The listings had the Montreal Olympic Games highlights on ABC, Seven and Nine at around 3pm. Was there any live coverage on any of those channels?
ABC, Seven and Nine as part of their pooled coverage mostly carried delayed one-hour highlights packages sent over via satellite, airing at 3.00pm local time with each channel airing repeats later in the afternoon/evening.
Nine stirred the pot by also setting up its own exclusive coverage additional to the pooled arrangement with Seven and ABC. With that they would stay on-air overnight with highlights and results as they come in. AFAIK very little of the overall coverage was actually live, apart from the opening and closing ceremonies.
Satellite time was expensive, even with all three networks combined, so they couldn’t do much more than just an hour or so of highlights each day.
The 0-10 Network opted not to participate with the other networks in the coverage but they were able to do extended reports in their evening news bulletins. Not like these days where non-rights holders have very tight controls on what they can show.
Also, during this time Nine bumped its news to 6.00 from 6.30 to give it a half-hour head start over Seven. Seven National News (in Melbourne, at least) at 6.30 was hugely popular so Nine, which was struggling to compete, saw it as a way to try and get some new viewers. But once the Games were over it wasn’t long before Nine moved the news back to 6.30 (EDIT: Nine moved its news back to 6.30 on 25 October, clearly not able to put a dent into Seven’s figures)
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Yesterday was 8 years since the London 2012 Opening Ceremony.
Here is the 9 crew watching the ceremony in the studio
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Roy and HG’s The Dream in Athens 2004 Promo:
Seven’s IOC Copyright message (
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All taken prior to the evening replay of the 2004 Opening Ceremony.
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Presentation wise, very similar (at least in the choice of filming location) to the 2000 Promo for The Dream!
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Oh come on 7, do the right bloody thing and bring it back for 2021! One last hurrah! Fucks sake!
Works perfect with the time zone!
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Would be perfect. Air it on 7 late night after competition and encore on 7mate the next morning
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Still don’t get why Australia has to air that ridiculous copyright message. I’ve not seen it on any other countries coverage - and indeed the fact I’ve seen it at all shows how useless it is considering for me in the UK to see the message about no part of the broadcast being “reproduced or retransmitted” it has to be “reproduced or retransmitted” by somebody. Technically even that screencap is in breech.
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I don’t know if this has been posted before or not, but in this video at the 7 minute mark is a 7 Sport closer with IOC mentioned, followed by the Copyright opener for the Sydney 2000 Olympics: Australian TV Commercials 49 (HSV-7, September 15, 2000) - YouTube
I don’t recall seeing the copyright opener online anywhere until I saw it in this video a few days ago.
There is a video online of the opener but it doesn’t have the copyright warning:
Personally, I don’t mind seeing this copyright warning at each Olympics as it adds to the excitement and special feeling that each Games have.
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I agree with Brekkie that this copyright message is unnecessary, and should not appear again in future Olympic telecasts. Australia seems to be the country to apply the copyright warning, and I doubt the IOC demanded the broadcaster to add the warning to the telecast. Just show the network logo and a small note at the bottom of the screen will suffice, e.g. for Tokyo next year:
(7 network logo)
Copyright 2021 International Olympic Committee. All rights reserved.
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CBC has a copyright disclaimer during the telecast in Canada
Credit YouTube/rewindium
The end of CBC’s coverage of the Sydney Olympics. Closing Ceremony and final days were overshadowed by the death of Pierre Trudeau back in Canada.
Wonder how they handled the two events. Peter Mansbridge did not made the trip to Sydney and stayed in Toronto.
Unlike NBC in the States, CBC showed the Olympics Live overnight with many sleep-deprived Canadians after 16 days CBC Archives
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you can’t watch it as it is blocked by the IOC
Open it in a new tab. It works.
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Watch on YouTube
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there were quite a few americans near the border trying to pick up canadian coverage (which make a change as it’s normally the opposite)
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Is there a way to find replays of the Paralympic ceremonies IN FULL?
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There was some coverage of the 1956 Melbourne Olympics in at least the two major markets in the USA. WPIX-11 New York City had twice weekly half hour highlights, while KTLA-5 Los Angeles had a nightly 15 min program.
Source: New York Times, 24 Nov 1956. Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov 1956.
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I recently purchased the DVD of the Opening Ceremony & Highlights of the Sydney 2000 Games.
Opening titles:
Opening Ceremony:
Closing Ceremony:
Competition:
DVD advertisement:
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