At this stage I wouldn’t be terribly surprised to find out that the plan is to switch 7HD to 7mateHD nationally for the duration of the games and force everybody to pay for an HD feed of the main channel via the app/online.
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Seven will show short ‘high impact’ ‘exclusive’ highlights on Twitter, with each video being preceded by a six second preroll commercial. Seven and Twitter will share the spoils.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/twitter-seven-hope-to-set-pace-for-rio-online/news-story/b3f10bf88990d9bd5e2aec3316e97b86
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This article says in it : HD coverage is available on Channel 70. Is this referring to 7 MateHD ? Is 70 the main channel in regional Qld ?
Not sure what they are on about . Unless they are talking about the CH 70 that already exists in some markets.
###Seven’s Olympic Games
IN RIO TODAY
Hosted by Hamish McLachlan, In Rio Today will air nightly from 7pm AEST August 6-21. The centrepiece of Seven’s Rio 2016 coverage, In Rio Today will feature the major Australian and international events from the previous day and all the emotion and reactions from athletes, coaches and families in Australia and Rio.
It will also examine our medal chances and look forward to the events to feature in Seven’s coverage in the day ahead. Viewers will have no doubt when and where to find their favourite athletes, sports and events when live competition starts at approximately 10pm AEST each night.
In Rio Today will contain Olympic Updates and Buzz from Brazil, plus athlete and team profiles to preview their performances later in the evening, Australian time.
Contributions from Seven’s commentators, plus feature pieces filmed in Rio with Aussie fans and families, will also highlight the colour and appeal of the host city.
SEVEN NEWS
The Seven News crew for Rio 2016 will be headed up by Chris Reason. He will lead a team of reporters based in Barra Olympic Park including Alex Hart, Laurel Irving, Tom Browne and Blake Johnson, while Mike Amor and Lee Jeloscek will be keeping across events and news happening around Copacabana.
The entire team will be live from several locations throughout Rio during the Olympic Games. The newsroom will operate 24 hours a day from the International Broadcast Centre in Barra to cover events as they happen and be ready to go live into our 6pm Seven News bulletins at home.
SUNRISE
The Sunrise journey begins on Monday, August 1 when the team broadcasts live from the world famous Copacabana Beach in Brazil. They’ll tour the venues, chat to our athletes and sample the sights and sounds of Rio.
Then from Monday, August 8, Brekky Central becomes “Games Central”. The Sunrise team will be joined by a panel of experts including Leisel Jones, Eamon Sullivan, Lisa Curry, Melinda Gainsford-Taylor, Jana Pittman and Robbie McEwen, while relatives of our Olympians will form a massive Aussie cheer squad in our specially-themed studio each day.
Sunrise is Australia’s only breakfast television show which can cross live to Olympic events as they happen and all the big medal wins - if it’s happening in Rio, you’ll see it live.
Plus, only Sunrise will have your full wrap up of all the Olympic action while you were sleeping. Then, when Aussies strike gold, their first stop for post competition interviews in the morning will be Sunrise. And only Sunrise can take you inside the Athletes’ Village each day.
But the close of the Games doesn’t spell the end of our coverage. Sunrise will also broadcast live from Sydney Airport on Wednesday August 24 to welcome home our winning Aussie team.
BUZZ FROM BRAZIL
Olympic gold medallist Matthew Mitcham and Seven personality Teigan Nash have joined Seven’s Rio 2016 broadcast team to present Buzz From Brazil, a daily program containing a snapshot of what’s happening across social media in and around the Games.
Buzz From Brazil will screen across the Channels of Seven including premiere airings during Seven’s primetime show, In Rio Today. Buzz will also be showcased across the 7Olympics social platforms each day of the Olympic Games, highlighting the best viral video, tweets, posts and social content from athletes and fans both in Rio and back home.
Rio 2016 is the first truly mobile and social Olympic Games. As athletes and fans alike flock to social, so too Seven will be front and centre - bringing unique content to our audience across all platforms and leveraging our position as rights holder for the best access to viral video content.
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###Commentary
CHANNEL 7 HOSTS
Hamish McLachlan IN RIO TODAY
Hamish has extensive hosting, broadcasting and athlete management experience in sports including AFL, Olympic Games, tennis and racing. Hamish will be hosting In Rio Today each night from 7pm throughout the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
Mel McLaughlin @Mel_Mclaughlin
Mel has covered many major sporting events on the world stage including the Olympic Winter Games, FIFA World Cup and Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. Mel will be hosting Seven’s Rio 2016 Olympic Games coverage each evening as plenty of live sporting action is unfolding.
Todd Woodbridge @toddwoodbridge
Todd was a gold medallist at the Atlanta 1996 Olympic Games, in addition to a highly distinguished tennis career. Todd has successfully hosted Seven’s Wimbledon coverage in recent years and will be hosting live overnight coverage of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
Jim Wilson @JimWilsonTV
This will be Jim’s sixth Olympic Games either reporting or commentating. This time he’ll step into the hosting chair each morning as some of Rio’s biggest gold medal moments are decided with athletics and swimming finals contested.
Kylie Gillies @kyliegillies
Kylie has a long history of sports reporting and presenting across Seven’s Olympic Games and Australian Open tennis coverage, as well as sports magazine programming. Every afternoon Kylie will steer viewers through all of the highlights from the day’s events at Rio 2016.
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RIO 2016 - Digital
Seven will provide more than 5,000 hours of coverage – including 3,000 hours of live event coverage.*
As part of Seven’s Rio 2016 coverage, the company is delivering a suite of digital products (with a premium upgrade option), to ensure Australians have the Olympic Games to hand at all times. It will be the unmissable Olympic Games for all Australians. The Premium option will contain every moment, every event.
Seven’s free streaming products will offer all three broadcast channels, plus extra content and selected content to people living in Australia online at www.seven.com.au/Olympics and through the Olympics on 7 app ( Android and iOS).
This will include live simulcast of Channel 7, 7TWO and 7mate, as well as selected curated free content from the Olympic Broadcast Service (OBS) live channels not already featured on Seven.
VOD highlights, medal tallies, statistics and a photo gallery will also be available, as will the live simulcast of Seven’s channels in PLUS7 (on Telstra TV, Apple TV (4th gen), mobile and web), and existing Seven products 7tennis and 7live.com.au
Content available through the Olympics on 7 website and apps will include:
• Up to 900 hours of Seven’s Olympic Games broadcast, live simulcast from 7, 7TWO and 7mate
• 300 hours of additional live competition streams - not on broadcast television
• Hundreds of hours of video highlights
• Official medal tallies, photos and athlete profiles
(*Available on the Olympics on 7 app’s premium service)
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This is the only info provided on the broadcast platform:
For the first time in Australian free-to-air television history, three channels - 7, 7TWO and 7mate - will carry Olympic coverage and, on Channel 70, the coverage will be available in HD.
Our Olympics on 7 app and website (www.seven.com.au/Olympics) will offer all three of seven’s broadcast channels for free, plus extra content. And every moment of the Games will be available live to all Australians across connected devices, with a premium upgrade option that includes more than 3,000 hours of live event coverage and a total of more than 5,000 hours of coverage delivered by Seven for all Australians.
We are ready. We have our people in Rio. We have our people across our state-of-the-art digital broadcast centres here in Australia. Each of them, more than 450 of them, is dedicating themselves to deliver the Olympic Games to all Australians. The premium version of our Olympics on 7 app will have more than 3,000 hours of live event coverage and a total of more than 5,000 hours of coverage and will be created and delivered by Seven, and made available to all Australians.
We have created a model to deploy our Olympic Games content and coverage across an array of platforms – each leveraging, complementing and extending the Seven’s broadcast television coverage across Seven, 7TWO and 7mate.And with Rio, we will broadcast the Olympic Games in HD for the first time on Channel 70.
Kurt Burnette
Event Director - Olympic Games and Chief Revenue Officer, Seven West Media
The two mentions above are the only reference I found to HD in the latest Seven information on their coverage.
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Kurt Burnette (Chief Revenue Officer)…
So Seven Sport aren’t running the show!? 
That explains a lot.
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If HD is going to remain in 7HD in three markets, that’ll just make things harder…
I personally don’t expect anything to change in regards to 7HD.
Technically, when they say that viewers can watch the Olympics in HD on 70. That’s still correct under the current scenario, as 7mate will be showing Olympics coverage.
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So Sydney, Brisbane and Perth have been completely screwed over.
This is a new low in Australian television.
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But not the coverage of the main events.
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The opening ceremony should be shown in HD in all markets FFS!!!
Simulcast it or something. Just bloody well do it. Ten and Nine would not be doing this if they had the rights.
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That statement from Seven is a lie. They had the 2008 Olympics on 70 in HD, and Nine had 2012 in HD on Gem.
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And not to mention on ONE during the last Winter Olympics.
NBC should know Better that Streaming the Opening Ceremony Live is Better than Broadcasting it on TV.
That statement is still vague. All ti says is Channel 70… no mention what will be on 70 though which still tells me there is hope.
To me, it’s obvious that Seven will most likely maintain the status quo during Rio. Technically, they are correct when they say that Olympics coverage will air in HD on Channel 70 (whether it be that of Seven or 7mate) although the “for the first time” part of that claim is certainly dubious!
If they were planning to switch the main channel to HD in Sydney, Brisbane/Gold Coast and Perth, I think they would’ve made a big song and dance about it with an entire press release and some glossy On-Air Promos like what Nine and Ten did when they switched their main channel (back) to HD in November 2015 and March 2016 respectively.
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Was 7 the last to launch HD back when channels were going HD in previous years ?