London Olympics: How will Nine and Foxtel go?
Roar Guru With just 72 days to go until the opening of the 2012 London Olympic Games, things are beginning to hot up and not just for the athletes.
Things are also hotting up for Channel Nine and Foxtel, as they prepare themselves for their Olympics coverage.
This will be Nine’s and Foxtel’s first Summer Olympics (having already shown the 2010 Winter Olympics from Vancouver, Canada).
Channel Nine last broadcast a Summer Olympics way back in 1960 in Rome, and since then, Channel Seven has televised the Olympics from 1964-80, and then from 1992 to 2008 (with Channel Ten doing the 1984 and 1988 Olympic Games).
Foxtel has already covered the 2010 Commonwealth Games in conjunction with the Ten network, and used the event to test their readiness to handle the Olympic Games coverage in 2012.
But the question is: how will Nine and Foxtel go in their Olympic Games coverage?
And could Nine/Foxtel handle the scrutiny and criticism from not just TV experts, but also the TV viewers as well?
In around 72 days, the pressure on Nine and Foxtel to produce a flawless Olympics coverage will intensify.
Let the games begin.
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May 17th 2012 @ 5:58am
Football United said | May 17th 2012 @ 5:58am | Report comment
Foxtel of course will do it’s subscribers justice with dedicated channels, HD broadcasts and expert commentators brought in specifically for the sport they specialise in. They will give both the big and small events, whether australian filled or not, equal coverage.
Channel Nein on the other hand will be trying to appease the great bogan demographic of Australia with celebrity bogans such as Ken Sutcliffe, Karl Stefanovic and the Arch-Bogan of Australia, Eddie Mcguire. They will bore us to death with their constant ramblings about the Aussie Battlers, how great Sydney 2000 and plugging their new Reality TV show ‘Fatties who build Houses’. They will completely ignore the marquee events if there is no Australians in it and instead just replay days old footage of when some girl came third in the rhythmic dancing event.
May 17th 2012 @ 2:47pm
Christo the Daddyo said | May 17th 2012 @ 2:47pm | Report comment
Harsh, but fair.
July 22nd 2012 @ 1:45pm
tellitasitis said | July 22nd 2012 @ 1:45pm | Report comment
So refreshing to read an objective assessment of what is to come. Thank goodness there are others who rate the rubbish of McGuire and Sutcliffe where it belongs – in the trash of television commentary. Sutcliffe sold his soul for popularity. McGuire has no soul – or ethics
May 17th 2012 @ 9:06am
mds1970 said | May 17th 2012 @ 9:06am | Report comment
The multiple channels on Fox are particularly exciting.
With so many top events being run simultaneously, it’s always going to be close to impossible for one channel to do them all justice. It then becomes up to a programming director to determine which events to show, and one person’s opinion won’t necessarily match another’s. That was always a frustration at previous Olympics.
But the multiple Fox channels enable me to make my own editorial decisions.
May 17th 2012 @ 9:33am
Lucan said | May 17th 2012 @ 9:33am | Report comment
“And could Nine/Foxtel handle the scrutiny and criticism from not just TV experts, but also the TV viewers as well?”
HA! Time and again Nine demonstrate little regard for the opinions of viewers and experts. I don’t see why the Olympics will be any different.
May 17th 2012 @ 9:41am
Bondy said | May 17th 2012 @ 9:41am | Report comment
Hosting a flawless Olympics in a television sense is impossible . Amazing isnt it tv comapanies scramble for sponsors and greatness, and you can watch all of the Olympics on the net for free at numerous sports streaming websites .
May 17th 2012 @ 10:18am
jamesb said | May 17th 2012 @ 10:18am | Report comment
Hey guys I like to know something.
Will Channel 9 also use one of their digital channels like GEM as part of their coverage along with the main channel?
May 17th 2012 @ 10:22am
Bondy said | May 17th 2012 @ 10:22am | Report comment
They’ll have to ,the punters will go bezerk otherwise, switchboard fury . I ‘d suggest you cant broadcast the event with three channels properly let alone one .
I dont know if its gospel the auxillary channels but surley they couldnt put the Golden Girls on or Knight Rider .When there are two gold medal candidates at the same time ,I hope .
May 17th 2012 @ 10:42am
Jason Cave said | May 17th 2012 @ 10:42am | Report comment
This Olympic Games in London could well be one of the last major assignments for the veterans on Nine’s Olympic Games commentary team; I speak of course of Ken Sutcliffe & Ray Warren.
Sutcliffe has covered numerous Olympic Games before but most of them as a reporter. The only times that Sutcliffe hosted an Olympic Games telecast-whether it’s Winter or Summer-was the 1992, 1994 & 2010 Winter Olympics.
For Warren, this will be his first Olympic Games. ‘Rabs’ was orginally part of Channel 10′s coverage of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games, but pulled out at the last minute due to his fear of flying.
May 17th 2012 @ 10:48am
Sportz said | May 17th 2012 @ 10:48am | Report comment
I’m hoping it’s better than 7′s disgraceful coverage of Beijing. Let’s face it, it couldn’t be any worse.
Or could it?
May 17th 2012 @ 2:49pm
Christo the Daddyo said | May 17th 2012 @ 2:49pm | Report comment
Never underestimate the ability of an Australian commercial TV network to bugger something up.
May 17th 2012 @ 7:57pm
Jason Cave said | May 17th 2012 @ 7:57pm | Report comment
And you can be certain that the more times Channel 9 stuff up their Olympic coverage, the more chance there’ll be of ‘Bring back Seven.”
BTW, out of interest, what time will the Opening Ceremony be shown here in Australia?
May 17th 2012 @ 10:04pm
mds1970 said | May 17th 2012 @ 10:04pm | Report comment
It’s at 5am Sydney time on the Saturday morning. I assume Ch 9 will show it live, Fox will replay it when they start up their multiple channels on the Saturday afternoon.
There’s some football before the opening ceremony. Not sure what’s happening with televising that – sadly we’re not in it, but it’s an interesting part of the buildup to the Games.
May 17th 2012 @ 8:55pm
Johnno said | May 17th 2012 @ 8:55pm | Report comment
foxtel shared the rugby world cup with nine. No doubt foxtel will cut into the tv ratings of channel 9, as more and more people have foxtel. And what seems to be the case as was the rugby world cup, most people who have foxtel will watch the foxtel coverage .
Channel 9 shared the winter olympics in Vancouver in 2010 with foxtel too, im sure that would of hurt channel 9 ratings.
June 18th 2012 @ 1:40pm
Jon Dunstan said | June 18th 2012 @ 1:40pm | Report comment
What I want to know, is whether the Games will be available for online viewing as well?