Seven would have John Casey locked down for their SANFL coverage.
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Probably true, but ESPN did manage to nick him the last year’s for Basketball World Cup coverage.
But 7 would be less likely to be petty about ESPN than 9.
Would of most likely be Seven releasing him for a few weeks (or if he did the coverage in Australia he would’ve probably done it out of a studio in Adelaide). No way Seven would release him to appear on Nine. If the Olympics were during our summer, he would probably be released from the NBL to Nine.
Not to go too far off topic but I think they sent a bunch of Australian presenters to Connecticut to call the tournament in the Philippines, Japan and Indonesia. The studio looked nice for that effort.
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Casey does NBL for ESPN so I would think he’s contracted with them for any basketball stuff 
he also called women’s fiba World Cup that happened in Sydney 2022.
7 allowing him to be on 9 would be different BUT he is basically the voice of Australian basketball. He’s called the boomers & opals when world cups and other matches were on Fox too.
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ESPN do not produce the NBL coverage, the media arm of NBL provide the feed and coverage to ESPN. I always thought Hohn Casey was a freelancer. He’s worked for all the networks at one stage or another.
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Probably, but Seven would have him contracted to do the SANFL coverage, which means he can’t travel to Paris (or even to Sydney to call the games from there).
Dittmar did basketball for Beijing and Athens IIRC (also from 7Adelaide), also worked on the Australian Open during that period too, interviewing players pre-match/walking onto court, along with Felgate.
Think Casey joined for Rio, but may have had other reporting or producing roles prior.
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NINE ANNOUNCES FULL OLYMPIC GAMES SCHEDULE
AUSTRALIA’S MOST ACCOMPLISHED HOSTING
LINE-UP AND A SUPERSTAR COMMENTARY TEAM
As we officially enter the Olympic month of July, Australia’s Home of the Olympics, the 9Network, today reveals its full schedule, as well as its hosting and superstar commentator and expert line-up for Paris 2024.
Nine’s coverage begins the week leading into the Opening Ceremony on Monday, July 21, with Today, A Current Affair and 9News broadcasting from Paris - and an Olympic special presentation Let The Games Begin, screening on Wednesday, July 24 on Channel 9 and 9Now.
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. The 9Network’s 24 hour coverage of the Olympic Games starts early on Saturday, July 27 with the Opening Ceremony beginning at 3am AEST and won’t stop until the Closing Ceremony on Monday, August 12. The two week broadcast will come live from Nine’s state-of-the-art Trocadero studio opposite the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
(L-R) Sam McClure, Todd Woodbridge, Sarah Abo, Karl Stefanovic, Dylan Alcott, Leila McKinnon, James Bracey, Ally Langdon, Eddie McGuire, Sylvia Jeffreys, Nick McArdle
With 9Now streaming every moment of every event free and in full HD across more than 40 dedicated channels, viewers will experience 24/7 Olympics coverage across Channel 9HD and 9GemHD by Australia’s most accomplished television hosting team:
Channel 9
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
A superstar expert and commentary team will reveal what it takes to perform on the world’s biggest sporting stage. The lineup includes Cate Campbell, Ian Thorpe, Giaan Rooney, Ellie Cole, Mat Thompson and Roz Kelly taking viewers poolside to be alongside every stroke of what is considered one of Australia’s strongest ever swim teams.
Track and Field events will be led by Gerard Whateley - who will be the 9Network’s voice of athletics - alongside Tamsyn Lewis-Manou, Olympic gold medalist pole vaulter Steve Hooker, Dave Culbert, Olympic four-time gold medalist sprinter Michael Johnson and Tony Jones.
As Team Australia competes through the two week event, viewers will feel they have a front row seat to every moment guided by renowned experts and commentators 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. Biographies and the sports they are commentating/giving expert analysis of can be found in the press kit attached.
Olympic medalist swimmer Cate Campbell - who made national headlines during last month’s Australian Swimming Trials - joins the 9Network as a swimming expert. She will also be a swimming expert for the 9Network’s Paralympics coverage.
“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. “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.”
Highly regarded sports broadcaster Gerard Whateley will be the 9Network’s voice of athletics, taking on the high profile role during a time of renaissance for our track and field team.
“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. “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.”
The Games of the XXXIII Olympiad will unite Australians like never before across an unrivalled platform of television, streaming, Stan Sport, digital publishing and audio, ensuring that viewers, listeners and readers feel like they are in the ultimate front-row seat to every sport and every venue.
(PS: more to be posted soon)
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Nine have followed Seven’s Tokyo 2020 strategy of dual-hosts, with James Bracey (as expected like the Australian Open and SOO & NRL GF) but also ACA host Allison Langdon joining him steering the prime time session (nice score for her - wonder if she negotiated that?) While Sylvia Jeffrey’s in the same coveted position but m/c 9Gem.
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9Gem’s host for day time is interesting “hosted long-form replays”.
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While the time zone sees some of the best action happen overnight our time, it’s still our bed time (regardless of how many stay up pulling all nighters or wake up early event depending), therefore you could consider that to be the lowest-rating session and thus those talent who are hosting and commentating drawing the short straw so to speak, such as Eddie McGuire and Nick McArdle and swimming and track & field finals with Mat Thompson and Ian Thorpe and Garard Whateley and Tamsyn Manou - though plenty of action may occur at breakfast or later if delays so also a good opportunity for Karl & Sarah (making Today’s programming awkward - wonder how they’ve planned this) and Todd Woodbridge & Sam McClure.
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There are a dozen names on the press release which had been involved with Seven’s coverage of Tokyo Olympics in 2021.
It will be interesting to see Nine’s next press release re. radio coverage. What will it be like in Adelaide, Darwin, Canberra and Hobart, and regional areas across Australia? You can’t just rely on 9Now.
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until 7pm? isn’t news at 6pm? also i assume most of this will be replays of medals won and highlights etc as 3pm AEST is 7am Paris time so live action wouldn’t start until 9am which is 5pm AEST
9Gem 5pm probably starts with live play
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There are many events which start at or after 7am Paris time, e.g. rowing, marathons etc.
Surfing at Tahiti also has own its starting time.
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That (main channel) feed will most likely switch to 9Go! HD at 6pm due to Nine News, ‘fringe’ as with 7Two (SD) during Seven’s Olympics. They won’t just stop that feed for an hour, in 2008 maybe but not 2024.
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looking at the olympics website, most of the events start between 9am & 11am with Badminton starting at 8:30am and Triathalon events starting at 8am. marathon athletics and swimming have 3-4 events in week 2 which starts 7 or 7:30
so most of the days they will probably show highlights for 1-1.5 hours before play gets underway
9 gets full 7 hours of prime time action on 2 channels. most of those will be events that people like watching with heats of swimming, athletics, basketball, rowing (+ finals) etc
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Do you have a better quality/readable copy?
So is 6:30 to 11 Today branded? Or is Today going on hiatus?
Interesting that Alicia is leaving the Melbourne news for the time to report.
I’ve tried uploading again with a thinker font than Nine’s Media Kit so should be better.
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