Coincidentally, NEP also works for host broadcaster OBS in Brazil. I saw an NEP camera at the opening ceremony.
Seven said this morning there were 2.8 million streams yesterday alone via its Olympics app which has shattered the previous record of 843,000 during the Australian Open and the 488,000 launch at last Year’s Melbourne Cup. That’s huge! No wonder its server could not cope with the demand.
And quite rightly… the bagging of Seven has begun.
How many of the claimed streams would have been trying to get the app to work 
Apart from all the “Aussie! Aussie! Aussie!” bogans in the crowd. I had to watch with my finger near the mute button.
Same gripe around the world. In 2004, CBC didn’t show Grant Hackett’s 1500m gold live
Whoops on my part!
Just realised “morning” coding is overnight & “day” coding is 9am-2pm.
(Late night is around 10:15pm to 2am I think).
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Btw, clearly viewers can’t stand Hamish… Because only 1.3m metro viewers tuned into “In Rio Today” 
OK, I think this proves that Seven’s Rio Olympics set is real:
At work today the Men’s 4x100m relay final fit perfectly around lunch time and there were a number of us streaming it on our computers!
I’d be interested to see the live streaming numbers for this Olympics… or do they count as 7 viewers?
There was always going to be an article written about streaming issues at some stage during these Olympics. It’s pretty easy for one to be written based on angry tweets when there’s always going to be someone somewhere who faces an issue whether it’s due to their internet connection, the servers not being able to cope with demand, app crashes, etc.
Yep. I had it streaming on my computer all morning and it was perfectly fine. Good quality too. I’m really impressed.
Apologies if this has already been posted:
Good to see Seven Sport using Michael Felgate for the Olympics, he featured in Beijing 2008 as a journalist & numerous Melbourne Cups (as well as 7 Racing)
He’s now the longest serving journo at HSV-7 (started 2003), since Bec Maddern left. Brendan Donohue is possibly in front though.
Nick McCallum whilst a stalwart (started 1979), was originally at Ch 9.
They actually made mention of streaming on one of the programs today saying it was the most streamed program/event ever in Australia surpassing The Melbourne Cup. They also appologised to those that can’t access the streaming and mentioned that it is a worldwide problem not just Australian problem and that the company was trying all they could to fix the problem. Its good the noticed the problem and updated on it as well. I haven’t accessed the streaming yet.
Is that the Men’s 4x100 freestyle relay final that was the most streamed or the coverage in general?
I’m not surprised by those numbers… as I said it makes it easy for office workers to flick on to a stream of those sort of races especially with them happening around late morning and lunchtime.
I would assume it is just the coverage in general. They surely wouldn’t have the mens numbers just yet, and it wasn’t long after the final.
EDIT: Actually I don’t know how streaming works so perhaps it was. I didn’t actually catch what they were specifically talking about I just assumed it was the previous days/nights coverage.
The streaming numbers are somewhat “soft”. They are Seven Internal analysis as opposed to the VPM that OzTAM produces. According to the info from Seven, the numbers are a count of “Online stream starts” ie every time a different stream is accessed - so changing “channels” counts each and every time and length of viewing is not disclosed and irrelevant to the count.
Is he from Melbourne?
Yes, husband of Jacquie Felgate and now a Sunrise correspondent AFAIK.
Yes Michael Felgate is from Melbourne.
The newscaststudio website actually has several good articles on sets used by various broadcasters covering the Rio Olympics.
Like Seven, Hong Kong broadcaster TVB is hosting most of its Olympics coverage at home. This is part of the Olympics set at TVB studios featuring anchor Nat Chan (actor and program host). It makes Seven’s set looking great.
