Seven is ready for the Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast
Seven, Australia’s most-watched broadcast television platform, is set to deliver the most comprehensive multi-platform and technologically advanced Commonwealth Games total video coverage ever seen with its all-encompassing coverage across television and connected devices of the Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast – one year from today.
It will be Seven’s biggest coverage of any event in Australia since the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000, and builds on Seven’s multi-screen live coverage of the Olympic Games in Rio. Seven’s agreement with the Commonwealth Games Federation delivers all rights in Australia including free-to-air broadcast television and subscription television rights, online, mobile and social media, and radio, and expands to Seven’s digital platforms.
In addition to Seven’s coverage in Australia, the network is in partnership with NEP and Sunset + Vine to produce the global broadcast of the Commonwealth Games – with more than 1,100 hours of live television.
Commenting, Kurt Burnette, Seven’s Chief Revenue Officer and Event Director, Olympic Games and Commonwealth Games, said: “We’re delighted to be in partnership with the Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast. It is a major commitment for our company and we will deliver coverage across an array of screens and devices.
“We are looking forward to an innovative coverage of the single biggest event since those remarkable 17 days in Sydney in 2000. We will also build on the proven advertising effectiveness and record-breaking success of the multi-screen delivery of the Olympic Games in 2016, taking these insights and learnings to further enhance that award winning offering into the Commonwealth Games.
“The Commonwealth Games in 2018 is a key component in our plans to drive home our leadership as we broadcast the AFL Finals Series, AFL Grand Final, the Rugby League World Cup, the Melbourne Cup, the Australian Open, the Olympic Winter Games and the Commonwealth Games over the coming twelve months.”
I remember watching bits of the 2001 Goodwill Games on television (I think the opening ceremony was only live on Brisbane television), and the 1982 Commonwealth Games with the winking kangaroo and the ABC getting massive ratings (Nine had thought highlights would be the viewers preference rather than mostly live coverage and they got smashed) iirc. Is there much interest in SE Queensland for next years games?
Massive watermark on bottom left of the screen during My Kitchen Rules tonight marking one year to go to next year’s games. It’s blink and you miss it stuff.
With less than one year to go until the 21st Commonwealth Games on Australia’s Gold Coast, Giaan Rooney checks in on preparations for the Games and asks, “In 12 months, will everything turn to gold?”
This special production by Australia’s Commonwealth Games and Olympic Games Network, Channel Seven, is set against the dramatically changing Gold Coast backdrop.
Rooney catches up with some of Australia’s most outstanding and well credentialed athletes ahead of the Games, including Cameron McEvoy, Kurt Fearnley, Cate and Bronte Campbell and the new mum Laura Geitz. A Commonwealth and Olympic gold medallist herself, Giaan also interviews those that have been there before-- Games legends Hayley Lewis, Sam Riley, Raelene Boyle and Robert de Castella as well as some of the key figures involved in staging the Games.
Thursday April 13
Melbourne: 10:30pm on Channel 7
Friday April 14
Sydney: 9:30pm on Channel 7
Brisbane: 9:30pm on Channel 7
Adelaide: 9:30pm on Channel 7
Perth: 9:30pm on Channel 7
Commonwealth Games Minister Kate Jones announced this morning that the Queen’s Baton would arrive in Brisbane on Sunday, December 24. Which means there should be special coverage on Seven during Weekend Sunrise.
I also notice Optus has come on board as a partner of the Games. Will this see some events being shown live on Optus Sport channels as the result?
Media outlets are threatening to boycott the Commonwealth Games, unless restrictions on access to athletes for interviews and conditions relating to the use of video, placed on them by the organising committee to protect Seven, are eased. Fairfax (through Brisbane Times) and News Corp (through the Gold Coast Bulletin) are official sponsors of the Games but are yet to sign the terms.
