up of 71 people: 45 between journalists and telecine operators; then there are 11 opinion leaders and the rest are secretarial staff. In total, including the production staff, much from back home, the Rai expedition will be 227 people. This "team" will leave for Japan under the orders of director Auro Bulbarelli. At the helm of the most important broadcasts, on the other hand, there will be the editor-in-chief Iacopo Volpi (from Tokyo) and the deputy director Alessandra De Stefano (who will conduct “Il circolo degli Anelli” from Milan every evening from 9pm to 12am on Rai2). The other segments will be Tokyo live, Tokyo the best, Record, Go Tokyo and Olympic news every hour. In short, on Rai2 there will be just enough space for some updates with the news reported by Gennaro Sangiuliano. It will observe strict Japanese-mandated coronavirus protocols, subject to quarantining and then (vaccinated or not) swab every three days for everyone in RAI . The CDR - according to AdgInforma.it - claims (but the RAI would soon turn a deaf ear) the presence in the arrival of a couple of doctors and an interpreter. It also creates discontent the obligation of meals in the hotel for the entire period of stay. "And they don't seem to like the solutions chosen for the transfer either. And right in these hours it seems that among prominent journalists deputies to lead the Olympic columns (still busy with the European football championships who are certainly not making discounts - especially in London - in terms of tampons and quarantines) some defections. An ugly tile for Bulbarelli." RAI also gave up streaming for even its share of the RAI Tokyo Olympic broadcasts for streaming on RAIPlay out of concern from executive Mario Orfeo in adding $17 million (or is that actually euros?) to the budget and instead allow Discovery+ handle that: https://www.adginforma.it/olimpiadi-tokyo-2020-il-plotone-di-raisport-teme-la-pandemia/ Argentina's public sports channel DeporTV launched a series of documentaries as part of some new programming last August including "Shadows in the Games", "an animated documentary series that transcends sports chronicles and recalls characters who, with the Olympic Games as the setting, were crossed by social, political, racial or gender tensions": https://www.telam.com.ar/notas/202007/496437-deportv-lanza-su-nueva-programacion-2020.html As Romania approves at least 100 of its athletes headed to Tokyo, TVR announces it will present 220 live hours of its Tokyo 2020 coverage in Romania and Moldova with priority towards in competitions where Romanians have qualified: http://stiri.tvr.ro/tvr-transmite-jocurile-olimpice-de-la-tokyo-romania-are-95-de-sportivi-califica-i-la-olimpiada_887600.html#view And to cap off this post, this is TVR's promo from last year that will surely be used now for Tokyo 2020, capturing the impressions, emotions, skill, strength, passion, beauty, talent, anticipation, and incredibility the Olympic athletes offer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-aZbnqDP3A Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Durban Sandshark Posted July 7, 2021 Report Share Posted July 7, 2021 Several newer developments centering on the Seven Network's Tokyo 2020 coverage in Australia. First, recently retired longtime NBA player and Boomer Andrew Bogut "excitedly" joins 7's basketball commentary team with Andrew Gaze, Rachel Sporn, and John Casey. Bogut has spoken with fellow Aussie Ben Simmons, who was expected and hoped to play for Australia during this Olympics. But Simmons decided not to suit up for the Boomers. Nevertheless, Bogut firmly believes Australia is a serious medal contender and could finally get one in the men's game. https://7news.com.au/sport/basketball/andrew-bogut-says-australia-can-win-gold-in-tokyo-without-ben-simmons-c-3221770 https://tvblackbox.com.au/page/2021/06/27/andrew-bogut-joins-the-seven-network-for-olympic-basketball-commentary-team/ https://www.mediaweek.com.au/seven-adds-andrew-bogut-for-tokyo-2020-olympic-coverage/ Mel McLaughlin, one of 7's Tokyo 2020 on-location personnel, hosts a podcast series for the Seven Network that it launched July 2 entitled No Turning Back: Tokyo 2020 presenting with some of the most remarkable Australian Olympians and Paralympian profiles and journeys/stories. Last checked as of this writing there are 5 in this with more forthcoming before the start of the Opening Ceremonies: https://mumbrella.com.au/seven-launches-no-turning-back-tokyo-2020-podcast-690986 https://7news.com.au/entertainment/seven-launches-olympic-and-paralympic-games-podcast-with-mel-mclaughlin--c-3287380 https://smarturl.it/NoTurningBackPodcast Seven Network's Tokyo 2020 digital streaming product delivering its experience across 43 overall channels and two simulcasts, including 36 channels curated by Seven, six pre-created channels direct from Tokyo, and one existing Olympic channel. Extends the digital ecosystem with 7plus, 7NEWS.com.au and The West Australian. Together this provides the most live streams ever hosted by an Australian broadcaster. From under four formats: live, full replay, Olympic minis (compressed replays) and short form highlights with live EPG integration and utilizing from across any device of their choosing. It will also have multilingual captioning on live and VOD for the first time in Australian history, something the USA should do IMO later on. Provided with a watchlist, continue watching option, HD/SD selection, freeze frame, autoplay, Chromecast and Airplay: https://www.mediaweek.com.au/seven-reveals-its-digital-product-for-2020-tokyo-olympics/ Also Seven launched too a A$1 million contest to crown the best Australian ad aired, running between 15-60 seconds, during its presentation of the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics the Australian public will vote on a public poll in an attempt to become more Super Bowl-like with its commercials. Winning company of Australia's Favourite Ad of Tokyo 2020 gets free ad placement for the next nine months on 7 in events including the AFL Grand Final, Bathurst 1000, the Ashes Test series and the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022. Viewers "who vote given the chance to win a Qantas holiday package valued at A$25,000, supporting local communities and the travel Industry.": https://www.mediaweek.com.au/seven-launches-1-million-contest-to-crown-the-best-ad-for-tokyo-2020/ https://www.inside7.com.au/favourite-ad-of-the-games/ In mid to late June, June 28 to be exact, TVNZ 1's free to air Tokyo 2020 Olympics coverage got announced in association with SKY Television and will arrive daily in a 12-hour stint from 12:30pm (12 pm on weekends, possibly earlier for NZ triathletes and marathoners competing) to 2am NZ time with experienced Auckland-based studio hosts Toni Street (afternoon), Scotty Stevenson (evening), and ex-Olympian and Commonwealthian high jumper Sarah Cowley Ross. TVNZ 1's extensive coverage will mostly be live, previously recorded, and replayed focusing on New Zealand's athletes with all of the Kiwi moments competing in Japan televised on One. Should there be a scheduling clash between two or more Kiwi Olympians competing in different events at the same time, one event will get the live treatment with the other delayed . Only TVNZ Olympic breaks will come each evening from the evening news for 1 NEWS at Six and Seven Sharp. If there's no New Zealanders competing during those times, TVNZ will center on delayed select international events with replays, highlights, and delayed coverage also featured. Some well-known Kiwi athletes from various sports will provide insights and analysis with presenters TVNZ 1's dominant Olympic coverage will cause temporary casualties for two weeks out of the British quiz show The Chase and soaps Coronation Street and Emmerdale. The latter two soaps will move to TVNZ 2, along with the weekly Lotto draw going there for two Saturdays, airing at their usual weekday times but with no next day repeats. The Chase and Te Karere will instead air earlier in the weekday mornings "unless there" TVNZ 1 needs it for Tokyo 2020 in "a specific Kiwi event". TVNZ will send only 4 journalists to report live from Tokyo: Kimberlee Downs, Chris Chang, Guy Heveldt, and Rapaera Tawhai. All travelling TVNZ employees must b vaccinated as part of the NZ Olympic Team vaccinations ahead of the travels: https://www.screenscribe.net/ready-set-go-for-tvnz-olympics-coverage/ https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/300342353/the-chase-coronation-street-and-lotto-to-make-way-for-tvnzs-olympic-games-coverage Speaking of SKY Sports NZ, it's going to have 12 channels with live Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games content between NZT noon and 2 am to watch multiple Olympic sports like rugby sevens, rowing, soccer, field hockey, canoeing, swimming, gymnastics, sailing, track and field, baseball, softball, weightlifting, along with new sports like skateboarding, surfing, karate, climbing, and a 24-hour Olympic news channel, plus coverage on its streaming platforms. Can catch up on key highlights, New Zealand team moments, and daily recaps via Sky Go or Sky Sport Now. All Sky Sport, SKY Box, and Sky Sport Now customers can access the Sky Olympic Video Player app using their Sky Go or Sky Sport Now login details with every Olympic moment LIVE, meaning if there is an event that doesn’t feature on one of our 12 Sky channels, then you will be able to find it on the Sky Olympic Video Player. It also features additional non-LIVE video content, athlete bios, real-time statistics and more. It is available on IOS and Android, is Chromecast and Airplay capable and HD-quality. So Kiwis don't want to miss a moment to see New Zealand athletes proudly sporting the Silver Fern: https://www.sky.co.nz/discover/sky-sport/olympics SKY Sport NZ's Tokyo 2020 promo with its two primary studio hosts (don't know their names) encouraging prospective New Zealand TV viewers to "feel like an expert" and mentioning SKY Sport's general features like the 12 channels in its promotional campaign. Does show the well-experienced expert analysts of Kirstie Stanway, Storm Purvis, Rikki Swannell, and Kristina Eddy promoted in the form of 4 media credentials, suggesting they will be on-location with the rest staying back home in NZ. Although we don't know exactly in what sports. You'd think there will be more of them. With ANZ Bank as its coverage sponsor: SKY Sport's all-female Kiwi Fab Four of Stanway, Purvis, Swannell, and Eddy profiled and breaking ground. And ready to be on the ground in Tokyo (Yeah, they have to adhere to corona protocols an restrictions too like everyone else there): https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/olympics/300351452/its-the-fab-four-sky-breaks-ground-with-allfemale-olympic-team Meanwhile nearby in the neighboring Pacific islands, SKY Pacific will devote one 24/7 channel to the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics towards hundreds of hours presenting abundant and popular men's and women's rugby sevens coverage (especially as Fiji looks to repeat its first ever gold here), swimming, track and field, boxing, gymnastics, soccer, and much more. The Fiji Village report says it will start on July 23 with the Opening Ceremony. But considering New Zealand's women's soccer team and Australia's Olyroos and Matildas will all play prior to the OC, some televising of them would be considered: https://www.fijivillage.com/sports/Tokyo-Olympics-to-be-shown-live-on-Sky-Pacific-x85fr4/ We don't know as of yet what LTV 7's Tokyo 2020 coverage plans in full are to Latvians. But it, as of this writing, got streaming made known for the first few events of the Games, all from July 23: discussion with and about the Latvian Olympic Team and other athletes and previewing and guessing over the Opening Ceremony; the France-Mexico men's soccer game; and reactions to the Opening Ceremony. All starting at 1pm Latvia time July 23: https://ltv.lsm.lv/lv/sports/tokijas-olimpiskas-speles/ NBC Olympics plan to use over 100 Sony video cameras "to capture all the sporting events, record interviews with athletes, cover press conferences and, in short, perform all tasks requiring portable and studio recording equipment. The HDC-3500 will be the main protagonist of the coverage, which will be used to transmit the event via IP-based networks." It will also use Sony's Sony’s HDC-5500 and HDC-3500 4K/HDR, two high frame rate studio cameras capable of slow motion playback; as well as XDCAM PXW-Z750, PXW-Z450, PXW-X400 and PXW-Z280 camcorders, several production mixers and hundreds of professional monitors like the 4K Trimaster EL OLED series and IP and UHD streams: https://www.panoramaaudiovisual.com/en/2021/06/14/100-sony-cameras-capture-tokyo-2020-nbc-olympics/ Get ready Mongolian Olympic fans! Are you ready for this? Actually this was announced in May but...there are going to be--would you believe?--13 Mongolian different TV channels joining forces in covering Tokyo 2020 under a live broadcast. Mongolia's Olympic broadcasting channels are: C1, Eagle TV News, EDU TV, Emerge TV, STAR TV, New Television (NTV), SBN, TM TV, TV5, TV8, TV9, UBS, and VTV. There is never like this anywhere in the world with THIS many. Not many like this with London 2012 and Rio De Janeiro 2016. Together all 13 stations "will create a unified policy, marketing, technology and human resources, and in this context, the TV stations will prepare programs, news, sports and educational content for the Olympic Games and distribute them evenly on 13 TV channels and other media." During the Olympic Games, four teams are working in Tokyo to provide information on Mongolian athletes and the events surrounding the Olympic Games. This multi-channel selection will allow viewers to watch 13 different sports at the same time, which will be a big boost to the spread of Olympics and sports across the country. So I guess that'll be a good thing: https://www.montsame.mn/en/read/260534 NBC selects Cisco to produce the first ever all-IP International Broadcast Center in Tokyo for its production of the Games of the XXXII Olympiad, using 6700 Cisco pieces of network equipment like Webex Calling to help support NBC Olympics' delivery of over 7000 hours of Olympic video footage: https://www.sportsvideo.org/blogs/?blog=tokyo-olympics&news=nbc-olympics-selects-cisco-to-produce-first-ever-all-ip-international-broadcast-center-in-tokyo Last week, swimmer Ajna Késely and shooter István Péni delivered or recited the Olympic oath at the ceremonial vows of the 2020 Hungarian Olympic Team preparing for Tokyo's five-ring sports show this past Thursday, on an event starting at 6pm Hungary CET broadcast live by M4 Sport and m4sport.hu: https://m4sport.hu/tokio2020/cikk/2021/06/29/kesely-ajna-es-peni-istvan-mondja-az-olimpiai-eskut/ Bulgaria's BNT will present the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics on BNT 1 and BNT 3 with BNT HD: https://www.piero97.com/en/bulgarian-national-television-new-talk-shows-and-famous-sport-events/ First Public TV Company of Armenia--aka Armenia 1--did its own Road To Tokyo 2020 series centering on Armenian Olympic hopeful for Tokyo like gymnast Artur Davtyan, weightlifter Karapet Chalyan, and Artur Aleksayan so far: https://www.1tv.am/en/video/Road-to-Tokyo-2020-Artur-Aleksanyan/148841 Bad news in South Korea with Coupaang's exclusive streaming rights deal to Tokyo 2020 association with KBS, SBS, and MBC collapsing in the final stages of talks, being the subject of bad working conditions rants on social media after a logistics center fire in Incheon, killing a firefighter. It was supposed to have its OTT Coupang Play serve as the Olympics digital streaming hub: https://www.sportspromedia.com/news/coupang-tokyo-olympics-2020-tv-streaming-rights-kbs-mbc-sbs-korea And it was just announced almost 12 hours go live on Seven that basketball player Patty Mills and swimmer Cate Campbell as the Australian co-flag bearers entering Tokyo's Olympic Stadium at the Opening Ceremony in a live presentation by Aussie Chef De Mission Ian Chesterman and introduced by 7's Olympic personnel member Matt Shirvington. Mills was in Las Vegas prepping against USA Basketball with Campbell back in Sydney, so they couldn't meet for this. Big deal with an Aboriginal like Mills holding this honor and nice seeing Dawn Fraser handing it to Cate! It was Australia that first made history 41 years ago with co-flag bearers in Moscow with sprinter Denise Boyd and swimmer Max Metzger sharing this honor, albeit they both came in with the Olympic flag in Australia's protest of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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