July 6, 2005. It’d be quite interesting to know how other Australian networks without sporting commitments covered the 2012 Olympics announcement that night.
Still amazing to think it’s nearly been seven years since the event was held as well.
One thing worth remembering is that Nine probably didn’t have much choice but to simulcast the main channel version of London Olympics events in HD, since the broadcast deal was one that was signed before they (originally, obviously it’s since been brought back albeit in MPEG4) dumped Nine HD for GEM in October 2010.