Paris 2024 Media updates

[Bear]

4 hours ago, Durban Sandshark said:

The NBC Paris 2024 live IMAX opening ceremony trailer is now up

 

either they sold out or tickets aren't actually out yet cause the website says no available showtimes

https://www.imax.com/movie/olympics

[Cyriln]

6 hours ago, sebastien1214 said:

I think that in any case, even in front of the television it will be better because we will see everything. Having the ceremony 6km from the Seine is a brilliant idea, but the disadvantage for those who will be there is that they will not see everything live, unlike in a stadium. (but hey, it will probably still be a great experience to see it on site)

80 giant screens (and "strategically placed speakers") will be installed along the river so the spectators can enjoy all the show too.

[Quaker2001]

16 hours ago, Sir Rols said:

 

It’d probably be incredibly spectacular and immersive to watch the OC on IMAX. Probably even better than viewing from the stands.

I'll probably have to check this out.  Fortunately there's an IMAX screen near me for whenever they start selling tickets.  That said, I'm a little skeptical about this.  Sure, it's a big screen, but the bigger question is what is the quality of the video they're showing on the screen.  If they can pump in the full 4K broadcast, that will probably be pretty cool.  That's a tough sell though in comparison to what normally gets shown on an IMAX screen, a purpose-shot movie that's meant to be shown on the biggest of big screens.

16 hours ago, sebastien1214 said:

I think that in any case, even in front of the television it will be better because we will see everything. Having the ceremony 6km from the Seine is a brilliant idea, but the disadvantage for those who will be there is that they will not see everything live, unlike in a stadium. (but hey, it will probably still be a great experience to see it on site)

We learned from Tokyo 2020 that the IOC has no reservations about treating the Olympics as a TV spectacle.  So I imagine that it will indeed be a better viewing experience on TV than if you're in a singular location.  Normally from the confines of a stadium, you're probably seeing more than the viewers at home will get.  This seems like the opposite, depending on where you're sitting.

That all said.. I've been in Paris for the final stage of the Tour de France once before.  So this is a city and a country that knows how to put on a show like this.  And I'm sure those on site along the Seine and especially at the end near Trocadero will have an unforgettable once in a lifetime experience

[baron-pierreIV]

On 3/17/2024 at 2:34 PM, sebastien1214 said:

. . .  to test new cameras which are close to what we are used to seeing on film sets. 

Those might be for the Official Film of Paris 2024 which I cannot imagine they will not have.  

[Durban Sandshark]

Televize Slovakia, TVS, starts its new batch of programs called OH 2024 Journey To Paris that charts the Olympic journeys of Slovakian athlete hopefuls in documentary form. Starting on Wednesday, April 10 at 20:10 (Slovakia time) with water slalom kayaker Jakub Grigar:   

https://www.rtvs.sk/televizia/program/21047/460662

Keeping it in Slovakia, and while we await details for what RTVS will handle its Paris 2024 coverage in both TV and radio (thinking its sports channel Trojka will be seriously involved), a 3-minute+ Radio Slovensko report from Stano Scepan indicates that Slovakia and the Slovakian Olympian Committee is being seriously threatened with a negative record of possibly having the least amount of Slovak Summer Olympian participants since its Atlanta 1996 debut in its Bonjour Paris report. As I write this, Slovakia so far got 14 athletes qualified for Paris--6 men, 8 women in track and field, shooting (where the bulk of them are), canoeing/kayaking, and cycling. A lot can still happen until then--Tokyo saw the fewest Slovaks with 41 athletes. Makes you wonder what will be the size of their boat rolling along the Seine this summer in Paris during the Opening Ceremony: 

https://slovensko.rtvs.sk/rubriky/aktualne-rubriky/bonjour-paris/356916/olympijska-dilema-slovenski-sportovci-a-ich-ucast-v-parizi-2024

RAI2 will bring back its successful The Circle of The Rings for this Paris 2024 edition after its subsequent spawned runs in Tokyo, Beijing 2022, and the World Cup. RAI Sport is likely to be main carrier this time although RAI2 will carry it as well and would repurpose the show. Again, it will be a daily program but original host and creator Alessandra De Stefano won't return to The Circle Of Rings, despite now being RAI's Paris correspondent. Instead, Jacapo Volpi will act as its host--and we can expect Italian Olympic legends to get involved again like Sara Simeoni and Yuri Chechi to participate here:

https://www.tvblog.it/post/il-circolo-degli-anelli-torna-su-rai2-per-olimpiadi-di-parigi-2024-anteprima-tvblog

Warner Bros. Discovery Sweden's channels for its broadcast outside of Eurosport for its upcoming Paris 2024 coverage this summer is Kanal 5, Kanal 9, and Kanal 11.

Can't really think there will be plenty of Russian TV coverage of Paris 2024 given that, first, none of the "okay" Russian and Belarussian athletes are permitted to appear in the opening ceremony on the boats along the Seine River, and, two, there won't be many of them overall like in past Summer Olympics to participate and start with. Did notice back in Rio De Janeiro and Tokyo that Russia's Channel 1, on its website's programming schedule, showed only the Russian competitions involved; I expect the TV hours and coverage there will be even less this time around, even if there's a traditional appeal for Summer Olympic sports that are of Russian national appeal and longstanding Russian success. Not a surprise since it prides itself as Russia's national TV channel. May air the closing ceremony again. Gonna be like Barcelona 1992 Yugoslavia to me with no team sports participation and possibly barred from it this time around. Didn't even show the Tokyo 2020 Opening Ceremony. Match! TV did as indicated in the Tokyo edition of this, and I anticipate/suspect this again will be the case with Paris on its flagship channel and will carry the overall bulk of the Russian Paris 2024 TV coverage on its multiple Match! TV channels and be more international with it. 

Not sure what role VGTRK's Rossiya 1 could play if at all with this. No official announcement or report has been made yet among the state channels as to who will cover the Russian Paris 2024 TV coverage. If so, I anticipate that will be divided among the channels as to who does what. That will happen soon; an electronic broadcasting boycott seems highly unlikely to me now with the Internet access widespread. Who knows?  

[Durban Sandshark]

Bit late and well over a month now. But it's here with some New Zealand Paris 2024 Olympic broadcasting news--Australia's Nine Network is already of them. This February, SKY in its announcement it reveals its on-air talent, general broadcast plans, and holds exclusive NZ broadcasting rights to Paris 2024, at least on the TV side. With New Zealand's NZOC expected to send easily one of its biggest Summer Olympic teams ever with roughly 200 athletes in multiple, in at least 20, sports, SKY Television presents some of the biggest action with extensive coverage across Sky Sport (through its multiple channels) and companion app Sky Go, streaming on Sky Sport Now, and free-to-air on Sky Open.

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Sky’s Olympic Games content will include a daily early morning review show, hosted by Kirstie Stanway, while Laura McGoldrick will front the evening coverage which kickstarts the day in France. The Crowd Goes Wild will have a strong Olympics focus during the Games with Andrew Mulligan and James McOnie leading the way. The voice of international sevens rugby, Rikki Swannell, will again be calling out All Blacks and Black Ferns matches, while Kimberlee Downs, Jeff McTainsh and Courtney Tairi round out the talented France-based team, capturing the live reaction and emotion from Kiwi athletes straight they have completed their event.

Sky Sport, Sky Sport Now and Sky Go will have Sky’s curated channel for the Olympics on Sky Sport 3, and multiple further 24-hour channels broadcasting Olympics coverage, with daily live coverage from 7pm to 9am NZ time, and replays, highlights and special features during non-competition times. Sky customers can also access an array of on demand content, including key event highlights and replays, short clips, athlete reaction and feature pieces from the Sky team.

PRIME, SKY NZ's free-to-air TV sister channel and fresh off broadcasting its New Zealand share of the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup, announced on August 17 that will change its name and rebrand to SKY Open on August 23 at 6am NZ time, perhaps to build better branding synergy with the rest of SKY NZ. Anyway also on that same press release...

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Sky Open will play virtually round-the-clock Olympics content free to air, including the breakfast review show and evening highlights show, plus a selection of live content from 7pm to 9am, and replays and highlights at other times. 

If there's major differences with the satellite SKY Sports channels to SKY Open here, the latter no doubt will place greater emphasis on Team New Zealand's Kiwi Olympians in the various Summer Olympic sports whenever they compete in rowing, soccer, swimming, track and field, field hockey, rugby 7s, gymnastics, cycling, surfing, rock climbing, sailing, triathlon, shooting, canoeing, etc. Hope it grows more with maybe New Zealand's Tall Blacks since their Tall Ferns basketball sisters fell short of qualifying. That, and of the requirement to break for SKY Open News. Thus, it can't be totally 24 hours a day like the SKY Sports channels. 

I do anticipate there will be several more sportscasting talent announced later for SKY unless the ones mentioned above will handle multiple Summer Olympic sports with their respective sports analysts/experts former players, who are also TBA. Will they too be on location in Paris or remain in Auckland? Also, we should be interested in what sponsors/advertisers, outside of the IOC's global ones, will help support the SKY Sport Paris 2024 coverage in their ad space.    

So this definitely means this time TVNZ will not be involved again in the Olympic broadcasting like it did when it returned for Tokyo 2020. But that has as much to do with New Zealand having a more favorable broadcasting time zone difference realm with that than with Paris coming up. Just as well since SKY Sport easily overdominates the NZ sports TV broadcasting scene these days:

https://www.sky.co.nz/-/sky-reveals-plans-for-olympics-2024-1

SporTV released a new Paris 2024 promo clip a couple days ago starring Brazilian rapper Emicida whose track Triunfo evokes the Olympic spirit and very likely will be prominent throughout SporTV's Paris 2024 coverage, interspersed with Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic action footage that also introduces SporTV's Paris 2024 slogan This Is Our World ("Nossa Mundo"). Globo/SporTV will have 400 professionals involved in this Summer Olympic project with 60 out of that actually on location in Paris and Teahupo'o, Tahiti, home of surfing. SporTV will have 4 channels overall--with one of them being in 4K--to present this broadcast and the competitions, in partnership with TV Globo and Globoplay, in full and in real time:

https://historia.globo.com/historia-grupo-globo/noticias/noticia/olimpiadas-nas-telas-da-globo.ghtml

https://www.instagram.com/p/C40hHFvgbWE/

Over at co-broadcaster and streamer CazeTV, the expansion of more personalities in commentating the upcoming Paris 2024 Olympics continues. Cuiaba's former judoka David Moura joins the CazeTV Paris 2024 team along with other newcomers former volleyball player Serginho, Laís Souza former gymnast, surfer Pedro Scooby, and athlete Paulo André already confirmed in the project and likely with from the Santiago Pan American Games Lauter Nogueira (athletics), Alexandre Pussieldi (swimming) and Renatinho Santos (basketball) with transmission from both Brazil and Paris:

https://esportesenoticias.com.br/david-moura-vai-ser-um-dos-comentaristas-da-caze-tv-nas-olimpiadas-de-paris-2024/

The BBC and Channel 4 are currently streaming the 2024 British Swimming Championship/Olympic Trials going on right now at the London Aquatics Centre as well as on BBC Radio 5 Live:

https://www.bbc.com/sport/swimming/68668340

[Durban Sandshark]

PEACOCK ANNOUNCES WATCH WITH ALEX COOPER STARRING FORMER BOSTON UNIVERSITY SOCCER PLAYER AND TOP PODCASTER ALEX COOPER HOSTING WITH TBA GUESTS IN LIVE INTERACTIVE PICTURE-IN-PICTURE TEAM USA-CENTRIC SUMMER OLYMPIC WATCH PARTIES IN PARIS

Surely with Costa Rica's Repretel channels showcasing the Costa Rican TV Paris 2024 broadcast will be Channels 4, 6, and 11 with one of them centering on the Costa Rican athletes.

France Televisions is launching a dedicated 100% 5G/Starlink cloud Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic channel in association with TVU Networks that will show 10 hours of live footage daily on its website, boxes, and mobile/portable devices. Features innovations in live feed management, multi-camera production, graphic design management, commentary, audio mixing, intercommunication between teams, and broadcast:

https://www.mac4ever.com/tv/182014-pour-les-jo-2024-france-tv-lance-une-chaine-100-cloud-basee-sur-la-5g-et-starlink

RTE will once again have RTE2 handle the Summer Olympic Games again after acquiring a sublicensing deal with Warner Bros. Discovery. RTE2, known for carrying major sports events like Summer Olympics and World Cups, will transmit at least 200 hours of Summer Olympic Irish TV coverage as RTE's designated and dedicated Olympic channel with extensive online/digital and radio coverage too.  

LG Uplus will exclusively provide a broadcasting relay line for the 2024 Paris Olympics to South Korea's Paris 2024 Summer Olympics broadcasters KBS, MBC, and SBS.

https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2024-03-25/business/industry/LG-Uplus-to-exclusively-provide-broadcasting-line-for-2024-Paris-Olympics/2010567

Telemundo's Zone Mixta new host Veronica Rodriguez will also be involved as a key contributor in Telemundo's upcoming Paris 2024 US-Spanish language Paris 2024 coverage in addition to the weekend late night 10:30pm US/Canada/Mexico CT sports show:

https://www.mediamoves.com/2024/02/veronica-rodriguez-named-host-of-telemundos-zona-mixta.html

 

[Durban Sandshark]

SportsMax's Nicholas Matthews, with the help of digital company Trend's Mark Corrigan, presented its advertising packages for TV and digital like its popular SportsMax apps to its execs and prospective sponsoring companies for its upcoming Paris 2024 coverage in Kingston, Jamaica for its English-speaking Caribbean nations this past March. As it prepares for that, the SportsMax presentation released its Paris 2024 broadcasting details: Over 800 hours of live broadcast coverage with over 2,000 hours of live and delayed overall coverage (likely on both SportsMax's two TV channels, live broadcasts on the SportsMax APP with multiple channel offerings, live and on-demand content available on the SportsMax App, and Two live shows daily along with a highlight package:

https://jamaica.loopnews.com/content/sportsmax-prepares-spectacular-paris-olympics-697453

NBC is already rolling its series of Paris 2024 promos, some of which we've already touched on here in this thread. Some are more athlete-centric and will likely be later on. No question we will see a newer and even bigger wave of promos from NBCUniversal as approach closer to the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics: 

https://www.newscaststudio.com/2024/04/05/nbc-olympics-2024-preview-promos/

[Quaker2001]

Paris Olympics on track to hit NBC ad sales record after pandemic

TRANSCRIPT – NBCUNIVERSAL PARIS OLYMPICS ADVERTISING SALES UPDATE

[Durban Sandshark]

NBCU AND XFINITY PRESENT RECORD-SETTING 2024 US OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC TEAM TRIALS SPRING AND SUMMER 200-HOUR COVERAGE WITH MAKING TEAM USA

Will also include the prospective Team USA Olympic and Paralympic athlete hopefuls' behind the scenes journeys and athlete-led storytelling as they endure the best and hardest competition in the world to pursue qualifying, 14 primetime NBC nights with 35+ hours, and prominent trials coverage in swimming, track and field, gymnastics, and diving. All starts this month with April coverage consisting of wrestling, rowing, and canoe/kayaking.

As Hong Kong, through its NOC, looks set to compete in at least 15 Olympic and 12 Paralympic sports following its greatest Summer Olympics showing in Tokyo, we got news today that HK's Paris 2024 coverage will be licensed and shared by four different TV stations. Thanks again to the Hong Kong government and its chief executive John Lee, Hong Kong residents will see the Paris 2024 coverage freely on TVB, ViuTV (owned by I-Cable and Fantastic Television), HOY TV, and public broadcaster RTHK. They all cooperated with the government. Hong Kong's Olympic and Paralympic broadcasting rights, seen as "an immense value to our society and reasonably paid", were purchased for an undisclosed amount (but noted was less than it and the TV stations previously paid) like it did in 2021 as opposed to HK TV stations negotiating and purchasing the rights themselves. With Paris and Hong Kong six time zones apart, some medal events will come in Hong Kong's early morning

Given Hong Kong's recent issues with attaining the Olympic and Paralympic broadcasting rights, it has become understandably perhaps less feasible for that area under this current market that doesn’t support a single Hong Kong TV station to make a vast investment to obtain the broadcast rights:

https://hongkongfp.com/2024/04/09/hong-kong-buys-broadcasting-rights-for-paris-olympics-for-undisclosed-fee-as-leader-john-lee-cites-value-to-society/

https://www.thestandard.com.hk/breaking-news/section/4/215170/Hongkongers-to-watch-2024-Olympics-for-free-as-govt-purchases-broadcasting-rights

Eurosport Italia will offer its Paris 2024 coverage presentation on SKY Italia and its subscribers will "have 10 Eurosport channels at their disposal, included in their subscription, to follow the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. In addition to the two channels Eurosport 1 and Eurosport 2, 8 new channels entirely dedicated to the event will be added - including one in 4K – on which you can follow many other sports disciplines. In total, there will be more than 1000 additional hours of live broadcast available on Sky and many contents will also be on demand. The agreement also includes a Eurosport 4K channel which will be switched on on May 26th for Roland-Garros and will remain active for the two weeks of the tournament." All also available on SKY Go:

https://tg24.sky.it/economia/2024/04/09/sky-warner-bros-discovery

CBC Sports presents the 2024 Canadian Swimming Open at Toronto's Pan American Sports Centre live streaming April 10-13 on CBC Sports and CBC Gem starting at 8:30am Canada/US/Mexico CT: 

https://twitter.com/CBCOlympics/status/1777804483046653997?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^tweet

[Quaker2001]

More news from NBC...

JIMMY FALLON AND MIKE TIRICO TEAM UP TO HOST NBCUNIVERSAL’S CLOSING CEREMONY COVERAGE FOR THE OLYMPIC GAMES PARIS 2024

Ceremony will be shown live on NBC at 2pm ET.  That's a first.  NBC's figure skating crew of Terry Gannon, Johnny Weir, and Tara Lipinski will all be involved in the broadcast as well

[Durban Sandshark]

5 hours ago, Quaker2001 said:

More news from NBC...

JIMMY FALLON AND MIKE TIRICO TEAM UP TO HOST NBCUNIVERSAL’S CLOSING CEREMONY COVERAGE FOR THE OLYMPIC GAMES PARIS 2024

Ceremony will be shown live on NBC at 2pm ET.  That's a first.  NBC's figure skating crew of Terry Gannon, Johnny Weir, and Tara Lipinski will all be involved in the broadcast as well

That'll be loads of fun when they all get together. Makes a nice segue towards Los Angeles of sorts when NBC does the show with a more Hollywood glint

More news from the West Indies involving Sportsmax. Appears it struck an exclusive sublicensing deal with Trinidad and Tobago Television enabling them to offer a more localized version of SportsMax will offer from Paris with at least 200+ hours as SportsMax recognizes and respects Trinidad & Tobago's rich Olympic legacy. Trinidad & Tobago's TTT will offer broadcasting thrilling localized Paris 2024 Olympic coverage with some of the best sporting analysis from Trinidad and Tobago and across the Caribbean" with of course heavy priority towards track and field along with events T&T's Trinidadian 2024 Summer Olympians will be involved in. Also including highlight shows, prime time features, and on-the-ground coverage from Paris. Previously it was CNC3 and CCN TV6 who conducted the honor.

I suspect this will be a theme and broadcasting structure with local West Indies terrestrial TV broadcasters will handle as we go along. Can expect fellow Caribbean broadcasters like ZNS-TV in the Bahamas will return for they have a very good Summer Olympics broadcasting track record (pun intended) and Jamaica's TVJ (Television Jamaica) and/or CVM:   

https://www.sportsmax.tv/athletics/athletics-international/item/144693-sportsmax-ltd-and-trinidad-and-tobago-television-ltd-bring-free-to-air-paris-2024-olympics-broadcast-to-trinidad-and-tobago

https://caribbean.loopnews.com/index.php/content/sportsmax-and-ttt-forge-partnership-paris-2024-olympics-coverage-2

SuperSport is currently showing the SA National Swimming Championships at the Newton Park Swimming Pool in Gqeberha April 8-13 2024 on SuperSport Variety 2 with all eyes on the likes of Chad le Clos, defending Olympic breaststroke champion Tatjana Schoenmaker, Pieter Coetze, Kaylene Corbett, Lara van Niekerk, and Erin Gallagher:

https://supersport.com/football/general/news/8032eaf8-fffc-43c3-8fa1-67a38e2262f1/olympic-places-on-the-line-at-sa-swimming-championships-in-gqeberha

[Durban Sandshark]

CBC SPORTS: 22 HOURS A DAY OF LIVE PARIS 2024 ACTION KEY TO ITS OVERALL AND EXTENSIVE 3000-HOUR PARIS 2024 SUMMER OLYMPICS LIVE AND ON-DEMAND CANADIAN COVERAGE PLANS

SRC/RADIO-CANADA'S AND RDS' OVERALL 751-HOUR--311 HRS SRC, 450 HRS RDS--PARIS 2024 SUMMER OLYMPICS AND PARALYMPICS PRELIMINARY FRENCH-CANADIAN COVERAGE PLANS, INCLUDING 18-HOUR DAILY CONTINUOUS SRC/RADIO-CANADA TELEVISION OLYMPIC PROGRAMMING AND NEW OLYMPIC DREAM DOCUSERIES EDITION

This press release deals with slightly more details on the immense CBC's Paris 2024 coverage plans on the English side:

https://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=320555

(more details and thoughts about this to come very soon) 

[Quaker2001]

TELEMUNDO CELEBRATES 20 YEARS OF OLYMPIC COVERAGE WITH BIGGEST-EVER SPANISH-LANGUAGE PRESENTATION OF THE OLYMPIC GAMES PARIS 2024

315 total hours between Telemundo and Universo.  Focus will be on soccer, but there will be at least 6 hours of live coverage every day.  And they will have live coverage of the opening ceremony

[Durban Sandshark]

47 minutes ago, Quaker2001 said:

TELEMUNDO CELEBRATES 20 YEARS OF OLYMPIC COVERAGE WITH BIGGEST-EVER SPANISH-LANGUAGE PRESENTATION OF THE OLYMPIC GAMES PARIS 2024

315 total hours between Telemundo and Universo.  Focus will be on soccer, but there will be at least 6 hours of live coverage every day.  And they will have live coverage of the opening ceremony

No doubt soccer will act as the anchor for Telemundo's upcoming Paris 2024 coverage; it's the one major summer Olympic sport Hispanic/Latinx will flock towards, along with a few others. Makes me wonder how will Telemundo look back at its 20 years of US Spanish Olympic coverage throughout Paris? Gonna be interesting what hours Telemundo and NBC Universo each will have. Funny with her name listed and mentioned upon the press release. But its coverage will have one less Latin American/Hispanic Olympian to promote with Venezuela's Olympic women's triple jump gold medalist Yulimar Rojas not going to defend her Olympic title, out with her injured Achilles tendon while training.

Also I'm curious as to what capacity will NBC have in its Paris 2024 coverage on the radio side. We hardly, if at all, get any press releases pertaining to this. You would think it would have at least some decent level of comprehensive coverage on satellite radio--even having different commentators on certain sports as compared to the TV/digital side. Maybe it did with Tokyo. Apparently, NBC doesn't like to grant it some priority and publicity as opposed to many other nations' broadcasters like Radiosporten, NRK Radio Sport, BBC Radio 5 Live, NHK Radio, ABC Olympic Grandstand, and Grupo Formula and just did daily evening review shows/Team USA team sports matches on Westwood One Sports.

We're rapidly approaching towards the Paris 2024 100-day mark in a couple of days. Surely, Paris 2024 Summer Olympics broadcast rights holders around the world are finalizing their general Paris 2024 coverage plans to announce to the public at that time with additional details arriving later. Got some stuff forthcoming!   

 

[BigVic]

Nine's press release last September said they'll be presenting outdoors in France instead of a traditional broadcast from the IBC 

[Quaker2001]

3 hours ago, BigVic said:

Nine's press release last September said they'll be presenting outdoors in France instead of a traditional broadcast from the IBC 

I think I read somewhere that NBC will be set up near Trocadero (which makes sense, they'll have a great view of the Eiffel tower) and that French TV would likely be there as well.  So perhaps that's where Nine will be

[BigVic]

Channel 7 in the past did theirs from Sydney in 2004 and 2016 due to security fears. Tokyo 2020 was done in Australia due to obvious reasons of course

[Durban Sandshark]

Nine Network's 9Now launches its fresh, new look, state-of-the-art streaming upgrade for its upcoming massive Paris 2024 Summer Olympic and Paralympic coverage. "Featuring more than 40 individual live sports channels and over 2500 on-demand highlights, curated on an all-new interface that lets you watch the action while browsing for the next Aussie moment...in Full HD, 1080p, 50fps (frames-per-second) and 5.1 Dolby Surround Sound alongside the popular start-over button to ensure you never miss the start of a big match. With the rollout completed across Android TV, Google TV, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, 9Now.com.au, Android, and iOS apps, any Australian will soon be able to experience the new 9Now on their TV devices in time for the Opening Ceremony on July 26." Not only all that...

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Olympic and Paralympic-themed Beyond The Dream documentaries will launch in June. With five blue-chip documentaries, including a feature-length look at the Matildas, Australia v The USA, The Race to Paris and the journey of Paralympic legend Curtis McGrath, The Steelers.

9Now’s coverage of Paris 2024 will utilise the Wide World of Sports production team and commentators. Steering viewers across 32 sports in 329 events, the 9Network coverage will feature Australia’s most revered athletic talent as commentators and experts, including Ian Thorpe, Tamysn Lewis-Manou, Cadel Evans, Ellie Cole, Dylan Alcott, Phil Liggett, Andrew Gaze, Kerri Pottharst, James Tomkins OAM, Kate Bates and David Culbert.

Curated content on the homepage will highlight these amazing stories, Australian athletes and specific sports, such as swimming and football, as we fight for gold in Paris.

Nine.com.au will feature a comprehensive event schedule and streaming guide linking audiences to 9Now, ensuring Australians can keep up with all the events underway at any given minute.

“We will offer a unified, seamless experience for every Aussie, no matter their device or platform. With more than 40 individual channels and curated highlights, we’re excited to take viewers on an incredible sporting journey”.

“From the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics through to the Closing Ceremony of the Paralympics, 9Now will be the place to be for Paris 2024, and it’s all live and free”.

“Today marks the beginning of a new era for 9Now. We have been on an exciting innovation journey over the past few years; creating unparalleled free streaming experiences that lead us right up to this point. We’re so proud to offer our best in class features for free like FullHD, StartOver and our all new TV interface – no matter what device Aussies have in their homes. We’re committed to offering the most comprehensive streaming coverage of an Olympic Games ever,” said Nine’s chief product officer, Bec Haagsma.

Utilising 9News, Today, A Current Affair and 60 Minutes, there will be comprehensive broadcast news coverage from Paris and back in Australia.

As Australians wake up, they will instantly be updated with any action that occurred overnight, with bulletins and wrap-ups leading coverage across Nine’s assets that will continue throughout the day and into prime-time live action. Viewers will wake up to comprehensive 9Now morning updates, with daily highlights that sum up all the actions that occurred overnight.

9Now’s Olympic Games coverage joins live on-the-ground coverage for Paris 2024 by 9News for every metro capital city, Nine’s market-leading audio assets – 2GB, 3AW, 4BC and 6PR, the latest news online from wwos.com.au and digital publishing mastheads The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.

https://www.bandt.com.au/nine-launches-new-look-olympic-experience-100-days-out-from-paris-2024/

SKY SPORT NEW ZEALAND OFFICIALLY REVEALS ITS PARIS 2024 GENERAL AND FULL COVERAGE PLANS THAT FEATURE 12 OLYMPIC CHANNELS USED, SKY STREAMING, AND APPS COVERING ALL 32 SPORTS WITH FREE-TO-AIR SKY OPEN COVERING SELECT LIVE CONTENT, LIKELY AND MOSTLY NZ-CENTRIC CONTENT THERE, FROM 7PM-9AM NZ TIME WITH BREAKFAST AND EVENING HIGHLIGHTS AND REVIEW SHOWS

One notable British Olympic legend who won't be involved in the BBC's Paris 2024 coverage is unfortunately Sir Steven Redgrave, the 4x Olympic gold medal-winning rower. His work there at the Beeb in sports dried up since November 2021 as fellow rowing crew mate and gold medalist Matthew Pinsent continues on with Katherine Grainger, who carries on what Redgrave previously did as an analyst. Redgrave couldn't even get a top director job at British Rowing after several interviews! 

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/other-sports/steve-redgrave-rowing-paris-olympics-32602530

Brazil's Italo Ferreira, the first Olympic male surfing champion from Tokyo 2020, is the latest personality to join Globo/SporTV's sportscasting team repping surfing in Tahiti and ready to call a solid Brazilian surfing team for the 200-hour Globo coverage that goes from 9am-9pm:

https://noataque.com.br/surfe/noticia/2024/04/16/globo-contrata-campeao-olimpico-em-toquio-como-comentarista-para-paris-2024/

https://f5.folha.uol.com.br/televisao/2024/04/globo-contrata-surfista-italo-ferreira-para-comentar-jogos-olimpicos-de-paris.shtml

Also from Globo/SporTV, Bom Dia Brasil, Global Esporte, and Jornal Hoje all offer on the 100-day mark special programming themeing on what's going on with Brazilian athletes, coaches, and their families dealing with being in Paris, even basing outside Brazil and in other countries, and the challenges like mental health:  

https://redeglobo.globo.com/novidades/noticia/tv-globo-prepara-programacao-especial-para-o-marco-de-100-dias-para-as-olimpiadas-de-paris.ghtml

Spain's RTVE will allocate 111.5 million euros to covering both the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics and UEFA EURO 2024 thanks to an increase in its income as part of its 498.9 million euro budget this year:

https://www.elconfidencialdigital.com/articulo/medios/rtve-destinara-111-millones-eurocopa-juegos-olimpicos/20240205000000715948.html#google_vignette

Once again as a reminder, France Televisions' France 2 and France 3 will entirely "100% Olympics" with its programming in the Olympic host's backyard with details on Lea Salame's nightly Olympic talk show Quelle Jeux!:

https://www.sudouest.fr/culture/medias/jeux-olympiques-de-paris-2024-france-televisions-basculera-100-j-o-19357938.php

Radio Slovensko looks at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics at the 100-day countdown mark with  Svetlana Barátová speaking with President Anton Siekel on what the Slovakian Olympic Committee plans to do:

https://slovensko.rtvs.sk/clanky/sport/360166/100-dni-do-loh-v-parizi

NHK appoints 7x Olympic medal gymnast Kohei Uchimura as NHK's Paris Olympics 2024 Athlete Navigator, where through NHK broadcasts, he will spread a circle of support and empathy throughout Japan:

https://www.nhk.jp/g/sports/blog/41zxu041jzk/

NHK, in addition to that, unveils its Paris 2024 Summer Olympic and Paralympic broadcast slogan based on official Paris 2024 motto Games Wide Open: Flowers bloom. Open your dreams:

https://www.nhk.jp/g/sports/blog/2pqwkjoexj/

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Oh, did I mention that the SKY Sports New Zealand Paris 2024 Olympics URL also contains SKY NZ's Paris 2024 New Zealand athlete-centric promo down below? 

NOAH EAGLE IS TIPPED TO CALL TEAM USA MEN'S AND WOMEN'S PARIS 2024 OLYMPIC BASKETBALL GAMES AS ITS PLAY-BY-PLAY VOICE STARTING JULY 28 VERSUS SERBIA (THE MEN) FOR NBC UNIVERSAL'S PARIS 2024 COVERAGE

He seems to be having a banner year as a sportscaster for his young age. For one thing, he already called the kid and slime-centric Nickelodeon Super Bowl LVIII alternate broadcast this February that helped CBS/Paramount/TelevisaUnivision have the most watched USA TV viewing numbers since the 1969 moon landing. As well as a top-five men’s college basketball matchup, Notre Dame against Ohio State in football, and the Cleveland Browns vs. Houston Texans AFC Wild Card game. For those who don't know about him, he's basically a chip off the old block from his legendary dad Ian Eagle, who just came off making his debut as CBS/Turner Sports Final Four play-by-play guy a couple of weeks ago and also does that same capacity for the Brooklyn Nets and Westwood One Sports select NFL football games--and obviously couldn't be any more proud of Noah. Previously did 3x3 basketball in its Summer Olympic debut for NBC during Tokyo 2020. Was announced right off when the first 11 Team USA basketball players were announced. Here's some more URL articles about him on this:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2024/04/17/noah-eagle-nbc-paris-olympics-usa-basketball/73357620007/

https://www.the-sun.com/sport/11118441/nbc-broadcasting-change-paris-2024-olympics-noah-eagle/

SABC's 2-minute Paris 2024 promo for its upcoming Paris 2024 coverage presentation that arrived at the 100-day mark. This centers on several of South Africa's golden Summer Olympic moments since 1996 from Penny Heyns, Chad le Clos, Cameron Van Der Burgh, the men's 4-man rowing team, and Wayde Van Niekirk. Indicates that SABC Sport will show Paris 2024. But it's unclear exactly right now how the coverage will administered. Previous it was mostly SABC2 with SABC1 and SABC3 getting involved. Hopefully they'll be all in too: 

https://twitter.com/SABC_Sport/status/1780702782166548758

Max, Kanal 5 and Eurosport are at the center as the "Home of the Olympics" in Sweden from Warner Bros. Discovery with 5000 hours total. On Max, every moment shared of Paris 2024, from morning to night, and every day the live broadcasts are summed up with highlights and potential historic moments in the studio directly from Paris and viewers can select the events they would like to see. Veterans and also presenters Karin Frick, Jonas Karlsson, and Jessica Almenäs lead the viewers through the entire course of the competitions and then send Swedes to Olympic heroes Carolina Klüft, Therese Alshammar, Kim Andersson, and Matilda Boson who all will step in as experts for Warner Bros. Discovery with additional experts will be communicated shortly. 

To mark 100 days until the summer's big sporting event, Warner Bros. Discovery announced that the Hotel Raphael, located right in the heart of Paris, will be the Eurosport's Summer Olympics "WBD house" from which it will be delivered the most immersive Olympic Games ever seen and revealed what the Eurosport Paris 2024 Olympic TV studio sets will look like for four different Eurosport broadcasters--Sweden, Great Britain, France, Poland, Italy and Germany as well as three stand-up positions, one of which will be used by WBD's global news channel CNN and live broadcasts for Spain, Finland and Denmark. All coverage from Hotel Raphael will connect its hubs in Europe and the US with content managed and curated across the global WBD network. Will talk more on this later--such as that studio set: 

https://press-warnerbrosdiscovery-se.translate.goog/post/100-dagar-kvar-till-olympiska-spelen-i-paris-2024?_x_tr_sl=sv&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc

Olympic Broadcasting Service tips Panasonic AV partner and state of the art supplier for Paris 2024 at NAB 2024:

https://www.ibc.org/news/nab-2024-olympic-broadcasting-services-unveils-panasonic-as-av-partner-for-paris/10870.article

Ariana Television officially acquires the exclusive Paris 2024 Summer Olympics TV broadcasting rights for Afghanistan--if only the nation's rulers would treat their women better, among other things. Makes me wonder will ATV be allowed to show women's Olympic sports by the Taliban now that there's greater gender equality at the rings?

https://www.ariananews.af/atn-secures-exclusive-rights-to-broadcast-paris-2024-olympics/

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Broadcasting WBD unveils Paris 2024 Olympics studio and content plans

 

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Along with having the most hours US Spanish Summer Olympics TV hours coverage ever, Telemundo's Eli Velasquez adds Telemundo/NBC Universo will utilize technologies such as liveU, augmented reality (AR), and the virtual studios of the Telemundo Center during the coverage of Paris 2024 as it focuses significantly and namely on soccer and its Opening Ceremony debut thanks to its parallel planning: 

https://www.produ.com/english/noticias/telemundo-the-key-to-covering-major-sporting-events-is-parallel-planning/

So what's Nine Network in Australia got cooking for its Paris 2024 coverage on the radio side? For Nine Radio, 2GB‘s Ben Fordham (Sydney) and 3AW‘s (Melbourne) Ross & Russ will broadcast from Paris, as will Ray Hadley who will be commentating and doing his show there in what will be his 7th Olympics overall. There will be around-the-clock coverage on Nine’s radio network of 2GB, 3AW, 4BC, and 6PR including special editions of Wide World of Sport (WWOS) going through multiple sports like swimming, track and field, basketball, soccer. Nine has multiple podcasts announced coming soon, tapping into listeners’ love of talking about the Olympics and sharing their joy. Don't know how this will compare to what ABC had done for its ABC Olympic Grandstand in recent Summer Olympics editions since I don't listen to it very much:

https://radioinfo.com.au/news/100-days-out-from-the-paris-olympics-nine-promises-unparalleled-access/

Finland's TV5, owned by Warner Bros Discovery and terrestrial TV, headlines that portion of its Finnish Paris 2024 coverage with its live presentation from morning onwards to late in the evening. TV5's Paris 2024 live broadcasts focus especially on the events of WBD's exclusive sports, fronted by swimming and basketball, but other ball sports and golf are also offered live. A considerable number of live basketball broadcasts also include a studio pre- and post-game. Finnish events of the day are compiled in the studio following the early evening basketball match at around 8:15 p.m. and after the end of the live broadcasts between 11 p.m. and midnight. Fellow free-to-air TV channel Kutonen will focus mainly on soccer, cycling and boxing during the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics. Live broadcasts of these sports are generally shown in the prime time of the evening between 18:00 and 24:00 Finland time. Eurosport 1 & 2 channels will offer pan-European broadcasting of a wide range of Olympic events with the broadcasts being partially explained in Finnish.  Streaming service HBO Max, set to launch in Finland May 21, will be the only place to see every moment of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics live. This service has its own broadcast for each match or competition with the most important events narrated in Finnish with the events immersed as recordings afterwards.

In addition, WBD has entered into a sublicensing agreement with Yleisradio, which means that the Olympics will also be shown on Yle's channels, excluding WBD's exclusively followed sports swimming (swimming, open water swimming, water polo, diving, freestyle swimming) and basketball (men's and women's tournaments and 3x3 basketball).

https://press-warnerbrosdiscovery-fi.translate.goog/post/tv5-ja-uusi-suoratoistopalvelu-max-nayttavat-kaiken-pariisin-202?_x_tr_sl=fi&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc

TVP Polska will program a combined 350 hours of its Paris 2024 coverage through TVP1, TVP2, and TVP Sport that will include 100 hours of bonus magazines and studio reports. They will focus on volleyball and volleyball matches, tennis with Iga Świątek and Hubert Hurkacz, athletics, swimming, fencing, rowing and kayaking--sports of interest to the Polish audience. The three channels can only have two of its channels airing the Olympics at once with exception being a Polish athletes competing at the same time for medals. Commentators will be announced later:
https://www.wirtualnemedia.pl/artykul/tvp-igrzyska-olimpijskie-paryz-plany

TVP Sport aired the Polish women's 3x3 basketball team's Paris 2024 Olympic 3x3 basketball qualification, culminating with a match with Azerbaijan for direct qualification. But there is a last chance one in Debrecen, Hungary in May that it will cover:

https://sport.tvp.pl/76980776/polska-azerbejdzan-na-zywo-koszykowka-3x3-transmisja-meczu-online-live-stream-14042024-gdzie-ogladac

France Televisions appoint some star power into its upcoming massive Paris 2024 sportscasting with French basketball legend Tony Parker to cover basketball as analyst with very possibly regular basketball analyst/expert (and another French basketball legend) Richard Dacoury but more as a studio analyst on select games. Also says that Frederic Weis will cover that same capacity over at France's Eurosport version. Laurent Tille, France's former men's volleyball coach who led the team to gold in Tokyo 2020, will act as analyst for volleyball games in replacing Hubert Henno and will comment alongside journalist Benoît Durand. Jean-Philippe Gatien will analyze table tennis with the hype of the Lebrun brothers:

https://www.lequipe.fr/Jo-2024-paris/Basket/Actualites/Jo-2024-tony-parker-et-laurent-tillie-consultants-pour-france-televisions/1461713

https://www.basketusa.com/news/719539/jo-2024-tony-parker-aux-commentaires-sur-france-televisions/

https://www.ouest-france.fr/jeux-olympiques/jo-2024-tony-parker-laurent-tillie-et-jean-philippe-gatien-consultants-pour-france-televisions-647eaefe-fcd7-11ee-bd08-9ba0a6d2d69d

Seems as though France Televisions' La Deux is trusting its telecast of the Opening Ceremony this July in the hands of Laurent Delahousse, the anchor at 8:30 p.m. on Sunday and the 8 p.m. newscasts from Friday to Sunday, with TBA female co-host for the duration of 4+ hours: 

https://www.programme-tv.net/news/tv/351241-paris-2024-une-star-de-france-televisions-commentera-la-ceremonie-d-ouverture-des-jeux-olympiques/

The China Media Group, which CCTV is a part of, releases its integrated media broadcast plans for its Chinese Paris 2024 Summer Olympics coverage at the 100-day mark. It's already mentioned here that CMG/CCTV will present the international feed signal for 4 Summer Olympics sports--gymnastics, table tennis, badminton, and rock climbing all will have a combined total of 400 live hours produced and will fully apply the advanced "5G+4K/8K+AI" technology to provide top-notch audio-visual services to hundreds of millions of audiences around the world. Now we know it will employ a broadcast and production team of 2000 people that will create an integrated mulitchannel and multiplatform comprehensive coverage. CMG will present round the clock coverage with three CCTV channels, Chinese National Radio, CMG Mobile offering live streaming of 7249 events including the opening and closing ceremonies and all 32 major events, with more than 180 hours of coverage per day, available on mobile phones, PCs, pads, and cars. CMG channels and its media platforms will also deliver a series of Olympic-related programs that will premiere well before this Summer Olympics' start    

From another earlier article involving CMG's sports plans: In compliance with the consensus reached by the presidents of China and France, CMG will work with Chinese and French artists to deeply explore the cultural and spiritual connotation of the Olympic movement, tell the Olympic story, and promote country-to-country and people-to-people relations via sports.

https://news.cgtn.com/news/2024-01-05/CMG-releases-broadcast-plan-for-major-2024-sports-events-1q7EvKvy4Bq/p.html

Promo for Chilevision's Paris Is A Party Paris 2024 Olympic preview show:

 

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Eurosport 1 Germany, aside from Fabian Hambuchen previously announced Summer Olympic return, made its free TV preliminary broadcast plans known at the 100-day mark focusing on Germany's national athletes and top international stars. From the first live event of the day–usually around 9:00 am CET–the “Medal Zone” is always there as a real Olympic conference, where decisions and medals are at stake. Antonia Wisgickl and Wolfgang Nadvornik anchor from the Eurosport Munich studio and, from midday, Birgit Nössing will appear and takes over from the rooftop studio in Paris accompany the spectators through the Olympic day, organize the events, provide the first voices and reactions and jump from the top event to top event, so that the fans are always involved in the important moments.

Following the Medal Zone and Nossing midday, Eurosport 1 Germany will broadcast two exclusive live shows from the roof-top location in Paris with host Thomas Wagner at around 6:30 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. (depending on the live sport). The show moderator welcomes different conversation partners and switches to where the mood and atmosphere is: the German House. With Fabian Hambüchen, Eurosport offers special closeness to the Olympians and conveys all the emotions and stories in order to put the spotlight on those who sport is all about: the athletes. Eurosport 2 on the subscription side will tackle young, new and up-and-coming sports on pay-TV apart from the classic Olympic sports and perfectly complement to Eurosport 1's Paris 2024 program:

https://wbd-deutschland.de/uncategorized/warner-bros-discovery-gibt-100-tage-vor-den-olympischen-spielen-ersten-einblick-in-das-sendekonzept/

CJ Kirwan from San Diego lands NBC's Paris 2024 surfing correspondent gig after a 3-part callback process and going through broadcasting bootcamp, as announced on Today NBC on Wednesday. He got selected because NBC prefers one with an everyperson touch and positive attitude to entice new viewers to the sports there as opposed to what gets called on the WSL circuit, where the audience is hardcore and the sportscasters offer more insights:

https://www.theinertia.com/surf/nbc-announces-surfing-correspondent-for-2024-summer-games/

When the CBC/SRC-Radio-Canada announced its preliminary and detailed Paris 2024 plans on Tuesday, you surely noticed the very bright background colors schemes, graphics, and presentations for the publicity stills proclaiming the participants. Colors like a light yellow and light pink to rep the summer sun and Olympic gold and then green, blue, brown, and purple. Thanks to Newscast Studio, we'll go behind the scenes with the CBC's in-house creative team for this edition of the Summer Olympics for the CBC's Paris 2024 coverage and what it's inspired by twist on a timeless favorite, modern art deco and Parisian culture, distinctive illustrative style and geometric accents to reflect the blending of Canadian, usually Aboriginal/First Nations fonts, and French athletes in motion, cultures, and motifs that's used both in animated and illustrated formats. Looks great. Contains an accompanying CBC Paris 2024 Olympics promo with a Jamaican-Canadian narrating showcasing this look.

By the way, we have yet to hear what the Paris version of the CBC/SRC's famed Olympic theme music will sound like, even when worked on, although that's been recorded: 

https://www.newscaststudio.com/2024/04/17/cbc-2024-summer-olympics-graphics-preview/

Nine Network's head honcho Mike Sneesby intimates Nine will of course has its own state-of-the-art studio located near iconic Paris landmarks in the heart of Paris. Today's Karl Stefanovic, present as one of 9's London 2012 public faces, the last time Nine last broadcasted a Summer Olympics, will return as part of the Paris 2024 coverage. Nine plans "to take Australians on a journey with our athletes, with unprecedented behind-the-scenes access, also getting a better sense than ever for the remarkable athletic feats that are being achieved in front of your eyes, with augmented reality used in our studio analysis to put you in the pool with Ariarne Titmus or on the field with Mary Fowler and our Matildas. Stan will have an ad free proposition which will include 4k streams where they're delivered out from the IOC, complimenting along with 9Now's 40 dedicated and different live streams featuring a catch-up option as Olympic media consumption and technology rapidly evolves from the traditional TV and radio realm with so many moving parts from even over a decade ago. Along with a slogan for the project: Australia Belongs Here 

Nine will live stream onto its publishing platforms as well as Nine.com.au and have our journalists covering the Olympics around the clock. A dedicated digital radio channel available will also be covering the Games alongside coverage from Nine Network Radio network. Doesn't say anything about podcasts as of yet, but surely they are coming in the leadup:

https://wwos.nine.com.au/olympics/paris-games-2024-100-days-nine-ceo-mike-sneesby-reflections/10816942-ca75-4cee-826e-1efcecc20a1b

9Now's Paris 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympic-inspired revamp paves the way for marketing sponsorship ad space for all budgets and invite all companies in, regardless of budget size, with customized specific segments in desired prices for a guaranteed reach: 

https://www.adnews.com.au/news/olympic-games-paris-2024-9now-s-ad-space-for-all-budgets

Some Danish Paris 2024 Summer Olympic broadcasting news: DR (Danmark Radio) announces that its DR's OL studio is to be located on a roof terrace in Montmartre in Paris with Josefine Høgh, Tina Müller (who will later also co-host DR's Paralympics coverage in the studio along with Sarah Fisker), and Tobias Hansen acting as studio hosts. They will tie the Olympic days together from the Paris studio from early morning until late at night, when the last disciplines close the Olympic day that'll be shown DR1 and DR2. 

Among other things, DR will follow cycling at the Olympics particularly closely. All cycling is broadcast live on DR with big Danish medal dreams on the road, and an expectation that the track cycling disciplines will be where the Danish athletes can take home the most medals.

Well-known Danish sports commentators such as Andreas Kraul, Frederik Lindved, Henrik Liniger, and Morten Hausborg are ready to comment on DR's various channels and platforms. But reinforcements have also been sourced elsewhere at DR. Among others, Kim Bildsøe Lassen from TVA and Jonas Madsen, who viewers know from 'Ultra Nyt' and soon also 'Versus', are also part of the Olympic coverage. While Stéphanie Surrugue, with her in-depth knowledge of the host nation, will help tell stories with a particularly French angle, and Surrugue will also commentate on the opening ceremony together with Henrik Liniger.

On the expert side, Sara Slott will become part of DR's athletics coverage, while Camilla Andersen and Lars Krogh Jeppesen will take on the expert roles in DR's handball studio. With a view to the largest team of Danish athletes at the Paralympic Games in recent times, DR Sporten gears up and covers the events more closely than ever before.

With Tina Müller and Sarah Fisker at the helm as hosts, DR's team will provide the most extensive TV coverage of PL to date, and viewers can look forward to getting to know the fantastic world of para-sport even better through reports and passionate live- coverage. In the Danish camp, you go to Paris with the hope of doubling the medal haul from the PL in Tokyo, and over 12 days, DR follows the battle of more than 30 Danish para-athletes for the ultimate triumph, and to that extent plans are made to a historic late summer for Danish para-sport in Paris.

Olympic disciplines live on DR

Track cycling

Road cycling

Swimming

Sailing

Canoe/kayak

Tennis

Basketball

BMX

Beach volleyball

Table tennis

Synchronized swimming

Boxing

Weightlifting

Women's soccer

Skateboard

Rhythmic gymnastics

Judo

Trampoline

Water polo

Rugby

Modern pentathlon

https://digitalt.tv/her-er-sportssommeren-2024-paa-dr/

RAI2, as in past editions of the Games, will serve as "the Olympic network" for Italy, with live coverage from 7.30am to midnight, including the evening program "The Circle of Rings" that daily ends the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics coverage. Not only that: this year and for the first time, RAI2 will also be "the Paralympic network", with live commentary of all twelve days of the competition, from Wednesday August 28 to Sunday September 8. Also, RAI Radio 1 and RAI Radio Sport. No details yet there:

https://www.rainews.it/articoli/2024/04/rai-palinsesti-sport-certifichiamo-limportanza-dello-sport-in-tv-e-in-chiaro-6b8429c0-264e-4a05-8872-4f047522c431.html

For WBD's HBO Max European launch, it will have 3600 hours of its Paris 2024 Summer Olympics coverage (at least in France) and up to 62 concurrent feeds, as JB Perrette says. But :     

https://variety.com/2024/tv/global/warner-bros-discoverys-jb-perrette-max-launch-europe-1235948222/

Fresh off the heels of its major Paris 2024 broadcasting announcement with Trinidad & Tobago's Trinidad & Tobago Television days ago, IMC's SportsMax later strikes a first ever groundbreaking and exclusive Jamaican radio Paris 2024 broadcasting deal with Nationwide News Network that operates on the 90FM band:  

https://www.sportsmax.tv/athletics/athletics-international/item/144949-sportsmax-ltd-inks-groundbreaking-deal-with-nationwide-news-network-for-exclusive-radio-broadcast-of-paris-games

TVR Sport in Romania made its debut March 30 in its attempt to compete against Digi Sport and Orange Sport and will act as the anchor for TVR's Romanian Paris 2024 TV coverage. But prior to that, TVR Sport will have Olympic-themed features and programming like broadcasting a series of podcasts and special shows, with excerpts from the stories of legendary champions. Gabriela Szabo, Marian Drăgulescu, Maricica Puică, Leon Rotman are just a few of those who will tell TVR SPORT viewers about their performances. The TVR SPORT offer also includes championships and international competitions in football, volleyball, swimming, polo, gymnastics, boxing, snooker, chess, tennis, etc., moments from the brilliant history of Romanian sports with and about great champions, from Nadia Comăneci to Sandra Izbașa, from Ivan Patzaichin to Cătălin Chirilă or from Ilie Năstase to Simona Halep.

TVR Sport also is airing Olympic Hour, an Olympic sports news program that offers the latest news about competitions, qualifications, Romanian athletes, events - everything that is relevant for viewers in anticipation of the Olympic Games in Paris 2024:  

http://www.tvr.ro/tvr-sport-debuteaza-pe-30-martie_45067.html#view

Earlier that March, right as the month began, in a related story, Golden Olympics premiered on TVR Info as a series focuses on Romania's Olympic history and Romanian athletes' evolution since 1992 every Sunday, from 10:00 p.m. Romania time, between March and April 2024. Starting Sunday, March 3, starting at 10:00 p.m., on TVR INFO, viewers can watch, under the banner INFO SPORT, a new episode "Golden Olympics" that brings to the fore fascinating narratives from the golden history of Romanian athletes at the Olympic Games. Legendary names of Romanian sports such as: Laura Badea, Mihai Covaliu, Simona Amânar and Elisabeta Lipă will appear in a series of episodes that bring back memories of golden moments of Romanian Olympism:

http://www.tvr.ro/olimpiade-de-aur-la-tvr-info_44775.html#view

TV Bandeirantes and Band Sports, although they do not help carry the Brazilian Olympic TV rights this time, hopes to raise 80 million reals for sending its reporters on location to Paris and offering Olympic-related sports and news reports during these Summer Olympics:  

https://f5.folha.uol.com.br/televisao/2024/03/mesmo-sem-direitos-de-transmissao-band-tenta-faturar-r-80-milhoes-com-olimpiada-de-paris.shtml

If you noticed from the CMG Paris 2024 press conference, you certainly would notice the CCTV Paris 2024 studio set on the screen. It announced earlier this year, that its Paris 2024 coverage will be presented in 4K and 8K for the first time in China with those CCTV-4K and CCTV-8K channels. To that point if you know CCTV's roster, we can expect CCTV-5, its flagship sports channel, CCTV-5+, and CCTV-16 Olympic Channel for the first time in the Summer Olympics along with CCTV-4K and CCTV-8K, although it's still determining what sports on those first three channels will cover. Maybe CCTV-1 can pop in for the ceremonies. On CCTV's pay TV channels, we might see CCTV-Storm Football and CCTV-Golf and Tennis get involved. China National Radio, or CNR, will also be involved, although its Paris 2024 Olympic coverage plans are still ironed out.       

TVB Hong Kong releases a statement praising the Hong Kong government's acquisition of Hong Kong's Paris 2024 broadcasting rights in the “firm commitment to promoting the spirit of sports and supporting the development of local sports” and also allowed Hong Kong to watch the event for free. TVB executive chairman, Thomas Hui, promised all the “ necessary manpower and production resources to ensure the most comprehensive and exciting coverage of The Paris 2024 Olympic Games for our audience” as broadcasting details are currently worked on:

https://www.contentasia.tv/news/tvb-praises-hong-kong-governments-acquisition-paris-olympics-broadcast-rights

Panasonic will supply 150 cameras and 31 switchers, including Kairos ones that perform at three Olympic venues, for Paris 2024 to celebrate 40 Olympic years as an Olympic partner. It will also deploy PTZ cameras in 29 press rooms across the Games, and the OBS will use virtual outside broadcasting at three venues including Roland Garros, where eleven of the courts will be 100 per cent produced using VOB running on COTS: 

https://www.tvbeurope.com/live-production/panasonic-to-provide-150-cameras-31-switchers-for-paris-2024

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Two of Canada's most notable and award-winning pop stars, Michael J. Fox and Celine Dion, both of whom are currently dealing with some serious personal adversity, are keen to be involved with and narrate a promotional campaign presented by the CBC and the Canadian Olympic Committee involving 9 Canadian elite athletes from across the nation and diverse backgrounds who also must overcome their own personal challenges to achieve greatness and compete ahead of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics. This CBC/SRC-COC 2024 partnership campaign is entitled Brave Is Unbeateable (L'Invincible Courage in French) that got launched Friday. Fox provides the English version while Dion does the French version. Basically, it's the stories behind the glory many of us see. 

The campaign, also a slogan for the 2024 Canadian Olympic and Paralympic teams, also features six supplementary shorts, as well as out-of-home, digital, experiential, social media and print executions, which will be rolled out over the coming months in the lead up to and during the Games. All part of the CBC/Radio-Canada's commitment to tell the stories and journeys of Canada's hopefuls to Canada's audiences. The campaign, produced by The Hive agency, is led by the 60-second film "What We Don't See," directed by Hubert Davis, an Academy Award-nominated Canadian filmmaker known for his work on the documentaries Black Ice and Giants of Africa: 

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/olympics-cbc-coc-promotional-video-1.7177581

https://olympic.ca/braveisunbeatable/

https://olympic.ca/press/coc-and-cbc-radio-canada-launch-brave-is-unbeatable-campaign-ahead-of-paris-2024/

SRF from the Swiss German realm produced this new Paris 2024-themed documentary series called Unsere Traum Olympische Spiele-Paris Wir Kommen! (Our Dream Olympic Games--Paris Here We Come!) on SF2 focusing on some of Switzerland's Paris 2024 Olympic hopefuls with SRF accompanying the Swiss athletes, both the lives of well-known and lesser-known, charismatic and strong-willed, on their journeys to not only participate in Paris but also seek to win as the Swiss audience receives exciting and personal insights into the protagonists' everyday training and competition life--and also into their private lives. The Swiss athletes involved in this film project are Switzerland's Women's 4x100 meter relay sprinters Salomé Kora and Ajla del Ponte, fencer Max Heinzer and Dominic Stricker, the beach volleyball duo Anouk Vergé Dépré/Joana Mäder, Dimitri Marx, breaker Moa Bomolo, sailer Maud Jayet, swimmer Noè Ponti, springboard diver Michelle Heimberg, triathlete Max Studer, and BMX biker Nikita Ducarroz.

Lucky Film on behalf of SRF and with the support of Swiss Olympic produced this. The six 30-minute episodes of the first season was broadcast in double episodes on SF2 from December 1-3 from 8:30 p.m. on Friday and 9:20 pm the following Saturday/Sunday. From Friday evening at 9 pm all episodes will also be available on-demand on Play SRF. Part two of this series on SF2 will be shown shortly before the Olympic Games next summer: 

https://www.srf.ch/sport/allgemein/premiere-auf-srf-zwei-unser-traum-olympische-spiele-paris-wir-kommen

Greece's ERT sports team will be in Paris, to convey the pulse of the top sports event. More than 700 hours of programming on 5 channels (ERT1, ERT2, ERT3, ERTSports1, ERTSports2) and of course on ERTSport and ertsports.gr. Six mobile workshops will be located in the mixed zones, in the Olympic Village, in training rooms and Champions Park, close to our Greek athletes, as all announced in January but in the face of significant planned changes ahead to ERT Sports. Further details will come on the next post like ERT News' daily Paris 2024 segment on the latest news, results, and profiles and goings-on with Team Greece athletes on the way to qualification:

https://dailymedia.com.gr/media/sports-media/55123/euro-2024-kai-olympiakoi-agones-to-kayto-athlitiko-kalokairi-tis-ert-osa-tha-doyme.html

Another one of those most recent dropped Globo Paris 2024 promos. This here profiles past torch relays over the decades interspersed with Time Brasil Tokyo 2020 footage:

 

Some of France Televisions' Paris 2024 broadcasting team is already named at this point. Already mentioned here on this thread have been Stephane Diagana and the possibility of Tony Parker joining. In addition to 15 reporters France TV will assign, there will be a pool of 30 journalists in a mix of longtime familiar faces like Nelson Monfort (in his 16th overall Olympics including winter ones and likely his last) and Laurent Luyat with the new generation, where women are well represented like Cécile Grès and Inès Lagdiri-Nastasi and will comment on the events and ensure “on-air continuity”.

An incredible armada of more than 80 consultants will also arrive at the microphone for France Televisions' Paris 2024 project with 18 of them are medalists--as France Televisions sports director Laurent-Eric Le Lay likes to emphasize. The casting is almost finalized to offer the French the opportunity to experience the competition with experts who are most often former athletes. The Gala photo above grants a taste: swimmer Camille Lacourt, tennis player Justine Hénin, the aforementioned 400m hurdles specialist Stéphane Diagana, boxer Brahim Asloum, high jump champion Maryse Ewanjé-Epée, rugby player Vincent Clerc, equestrian rider Virginie Coupérie, cyclist Marion Rousse, and without forgetting the fencer Astrid Guyart, a team silver medalist in Tokyo. This already impressive pack will be reinforced occasionally by 2x 400m champion Marie-José Pérec. Matthieu Lartot will also be there after having his right leg amputated due to knee cancer but will not comment on rugby sevens, which is very popular with the presence of Antoine Dupont. Instead he will host a live segment and will also later work on the Paralympic Games in Paris. When meeting up with his sports friends for the Gala photo session, his radiant smile spoke volumes about his happiness at participating in the event. Note also the presence in the commentary, as in Tokyo 3 years ago, of in-house journalists who have a high-level sporting background: Nathanaël de Rincquesen in fencing and Jean-Baptiste Marteau in equestrian. Also says that France Televisions' third digital channel will focus on the "youth" sports like surfing, BMX, and climbing:

https://www.gala.fr/l_actu/news_de_stars/jeux-olympiques-2024-france-televisions-dans-les-starting-blocks_541467

Former figure skater and now France Televisions figure skating analyst Philippe Candeloro won't be among those involved in Paris because France TV sees him as from that realm. Although I could envision him doing some breakdancing expertise since that entails some artistry and judging. Also he adds his partnership with Monfort will end come December 2024 at the required retirement age of 71 as does Candeloro's current contract but hopes to stay on if there's a sportscasting partner he enjoys and has fun being with:   

https://www.ozap.com/actu/-on-ne-melange-pas-les-torchons-et-les-serviettes-pourquoi-philippe-candeloro-ne-couvrira-pas-les-jeux-olympiques-de-paris-cet-ete-sur-france-televisions/643551

One of Claro Sports promos for its upcoming Paris 2024 coverage that just now hit online presenting preliminary details. We now have an idea what those four planned Claro Sports Olympic linear TV channels are going to be that will be up to 19 hours daily from the French capital from their own production with narration of 10 events simultaneously through 17 Latin American nations. Claro Sports will handle the top events. Claro Sports 2 will act as the Olympic news channel with reports, analysis, interviews, awards, and press conferences. Claro Sports 3 will focus on Mexican and Central American athletes. Claro Sports 4 will handle the non-Brazil and Spanish-speaking South American ones. We'll see 3 new documentary series like Mas Grande Que Del Ouro (Bigger Than Gold) coming in May, Paris Es Tuyo (Paris, It's Yours) coming in June, and Soy Olimpico (I Am Olympic) in July. NewsCenter will be offered Claro Sports will also have a couple of multiplatform studios sets with latest technology on location in Paris. The countdown already kicked with lots of Olympic information and history on TV, online, tablet, smartphones, and maybe streaming:       

NHK and NHK+ aired the All-Japan Gymnastics All-Around Championships 2024 live but never showing the multihour women's and men's qualifications on April 11 and April 12, respectively. NHK is also airing a new series called Olympic Legends Stories Now. One of which profiles Manuela Di Centa:

https://olympics.com/en/news/gymnastics-japan-all-around-championships-2024-preview-full-schedule-live

According to the following Namu Wiki entry about the South Korean Paris 2024 Summer Olympics broadcasting plans from SBS, KBS, and MBC, considering the time difference between South Korea and France, most games in Paris are likely to be broadcast at relatively flexible times, from afternoon to early morning to late night to early morning, similar to the London Olympics 12 years ago. Accordingly, South Koreans can watch all the games at home, but for people who cannot stay up from late at night until dawn on weekdays, unfortunately, they may have to watch highlights or regular news from each broadcasting station. 

In the case of broadcasters, it is highly likely that all of them will broadcast direct from Paris, except for the Seoul studio hosting team(s). However, it is unclear whether SBS will dispatch a local broadcasting team to Paris due to the current situation of its parent company, Taeyoung Construction. Depending on the situation, there is a possibility that all events will be broadcast via Obtube from a Seoul studio, as was the case at the previous Tokyo Olympics. So far, only SBS has released its Paris 2024 Olympic broadcaster slogan with Hot Again. Only KBS has its Paris 2024 programs named for 2024 Paris Olympics (1TV) and This is Paris (2TV)

As viewership ratings are strong in the summer, it is expected to rank first in viewership ratings. And as there is a generational change due to the retirement age and retirement of some broadcasters, the performance of new face casters is expected to attract attention. If broadcasting rights cannot be secured for the next Summer Olympics, there is a high possibility that this event will be announcer Choi Seung-don's last broadcast:

https://namu.wiki/w/2024 파리 올림픽/중계

When RTVE presents its upcoming 400-hour Paris 2024 Olympics coverage this summer from Spain, there will be a new theme music throughout its coverage and promos entitled Paris Connection performed by the RTVE Orchestra and Choir with 18 instrumentalists (including 4 horns, 4 trumpets, a bass trombone, a tuba and 5 percussions) and 45 singers (12 sopranos, 12 alto, 12 tenors and 12 bass) composed and directed by renowned jazz trumpeter David Pastor, who got inspired by John Williams. Check it out for yourself!

https://www.rtve.es/rtve/20240418/orquesta-coro-rtve-interpreta-sintonia-para-juegos-olimpicos-paris-2024/16066147.shtml

https://www.rtve.es/play/videos/juegos-olimpicos-paris-2024/conexion-paris-2024-deportistas-elite-orquesta-coro-fanfarria-juegos-olimpicos-rtve/16063793/

“Isang Daang Taon Laban Para sa Bayan: Celebrating 100 Years of Filipino Excellence in the Olympics” is the campaign slogan for Cignal TV's upcoming Filipino Paris 2024 coverage in partnership with the Philippines Olympic Committee while celebrating 100 years of The Philippines participating in the Summer Olympics. Especially right after the heels of Hildiyn Diaz's historic first ever gold medal for The Philippines in women's weightlifting as boxers Petecio also took home silver and Eumier Marcial and Carlo Paalam bagging bronze medals.

From the buildup in their preparations and training, their respective campaigns, and the aftermath of their performance, Cignal TV will be there chronicling the journey of the Filipino athlete through our comprehensive news coverage which will be aired and featured on the various MediaQuest platforms, primarily on Cignal TV platforms including Free-to-Air and Pay TV, and on digital and social media through One Sports, One News, and News5 with significant promotion on the Philippines athletes' drive will be prominent. Also included is a 13-part miniseries produced with reporters on the scene on the Filipino athletes' journey, perhaps seeing a June 21 athletes sendoff planned, and a one-month training camp in Metz, France as the broadcast plans are still finalized with priority still focused on the Philippines athletes Cignal TV's Paris 2024 broadcasting objective is put as many games, particularly the games where Filipinos are competing in all available platforms.  Dedicated sports channel RPTV and One Sports and digital free to air and of course Cignal TV with plans at looking as many as 18 channels bringing the most comprehensive coverage of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic Games:

https://www.onesports.ph/more-sports/article/20602/cignal-tv-partners-with-poc-to-provide-extensive-coverage-for-ph-athletes-leading-to-paris-2024

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1222949

https://www.bworldonline.com/sports/2024/04/18/589109/cignal-tv-partners-with-poc-on-coverage-of-paris-olympics/

https://www.philstar.com/sports/2024/04/19/2348769/cignal-deliver-comprehensive-olympic-coverage

Karen Stupples, Morgan Pressel and Tom Abbott will broadcast Paris 2024 Olympic women's golf for NBC Sports in August. Stuppels and Abbott previously called in Rio De Janerio and the postponed Tokyo Summer Olympics. Pressel arrived later in 2022:

https://www.golfdigest.com/story/olympics-2024-womens-golf-nbc-broadcast-team-tom-abbott-karen-stuples-morgan-pressel

Haven't seen any news for what the Central American broadcasters may do and who nab the rights to them in that region, outside of Costa Rica's Repretel channels and Panama's TVMAX. My guess is that the Miami-based Grupo Albavision, of which Repretel is a part of, will once again take the rights on the free-to-air side with Nicaragua's Canal 10 Honduras' VTV, El Salvador's Canal 12, and Guatemala's Chapin TV all getting them. 

[Guilga]

https://olympics.com/pt/noticias/olympics-com-transmite-paris-2024-brasil

Something that passed under the radar here; in addition to Globo and CazéTV, it seems that the IOC themselves will also put online livestreaming for Brazil through their official app and website, announced at the 100 days to go mark. No news if there is going to be portuguese commentary or if it is just the english cast that is going to be available. No news about charging anything as well, so we might just assume there won't be any, neither if it's going to be separated in channels or every event will have a separeted stream. This also might be a sign for any country without broadcasting rights for where they might get to see anything.