The “Olympic Home Coming Parade” is in the EPG for Brisbane and 7QLD for tomorrow Friday morning at 11.30am.
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According to Seven’s press release, Melanie McLaughlin, Johanna Griggs and Tom Williams will be main presenters of 7TWO’s Paralympics coverage. They are the only three retained from Seven’s Olympic presenting line-up. New additions are Lawrence Mooney, Matt Carmichael and Paralympic swimmer Annabelle Williams. Commentators will include former Paralympic swimmer Matt Cowdrey, six-time gold medallist (athletics) Heath Francis, wheelchair tennis star Dylan Alcott, as well as Darren Boyd, Brenton Speed, Steve Robilliard and Dave Culbert. Speed and Culbert were part of Seven’s Olympic commentary team while Robilliard covered gymnastics for the world feed of Rio Olympics. Carmichael, Emily Angwin and Emma Davenport will report from Rio.
##Paralympic Schedule
http://forums.mediaspy.org/t/olympic-schedule/1614/26?u=tv.cynic
##Paralympic Games Commentary Team
Anchors
Matt Carmichael – Early Morning Anchor, 5:00-7:00am
Matt will host the Early Morning Highlights Program for morning competition. This two hour program will include Swimming heats, Athletics heats and finals, Cycling qualifications and finals plus coverage of many other sports, such as Wheelchair Basketball and Table Tennis.
Johanna Griggs – Morning Anchor, 7:00-11:00am
Johanna will host the evening (RIO) competition sessions. Finals in Swimming, Athletics, Track Cycling and coverage of the major events each day such as Triathlon, Rowing, Shooting and Canoe finals plus interviews and victory ceremonies. Johanna will also conduct live interviews with athletes in Rio as well as cross live to our reporters at different venues.
Mel McLaughlin, Lawrence Mooney and Annabelle Williams – In Rio Today from 8:30-11:00pm
Mel and Lawrence will host the live, primetime program In Rio Today joined by Paralympic gold medallist, Annabelle Williams. All the Aussie gold medals, feature events in major sports, post- event interviews and victory ceremonies from Rio earlier in the day will be included in this program. There will be live athlete interviews with our panel, and friends and family of the athletes will drop into the studio.
Tom Williams – 11:00pm – 2:00am
Tom will present heats and qualifying events from the morning sessions in Rio, in particular Swimming, Athletics and Cycling. Importantly, there will also be some finals included in these sessions. For instance men’s Wheelchair Tennis Finals will air as part of the morning competition.
Commentary Team
Australia’s greatest ever Paralympian, Matthew Cowdrey, has been chosen as Seven’s expert Swimming commentator, while in Athletics, we are delighted six-time gold medallist, Heath Francis has joined our team. Joining them in commentary will be broadcasters, Dave Culbert, Brenton Speed and Darren Boyd. Darren Boyd covered swimming at London 2012 Paralympic Games.
Dave Culbert is a two-time long jump Olympian and commentator of athletics, cycling, tennis and a range of sports. Brenton Speed is an Olympic and football commentator, but can equally turn his hand to tennis, golf and many other sports.
News reporters Matt Carmichael and Emily Angwin, along with colour reporter Emma Davenport will be the eyes and ears for our viewers. They will be poolside, trackside and out and about in Rio with the athletes. A great addition to the team will be Paralympian Dylan Alcott, joining Seven from Day 7 onwards and hopefully, with his own gold medal around his neck.
Matthew Cowdrey – Swimming
In London 2012, Matt made history by becoming Australia’s most successful Paralympian ever. Matthew won five gold, two silvers and a bronze medal in London to bring his total gold medal haul to 13. Matthew retired in 2015 with a total of 23 Paralympic medals.
Heath Francis – Athletics
Heath competed in the 2000, 2004 and 2008 Summer Paralympics. In Beijing, he became the first arm amputee athlete to win the sprint treble (100m, 200m and 400m events) in the T46 classification at a Paralympics. Heath won 13 Paralympic medals in total (6 gold, 4 silver and 3 bronze). He received a Medal of The Order of Australia for his three gold medals in Sydney 2000.
Steve Robilliard – Ceremonies, Athletics and Table Tennis
Steve has 30 years’ experience covering sport on television, as a commentator, journalist, presenter and producer. He has worked on the Olympics since Barcelona in 1992 on a wide variety of sports. His Olympic and Paralympic experience also includes the Winter Games of Salt Lake, Torino, Vancouver and Sochi.
Will Dowling – Athletics.
Will is an Irish commentator, specialising in athletics and football. He called London 2012 Paralympics for European Television and has been a commentator for IPC World and European Athletics Championships since 2013.
Matt Hill – Athletics and Cycling
Matt has broadcast at four Olympic Games, Beijing 2008, Singapore 2010 (Youth), London 2012 and Sochi 2014. His career highlight to date, was broadcasting Mo Farrah’s famous 5000m win in London. He has also commentated on Equestrian, Triathlon, Tennis, Volleyball, Rowing and Road Cycling.
Amy Bainbridge – Cycling and Swimming
Amy has been a commentator at three Paralympic Games for the International Paralympic Committee (Beijing, Vancouver and London). Amy has covered a number of international sports events including the Doha Asian Games and Sydney 2000 Olympics.
Duane Dell’Oca – Swimming
Duane is an Award-winning journalist from South Africa. Known predominantly as a football commentator, his versatility will see him call a range of sports from Athletics to Golf at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. He will call Swimming at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.
Heather Fell – Swimming
British-born, Heather competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics, winning the silver medal in the women’s modern pentathlon event. She also won the European Championships in 2007, gold at the 2008 and 2012 World Cups and silver in the 2009 and 2010 World Championships.
Neil Adams – Judo
Neil is an English judoka champion who has won numerous Olympic and World Championship medals in judo representing Great Britain.
Michaela Breeze – Powerlifting
Michaela is a former British weightlifter and two-time Commonwealth Games gold medal winner (Manchester, 2002 and Melbourne, 2006). She was awarded an MBE in 2011 for service to the sport.
Richard Drew – Table Tennis
A versatile broadcaster and newspaper columnist, Richard has commentated at both summer and winter Olympic Games, the Commonwealth Games, Youth Olympic Games and Asian Games – all for the Olympic Broadcasting Service.
Peter Odgers – Table Tennis and Wheelchair Tennis
Peter is a lead commentator for a number of sports organisations including the ATP Tour, Women’s Tennis Association and UEFA. He has covered a wide range of sports including the men’s and women’s gold medal matches in volleyball, table tennis and badminton at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon.
Brent Pope – Wheelchair Basketball and Wheelchair Rugby
Brent was born, raised and spent his rugby playing career in New Zealand, but has lived and worked in Ireland for most of his broadcasting career.
Tom Kirkland – Wheelchair Basketball
Tom brings more than 30 years’ experience in national and local sports media from the US. He was Opening and Closing Ceremonies’ Host for Olympic Broadcast Services at the 2014 Paralympic Winter Games in Sochi.
Dan Strange – Highlights Host and Wheelchair Basketball
Dan is an all-rounder, who has commentated on cricket, hockey and a range of other sports at the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics and Beijing 2008 Paralympics.
Gerald de Kock – Wheelchair Tennis and Ceremonies
Gerald is a South African sports commentator specialising in cricket & cycling. He has worked on the last six Olympic Games either for SuperSport or OBS.
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Seven presenting from Sydney instead of Rio is not new. NBC did the same for Beijing 2008 presenting from Rockefeller Center with some commentators based in Beijing.
Seven could’ve used Copacabana Beach to present the Rio Olympics
7TWO’s YouTube channel is now up and running to coincide with the Paralympics. It’s interesting 7TWO does not have its presence on YouTube before this week, Seven could have used it to show promos or sneak peeks of upcoming shows, maybe the reason is the TV channel air mostly repeats?
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Although Australia will not get the Last Leg, apparently Adam Hills, Josh Widdecombe and Alex Brooker will appear in the opening ceremony.
The Paralympic Games opening ceremony is brilliant. It’s a shame we can’t see it in HD. 7Two should be simulcast on 7HD (ch 70).
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Are they in Rio?
Yes they are.
Edit here’s a better image in the daylight with the swimming and tennis venues visible.
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Just remember that Channel 4 are heaps rich (funding of $2 billion mostly from ad revenue) and can afford to stage a massive broadcast of the Paralympics.
They’re not a profit-driven broadcaster (as they are owned by the UK government), so they also have the willingness to spend heaps of money on promoting the cause of the disabled.
I’d like to see SBS become a bit more mainstream and like Channel 4 in that regard.
I’m sure SBS would like to see the sort of money Channel 4 is raking in…
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Australia
Yet another contender for world’s worst set
That 7TWO set is so cheap and wrong in every way.
What is it with Australia and sets - we are the best in the world at crap sets
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Have 7 now added alternative streams to their app?
C4 isn’t mega rich by any stretch of the imagination but they’ve got their house in order now and haven’t scrimped on the Paralympics coverage - indeed they set themselves a standard in London which means that doing it on the cheap would just not be deemed acceptable now.
The studio is great but only used for daytime coverage. The evening coverage is anchored either from the Olympic Park or at the venues.
H.G. Nelson is special guest on tonight’s episode of In Rio Today.