Durban Sandshark Posted July 8, 2021 Report Posted July 8, 2021 I'll present a more detailed info bit regarding Sweden's Tokyo 2020 coverage from Discovery Networks like Kanal 5, Eurosport, Discovery+, and Kanal 9. But I would start things with this Discovery Tokyo OS 2020 promo I'll post again next time from Sweden that anchors the All Annat An Lagom campaign ("Everything But Just Right") Was wondering when are we going to hear any official announcement regarding any Sub-Saharan African French language pay-TV Tokyo 2020 coverage. TV5MONDE Afrique will take care of that once again, as announced July 1, to 46 of such Sub-Saharan African nations. It all actually starts July 21 with the pre-Opening Ceremony soccer days starting with the women and then the men, mostly involving the African teams and live, like with much of its planned presentation. The Opening Ceremony will be live officially kicking off things on Friday July 23 from 11am to 2pm (Dakar time) on TV5MONDE Afrique. From July 24, 6 hours of live broadcast per day will be broadcast from 3:00 am to 2:00pm--that's 11 hours straight right there, actually--from 5:00pm to 8:00pm then from 9:00pm to 10:00pm (all times UT). Then from August 5, viewers will be able to follow up to 9 hours of live broadcast per day. Each evening, a 60-minute summary "Tokyo 2020, the daily" will present the top daily Olympic moments and will evaluate the various events of the Olympic Games: https://presse.tv5monde.com/tv5monde-afriquediffuseur-officiel-des-j-o-de-tokyo/ Claro is turning to YouTube for its video footage, along with its 4000 hours and 4 24/7 HD TV channels, and it struck a radio alliance with MVS Radio where all of the Olympic sports can be heard in live broadcasts largely across Latin America. On-air talent includes Argentina's Jero Frexias and Jose de Cabo, the "couple" who became famous from YouTube for their World Cup 2018 in Russia commentary across Latin America as influencers, Mexican ex-judoka Vanessa Zambrotti, Nicolas Romay, Albero Lati, Alejandro Cardenas, Bruno Marioni, Joaquin Beltran, Miguel Gurwitz, Laura Sanchez, and Bernardo de la Garza: https://elceo.com/negocios/influencers-deportistas-y-logistica-acotada-la-marca-de-claro-en-los-juegos-olimpicos-de-tokio/ With this MVS Radio/Claro alliance, Joe Aboumrad from Claro Sports told in an interview with Manuel López San Martín on FM 102.5 says "There are 20 days where we will work from sunrise to sunset and have all the information on the Olympic Games covered 24 hours a day" although "planning has been a challenge, but we have everything prepared for the Tokyo coverage": https://mvsnoticias.com/podcasts/manuel-lopez-san-martin/juegos-de-tokio-el-espiritu-de-los-juegos-olimpicos-es-que-lleguen-a-la-mayor-gente-posible In the case of Mexico, MVS Radio will have Mexicans following their coverage and their Mexican athletes on 102.5 FM, EXA FM, La Mejor, FM Globo and Stereorey from 11:00pm-5am to live narration of the best events then for a daily special highlights program on 10-11pm. https://mvsnoticias.com/noticias/destacado_app/mvs-radio-claro-sports-y-marca-claro-traeran-la-emocion-de-tokyo-2020 https://www.techgames.com.mx/2021/06/28/mvs-radio-tendra-la-accion-de-los-juegos-olimpicos-tokyo-2020/ Very unfortunate with this development coming from Mexico's TV side. Part of me hoped that with Televisa and TV Azteca (with Imagen Television in tow) after it reclaimed the Mexican FTA broadcast rights after the Sochi-Rio cycle that didn't work between America Movil/Claro Sports and the numerous Mexican public TV stations like Mexico City's Canal 22 and Canal Once. Alas, seems as though there will be reverting back to what it previously did. No doubt this Olympics will be very different and highly unusual than it previously with the coronavirus pandemic. Ignacio Suarez presents this brilliant and insightful column with sources' help over the upcoming Mexican TV plans with them dealing with the pandemic (leading very isolating bubble-like lives) and they're...very disappointing in what to expect. Televisa, TV Azteca, and Imagen Television all have to share the 200 transmission hours on the FTA side with them all getting each 50 hours, covering the same events, with the remaining 16 hours for each one to their discretion--in comparison to Claro Sports' massive 4000 hours and 4 TV channels. Strongly suspecting it will not be all sports, like I've seen in TV Azteca's case (more soon). A large broadcast project but with the fewest ever personnel from Mexico. For example, TV Azteca will will send only 20 people including 5 engineers and 3 cameramen with Ines Sainz, David Medrano, and Taina Ventimilla (but plans to have a spectacular 3D augmented reality studio. Televisa, under the TUDN banner, will send the far lesser than previous in London with 34--and NO studio or lavish scenary, just a platform with a stadium background. Really it won't plan on serious sports analysis just Olympic-inspired family fun, info, and entertainment--and a TBN comic with its programming starting July 22 from 10:30am to 12:30pm (very likely that Mexico soccer game) on Channel 5. TUDN anchor is Tono de Valdes with Burak, memo Schultz, Furby, Marc Crosas, Alejandro de la Rosa, Valeria Marin. Imagen is by far the worst with 6 going and neither top faces Javier Alarcon and Pablo Carillo going. More thoughts later: https://www.record.com.mx/columnistas-ignacio-suarez/tokio2020-los-juegos-de-la-pandemia Vera's Vanessa Quintero speaks with Globo's Director of Sports Events Joana Thimoteo over the in-depth strategy in sending only 50 people overall from the Globo camp to Tokyo and keeping the 400-500-person majority back in Brazil; how Globo was forced to adjust its coverage plans during this pandemic like creating a 270-degree viewed virtual studio with Tokyo live cameras; expectations on the Brazilian athletes' performances; involving the Brazilian advertising market in "its very close relationship" with them; the importance of reaching a younger demographic with skateboarding and surfing and dealing with Japan's very serious pandemic protocol. All while making things and accessibly very multiplatform for younger followers: https://veja.abril.com.br/economia/globo-reformula-transmissao-e-uso-de-tecnologia-para-olimpiada-a-distancia/ Globo's Fernanda Torres narrates this Globo/SporTV promo discussing how the upcoming 2020 Tokyo Olympics can bring millions of Brazilians together with its overall general coverage from 200 hours from TV Globo, in-depth info and more from SporTV's 4 channels, 45 real-time streams, Globoplay, social media, and GE Tokyo graphics to get inspired with. Set to Globo's Rio 2020 theme score: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA9P47QSPZ0 Quote
Durban Sandshark Posted July 8, 2021 Report Posted July 8, 2021 That aforementiond Globo TV promo I tried but unsucceeded in embedding from the last post... Quote
Quaker2001 Posted July 9, 2021 Report Posted July 9, 2021 Courtesy of NBC... TOKYO OLYMPICS LISTINGS Quote
Durban Sandshark Posted July 10, 2021 Report Posted July 10, 2021 On 7/9/2021 at 10:09 AM, Quaker2001 said: Courtesy of NBC... TOKYO OLYMPICS LISTINGS Thanks, Quaker2001! TVN Chile is the exclusive free-to-air Chilean domestic Olympic TV broadcaster for Tokyo 2020 and continues its Summer Olympic broadcasting streak established sincce 1992. That TVN Olympic preview show I told you about earlier is just a warmup for those involved. Pedro Carcuro, Camila Stuardo, Gustavo Huerta, Mauricio Pinilla, and the journalist and former gymnast, Carla Parra will lead a select team of Chilean broadcasters with more than 20 experts accompanying them, including former national record swimmer in 200 meters backstroke, Romina Cannoni, and the reporter Rocío Ayala, who will comment on the matches of the women's Reds that debuts for the first time in an Olympic Games competition. TVN will barely reach the 200 hours Summer Olympics broadcasting mark with this--programming at dawn, mornings, afternoons, and primetime. Journalists Claudio Arévalo and Eugenio Salinas will dispatch for TVN on-location, who will follow the Chilean delegation, one of the largest in history and with the highest participation of women, in a particular year where Team Chile will have compatriots in 24 disciplines. Comes with the TVN Tokyo 2020 promo interspersed with historic Chilean Olympic and international moments mostly up to Rio 2016 and current Chilean Olympians and a man and woman emulating various Summer Olympic sports (the woman sporting the mask at the very start strongly suggest the pandemic context it's still under). The aforementioned main five TVN sportscasters appear at 00:36 to the end: https://www.tvn.cl/entretencion/masdetvn/tvn-alista-su-transmision-exclusiva-de-los-jjoo-con-un-selecto-equipo-de-conductores-4861310 TVN Chile's Tokyo 2020 Olympic coverage is rapidly taking shape. Does promise to show every one of the 58 Chilean athletes participating in Tokyo in the biggest delegation Team Chile ever had since Helsinki 1958! Shows what exactly scheduled times each and every one of the 58-athlete will be in and the days are present for Chilean viewers will watch: https://www.tvn.cl/deportes/masdeporte/transmite-tvn-la-programacion-de-los-deportistas-chilenos-en-los-juegos-olimpicos-de-tokio-2020-4863618 Actually, we do know about the Chilean women's national soccer team, who kick things off for TVN on Wednesday, July 21 when on Las Rojas take on Great Britain at 3:30am Chile time as they make their Olympic women's soccer debut that starts TVN's Tokyo 2020 coverage. TVN will of course show live at least every Las Rojas Group A games with Great Britain, Canada, and Japan: https://www.tvn.cl/deportes/masdeporte/transmite-tvn-fecha-y-horario-de-los-partidos-de-la-roja-en-los-juegos-olimpicos-de-tokio-2020-4861586 ASTRO Sports Pack customers in Malaysia will get access to 13 channels devoted Tokyo 2020 in HD with selected live events in 4K UHD on Ultra Box. All Astro customers can get the best coverage of Tokyo 2020's Malaysian sporting heroes at the Tokyo 2020 on Astro Arena HD (Channel801). Like Azizulhasni Awang and Shah Firdaus Sahrom for cycling; divers Pandelela Rinong, Leong Mun Yee, Ng Yan Yee, and Nur Dhabitah Sabri; gymnasts Farah Ann Abdul Hadi; Khairul Anuar Mohamad for archery; Khairulnizam Afendy, Nur Shazrin Latif, Nuraisyah Jamil and Juni Noor Jamali for sailing with hopefully more Malaysians qualifying. NJOI customers who purchase Sports 2021 Pass or NJOI HD Pack will have access to 13 channels for Tokyo 20202 in HD that will also features Astro Arena in HD, while existing NJOI customers will have access to Astro Arena in SD. Astro Arena also will be placing a team of reporters on the ground in Tokyo throughout the Olympic Games, giving Malaysian sports fans daily access to the key moments around its athletes--especially in terms of their preparation, their events, and their instant reaction. On top of daily news bulletins on Astro Arena, additional shows will feature ex-Malaysian Olympians sharing their thoughts on the Olympic Games: https://www.astro.com.my/mediaroom/articledetails.aspx?id=1436&title=the-best-and-widest-coverage-of-the-olympic-games-tokyo-2020- Discovery + Sweden has several "exciting" programs Olympic-focused new and recurring original programming for Swedes there and its sister TV channel Kanal 5. These are Sarah Sjostrom: The Fight Against The Clock (diligently fighting and training to get healthy and qualify in swimming following a February elbow injury), Dreaming of Gold: Together For the Olympics In Tokyo (profiling six Swedish Olympians--Angelica Bengtsson, Max Salminen, Sofia Mattsson, Anna Bernholm, Petter Menning, and Sara Algotsson Ostholt), How Hard Can It Be? with Isabel Boltenstern trying out various Summer Olympic sports: judo, canoeing, discus throw, swimming, skeet, tennis, walking, and skeet shooting, Olympic Evening with Jessica Almenas (OS Kvall Med Almenas) evening show, Olympic Studio (OS-Studion) with presenters Karin Frick, Caroline Kluft, and Jonas Karlsson. There the focus is on live sports and Swedish competitors. Jonas Karlsson's Olympic Stories with him meeting Olympic legends, Swedish icons, and pioneers, and a Sky Brown documentary on the 12-year old British skateboarding star: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=sv&u=https://press.discoverynetworks.se/post/discovery-bjuder-pa-storslagen-olympisk-sommar&prev=search&pto=aue In addition to ORF's Team Austria's Olympic farewell celebrations from Vienna and preview, ORF will transmit the pre-Opening Ceremony start with soccer starting on July 21 with ORF1 and ORF Sport+ showing the USA-Sweden and Australia-New Zealand women's soccer matches, respectively with ORF Sport+ doing the highlights. July 22 sees ORF1 and ORF Sport+ turning to men soccer with Mexico-France (ORF SPORT+) and the 2016 gold medal rematch between Brazil and Germany (ORF1) and again with ORF Sport+ airing the highlights: https://www.tele.at/sendungsdetails/13637788/xxxii-olympische-sommerspiele-tokyo-2020.html Like some more Olympic-related podcasts? Check out what NOS in The Netherlands is doing with its series Olympic Podcasts from NPO Radio 1 with co-hosts Henry Schut and Jeroen Stekelenburg visiting many Tokyo 2020-bound Dutch Olympians from multiple sports. In these personal conversations they talk about their lives as athletes and their preparations for the Tokyo Summer Olympic Games: As of this writing there's 29 episodes: https://www.nporadio1.nl/podcasts/olympische-podcast Be prepared to see some tech innovations powered by the arrival of 5G in Tokyo to enhance the next generation Tokyo 2020 fan experience in select demo status with sailing, swimming, and golf. Even some 12K planned at the Enoshima Yacht Harbor But how is it going to be accomplished with now no fans permitted at all? SVG says Olympic sponsors Intel, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT), and NTT DOCOMO will provide the technology, and NHK and the Japan Commercial Broadcasters Association will play a role. In the latter, surely those will be broadcasted with the online/mobile options since the Japanese are forced to stay home: https://www.sportsvideo.org/blogs/?blog=tokyo-olympics&news=5g-ar-set-to-transform-tokyo-olympics-fan-experience Gold medal-winning swimmer Cesar Cielo joins the 100 person team of sports commentators Globo is involving for the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics for Globo TV and SporTV with fellow former Brazilian swimmers Gustavo Borges, Thiago Parreira, and Joana Maranhao. Emanuel will be joined by Talita in beach volleyball. Jade Barbosa, Daiane Dos Santos, Diego Hypolito are in gymnastics. The +Live Channel streaming option will gather all broadcast signals: https://f5.folha.uol.com.br/televisao/2021/06/cesar-cielo-estreia-como-comentarista-da-globo-na-olimpiada-de-toquio.shtml On Eurosport Italia and Discovery Italia, they will broadcast the Japanese event in full in Italy through Discovery+ in the OTT format in multiple digital feeds, all integrated and simultaneous. Those who subscribe to the relevant app will be able to follow practically every competition in its entirety. 2500 hours of live coverage will be ensured during the 16 days of competitions, spread over about 30 channels, with a main one customized in an Italian bent, which will sort the line from one field to another depending on the current situation. Plans to add a free-to-air programming on Nove, with daily summaries and commentary magazines. I think they should scrap an on-location Casa Italia but will do the virtual studio in both from London and Milan: https://www.oasport.it/2021/04/olimpiadi-in-tv-2500-ore-di-diretta-su-eurosport-e-ben-30-canali/ RTS 2 will handle the French-Swiss language TV presentation of Tokyo 2020 with almost all of its 300 hours planned there. It will be continuous live and direct from Tokyo with a daily magazine co-presented by Elodie Crausaz and Fred Scola. The RTS Sport site and app will also offer a generous offer with six additional broadcast streaming channels with the digital 1800 hours. RTS 2 has also produced multiple companion, usually non-sports Japan-themed documentaries in various part of its society in the lead up to Tokyo 2020's start. Will get further details next week: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:aI6WJfHMYNoJ:https://www.rtsmedias.ch/Expresso/rts.ch/eurosong+&cd=16&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us France Televisions' Outre-mer La 1ère (France Overseas) online portal, has four documentaries profiling France's successful Olympic athletes hailing from its overseas territories like Marie-José Pérec, Teddy Riner, Laura Flessel, Jackson Richardson, Christine Arron, Fabrice and Jérôme Jeannet, and Émilie Andéol under what's called the Olympics Overseas banner. It's written by Mathieu Méranville and directed by Vianney Sotès which will be available from July 22. Other three include Teddy, Les Légendes du sport, Golden Islands: https://www.megazap.fr/Le-portail-Outre-mer-de-France-Televisions-se-met-a-l-heure-des-Jeux-Olympiques-2021_a7933.html https://la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/ Eurosport Poland is following its French counterpart's lead in adding 7 additional ephemeral channels for its Tokyo 2020 coverage along with Eurosport 1 and Eurosport 2. It will show among other things soccer, rugby, basketball, golf, and martial arts combat sports. But those would likely be on Discovery Player instead of being on TV in Poland. Meanwhile, as a reminder, TVP Polska will transmit 350 hours of Tokyo 2020 coverage through TVP1 and TVP Sport on the TV side with sport.tvp.pl. TVP Sport director Marek Szkolnikowski announced via Twitter that Dariusz Szpakowski will comment on rowing and canoeing: https://www.sport.pl/igrzyska-olimpijskie/7,154863,27309839,zmiany-w-transmisji-igrzysk-olimpijskich-w-tokio-eurosport.html Caracol Television will launch a new sport TV channel called Caracol Sports that will handle the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics with over 200 hours planned from July 21 to August 8 primarily following the 70 Colombian athletes who will be in Tokyo. Thus, through the HD2 signal, between 8 at night and 9:30 in the morning, all the emotions of the Tokyo Olympic Games will be experienced and fronted by studio host Ana María Navarrete. Almost all of it (90%) will be produced remotely back in Colombia at 70-80 people working there with only 9 journalists being on location due to the Japanese government's restrictions: https://www.elespectador.com/deportes/mas-deportes/caracol-sports-la-marca-que-caracol-television-lanzara-con-los-juegos-olimpicos/ Fiji TV, the state TV broadcaster in Fiji, will broadcast the Tokyo 2020 Olympics on its free-to-air TV channel Fiji One starting with the Opening Ceremony after securing the rights and promises to show much of the action like the Fijian rugby seven gold medal defense starting with Canada: https://www.fijivillage.com/news/Fiji-TV-secures-rights-to-broadcast-Tokyo-Olympics-f54rx8/ https://www.sportcal.com/News/FeaturedNews/136526 Quote
Durban Sandshark Posted July 14, 2021 Report Posted July 14, 2021 Now just entering the under 10-day mark. Interesting, isn't it? To start with, the IOC just released its PDF list of all the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics TV and radio broadcast rights holders. We'll strive to get to all of them and their developments even during the Games in progress themselves, for there are so many worldwide. Many nations are only just now starting to release their national coverage plans from their broadcasters: https://gtimg.tokyo2020.org/image/upload/production/z2ndaf9j5quvrpbp82dp.pdf Atmedia opened up exclusive TV advertising space packages for the Czech Eurosport edition only for Eurosport 1. They could've been either for combining their brand as an overall partner or only exclusively for only one of Eurosport 1 Czech's Olympic broadcast days. It could also range in choosing from several advertising pricing formats from sponsorship messages through its advertising with a guaranteed ad position to standard advertising spots. Eurosport 1 Czech Republic will bring almost 250 hours of live broadcasts, which will broadcast usually starting from at one o'clock to 4:30 in the afternoon, and will be replaced by reruns and highlights in the evening all under Czech time CET. At 4:30pm and also at 8:30pm, Eurosport1 will offer clips of the best moments from the day and plans to bring viewers all sports from the Summer Olympics. Atmedia's business packages were all under the atmedia, atadults, and atchoice pricing categories. Advertising campaigns on Eurosport 1 Czech Republic "have a high affinity, especially among men of working age, with higher incomes and from larger cities," adds Michaela Vasilová: https://www.mediaguru.cz/clanky/2021/07/atmedia-prodava-reklamu-k-loh-na-eurosport-1-jen-exkluzivne/ OK, I saw NBC Olympics' Tokyo TV/streaming schedule, and three things sprang up in my mind: First, I noticed there is now an abundant lack or tremendous depreciation of non-Team USA men's and women's Olympic basketball games during group play. The Tokyo 2020 Olympic basketball games not involving the USA tend to be ones with current NBA stars like Slovenia's Luka Doncic, who only appears when facing Argentina (barring at least a QF appearance). Does this has something to do with the 4-team, 3-group format? Surely there are business/research decisions behind this. We all know NBC wasn't planning to return the Olympic Basketball and Soccer Channels for Tokyo. Yet soccer, volleyball, rugby sevens, team handball, baseball, and softball, are allowed to be international. Though in some cases like in team handball, the televised focus will be on the serious medal contenders like Norway's and The Netherlands' women. Soccer tends to have all of the games instated, even with the USA men not qualified. I happen to be fan of the Canadian women's basketball team (I wish also the men qualified in Victoria, BC, and I even serve as a possessor of Nike Canada Basketball merchandise), Australia's Boomers and Opals, Belgian Cats, the German men, Spain's women and French men and women. Also curious about how the Puerto Rican women will fare in their Olympic debut. But outside of online streaming, I won't be able to see them televised--and I don't have cable as of yet. If I was living in Seattle, Detroit, and Buffalo, I would have the CBC/SRC as an option to see Team Canada, to say nothing of TSN, Rogers Sportsnet, the RDS channels, and TeleLatino. But I don't live in those cities. Might get a chance to see the Puerto Rican women on Telemundo, but apparently not in English. But it is a shame as global a sport like basketball gets shortchanged like that with no Olympic Basketball Channel to see the non-American basketball teams more consistently televised, considering the amount of massive TV hours across the NBC family. They could easily head elsewhere even if they could conflict with other events. Speaking of Telemundo/MUN2 (now NBC Universo), we haven't as yet seen its own TV/streaming schedule. Where is it? Surely, that's coming out. Interesting that Telemundo/NBC Universo's 300-hour one did not come out with the bigger NBC family of networks English version. Hope to see when that comes and critique that with us seeing it. Hold some doubt both the Opening and Closing Ceremonies will be conducted in Spanish (hope so). Also I noticed lots of replays/encore presentations over on other NBC networks outside of live presentation carrier. Sometimes heading over to NBC or any other NBC networks carrying them afterwards. Need to study this more. ORF in Austria announced its Tokyo 2020 Olympische Sommerspiele TV plans yesterday from Vienna after wishing Team Austria's 2020 Summer Olympic athletes sanctioned by the OOC well in their departure. ORF will offer nearly 500 hours (270 hours on ORF1, 200 hours in ORF Sport+, and an additional 20 hours of ORF livestreaming at orf.at) that starts with Olympic women's soccer on Wednesday, July 21 live with USA-Sweden. Coverage breakdown overall begins this way: The opening ceremony at the Summer Olympics, which ORF1 will show on July 23 from 12.30 pm Austria/CET time, has a traditionally high viewership reach. ORF 1 will then report live from the Olympics every day from around 11.30pm (sometimes from 1.00am) to 4.50pm, including the Olympic Update and the Olympic Studio at lunchtime, the evening "Olympia Studio" is usually from 6.20pm to 7.00pm on the program of ORF1. ORF SPORT + also reports live from around 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. And there is a lot to report: 339 medal decisions are made in 33 sports, including five that are new or back in the Olympic program: base and softball, karate, climbing, skateboarding and surfing. 75 athletes from the ÖOC are qualified for Tokyo 2020. The ORF team, at least a very small team, will be present of Tokyo with a glass studio at Nations Village serving as its Olympia Studio, making it a meeting point with interviews and press conferences with Austria's athletes. Assurances are made so that almost all of Austria's athletes will be shown live on ORF thanks to 55 multi-lines daily. ORF's got a nice range of sports play-by-play commentators and ex-athletes covering the sports, with almost all of them like bulk of the staff still based in Vienna, to go along with on-location team like the Olympia Studio faces of Alina Zellhofer, Rainer Pariasek, Karoline Rath-Zobernig, and Lukas Schweighofer leading alternately through the Olympia-Studio. There are also ORF on-location sportscaster/reporter positions inside the Olympic Stadium (athletics) and at the competition venues for table tennis, climbing, swimming and sailing. In addition, ORF plans to air the Zeit Fur Legenden (Time For Legends) biopic on Jesse Owens in Berlin on Opening Ceremony Day in its German-language free TV premiere. Owens once contemplated boycotting Berlin. Austrians looking for online/mobile features like competition, numerous stories, and background reports centering on the Olympics with a special focus on Team Austria's female athletes as well as stats online/digital/mobile. Will livestream of all ORF-TV broadcasts with ORF-TVthek offers an In Focus video-on-demand focus. O1 Radio has a feature on transgendered New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard set to compete as the first transgendered Olympian and the controversy surrounding her. On Wednesday, August 4, Japanese impressionistic art and its rich culture, literature, intellectualism, and philosophy are the subject of Salzburg Night Studio at 9pm also on O1. Ö3 listeners are there live at all medal decisions with Austrian participation. Michi Kasper, Wolfgang Eichinger and Gerhard Prohaska straight from the Ö3 sports editorial team are in Tokyo reporting things. In addition, the most important events are summarized again and again during the day with the most interesting news from Tokyo, Japan can already be heard at breakfast in the Ö3-Wecker. On July 7th, FM4 will start the “Road to Tokyo” series on the afternoon program FM4- “Connected” (3:00 pm), which accompanies five Austrian athletes as they prepare for the Olympic Games. The main focus will be on young sports, some of which are invited for the first time, such as climbing, kayaking or skating. During the Olympic Games, the FM4 “Morning Show” (6:00 am) from July 23rd in the “How to watch the Olympics” series will provide entertaining instructions on how to “properly” watch it. What is important when following sports such as climbing, skating, surfing or karate on the screen? The Olympic Games are always a showcase for the so-called “fringe sports”, which are often lost in everyday sports between soccer and skiing. FM4 brings things in front of the curtain: https://www.ots.at/presseaussendung/OTS_20210713_OTS0062/nach-der-euro-ist-vor-olympia-naechster-grossevent-im-orf-1 Second part of ORF's Tokyo 2020 broadcasting press release showcases the ORF Tokyo 2020 TV schedule, although as of that writing this is subject to change and thus incomplete. Plus it doesn't designate exactly what sports on the schedule will go where in the ORF TV broadcasting realm: https://www.ots.at/presseaussendung/OTS_20210713_OTS0064/olympia-2020-im-orf-naechster-grossevent-im-orf-2 Next door in neighboring Switzerland, SRF, the Swiss-German broadcaster, will report on TV, radio, and online media practically around the clock. SRF2, formerly Schweizer Fernsehen/SF2, will immerse Swiss TV audiences in the Olympic world from Tokyo with over 300 hours overall for approximately 19 hours a day with live sports being the big part of it from 2am to 4pm Switzerland/CET time--with a focus as usual on Swiss athletes. Daniela Milanese and Jann Billeter present Tokyo Live from its SRF studio in Tokyo Bay. After the live broadcasts, Tokyo Highlights will follow that showing daily highlights and partial recordings of competitions that weren't completed upon live transmission or weren't shown live. SRF2's Olympic broadcast days conclude with 45-minute Tokyo Konpakuto magazine at 8:05pm with a look back at the previous day's competition co-hosted by Sibylle Eberle and Paddy Kalin back at SRF's TV studios in Zurich. Tokio Konpakuto will also have freelance journalist and photographer Patrick Rohr, already experienced with Japan and worked with SRF for years, immersing and sharing in-depth insights into Japanese culture's many aspects with its traditions, backgrounds, and surprises direct from Tokyo. On the radio front with Radio SRF3, presenters Rika Brune, Joana Muach, and SRF sports editor Peter Schnyder cover the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics overall program on Radio SRF3 from their Zurich studio weekdays in the 5-10am time slot. Sports reporters Rachel Beroggi, Ueli Reist, and Christoph Sterchi report live from the sports events. Actually from 5am to the end of the competition day in Tokyo, Swiss listeners can experience all Swiss medals live with regular updates on Swiss sports highlights as well as reactions and backgrounds to daily all-around developments on Radio SRF3. Radio SRF1 grants hourly Olympic info and summaries from 5am. The SRF Sport app, social media, and website can help Swiss sports fans to customize their very own personal Olympic program anytime with 9 streams for round the clock individual access until the Olympics end and a live ticker showing TV programs from SRF, RTS, RSI with additional competitions with Swiss athletes involved get integrated in the program guide along with news, results overviews, reactions, assessments/analysis, and background info are fully serviced: https://www.srf.ch/sport/mehr-sport/in-eigener-sache/ueber-300-stunden-am-tv-sommerspiele-in-tokio-srf-bietet-olympia-komplettprogramm Supersport's sweeping Tokyo 2020 coverage will include 8 24-hour channels on DStv, with the traditional soccer and variety channels hosting multiple broadcast feeds direct from Tokyo, Japan and other parts of Japan, enabling the Olympics to feature on all DStv packages. Existing genre channels will also host Olympic programming. Additionally, the Grandstand channel, exclusively for Premium subscribers, will curate the best events, providing a broad view of 2021's biggest sports occasion. DStv’s multi-platform offering will extend to live streaming (Showmax and DStv) and digital (website, app and social with news, video, medals tables, TV guide, curated notifications and much more) for the ultimate in Olympic viewing pleasure. Apart from the live coverage, there will be extensive highlights, reviews, previews, historical programming, athlete features and scene-setters with a particular focus on Africa’s participants. SuperSport Blitz, the popular sport news and highlights channel, will carry breaking news and results and be the place to visit for your Olympic snapshots. In South Africa, the 24-hour news and highlights channel will be available to Access and upwards (Family, Compact, Compact Plus, and Premium) package subscribers. Access and Family will be 2 and 4 channels for the rest of Africa instead of just 1 and 3 in SA, respectively. Compact (6 channels), Compact Plus (8 channels), and Premium (8 channels + Grandstand) channel access are to be the same across Africa. In addition, overflow Tokyo 2020 content will be available on the Action channel, which is also available to Compact Plus, while extensive coverage of the rugby Sevens, golf and tennis events feature on their genre-specific channels (available to Premium subscribers). Supersport's 8 Olympic TV channel breakdown goes like this: SuperSport Football Plus becoming Olympic Channel 1, while SuperSport Premier League, La Liga, Football, Variety 1, Variety 2, Variety 3, and Variety 4 will become Olympic Channels 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 for the duration of the event, respectively. Supersport also will spread additional Olympic content on additional SS channels to ensure a more comprehensive experience. As for Supersport Maximo, there will be three Portuguese-language channels for its Tokyo 2020 coverage targeting Angola and Mozambique, if not including Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde --SS1 Maximo (opening and closing ceremonies, swimming, sailing, gymnastics), SS2 Maximo (soccer, basketball, boxing, handball), and SS Maximo 360 (opening and closing ceremonies, Angola and Mozambique-involved events, basketball, track & field/athletics, highlights). GOtv viewers spreads the Tokyo Olympic sports across 4 channels: opening and closing ceremonies, athletics, swimming, basketball (GOtv Max – SS Football); boxing, judo, taekwondo, wrestling, weight lifting, karate (GOtv Max – SS LaLiga); football, basketball (GOtv Plus – Select 1); 24-hour Olympic news and highlights, plus football (GOtv Value – Select 2). The 24-hour Olympic news channel appears on Variety 4 in South Africa and on the Football channel in the rest of Africa. Gymnastics will be on SS Football in South Africa and the EPL channel in the rest of Africa. As for the Showmax streaming and maybe even more on its TV channels... Quote Bolstering this linear TV offering is what SuperSport is doing in the OTT space via the DStv app and website and the Showmax Pro platform. The DStv app and website will include four additional streaming channels featuring even more live Olympic content. The offering is available to Premium subscribers in both SA and ROA. Showmax will carry all these events making it an easy platform on which users can access what interests them. While SuperSport will attempt to keep certain sports codes on certain channels, this isn’t always possible due to clashing start and end times. The intention is to include as much as possible but as a guide, athletics and swimming will be broadcast on the PSL channel in South Africa and Football Plus in the rest of Africa. These channels will also host the opening and closing ceremonies. Swimming, which doesn’t clash with athletics in the first week, will be on PSL and Football Plus, before moving to Premier League in South Africa and Variety 2A in the rest of Africa... Football followers can catch the bulk of Olympic football on the LaLiga channel in both South Africa and the rest of Africa. While the remaining sports are generally scheduled across channels, dependent on start and end times, this will be communicated and promoted to ensure viewers are aware of what is where. For example, hockey will move across different Olympic channels dependent on available space. https://supersport.com/general/press-releases/news/210712_Watch_them_rise_all_live_on_SuperSport Supersport's centerpiece of its Tokyo 2020 "Watch Them Rise" promotional campaign is of course this commercial. Really nice. On M&C Saatchi Abel's YouTube channel on this, it says this is "In collaboration with Levergy, part of the global M&C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment network, and Giant Films, #WatchThemRise was created for SuperSport, the official broadcaster of the Summer Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 throughout Africa, and captures a world overcoming COVID-19 while celebrating the boundless potential of the human spirit while celebrating the boundless potential of the human spirit." Since Supersport likes to present itself as Pan-African, it places a lot of emphasis on the (mostly) Commonwealth Sub-Saharan African athletes like from Kenya, Nigeria, and Ghana--not just South African ones. Makes me wonder on that note when there would be a comprehensive French-language pay-TV Sub-Saharan African TV/online/mobile Olympic coverage service in the manner and scale to Supersport. Canal+ Afrique did this not long ago but not quite up to Supersport's scale--no mobile tech as of yet then. TV5Monde Afrique is much too limited in terms of its TV hours and streaming right now, but it paid the satisfactory money to Insport Media. It's only one TV channel not multiple ones like Supersport. Given the direction worldwide when it comes to multichannel Olympic TV coverage broadcasting, a French African one should follow suit. Already on the new SABC Sport Channel it's showing the Countdown To Tokyo. Based on a South African TV guide I spotted online, the 30-minute program has apparently up to 24 episodes as of this writing. Presumably focusing on South African athletes if not including fellow African ones. Whaddya know? Another darkly-lit cinematographic Tokyo 2020 TV promo to emphasize the limited light on the subject. This time from Ireland's RTE Sport. Ireland's sole male gymnast for Tokyo, Rhys McGlenaghan, does his pommel horse exercise as his voiceover explains both how he learned to conduct his gymnastics routine at a young age and, being televised, how encapsulating young people would be like the mesmerized girl seeing various montage of Olympic footage, some Irish, in front of a giant curved screen. Live Summer Olympics action begins on RTÉ2, RTÉ Radio 1 and RTÉ Player from 1:30 am Irish time on July 23rd as the Irish rowers take to the water with the Olympics Opening Ceremony following from 11:30 am: For Slovakia, RTVS is where it's at for Slovakians' access to the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics. The overwhelming bulk of the RTVS coverage will be on Dvojka (RTVS Channel 2)--and not on Trojka as previous was in past Olympics--practically on 24 hours a day except for breaking for the daily 10-minute SOSV Olympic Festival coming twice in the evening and afternoon. As for both ceremonies, those will be live on Jednotka at 12:20 (Czech/Slovak CET time) starting with OH Studio Tokio 2020--ceremony itself starts at 13:00 like with the opening on July 23. Re-airing goes to Dvojka at 20:10 before heading into the coverage at 1:50 starting with OH Studio Tokio 2020 and the Slovak-flavored Olympic sports after SOSV Olympic Festival, a movie, and RTVS News. No pre-Opening Ceremony soccer and softball scheduled on TV. More details will come. RTVS Slovakia has a weekly radio/podcast series aptly titled Koniciva Tokyo last year largely dealing with Slovakia's Olympic history up to Rio De Janeiro and was likely produced in lieu of actual Tokyo action. Hasn't been updated for this year but hosted by Stano Scepan: https://slovensko.rtvs.sk/rubriky/koniciva-tokio The moment from Hungary's M4 Sport where swimmer Ajna Késely and shooter István Péni led the live text July 1 reciting of the Athletes' Olympic Oath with their 2020 Hungarian and Paralympic Teammates seated behind them (and repeating clauses after Kesely and Peni) all donned in their Hungary Olympic Team apparel they'll wear in Tokyo at the swearing of the 2020 Hungarian Olympic Team with Krisztián Kulcsár, Chairman of the Hungarian Olympic Committee, Miklós Kásler, Minister of Human Resources, Pál Schmitt, Honorary Chairman of the Hungarian Olympic Committee (MOB), Tünde Szabó, Secretary of State for Sport, László Szabó, Chairman of the Hungarian Paralympic Committee, and Gergely Karácsony, Mayor of Budapest, all also in attendance at the Hungarian Olympic Committee ceremony inside the National Dance Theater in Budapest. This oath reading is part of a 85-year tradition for the Hungarian Olympic Committee. The program of the short celebration, full of colorful programs, also included a drum performance reminiscent of the host Japan, a presentation of the formal uniform, and a music-dance production: https://m4sport.hu/tokio2020/cikk/2021/07/01/letette-az-olimpiai-eskut-a-tokioba-utazo-magyar-csapat/ MTVA's previous Rio De Janeiro transmission, largely through M4 Sport and M1, was a huge national ratings winner for it with more than 80% watching at some point at least. So it obviously had significant leverage with its agreement with Discovery and had the domestic broadcasting rights agreed upon in this Olympic cycle. Discovery only changed the technical details that even MTVA colleagues' accommodation in Tokyo had to be managed through the rights holder. The Hungarian-involved events of next summer's games this time must turn to look primarily at M4 Sport. MTVA can and does broadcast from Tokyo on any number of its channels and surfaces in Hungary. The “escape route” of M4 Sport, which will broadcast live 18 hours a day, will be from the MTV Duna--in case two important events run at the same time. Previously in the past, the Hungarians viewing outside the border were bitterly biased by the so-called geoblock, but this time the agreement with Discovery assures this as well "The contract allows the Hungarian-language Olympic broadcasts to be followed on a television and a radio channel in neighboring countries," said Dávid Székely, channel director of M4 Sport. "The former will be M4 Sport, but we have to agree with foreign service providers." M4 Sport can use the experience of the first “Eurosport” Olympics, the games held in Pyongyang last winter, just like the previous events in the Pacific (Seoul, Sydney or Beijing). Due to the seven-hour time lag, the live broadcast with the daily Summer Olympics presentation usually starts at 1 o'clock at night, but due to the early start of the competition, it may slip forward to the end of the previous day. During mornings, a longer nightly summary will be prepared for those heading to work, and spectators must also be prepared for the fact that, for example, swimming finals will be held as early as possible under America's NBC pressure - in the United States during its prime time, for Hungary at dawn. All events will be shown on the online interface of M4 Sport with Hungarian commentary. The model used in Rio will prevail in the broadcasts, like the broadcast will be conducted from a Budapest studio with domestic editing. "Compared to the previous Summer Olympics, there are slightly fewer colleagues, roughly fifty people working in Tokyo, but this should also include MTI or radio staff," Székely continued. M4 Sport is mainly represented by commentators and reporters, as of today eighteen. They will be, as in 2016, wherever Hungarian athletes fight for Olympic medals. ” https://www.nemzetisport.hu/egyeb_egyeni/tokio-2020-egy-ev-mulva-rajt-igy-allunk-igy-keszul-az-m4-sport-2713031 NOS freelance sports play-by-play guy Ragnar Niemeijer had no sports assignments last summer to the point he had t work a a sales assistant in the clothing store Steppin' Out in Amersfoot and "really enjoyed it". But he's happily back into sports commentary again being in Tokyo. He'll announce rowing, beach volleyball, golf with Anne Van Dam competing, and maybe some tennis and badminton if some Dutch athletes get successful on Nederland 1. Niemeijer will also conduct reports and interviews with coaches, trainers, and supervisors from The Netherlands. Would've liked to cover soccer like Oranje Lionesses. He adds NOS will around 50 people with no studio broadcasts from Tokyo and thus no need for presenters, directors, editors-in-chief, and lighting and sound technicians. Dione de Graaff is the only "face" that comes along for NOS: https://www.ad.nl/werk/nos-commentator-ragnar-werkte-hele-zomer-in-modezaak-maar-mag-nu-naar-de-olympische-spelen~a04bb0e5/?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F Over on NPO Radio 2, Henry Schut visits Annemiekes A-Lunch with Annemieke Schollaart as Schut speaks to Schollaart on his massively busy Dutch sports summer media schedule on his docket totaling 420 hours with everything so close together, including of course Tokyo 2020. The top NOS sports reporter has these assignments and explains how he prepares for them: https://www.nporadio2.nl/annemiekesalunch/nieuws/30997/420-uur-aan-live-actie-henry-schut-zit-middenin-een-bomvolle-sportzomer Everything will start for TVN Chile with its broadcasting structure after Wednesday's Chilean women's soccer match versus Great Britain on Friday, July 23 at 07:00am Chile time when the opening ceremony takes place, extending until 10:30am. At that time in the morning, Good Morning to All will just be broadcast. At 6:45 p.m. that same day, TVN will resume broadcasting the games to show various Olympic sports disciplines until 8:30 p.m. After that, the Olympic Games will return at 10:30 p.m. and will continue until 3 a.m. On the Monday-Friday business days, TVN will begin broadcasting the sporting event at 05:45 am. Only interrupting at 07.00am for the morning newscast 24 AM, which will run only until 07:15am, returning with the Olympic Games until 10:30 hours. Late in the afternoon (6:45 pm), TVN will continue with the competition until 8:30 pm, giving the pass to the TVN evening news. Once the second slot has started (11:45 p.m.), it will continue with the games until 1:45 a.m., delivering the pass to the Midnight nightly newscast. Saturday and Sunday weekend days will be the strength of this coverage, since TVN will allocate a large part of its programming to cover different sports, starting from 08:00 to 13:00. But that's not all, because at 14:30 the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games return to the screen, extending the transmission until 20:30. After that, it will be the turn of the 24 Hours Central newscast until 10:30 p.m., when the sport will return to the state grid to close transmissions at around 3:00 a.m. Should point out that if Los Rojas women's soccer team game times and possible advancing could make that TVN Olympic TV schedule subject to change. By the way, TVN Chile's channel is Channel 7 and 7.1 on the terrestrial/digital side from Santiago with numerous channels on the cable TV side from multiple services like Movistar, VTV, DIRECTV, and Claro https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=https://elfiltrador.com/tvn-le-sacara-el-jugo-a-los-juegos-olimpicos-horarios-de-la-maratonica-transmision/&prev=search&pto=aue https://redgol.cl/seleccionchilena/Cuando-juega-Chile-por-los-Juegos-Olimpicos-de-Tokio-2020-20210713-0082.html Transcript to yesterday afternoon's NBC Olympics Tokyo 2020 media conference call with Ato Bolden, Rowdy Gaines, Nastia Liukin (all medalists), and NBC Olympic executive producer Molly Solomon at 4pm US/Canada/Mexico CT as they presented and previewed upcoming major narratives. Seeing the familiar American stars like Simone Biles and Katie Ledecky and potential new ones like Caeleb Dressel, Brody Malone, Sydney McLaughlin, and Gabby Thomas Among other big things are that Michael Phelps will join Gaines and Dan Hicks for the NBC Olympics swimming in a new capacity for the GOAT. Seems as though there will be an experimental artificial crowd sound pumped into the Tokyo venues but NBC will not inject its own except more in-venue audio. NBC sent Mary Carillo to Japan and Tokyo two and a half years ago to conduct some Japan features like an upcoming Japanese baseball one; Phoenix drone took care of the aerial Tokyo shots. Expect some cross nation watch parties here in the USA since the fams can't head to Japan: https://nbcsportsgrouppressbox.com/2021/07/14/nbc-sports-tokyo-olympics-conference-call/ Quote
Durban Sandshark Posted July 20, 2021 Report Posted July 20, 2021 Today's the day of the actual start of the Tokyo 2020 sports broadcasting all around the world! Everything starting with the women in softball appropriately starting with hosts Japan and Australia and then USA vs. Italy on primetime here in the Americas both on NBCSN entering into its last foray into Olympic broadcasting. Then it's more softball and the start of women's soccer group play coming Wednesday. Not all TV broadcasting rights holder are doing these sports at this stage but plenty definitely are. Initially yesterday I was going to write about Kazakhstan possibly not being able to reach an agreement in bringing forth Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics broadcasting coverage in time for the Opening Ceremony through its national TV media following lengthy negotiations between Dentsu, the Japanese advertising agency currently holding the Olympic broadcasting rights through much of Asia, and Kazak TV broadcasters Kazakhstan and its sports channel KAZSport, and TV Khabar. This is because Dentsu as copyright holder has "set the price of the license to broadcast the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games at 123% more than in 2016 and 2018”. But a clarification came out on Vesti after the reported challenges at this stage saying that while it's still being ironed out and ongoing, Kazakhstan, KAZSport, and TV Khabar are still finalizing and proceeding with their Tokyo 2020 broadcasting plans like sending their reporters. If talks break down, it will obviously not look good. But it will pull through: https://www.sport-express.ru/olympics/tokyo2020/news/kazahstan-mozhet-ostatsya-bez-translyaciy-olimpiady-1813709/ https://vesti.kz/olympic/poyavilis-podrobnosti-translyatsii-olimpiadyi-2020-298403/ NRK in Norway may no longer be broadcasting the Summer Olympic Games on television for Norwegians since London 2012--almost a decade!--but it can still provide ample Tokyo 2020 coverage everyday on the radio side of things. The radio schedule shown is mainly going to place lots of focus and emphasis on the Norwegian athletes in various sports and their Olympic medal contention as highlights like in team handball, swimming, track and field, rowing, soccer, beach volleyball, cycling, and shooting that will be shown on NRK Sports Radio. NRK Radio Sports fuller Tokyo 2020 programming is on the second link starting on July 23: https://www.nrk.no/sport/program-for-ol-i-tokyo-1.15539347 https://www.nrk.no/sport/sendeplan/ Radiosporten from Sverige Radio has already sported its Tokyo 2020 Olympic radio schedule that kicks off tomorrow on Wednesday with the Sweden-USA women's soccer match. Almost all on P4 with some other events heading to P3 when there's scheduling conflicts. Radiosporten's schedule largely emphasizes on the Sweden participation of course mostly going on 14-16-hour radio blocks daily. There's also a podcast version of the series From Tokyo to Tokyo, chronicling Sweden's Sommer Olympic history between those two now very different Summer Olympics within those nearly 60 years in that span. Sweden's 10s on the impact of Sweden in various different sports not limited to Summer Olympic sports and how things have changed. Another Radiosporten podcast series is This Is How Sports Stars Train focusing on how Swedish top athletes, well, train: https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/tavlingsprogram-sommar-os-2021 https://sverigesradio.se/grupp/34554 https://sverigesradio.se/grupp/34430 https://sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/1513504 CNC3-TV in Trinidad and Tobago, through its parent company Guardian Media, holds the exclusive national broadcasting rights for Tokyo 2020 that were issued by IMC, owner of SportsMax. Those in the Caribbean island nation will cheer on T&T Olympians when they hit the Olympic venues in Tokyo, especially at the track and field stadium, and keep abreast with all the latest news and developments from the biggest sports events in the world on all media platforms, including free-to-air television, cable TV, internet, mobile, and radio (TBC) with the Caribbean's traditionally great Olympic performance. CNC3-TV's contract cements its status as the leading T&T free-to-air sports broadcaster with the 2020 Caribbean Premier League and the FIFA 2018 World Cup in Russia with its passion and commitment. In the accompanying photo to this article, you can see managing director Nicholas Sabga happily signing the formal exclusive broadcasting contract recently with IMC President CEO Oliver McIntosh looks on at GML Labs, St Vincent Street, Port-of-Spain: https://www.guardian.co.tt/sports/cnc3-to-broadcast-olympics-exclusively-to-tt-sports-fans-6.2.1074166.07d78d9f02 Channel 1's announcing it will broadcast the Opening Ceremony live and later replayed from Tokyo on July 23 at 14:00 Moscow time. Does not say who will cover it as announcers though: https://www.sports.ru/athletics/1099094485-pervyj-kanal-pokazhet-czeremoniyu-otkrytiya-olimpijskix-igr-v-tokio.html Russia's Channel 1 (or Perviy Kanal) announced its "ambitiously" full Tokyo 2020 coverage plans a short time ago, likely yesterday. But some details were already made known. Channel 1 will conduct the live presentation of the Tokyo 2020 Opening Ceremony at 14:00 Moscow time and repeated at 21:30. Its presentation and coverage will almost entirely center on the Russian--er, sorry, the Russian Olympic Committee athletes' participation since the flag, double-headed eagle, and anthem are forbidden right now due to doping--both live and recorded on key events. Around 24 cameras from Perviy Kanal will be used on them. Its news crews and the Olympic studio of Channel One are present in Tokyo to provide our viewers with the fastest and most exclusive access to everything that happens at the Games. The Olympics Dairy will be broadcasted daily in the evening to end the Channel One broadcast day. In the week of July 26, Channel One will expectedly show competitions with the participation of Russian athletes like Maria Lasitskene and Sergei Shubenkovin like competitions in artistic gymnastics (men, all-around), trampoline jumping (men), fencing (women - individual saber and command foil, men - individual foil), boxing, judo , shooting, diving, athletics, tennis, as well as matches with the participation of the Russian national team in team sports (men's volleyball, women's volleyball, water polo, rugby and handball, beach volleyball and 3x3 basketball). In the week of August 2, Channel One will show the final competitions with the participation of Russian athletes in competitions in artistic gymnastics (individual apparatus), synchronized swimming (duets) and rhythmic gymnastics (individual all-around), wrestling, boxing, diving, athletics, tennis, cycling (track), as well as playoff matches with the participation of the Russian national team in team sports (men's volleyball, women's water polo and handball, beach volleyball). Just take a look at the notable Russian Olympians themselves who will work for the Channel One team: Maria Lasitskene and Sergey Shubenkov (athletics), Anna Vyakhireva (handball), Gleb Bakshi (boxing), Yana Danilova (rugby), Angelina Melnikova, Nikita Nagornykh, Artur Dalaloyan and David Belyavsky (artistic gymnastics), Andrey Minakov (swimming), Elena Vesnina (tennis), Vyacheslav Krasilnikov (beach volleyball), Alexey Rubtsov (rock climbing), Alla Shishkina (synchronized swimming), Denis Dmitriev (cycling), Anna Timofeeva (water polo), Olympic champions Elena Isinbaeva and Margarita Mamun and others: https://www.sport-express.ru/olympics/tokyo2020/news/pervyy-kanal-obyavil-kak-pokazhet-olimpiadu-v-tokio-1813806/ Perviy Kanal also announces multiple Russian national team athletes in Tokyo will record video blogs for the channel from the likes of athletes Maria Lasitskene and Sergey Shubenkov, handball player Anna Vyakhireva, gymnasts Nikita Nagorny, Artur Dalaloyan, David Belyavsky, and Angelina Melnikova, tennis player Elena Vesnina, swimmer Andrey Minakov among others collaborating with the Channel One. These video will also be shot by Olympic champions Yelena Isinbaeva and Margarita Mamun. Also launched a separate website with a video player - olympics.1tv.ru. There will be broadcasts, highlights and interviews of the tournament participants: https://www.sports.ru/athletics/1099298220-pervyj-kanal-zapustil-otdelnyj-sajt-dlya-pokaza-olimpiady-2020-lasiczk.html General overview of what the Russian TV overall coverage from Tokyo 2020 is going to be presented. As of this writing here, the broadcasters gearing up are of course, Channel 1, Match TV, and Rossiya 1. Those three will handle how they will distribute the Tokyo 2020 Olympic footage. As alluded to here with the directly above, Perviy Kanal will handle almost entirely the ROC team for at least 8 hours a day with the Opening Ceremony. Match! TV will broadcast its portion of the competition on the main channel Match! and will also distribute the broadcasts to thematic channels. Soccer on "Football 2", martial arts on the "Fighter" channel. Also, the Olympic Games-2020 will be shown by other channels of Match! TV's holding: "Game", "Arena" and "Country" all in SD quality. Russia 1's commitment right now seems to be just the Closing Ceremony with no sports broadcasting as of yet for them, either live or recorded, or even short reviews. Not a single one. Free live broadcasts, recordings and reviews will be available on the updated Channel One application for smartphones and Smart TV and online. Thus allowing you to watch several live broadcasts on one screen. Match TV's official broadcasting sites will show all broadcasts online, except for soccer matches on Football 2. Broadcasts on "Russia 1" can be viewed through the "Look" service: https://www.sport-express.ru/olympics/tokyo2020/reviews/olimpiada-2021-v-tokio-gde-smotret-olimpiyskie-igry-2021-kto-pokazhet-i-na-kakih-kanalah-budut-sorevnovaniya-pryamaya-translyaciya-raspisanie-1813492/ Russia's Channel 1/Perviy Kanal Tokyo 2020 promo showcasing all the unforgettable emotions and actions of the Olympics in various sports past and up to the present, both internationally and mixed with Russian/Soviet athletes. Beautiful: RTE Sports gears up to cover the largest Irish Olympic team at 116-strong ever with its biggest and most comprehensive coverage of Tokyo 2020 that was announced yesterday through RTE2, RTE Radio 1, RTE 2FM, RTE Online, RTE Player, and RTE News starting from 1:30am Irish time on July 23 as the Irish rowers take to the water with the Olympics Opening Ceremony following from 11:30am that both start the 270 hours of coverage on television alone. RTE2 handles the TV side usually beginning early each morning with Jacqui Hurley and Clare McNamara taking us through the events of Tokyo 2020: Through The Night overnight program reporting live from Tokyo. From 9am, each day Peter Collins presents coverage from day's live-action during the Tokyo 2020: Daytime segment. From 7pm, Darragh Maloney will also then take over to present the key highlights following the day's live-action at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Games each day. RTE Player does the RTE2 simulcast. Tokyo 2020 on RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player will feature a stellar array of expertise on panels across all Olympic sports including athletics, swimming, boxing, rowing, badminton, rugby sevens and will report home the Irish story (see below). All despite dealing with the obvious logistics, RTÉ's Tokyo 2020 coverage, says its Director of Sport Declan McBennett, "always reflect the uniquely Irish story of the games and showcase the largest ever Irish Olympic team to compete. We wish them only the very best as they represent the nation with pride." Circle K is the exclusive bigtime sponsor for the presentation. 270 hours of coverage will be aired across TV alone (simulcast between RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player). Panelists and experts include Derval O’Rourke, Sonia O’Sullivan, Rob Heffernan and David Gillick (on location in Tokyo) in athletics, Andrew Bree, Gráinne Murphy, Barry Murphy and Earl McCarthy in swimming, Andy Lee, Kenneth Egan, and Eric Donovan in boxing as well as Gillian Pinder (hockey), Claire Lambe (rowing), Ciara Peelo (sailing), Brian Nugent (cycling), Chloe Magee (badminton), Louise Galvin (rugby sevens), Tim McCarthy (basketball) among a host of others. Also, RTÉ earns a coveted reported spot at the Olympic Games venue overlooking Tokyo's Rainbow Bridge instead of usually existing inside a nearby studio location. RTÉ Radio 1 will have updates and reports throughout the day starting on Morning Ireland providing a comprehensive catch-up on all the events perhaps missed throughout the night as well as the live event action reporting in real-time from RTE’s very own dedicated radio studio in the Tokyo Olympic Broadcast Centre. This will continue to link to any medal events that happen throughout the day on Claire Byrne; the News At One; The Ray D'Arcy Show, and Drivetime. RTÉ 2FM Game On will wrap up the day’s news, reports, and action from the heart of the Games. At weekends, significant events will be broadcast live in the morning program schedule. Both Saturday and Sunday Sport will have comprehensive coverage along with their usual GAA Championship action and all the other sport that won't be interfered. Television News Olympic Sport will be presented live from Tokyo each evening. With 24-hour a day up-to-the-minute coverage and action, the results and reactions from all the Irish athletes on each day will be published as it happens, while live blogs will keep you up to date on all the action from the Games through the night. With athlete profiles, exclusive video interviews and analysis from RTÉ’s team of pundits, as well as the breaking news from Japan, RTÉ.ie/sport and the RTÉ News app is the dedicated Tokyo 2020 Olympics website. The RTÉ Sport Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram accounts will have exclusive content and video, including interviews with Irish athletes: https://www.rte.ie/sport/olympics/2021/0720/1236200-rte-announces-comprehensive-olympic-coverage/ After the Australian Broadcasting Committee decided not to continue on with its Olympic Grandstand radio tradition in 2019 despite pleas from 7 and the AOC because of rising costs after many decades with a co-opting from Macquarie Radio exclusively for the Greater Sydney Area like 2GB AM for Beijing 2008, SEN sports radio network, through its parent company Crocmedia struck a deal last year with SevenWest Media to conduct the Australian Olympic radio Tokyo 2020 broadcasting rights. Won't have its own personnel covering them the events live in the SEN family of channels on the commercial AM dial like 1116 SEN and 1629 SEN SA, although Gerald Whateley will host, but imports Seven's personnel like Bruce McAvaney and Basil Zempilas. This will also be supported by a dedicated Olympic channel on 1377 SEN+ and the SEN app: https://www.sen.com.au/news/2020/03/03/crocmedia-secures-metro-commercial-am-radio-rights-to-the-olympic-games/ https://www.radiotoday.com.au/sen-broadcast-tokyo-olympics/ Speaking of SportsMax, couldn't yet find any general information overview regarding its upcoming Tokyo 2020 coverage. But I can certainly tell you that it will be at least be on SportsMax and SportsMax 2 largely dominating the programming throughout the West Indies. There also have been multiple airings of Olympic-centric documentaries, shows, and previews like Olympic Stories (a Caribbean-centric version), Destination Tokyo, Tokyo Prime The Journey, Fashion Behind The Games, African Cycling Revolution, Five Rings Film, and Athletes Under Fire leading up to and during the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics. And it will start today with the live pre-Opening Ceremony Japan-Australia and USA-Italy softball matches at 7pm West Indies time and all the women's and men's soccer matches. RTVA in Andorra nestled inside the Pyrenees sandwiched between France and Spain has their own Olympic TV coverage on its TV channel. Right now based on the TV schedule--and we're safely assuming it will show all the participants from Andorra's small Olympic contingent in Tokyo--there's not much from it outside the Opening Ceremony. It won't be wall-to-wall like in a lot of nations' broadcasters, much less the pre-Opening Ceremony softball, soccer, rowing, and shooting. After the OC coming live at 12:55-16 Andorra time with a 22:25-1 reairing on July 23, there's absolutely nothing Olympic on TVA on July 24 but resumes July 25 with kayaking qualifiers 6:40-7:45 and 8:40-9:45 and then the CAIAC qualifiers at 21:45-23:45. Based on the RTVA website, coverage will be conducted in Catalan. So if you're Andorran and seek for greater abundance of daily Olympic action on TV, turn instead to France Television, TVE, and both Eurosport editions from France and Spain. For Uruguay, state channel TNU Canal 5 (National Television of Uruguay) and Tenfield both announced its exclusive Uruguayan Olympic TV programming plans for Tokyo 2020 with 13 hours of daily transmission under three programming spots of 8:30-12, 16-19 (as the best of the daily comp), and 20:30-1 with Tenfield going for 200 transmission hours overall distributed under 12 hours daily as both entities cover that a small team of 11 Uruguayan athletes bound for Tokyo. Almost all Uruguayans will get shown except for the normally internationally broadcast-ignored sailing events that Uruguay is involved with Pablo Defazio, Dominique Knuppel, and Dolores Moreira. There it will be done in summary fashion. Both TNU's and Tenfield's Tokyo 2020 coverage will be on VTV and VTV Plus cable signals, respectively: https://www.elobservador.com.uy/nota/donde-se-podran-ver-los-juegos-olimpicos-de-tokio-2020-en-uruguay--202171316644 Two of Lithuania's well-known Tokyo Olympics-bound athletes, javelin thrower Edis Matusevičius and middle distance runner/Lithuanian record holder Eglė Balčiūnaitė, appeared on TV3 Lithuania's galvOK game show hosted by Andrius Žiurauskas that displayed a different and fun side to the former two: https://www.tv3.lt/naujiena/zmones/pries-tokijo-vasaros-olimpines-zaidynes-sportininkai-balciunaite-ir-matusevicius-stojo-i-kova-parode-kitokia-savo-puse-n1098357 Tried to see what SKY Pacific's Olympic TV plans will be after it was announced. When the 2020 Olympic broadcasting list showed for the Pacific islands, the TV is designated for TV WAAN. Visited yesterday for its TV guide but had no Olympic TV listings at that time. Confirmation that Michael Phelps will join Dan Hicks and Rowdy Gaines as a primetime swimming commentator in person in Tokyo behind the mic with them, offering insights as analyst and correspondent. Been 25 years since there's an Olympics without Michael Phelps: https://awfulannouncing.com/olympics/michael-phelps-to-join-nbcs-tokyo-olympics-coverage.html Quote
Durban Sandshark Posted July 21, 2021 Report Posted July 21, 2021 That multichannel SuperSport Tokyo 2020 extensive presentation announces its team of experienced South African athletes turned experts calling some of the action like Penny Heyns, Ryk Neethling, Lyndon Ferns, and Marianne Kriel (swimming), Elana Meyer, Khotso Mokoena, and Hezekiel Sepeng (athletics), Pietie Norval (tennis) and Ramon Di Clemente (rowing), who have all stood on the Olympic podium as medalists post-1992. Heyns actually has some prior Supersport experience as a presenter back in Athens in 2004. Supersport's Olympic presenters will be Carol Tshabalala, Julia Stuart, Crystal Arnold, Leigh-Ann Paulick, James Wokabi and Chisom Ezeoke. Reiterates what SuperSport's Olympic Grandstand is going to be focusing on the most important events on the go, but also cross-promote other events to assist viewers navigate the Olympics. And should Grandstand switch from one venue to the other, it will advise where viewers can continue to watch the original event. https://supersport.com/general/press-releases/news/210720_SuperSports_Olympic_gold_standard RTS Serbia readies itself for the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics by sending 29-member delegation people to Tokyo--journalists, cameramen, and technicians/producers. Zoran Markovic, its sports editor, will stay in Belgrade, however. RTS Serbia will transmit over 300 hours of live coverage from Tokyo. Basketball will be on RTS 2 everyday on the regular and 3x3 formats as the main draw despite the men not qualifying out of the OQTs as defending Olympic silver medalists from Rio De Janiero. But volleyball, soccer, swimming, track and field, team handball, water polo, and tennis with Novak Djokovic intensely follow as he hunts for the Golden Slam: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=sr&u=https://www.rts.rs/page/sport/sr/tokyo2020/story/3296/oko-terena/4449820/rts-tokio-milinkovic-kecmanovic-siladji-crevar.html&prev=search&pto=aue In Macau, China's Portuguese outpost that should have its own NOC and team, China Media Group signed an agreement yesterday that allows for media training collabs with local unis. The China Media Group sent around 800 people to form the reporting team that will cover the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, coordinating all formalities for CCTV1, CCTV2, CCTV5, CCTV5+, CCTV4K and other television channels such as Voice of China, as well as new media from China Media Group Mobile, CCTV News and CCTV Sports, platforms to report on the Olympic Games. So we know exactly which CCTV channels will be involved. Definitely the CCTV5 ones. TDM meanwhile additionally signed an Olympic Games broadcast rights cooperation agreement, under which China Media Group, through its copyright, authorized TDM to broadcast these Olympics free of charge on the Macau SAR, without exclusive rights, the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games and 2022 Beijing Olympic Winter Games: https://www.macaubusiness.com/china-media-group-signs-agreement-for-media-training-collaboration-with-local-universities/ CCTV5 meanwhile is airing some of the best Chinese moments from the Rio De Janeiro 2016 Summer Olympics and some track and field under the Olympic Classics banner while also looking ahead to Beijing 2022. Then there's programming like Outing: The Weight of Trust of the Chinese Weightlifting Team program. Expedition: The New Force of the Chinese Swim Team, Who Fight The Front: The Chinese Women's 3x3 Basketball Team, Above The Peak: The Chinese Women's Volleyball Team, Zhang Liang: Dreams Don't End, Starting Again: Chinese Badminton Team, Growth Chinese Women's Table Tennis Team, Bi Kun and Lu Yunxiu sailing documentary, Wei mENG: tHE dREAM cONTINUES, swimmer Xin Xin doc, Chinese karate team, the National table tennis tournament. CCTV will show men's and women's pre-Opening Ceremony soccer group games and rowing prelims. It will do an Opening Ceremony pre-show and a post-show one. AND NOW SEVEN NETWORK'S FULL ROSTER OF ITS TOKYO 2020 OLYMPICS COMMENTATORS FOR AUSTRALIA (too bad the likes of team handball, baseball, archery, boxing, and fencing won't have them for streaming) And newer 7+ Olympic digital viewing features emerge for this like live EPG integration, freeze frame, watchlist, autoplay, and continue watching: https://tvblackbox.com.au/page/2021/07/20/seven-reveals-new-features-for-biggest-ever-digital-coverage-of-tokyo-olympics-on-7plus/ ABC also in Australia has a documentary on top Australian skateboarder Poppy Starr Olsen on August 1 on ABC TV Plus ahead of her Olympic debut. Aptly titled Tall Poppy: A Skater's Story: https://tvblackbox.com.au/page/2021/07/20/abc-to-premiere-tall-poppy-a-skaters-story-documentary-ahead-of-her-olympic-debut/ Some brand new and innovative visual Olympic broadcasting technology ready to be used in Tokyo. Some of this is out of necessity because of the pandemic, you know. https://olympics.com/ioc/news/unprecedented-broadcast-coverage-and-digital-innovation-to-connect-fans-around-the-world-to-the-magic-of-tokyo-2020 TVCG 2 premiered on Sunday, July 18 at 6 pm Montenegro time the first weekend of the summer series "More than summer and to the joy of the game - Volcano flame" continues with a show at 6 pm on the Second Program of TVCG. In today's entertainment-Olympic magazine, the celebrated soccer player Ljubomir Radanović, the first captain of our handball national team Goran Đukanović, the opera singer Petra Radulović are live studio guests, while the musical guests are the band AkademiA. Actress Katarina Kaja Žutić and journalist and writer Vesna Dedić will join the show live from Budva. The magazine show talks via Skype with the frontman of the group Hladno pivo. Mile Kekin joins "More than Summer". For this summer program, they also talked to the singer-songwriter Goran Karan and the legendary Željko Bebek. Even today, we represent our Olympians and reward you. Inclusion phone number 020 / 224-708 or Instagram profile More than summer. Editors and hosts of the show are Tijana Mišković and Vlado Jovićević. Rerun of the show came at 11.15 pm on the First Program of TVCG: http://www.rtcg.me/tv/tvcg-2/ostalo/328298/vise-od-ljeta-.html TVCG 2 is where Montenegrans can watch the Tokyo 2020 action. It all starts apparently with Wednesday's telecasts of USA-Sweden and The Netherlands taking on Zambia in women's soccer live at 10:20-15:20 with repeats later in the day, according to RTCG's website. Spain-Egypt and Brazil-Germany in men's soccer comes the next day. Will show the Opening Ceremony live (13:00) and repeat (23:15) and would be followed by men's team handball Norway and Brazil at 1:50 and then some table tennis. Expect basketball, team handball, volleyball, water polo, tennis, soccer, swimming, and track and field. It isn't just Toyota (more on Toyota next time) that's not going to be doing any domestic TV advertisements during the Tokyo Olympics. Bridgestone Tires also announces it will pull out its TV commercials. NTT still will along with Nomura Holdings Inc., Mizuho Financial Group Inc. plan to continue airing ads, and Eneos Holdings Inc.: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-20/more-companies-pull-out-of-tokyo-olympics-opening-ceremony Quote
Durban Sandshark Posted July 22, 2021 Report Posted July 22, 2021 BHT1 presents the 7-person Tokyo 2020 Bosnia-Herzegovina Olympic Team in Sarajevo on BHT1 at the BiH Olympic Committee headquaters--athlete Amel Tuka, judoka Larisa Cerić, bowler Mesud Pezer, swimmer Lana Pudar, taekwondoist Nedžad Husić, shooter Tatjana Đekanović and swimmer Emir Muratović: Aldea set to deliver to Tokyo 2020 to numerous broadcasters around the world like France, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, and Colombia. Concerns over latency was prominent with the distance from Japan this time. Aldea will transmit live coverage of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics for these broadcasters from the International Broadcast Center (IBC) in Tokyo back to their respective home studio facilities thanks to an experienced group of engineers and a dedicated Montreal-based operational team. https://www.sportsvideo.org/2021/07/21/aldea-set-to-deliver-2020-tokyo-olympics-to-broadcasters-around-the-world/ Gradually getting details online on Telemundo/NBC Universo (MUN2)'s schedule. Things didn't start with the softball on Tuesday North America time, despite Mexico vs. Canada and USA vs. Italy. But naturally with women's soccer: Great Britain vs. Chile, Sweden vs. USA, and Canada vs. Japan. Taiwan's ELTA presenting the Tokyo 2020 Olympic coverage, which we'll get to next week, has at least six channels involved: Sports 1, 2, 3 (the usual ones) and Olympic Games 1-3. Certainly on the schedule, ELTA profiles the Taiwanese athletes set to compete with their competition times. NBCUniversal launches its Tokyo 2020 coverage streaming hub on Roku devices for easy access in building an enticing Olympic experience: https://www.cordcuttersnews.com/nbcuniversal-launches-hub-on-roku-for-easy-access-to-tokyo-2020-olympics-coverage/ YouTube TV details its NBC Olympics Tokyo 2020 coverage watching experience with DVR and a 4K add-on: https://9to5google.com/2021/07/15/youtube-tv-tokyo-2020-olympics/ An overview of the TVNZ 1's and SKY Sport NZ's planned Tokyo 2020 coverage. Stephen McIvor, Goran Paladin and Laura McGoldrick will feature all the high-profile events from the Olympic Games on SKY Sports Gold Channel (SS3/SS53), where the Friday's Opening Ceremony will begin at 10:50pm NZ time. Also contains when NZ Olympians will be competing in what Kiwi viewers to watch for: https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/125759566/how-to-watch-the-tokyo-olympics-2020 Renate Gomez presents what's on the Olympic agenda for July 21 "in your hands" for Marca Claro and Claro Sports 4K Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics viewing will also be available on FuboTV too: https://www.cnet.com/how-to/tokyo-olympics-watch-in-4k-hdr-with-fubotv-youtube-tv-or-broadcast/ No spectators in the venues isn't an issue for NHK as it encourages and challenges Japanese online public viewers for its cheering support: https://sports.nhk.or.jp/olympic/article/ichioshi/0722morning/ Quote
Quaker2001 Posted July 22, 2021 Report Posted July 22, 2021 1 hour ago, danderson4500 said: I've always wondered, is it common to have one of the Today anchors join Costas or Tirico for the opening ceremony? Because i remember Peter Jennings(who was ABCs main news guy) joining Jim McKay on ABC's coverage in the 80s. Yes. Katie Couric and Matt Lauer both hosted ceremonies during their time with NBC. It's extremely common. Quote
Durban Sandshark Posted July 22, 2021 Report Posted July 22, 2021 4 hours ago, danderson4500 said: I've always wondered, is it common to have one of the Today anchors join Costas or Tirico for the opening ceremony? Because i remember Peter Jennings(who was ABCs main news guy) joining Jim McKay on ABC's coverage in the 80s. Definitely in this case again with Savannah Guthrie this time joining Mike Tirico for the Opening Ceremony. Been a tradition of sorts with NBC well since acquiring the Games with the likes of Katie Couric (as previously mentioned), Bryant Gumbel, Meredith Viera, the since-disgraced Matt Lauer, and Hoda Kotb over the past two decades being the American TV presenters in it. Tom Brokaw, if you want to go even further with him as a NBC TODAY alum, has done some features during the Opening Ceremony like with Vancouver on Canada's close relationship with the US. Extremely common from the show, as Quaker says. Gotta get to Canada's Tokyo 2020 massive and comprehensive coverage with the CBC/TSN/Rogers Sportsnet/SRC/RDS on its multiple platforms live and recorded that started late Tuesday/early Wednesday morning with Canada softball stepping up to the plate taking taking on Mexico at 1am Canada/USA/Mexico CT and then Canada's women's soccer team draw with Japan in their head-to-head against them at 5:30am (both live). More detailed stuff will arrive later but here comes the general overview. Canadian residents can watch live broadcasts from every venue and every Canadian medal-winning moment, totalling more than 37775 combined hours of live content across Canada's public broadcaster's multiple platforms on the English side and is live across the nation regardless of the time zone. In addition, broadcast partners TSN (in at least 3 of the 5 of its 5 channels) and Rogers Sportsnet will once again provide live event coverage, giving audiences multiple options as to what to watch every day during the Olympics. CBC's live coverage of the Opening Ceremony comes live at 5:30am Canada/USA/Mexico time from the Tokyo Olympic Stadium co-hosted CBC Olympic Games Primetime's host Scott Russell and The National's Adrianne Arsenault, who will bring additional perspective on-site--the OC itself actually starts at 6am CT guiding Canadians through the OC with Team Canada's entrance during the Parade of Nations lead by two flag-bearers in a show that of being gender-balanced and equal. Before that at 5:30am, the festivities kick off at 5:30am (3:30am PT) with the pre-Opening Ceremony show, hosted by Olympic Games Morning's Andi Petrillo, building anticipation for what's to come. They will be joined in-studio by special contributor and author, Mark Sakamoto, who will bring his own unique insights to the show. Encore comes at 6pm that Friday night. Before the opening and closing ceremonies will be presented in an accessible manner with closed captioning, described video, and ASL integrations. CBC's Tokyo 2020 Opening Ceremony presentation will also be offered in eight Indigenous languages included Eastern Cree, Dehcho, Dene, Denesuline Yalti, Gwich'in, Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun, Sahtu Dene, and Tlicho. Canadians won't miss a moment of the excitement from the Olympic Stadium, with live coverage on CBC, CBC News Network, TSN, and Sportsnet. Live streaming of the Opening Ceremony will also be available via the free CBC Gem streaming service, CBC's dedicated Tokyo website, and the CBC Olympics app for iOS and Android devices. All CBC Olympics Games programming segments will both be seen on CBC-TV and on CBC Gem: https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/tokyo-olympics-opening-ceremony-indigenous-languages-1.6105713 Olympic Games Primetime hosted by Russell comes at 6-11 CT. Having covered 14 Olympic Games for the CBC, five as a host, veteran broadcaster Scott Russell brings his vast experience, passion, and knowledge to the Olympic Games Primetime block. This nightly staple will focus on medal moments across key sports, including swimming, athletics/track and field, marathons, rowing, canoe/kayak, golf, and team sports round robin play. Olympic Games Overnight is co-hosted by decorated male diver, 2x Olympic Games silver medalist, and 3x World Champion diver Alexandre Despatie and popular CBC News Network anchor Heather Hiscox at 11pm-5am also on CBC-TV and CBC Gem. Hiscox makes her debut as CBC Olympic Games co-host, after contributing to the past eight Olympic Games on CBC as a reporter and host for the CBC News team. She'll certainly be keeping audiences up all night with her energetic personality and unique perspective, alonside Despatie making his fourth appearance as CBC Olympic Games co-host. This late night show will focus on diving, tennis, gymnastics, trampoline, cycling, soccer, and team sports round robin play. On the TSN Tokyo 2020 TV schedule online, TSN 1-5 will head to the Tokyo 2020 coverage that Friday at 5:30 up to 11am with TSN5 meanwhile going to the Opening Ceremony encore at 6-9:45pm. TSN1 and TSN4 carries on additional with an additional live Tokyo 2020 segment at 9:30pm after TSN1-4 all start theirs at 6-6:30pm that ends at 9am Saturday morning. On Saturday and Sunday, TSN2 goes at 6:55-11:30pm and extending onto 9am. TSN3 starts at the same 6:55pm time but ends at 10:15am. TSN4 comes in on Sunday for the 2-5pm Tkyo 2020 Daytime Encore and resumes for the 6:25pm-2:30am segment. TSN5 has a 10pm-9am Sunday-Monday segment. None of the TSN segments as yet mention what sports will be covered. As for Rogers Sportsnet, Sportsnet and SN1 will also present the CBC simulcast of the Opening Ceremony at 5:30am. Then later it's that Tokyo 2020segment at 9pm with cycling, weightlifting, and beach volleyball on SN1 with another one arriving at 11pm shared by both SN1 and Rogers Sportnet (following the 2021 NHL Draft Round 1) with those same three sports plus water polo up to 5am. Then starting at 5am Saturday both Sportsnet and SN1 sports tennis, water polo, soccer, volleyball, and beach volleyball towards 10am the next morning with both later coming back that day at 6pm with beach volleyball, softball, tennis, and shooting and at 10pm with basketball, weightlifting, tennis, cycling, and judo. That's for now for English Canada here; I'll jot down the additional ones very soon. Just like with the Canadian English CBC-led Tokyo 2020 broadcasting details, the following is just a primer regarding the French side with SRC/RDS/RDS2/RDS INFO. RDS's online Tokyo ad on its website has two Quebec athletes in diver Meaghan Benfeito and judoka Antoine Valois-Fortier prominent together in that with the slogan Plus Fort Que Tout (Stronger Than Anything) for its coverage. 57 athletes in the 371-person Canadian team are from Quebec and there's some serious medal contention out of them. As usual, the RDS channels will focus on the Quebec portion with some sports pertinent and appealing to the Quebecois market. It already airs constantly the 2020 Canadian Olympic Diving Trials, documentary profiles on speed skater Gaetan Boucher, Usain Bolt, and athletes' sponsor Bernard Trottier. RDS2 opens the French cable coverage on Friday 6-9pm then RDS INFO takes over 9pm-10am. Starting Saturday it's RDS INFO on 7pm in the evening to 9am into the morning. Monday's it's 9-11am and then 7pm-9am again on RDS INFO and 5pm-9am on RDS. Almost like what some Latin American nations has in their Olympic brodcasting.. Maybe I got the times mixed up here and will correct things. TeleLatino Canada manages again to acquire a sublicense from the CBC over the Canadian Tokyo 2020 broadcasting right several years ago. It's covering just over 100 hours of entirely nothing but select daily Olympic men's and women's soccer games from July21-August8 in both Spanish and Italian--plans were to have some Portuguese included but be done possibly because of not getting a qualified Portuguese-speaking Canadian soccer broadcaster in time. Over two channels--TeleLatino and Univision Canada (but almost entirely on TeleLatino with just 4 games on Univision Canada). Camilla Gonzalez and Nelson Perez (play-by-play) will handle the Spanish side with Antonio Giorgi deals with the Italian play-by-play. Univision Canada has the daily Spanish highlights show M-F at 2 & 6pm Canada/USA/Mexico CT and Saturdays and Sunday at 6pm with TeleLatino having it on those weekend days earlier at 4pm. The Italian language version comes on solely at TeleLatino everyday at 5pm. The accompanying TLN promo linked here is a bit misleading with the various (and mostly Canadian) Olympic sports footage shown from Rio De Janeiro along with the Olympic soccer Antonio Giorgi with Camilla Gonzalez mention that will only be there. Maybe in the future, TLN can deal with other Summer Olympic sports on TV: https://www.tln.ca/shows/olympic-games-tokyo-2020/ Danmark Radio's Tokyo 2020 Sendeplan for DR1, DR2, and DRTV. Remember it's only broadcasting roughly half the sports in the Olympic sports program with things like Denmark handball games and the gold medal game and Denmark badminton, archery, boxing, and weightlifting exempt this time: https://www.dr.dk/sporten/ol/program Days ago, Wikipedia's 2020 Summer Olympics braodcasters list had Vietname with VTV, Ho Chi Minh City TV, and the Vietnam Multimedia Corporation. That was since removed since there was no confirmation on the broadcasting right. Well, it's solely VTV that will provide the Tokyo 2020 coverage that will be a gift to the Vietnamese audience nationwide. Using from 13 live broadcast OBS signals, VTV plans to use its channels VTV3, VTV5, VTV6, and VTV9 with a wide variety of sport offered live with not just Team Vietnam sports many Vietnamese love "like soccer, volleyball, table tennis, badminton, and other Olympic sports like track & field/athletics, swimming, gymnastics, and shooting. VTV3 will just handle Olympic news, journals, and magazine shows. Accordingly, we have many options to choose to convey the most content and many sports to the audience. Thus, the audience nationwide will have many options to follow." Journalist Phan Ngoc Tien, VTV's Sports Department Head, adds there will be reports on other and some newer Olympic sports it'll touch upon like golf, skateboarding, surfing, and equestrian with also an overall team of experienced experts, reporters, and editors. Had Road To Olympia, Olympic Moment, and Olympia Diary. All started with Great Britain-Chile women's soccer, New Zealand-South Korea, Japan-South Africa, Mexico-France men's soccer--no softball. In this Tokyo 2020 Olympics edition, the VTV Sports Program Production Department produces the program "Olympic Moments" with the duration of 5 minutes, broadcast at 9:30pm (Monday to Friday Vietnam time) and 9:10pm (Saturdays and Sunday) from 14:00 July 7-August 9 on VTV3. Along with that is the 10-minute "Tokyo 2020 Olympic Diary" news (from Monday to Friday) and 15-minutes (Saturdays and Sundays) broadcast live at 5:55pm from July 21-August 9 on VTV3 and replayed VTV9. A brand new program for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics on VTV is "Close-Up of the Olympic Games 2020" with a duration of 30 minutes broadcast at 23:30 July 23-August 9 also on VTV3 and also replayed VTV9. These would be included as Vietnam Television channels' news also continuously update info about the Tokyo 2020 Olympics goings-on the activities of the Vietnam Sports Delegation such as Sports Beat, VTV Sports News, 360 Degrees of Sports, etc. to convey with the Vietnamese TV audience as it hopes to be the most special and memorable Olympics in history (will be that in some ways--me): https://vtv.vn/the-thao/nha-bao-phan-ngoc-tien-olympic-tokyo-2020-la-mon-qua-vtv-tran-trong-danh-tang-khan-gia-ca-nuoc-20210721201322818.htm TyC Sports Argentina worked on its Tokyo 2020 TV schedule that got released yesterday with Gonzalo Bonadeo previewing the women's soccer and softball matches at 18:30-19:10 and again at 5-6 Argentina time. Then another preview show at 3pm leading up to the 5pm Argentina-Australia and Brazil-Germany men's soccer followed by the Argentina postgame analysis. At 18-19:30 Bonadeo previews the pre-Opening Ceremony archery and rowing heats. Early Friday morning at 5am, TyC Sports previews the Opening Ceremony live that itself comes at 6am that seemingly kicks off the all-day TyC Sports pro-Argentina coverage, reviews and analysis (like with the post-OC) and then the live competition until 6am Saturday. This is how TV Publica Canal 7 Argentina will handle its Tokyo 2020 coverage on Argentina's FTA TV. Yes, it will be pro-Argentina too with that large contingent. Starting with that early Thursday July 22 at 7:30am Under 23 men's soccer team: Argentina vs. Australia Group C game. Friday at 8am sees for the first time in Olympic Games history a male-female co-flag bearer tandem for Argentina at the Opening Ceremony with Santiago Lange and Cecilia Carranza (gold medal in Rio 2016). Later that Friday night from 8pm, TV Publica Canal 7 Argentina's agenda and broadcasting opens with all the activities for Argentina's athletes until the next day at 11 in the morning. Saturdays and Sundays go from 6-11 and from 20:30-6 the next day. Mondays to Fridays feature live 6-11am transmissions, then 1:30-2:30pm, "Olympic Argentina" summary of the Olympic Games special program, then resuming live broadcasting at 9pm-6am. Sunday, August 8 see at 8am the Closing Ceremony from Tokyo Olympic Stadium: TV Publica also presents Olympic Argentina (Olimpica Argentina), a program to preview " the beginnings of the competition within the international Olympic competition that will take place from July 23 to August 8. It is lead by Gustavo Kuffner and Miguel Osovi, the special participation of Magdelena Aicega and Sofia Martinez and the testimonies of the protagonists and former athletes who represent as Argentine members https://www.tvpublica.com.ar/programa/juegos-olimpicos-de-tokyo-2020/ With Argentinian Olympic broadcasting newcomer DeporTV, a sister to TV Publica, its Tokyo programming will not have much of any Olympic competition but will have only 1 block of 5 hours of live broadcasts (along with TV Publica Canal 7), but additionally daily programs: from Monday to Friday there will be two daily Olympic preview of the day (19 to 20) and another post-day newscast on the best Olympic daily moments (13:30 to 14:30) On Olympic weekends, DeporTV's hours will come from 13-14 and from 19-20, respectively. The anchor conduction in charge will be the Gabriela Previta/Ramiro Pantorotto tandem with Gabi in the earlier one and Ramiro in the evening. Both will be accompanied by a team of specialists in each sport. All under the hashtag #NosUneLaCamiseta: http://deportv.gov.ar/noticias/-tokioendeportv-vivi-tokio-2020-en-el-canal-publico-de-deportes_6634#sthash.E6EPSqpV.dpbs Stefan Hoffman and Thomas Stadler will co-host the Swiss-German language presentation of the Tokyo 2020 Opening Ceremony on SRF2. More details about BNT Bulgaria's coverage will come next week--it's on BNT 1 and BNT 3 this time for 250 hours. But Tereza Mutafchieva will host the Olympic news show "Tokyo Line 2020", which starts every weekday at 12:30, immediately after the lunch show "Around the world and in our country" with interviews and reports with the BNT journalist envoys in Tokyo: https://bnt.bg/news/liniya-tokio-2020-297153news.html Seems as though when checking Albania's RTSH, you would assume it would, with its relatively new channel RTSH Sport, it'll take care much of the Tokyo 2020 coverage. Not the case. At least for the first official days, it's RTSH 1 showing the Opening Ceremony live at 13-16:55 Albania time but with RTSH Sport doing a live simulcast. July 23-24 is where RTSH 2 does the sports with things starting 1:30 with beach volleyball, badminton, handball, taekwondo, tennis, cycling, and judo. Will look for more later. Belarus 1 has a Belarussian Olympic TV show called Tokyo Express. Still awaiting a TV schedule from Belteleradio. SABC confirmed on Twitter that SABC1 starts the South African-focused and its first Olympic TV event was South Africa taking on Japan in men's soccer today at 1pm: https://justnje.com/sabc-1-set-to-air-first-tokyo-2020-olympics-event/ Honduras VTV-9 started its coverage at 6:30 this morning onto 9am live thanks to the Honduras men's soccer team playing in some Olympic soccer. VTV's website got updated now after I visited earlier this week. Coverage from Tokyo seems to come non-stop live from 1-9am. I'll check when it's subject to change. With 1TV Public Television Company of Armenia, although it doesn't say so right now on its TV guide, but it strongly hints that the First Channel will show the Olympics with the Opening Ceremony live at 15-19 Armenia Friday. Saturday would possibly see some Olympic action showcasing the Armenians of course from 8:25am-12:25pm, 1:20-5pm (13:20-17), 5:25-6:30pm (17:25-18:30), 4-5:15. Sunday could be 7:25-11, 11:25-14:20, 15-18, 1:30-4, and 15-17:55 on Monday. Those TV time slots right now on the 1TV ARM schedule are listed as General. Nearby with the First Channel of Georgia, it already kicked things off with the USA-Sweden women's soccer group game at 12:30-14:40 Georgia time Wednesday. Thursday it'll be the Brazil-Germany men's soccer at 15:30-17:40. After the live Opening Ceremony presentation at 15-18:35 on 1TV Georgia Friday afternoon, Tokyo 2020 follows a programming timeslotting of 6-7, 10-12, 12:25-14:30, and 14:55-18, although we don't exactly know the sports details inside the slot, for we can safely assume Georgian athletes will be featured. Not ongoing and breaking for the EURO 2020 Timeout show and for news this weekend. Quote
Durban Sandshark Posted August 3, 2021 Report Posted August 3, 2021 On 7/24/2021 at 7:42 AM, danderson4500 said: CBC has always had a news person co-host the Opening Ceremony, going back to when Peter Mansbridge was on The National. Actually, the CBC had another legendary news anchor co-hosting the Opening Ceremony prior to Mansbridge: Lloyd Robertson. I think he did it back in 1968, 1972, and 1976 before moving over to CTV. He performed the same job at CTV for Calgary in 1988, Barcelona in 1992, and Vancouver 2010 when that network held the Canadian Olympic TV rights. Maybe he did Lillehammer's too. Yeah, I know I haven't posted here in over a week. I want to try to gather a lot of stuff in before I post additional details about Tokyo 2020 media coverage. Some cases I need to jot down more things later on and in others turn to Facebook with the broadcasters' accounts. Speaking of jotting, I wrote down and printed multiple schedules from online at the library, some of this must be done daily. Have to do things in the face of my busy BTS schedule as I still don't have my own computer. I freely admit, I have still write down the bigger nations' updates. Those will likely come after the Closing Ceremony. Right now, I may have to conduct things gradually Let's return with Andorra. ATV Andorra makes things easier with the miniscule presentation it has, all in Catalan. Andorra's Olympic Committee sent only two Olympians to Tokyo--men's 800m qualifier Pal Moya and canoeist Monica Doria, far less athletes than in nearly 30 years--and its coverage definitely reflects this. As expected, neither advanced although Moya did set a new Andorran 800m record in his heat. ATV did not show the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics everyday and only appears July 23, 25, 27-29, and August 8 and only just those two sports outside both ceremonies. Nothing else when you see the ATV's TV guide for Tokyo 2020. Again, the ATV schedule is the Opening Ceremony on July 23 at 12:55-16 and the 22:25-1 replay Andorra time. July 25 saw the kayaking qualifiers with the Spain-based Doria at 6:40-7:45 and 8:40-9:45 later with the 21:45-23:45 replay. Goes dark after that until kayaking returns for Doria with the semifinals on July 27 for 6:55-9 and then 14:10-16 before the 22:30-1 primetime re-airing. Additional canoeing qualifiers come the next day 5:55-6:45, 7:50-8:40, and 14:10-15:50 before the 22:10-23:50 re-airing that day. Pal Moya's 800m qualifications heats completed the TVA competition portion on July 29 at 2:45-3:30 and 14:10-15 before the 21:10-21:50 primetime highlight segment. Everything ends for TVA with the Closing Ceremony this Sunday live at 12:55-16 and the 21:45-1 re-airing. RTVA sent only two envoys to Tokyo in journalist Joel Romero and camera operator Kevin Ribeiro having left for it to cover Andorra's two Tokyo 2020 athletes the Tuesday before the Opening Ceremony. This is actually RTVA's second time ever covering the Olympics domestically; its first was just three years ago with Pyeongchang. And yeah, Tokyo provides a very unique and unusual experience brought on by COVID-19. Joel and Kevin had to undergo quarantining for three days with safety checks and protocols following its arrival in Japan. There's more that I'll get to soon: https://www.andorradifusio.ad/programes/jocs-toquio-2020/noticies-delegacio-andorrana-jocs-toquio/lequip-andorra-televisio-cobrira-directe-jocs-olimpics https://www.andorradifusio.ad/programes/jocs-toquio-2020/noticies-delegacio-andorrana-jocs-toquio/lequip-rtva-cobreix-jocs-olimpics-toquio-fa Several weeks ago on the Wikipedia 2020 Summer Olympics broadcasters list, I noticed with Vietnam's entry that it had not just state-run VTV (more on that soon) but also included was Ho Chi Minh City Television (HTV) and VTC digital television. That was all removed but VTV did reappear days later right before the Opening Ceremony, and it was later confirmed on the list that HTV is doing some Tokyo Olympic Games. I immediately visited Ho Chi Minh City TV's website yesterday and its TV programming schedule, and there indeed was some Tokyo 2020 coverage. HTV Sport, also known as HTV The Thao, has them for 15 consecutive hours from 7-21 Vietnam time daily (7am-9pm). But HTV Sports does offer details as to what it is showing and the sports during this time frame. Without question, Ho Chi Minh City Television surely does place some focus on the Vietnamese athletes there. Don't know what agreements are made with VTV on dealing with the Tokyo 2020 TV coverage while realizing the latter still offers the lion's share of it; I have yet to see any press release announcing the coverage contribution. Coverage started on July 24 Will check it out very soon to hunt for it. HTV 7 does a daily Tokyo Olympic Magazine show at 8:30am. Couldn't find a lot from Sri Lanka's Rupavahini unlike in recent Summer Olympics past despite significant promotion. Checked both Rupavahini and its sister Channel Eye, and the only things I could find are the ceremonies (of course), a daily 90-minute highlight shows on Rupavahini and Channel Eye simultaneous at 11-12:30 (one hour on weekends) and a 1-minute Olympic Segment during the primetime News and Weather Report all Sri Lanka time. So definitely not as much breath and diversity with this edition. Quote
Durban Sandshark Posted August 25, 2021 Report Posted August 25, 2021 Yeah, the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games may now be fading into the rearview mirror. But that doesn't mean we will stop with that because there's still a lot of those Olympic media developments to be shared and put forth. Work prevented me a large part of jotting them down here except for on paper. Now the focus for Tokyo is the Paralympics right now, which NBC is going all in with including unprecedented primetime coverage under its 200-hour program. I will get down to many of them even well after the coverage is over. Breath of the coverage around the world. Issues like NBC dealing with low interest nationally with Tokyo 2020 in comparison with the past on the broadcasting and online and print dimensions will surely be discussed, and how will it learn to adjust and adapt to a rapidly changing media consumption and tech landscape onward. It's certainly not like what it was back in 2008-2012. Been noticing both on the 2020 broadcasting lists from Wikipedia's and the IOC's updated ones that many nations from Africa, Asia/Pacific, Latin America, Middle East/North Africa, and even some European ones decided not to have a national free-to-air TV broadcaster for Tokyo 2020 unlike in recent Olympics. For example, I visited what is thought to be a normal Olympics broadcast rights holder in Malta's TVM with their website and its TV guide. Saw nothing on its two TVM channels. Even already mentioned TVA in Andorra showed something however small. Perhaps they couldn't handle any longer with the rising prohibitive costs of carrying the broadcasting rights when either they have annual budgets that are modest and/or couldn't reach an agreement in time for the Opening Ceremony. Just because these now "other" Olympics are over, some Olympics broadcast rights holders still continue on broadcasting now deemed replays. SuperSport's channels started showing full events replays, reviews, but more frequently 5-10-minute highlights during the first full week away from Tokyo's Closing Ceremony and is still doing such as of this writing but far more limited than at first. TeleRebelde in Cuba is showing full event replays of select and popular sports mixed along with Cuban athletes' highlights even while showing the Paralympics. Surely the NHK channels are doing replays likely focus on Japan's successes as hosts. Claro Sports released four 24/7 live dedicated channels inside its Apple TV and Android TV applications (with easily accessible TV programming guides) for sports fans across 17 Central and South America nations to stream the Tokyo Olympics while choosing Applicaster’s Zapp app management platform to extend its Olympics distribution strategy because it offered the experience, rich history in sports apps, and the UI flexibility needed to meet Claro and the International Olympic Committee’s requirements with aims of a rich viewer experience. Claro launched its apps, from zero to store, in only three weeks before the Opening Ceremony. After the Closing Ceremony Claro Sports updated its apps to showcase programming from the many leagues and teams like in soccer that fans across Latin America love to watch: https://www.ibc.org/ibc-daily/claro-sports-launches-tv-apps-to-extend-its-tokyo-olympics-streaming-strategy/7800.article A major reason why Globo/SporTV was able to keep its staff low in numbers in Tokyo aside from the pandemic while not affecting the quality of the live broadcast coverage of 1040 hours was 16 TVU One mobile wireless transmitters spreading throughout the event sites. They provided coverage of the 33 sports represented at the Games inside Tokyo at any location while embracing 5G, WiFi, Ethernet, and satelitte. TVU also supported 100 other broadcasters well before Tokyo 2020 started: https://www.ibc.org/ibc-daily/tvu-provides-remote-production-solutions-to-globo-for-summer-games-coverage/7866.article Quote
Quaker2001 Posted August 26, 2021 Report Posted August 26, 2021 14 hours ago, Durban Sandshark said: Yeah, the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games may now be fading into the rearview mirror. But that doesn't mean we will stop with that because there's still a lot of those Olympic media developments to be shared and put forth. Work prevented me a large part of jotting them down here except for on paper. Now the focus for Tokyo is the Paralympics right now, which NBC is going all in with including unprecedented primetime coverage under its 200-hour program. I will get down to many of them even well after the coverage is over. Breath of the coverage around the world. Issues like NBC dealing with low interest nationally with Tokyo 2020 in comparison with the past on the broadcasting and online and print dimensions will surely be discussed, and how will it learn to adjust and adapt to a rapidly changing media consumption and tech landscape onward. It's certainly not like what it was back in 2008-2012. I get that you have work and other obligations and all, but I'm still at a loss as to how someone can have this much interest in Olympic media developments and have made a number of posts right before and after the Olympics and a grand total of 1 post during the Olympics. Could have a lot of fun if you posted in this thread more, you know, actually *during* the Olympics Quote
Durban Sandshark Posted December 31, 2021 Report Posted December 31, 2021 On 8/26/2021 at 8:50 AM, Quaker2001 said: I get that you have work and other obligations and all, but I'm still at a loss as to how someone can have this much interest in Olympic media developments and have made a number of posts right before and after the Olympics and a grand total of 1 post during the Olympics. Could have a lot of fun if you posted in this thread more, you know, actually *during* the Olympics Wish I could during those Games. But the problem at the time is the Summer Olympics tend to get scheduled concurrently during the peaking of the BTS season in retail. This typically happens to me when the Summer Olympics roll around during late July-late August. See, I work on flex hours, meaning, in my case, because of my super-reliability rep at my store, I get more hours per week and ease the burdens for the seasonal workers, who tend to be younger and inexperienced--and it can get stressful. Emphasis is on making revenue for the store and can stay for several more hours. Often voluntarily. Also, partly because of that, this very much eliminates me writing about it here during that time and not watching it. Bear in mind, I yet to own a computer, tablet, and smartphone to enable me to work around that. Hopefully, I'll get them next year. So it's just easier, given the circumstances, to not writing about it here and "disappear" at that very time. Hoped I wouldn't; paycheck won out. And when I do write about the Olympics media news at this time, I just jot down some notes from online with the hopes of eventually putting them here, however long. Sorry for the delay in my response. Hopefully in the next summer one in Paris, this won't serve as another case. TeleRebelde in Cuba is currently airing repeats and highlights from Tokyo 2020 for up three parts of each day. With the big Summer Olympics events (track and field, swimming, gymnastics, basketball, soccer, diving) and sports with strong Cuban interest (boxing, wrestling, volleyball, canoeing, baseball, karate). Checked its schedule. Going from last week onwards to New Year's Day. Even for some events presented as The Story Before Tokyo in apparent preview format. Some air for an hour. Others for up to 2-3 hours for some events. Quote
Durban Sandshark Posted May 4, 2022 Report Posted May 4, 2022 First post about Tokyo 2020 Olympic broadcasting posted this year--and we're almost halfway home with 2022--on this thread. Still planning to get back on bringing more details that we missed. But a more recent development I can inform is that back in early April was the American 43rd Sports Emmy nominees were announced on April 6 with the winners announced May 24. The NBC family of networks' coverage of the Games of the XXXII Olympiad in Tokyo garnered 10 nominations. Half of the total 20 nominations for NBC. Telemundo and Peacock were repped each out of its 6 and 5 in total, respectively. The Tokyo 2020 coverage earned noms in Outstanding Live Sports Special, Outstanding Live Studio Show in Spanish, Outstanding Interactive Experience - Event Coverage, Outstanding Promotional Announcement, Outstanding Technical Team Event, Outstanding Technical Team Studio, Outstanding Camera Work - Short Form, Outstanding Editing - Short Form, Outstanding Graphic Design - Event/Show, and The George Wensel Technical Achievement Award. NBC's personalities that were involved in the Games in Tokyo that got nominated, though not necessarily for Tokyo 2020 are Mike Tirico (Outstanding Sports Personality/Studio Host), Michelle Tafoya (Outstanding Sports Personality/Sports Reporter), and Telemundo's Andreas Cantor, Ana Jurka, and Miguel Gurwitz (Outstanding On-Air Personality in Spanish). Surely, NBC will win plenty of the Sports Emmys tech categories if not exactly dominate or sweep them. I'm no oddsmaker guy, but I could suspect Telemundo's trio could cannibalize their votes in their category and maybe favor TUDN/Univision to win or ESPN Deportes' Cristina Alexander. Not sure if it's a shock at all regarding Peacock's lack of noms for their portion of the Games of The XXXII Olympiad in the digital categories. Maybe the Sports Emmy should expand to include streaming-related sports categories. And there were other Olympic/Paralympic-related Sports Emmy nominations involving Olympians too, so let's give them their mention: LFG (for Let's F***ing Go on the USWNT soccer team and their fight for equal pay, Outstanding Long Documentary) on HBO/HBO Max, Facebook Watch's Simone vs. Herself (Outstanding Documentary Series - Serialized), Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel: "Oksana: The Remarkable Story of Paralympic Superstar Oksana Masters" also on HBO/HBO Max, #StrongerTogether: "What Agnes Saw" at Olympics.com for Outstanding Public Service Announcement/Campaign, Telemundo's Nos Vemos en el Podio and ESPN Deportes' Último Tren a Tokio and En Sus Zapatos: "Alexa Moreno" (profile on the Mexican gymnast who came oh so close to winning the first Latin American Olympic gymnastics medal on the women's vault in Tokyo) were all in for the Outstanding Feature Story in Spanish category. Meanwhile north of the border in Toronto on April 10, the Canadian Screen Awards did their thing with the sports categories. CBC's coverage of Tokyo 2020 had, if I got this correct, 10 Canadian Screen Award nominations (2 in Sports analysis or commentary, 2 in Sports play-by-play, Sports feature segment, 2 in Sports Host, Sports opening, Sports program or series, and Live Production, Social Media) but end up winning only 1 with CBC Olympic Morning Host Andi Petrillo walking away with the Sports Host win in beating out CBC Olympic Primetime host Scott Russell, stopping a shutout. Shockingly IMO, the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games on CBC wasn't even nominated for Live Sporting Event Coverage, Sports Directing, editing, graphics, tech, production, or any Audience Award. Also no specific Quebecois sports categories exist here, so no Radio-Canada/RDS here. Quote
Durban Sandshark Posted May 7, 2022 Report Posted May 7, 2022 Over in Britain, BBC's Tokyo 2020 coverage rightfully and deservedly won Best Titles and Graphic Identity for its brilliant intro to its daily coverage at the 2022 British Academy Television Craft Awards on April 24 specifically for Ron Chakraborty, James Cross, Factory Fifteen, Tim Jones, Kenji Kawai, and Fantasista Utamaro. BBC's Tokyo 2020 Olympics, credited to BBC Sport/BBC One here, is currently up for Best Sport at the upcoming British Academy Television Awards set for May 8 hosted by Richard Ayoade. It's the only nomination for it here as there aren't many specific sports-themed categories there unlike in the USA or Canada. If there's any Australian Logie noms to Seven's Tokyo 2020 coverage that are announced or anywhere else, I'll pass them on to you Quote
Durban Sandshark Posted July 8, 2022 Report Posted July 8, 2022 Seven Network's coverage of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games won Most Outstanding Sports Coverage TV Logie at the Gold Coast in Queensland down in Australia. Also, longtime Australian Olympic (10 of them), AFL, horse racing, and tennis (among other sports) TV sportscaster and studio host Bruce McAvaney was inducted into the TV Week Logie Hall of Fame, introduced on-stage by AFL commentator and friend Leigh Matthews, as the second sportscaster inducted. In this Hall of Fame induction segment, Mr. Olympics gets testimonies from Cathy Freeman, former sportscaster Dennis Cometti, and Chris Waller. He's also currently battling leukemia, which he admits his voice isn't sharp but responding well in his recovery. This is Bruce McAvaney's TV Logie Hall of Fame segment: Here's how the Australian Olympic Committee honored and congratulated McAvaney and Seven for its Olympic Logies honors: https://www.olympics.com.au/news/aoc-congratulates-bruce-mcavaney-and-channel-seven-on-logies-success/ Quote
Durban Sandshark Posted July 21, 2022 Report Posted July 21, 2022 More casual on Olympic media here since this is the ESPY Awards are going on tonight as we speak at LA's Dolby Theatre with Stephen Curry hosting. Since this is the Tokyo 2020 media thread, I tend to be generous about this despite ESPN not holding the rights. Katie Ledecky and Sunisa Kim are both nominated in Best Women's Sports Athlete. Allyson Felix, Ledecky, Lee, and Paralympian Oksana Masters are all nominated for Best Olympian, Women's Sports. Fellow Olympians Sam Kerr (Australia) and Vivienne Miedema (The Netherlands are in Best International Athlete, Women's Soccer. Brazilian silver medalist skateboarder Rayssa Leal is in Best Women's Action Sports Athlete with the rest all Winter Olympians. Felix's winning her 11th Olympic medal in Tokyo surpassing Carl Lewis' record in US Olympic track and field is in the Best Record Breaking Performance category. Women's golf gold medalist at Tokyo 2020 Nelly Korda appears in Best Female Golfer Swimmer Caleb Dressel and Paralympian sprint runner Nick Mayhugh are in Best Olympian, Male Sports. Luka Doncic, who lead Slovenia all the way to the men's basketball bronze medal game against Australia, is in the Best NBA Player category. Japan's Yuta Horigome reps skateboarding with his gold medal street skateboarding win in Tokyo in Best Male Action Sports Athlete. Quote
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