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Round-the-clock coverage across Nine later this month, plus 40 Live channels in HD on 9Now.
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Nine has today revealed its full schedule, as well as its hosting and commentatary line-up for the Paris Olympics.
Nine’s coverage begins the week leading into the Opening Ceremony from Monday, July 21, with Today, A Current Affair and Nine News broadcasting from Paris plus the special Let The Games Begin.
Following the special, competition kicks off with the Men’s Rugby Sevens and the Men’s Football, both screening from 11.00pm AEST. The following night the Matildas start their Olympic medal campaign.
Nine’s coverage of the Olympics starts early on Saturday, July 27 with the Opening Ceremony beginning at 3am AEST continuing until the Closing Ceremony on Monday, August 12.
The two week broadcast will come live from Nine’s ‘Trocadero studio’ opposite the Eiffel Tower.
Nine
6.30am-11.00am AEST: Sarah Abo and Karl Stefanovic, as Australia wakes up
11.00am-12.00pm AEST: 9News bulletin
12.00pm-3.00pm AEST: Todd Woodbridge capturing the magic moments of the day
3.00pm-7.00pm AEST: Leila McKinnon and Dylan Alcott as live sport begins
6.00pm-7.00pm AEST: 9News state bulletins
7.00pm-1.00am AEST: Ally Langdon and James Bracey with all the prime-time action
1.00am-6.30am AEST: Eddie McGuire from Paris including competition Finals
9GEM
5.00pm-10.00pm AEST: Sylvia Jeffreys
10.00pm-3.00am AEST: Nick McArdle
3.00am-8.00am AEST: Sam McClure
8.00am-5.00pm AEST: Hosted long-form replays
9Now also streams every moment of every event in full HD across more than 40 dedicated channels.
Nine’s commentary team for swimming includes Cate Campbell, Ian Thorpe, Giaan Rooney, Ellie Cole, Mat Thompson and Roz Kelly.
“While I might have missed out on being part of the Australia Olympic team and competing in Paris, I am so excited to still be heading over the Games as part of the Channel 9 broadcast team,” said Cate Campbell.
“This will be the first Olympic Games I have watched since Athens 2004 and I can’t wait to cheer on our swimmers as they hit the pool. I hope Australia falls in love with our swimmers and I look forward to shining a spotlight on the incredible talent we have on the Olympic team.”
Gerard Whateley will be the 9Network’s voice of athletics, joined byTamsyn Lewis-Manou, Olympic gold medalist pole vaulter Steve Hooker, Dave Culbert, Olympic four-time gold medalist sprinter Michael Johnson and Tony Jones.
“I’m most looking forward to Track and Field in the iconic Stade De France, which will be the venue for Paris’ biggest sporting and entertainment events,” said Gerard Whateley. “After the main stadium in Tokyo was largely empty, the athletes will this time compete in front of 80,000-strong crowds. And while athletics has a galaxy of stars, the face of the sport will be determined by the races at these Olympic Games.”
Other experts and commentators are Cadel Evans, Andrew Gaze, Phil Liggett, Kerri Pottharst, James Tomkins, Sam Fricker, Scott McGrory, Kate Bates, Caroline Buchanan, Mitch Tomlinson, Ryan Williams, Nick Boserio, Georgie Parker, Richard Fox, Andy Raymond, Todd Woodbridge, Drew Mitchell, Sera Naiqama, Grace Gill, Emma Snowsill, Will McCloy, Brenton Speed, Peter Psaltis, Adam Papalia, Russell Mark, Sean Maloney, Annabelle Williams, Matt Hill, Will Davies, Mark Taylor, Sophie Smith, Shane McInnes, and Jenna O’Hea.
More details on Paralympics will follow later.
- Tagged withOlympic Games, Olympics, Paralympic Games, Paralympics
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Clearly Channel 9 got the cultural diversity memo… as they usually do.
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Hi David, could you please tell me if the Olympic Games on Nine Now will have closed captions included. Thank you.
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“9Now also streams every moment of every event in full HD across more than 40 dedicated channels.”
How does Stan’s Olympic offering differ to this other than having some events in 4k? Doesn’t seem worth it if 9now has everything too
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9 now will be full of ads (like 9 and Gem)… Stan ad free – 4k.
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No Liz Chetkovich this year?
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Are the presenters flying to Paris and covering it live from there or filming it all in a Sydney studio?
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They are in the Trocadero studio in Paris
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That’s host set. It doesn’t mean all the commentators are there, I imagine it isn’t big enough for that.
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So is most the hosting done from Channel 9 studios here in Australia ?? It reeks of cheapness…
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Mark Taylor?
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I assume Live NRL match coverage during the Olympics will remain on the local 9/9HD channels (Imparja Television in remote outback areas of Australia excluding WA) in NSW/ACT/QLD and Darwin, pushing Live or replayed Olympics coverage over to 9GO ! in all these areas ?
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I think you’ll find it’ll be the other way around, NRL moved to a multi-channel for Olympics on main channel in Sydney and Brisbane (at least that’s what Seven did with AFL for Rio and Tokyo Olympics). Usually other sport organisations recognise the height of the Olympic Games are agree as a special once-off to changes. Nine would be fools otherwise, look at those sweet sweet Olympics ratings and shares throughout history.
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As of a month ago 9G0 is now HD so NRL can be played on this channel in full HD
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Are they freaking serious? Eddie Maguire – have we not progressed passed this?
Less than a week post massive job losses you’re telling me they are giving Eddie god knows how much during peak Olympic time – what an embarassmentLog in to Reply
McGuire would have been hired by the likes of Mike Sneesby (who is under pressure from within his organisation to resign or quit Nine) or other executives that either resigned or were fired as a result of the latest fallout of Nine Entertainment’s “work culture issues.”
Despite McGuire being not liked by you and other people across Australia, he can be a good commentator and host at times when it comes to covering events like the Olympics.
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Brent Williams is head of Sport at Nine, still employed and oversees Olympics. Most of the 200 staff are yet to go in redundancies.
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Eddie McGuire previously did the Olympics on Nine back in 2012 in London and called the Ceremonies (along with Leila McKinnon). I think he called the Athletics on Foxtel. (that time Nine and Foxtel were the shared broadcasters, hence Eddie had to juggle between Foxtel and Nine.) Same for Peter Donegan – he had to juggle both between Fox and Nine during athletics IIRC.
Mark Nicholas wasn’t a commentator during the Olympics, but instead did London Gold (where it recapped the daily highlights).Log in to Reply
I assume coverage of NRL matches for VIC/TAS/SA and WA viewers during the Paris Olympics will be moved to the 9GO ! channel, seeing as 9GEM will be utilised for extra Olympics competition coverage (especially when Australia is competing for Gold, Silver or Bronze medal in 2 different sports at the same time ?
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