FYI, these are the ratings for Seven’s Beijing 2008 coverage when the Olympics were last held in our time zone. TV have evolved with the addition of multichannels on all FTA networks since 2009
Will be interesting to see the rating numbers 10 years on.
Knowing how Digital TV and online streaming has evolved over the past 10 years, I’d expect the ratings for PyeongChang to be well down on the numbers from 2008.
Also not really fair to do a comparison between the ratings of the Summer & Winter Olympics (even though both are usually held in the opposite season in this Hemisphere).
as its the winter olympics i wont be watching it and i know others who wont be
@BigVic That was the Olympics (summer), you know that yeah?
Good to see 7 will be hosting from Pyeongchang in the IBC, interesting to see what their set studio will look like.
Good news. Better than hosing in a VR studio in Sydney pretending they’re in Rio during the last Olympics
Given it’s Winter Olympics and not Summer Olympics / Comm Games, I wonder if there will be a ‘set’?
Could it just be a seat in front of a window or green screen, like in the Aus Open?
Presumably Seven will add their streaming figures to the national broadcast ratings and promote those figures?
Think it’s useful to post the full TV footage use rules just as a reference for the next few weeks (as an aside, the full News Access Rules makes for good bedtime reading):
Presumably, this is where we’ll most likely see the non-Seven FTA broadcasters use their daily allocation of Olympic footage…
ABC (main channel): News Breakfast, 12pm news & local 7pm bulletins.
Nine: Today & local 6pm bulletins.
Ten: 5pm bulletins.
SBS: 6.30pm & 10.30pm bulletins (three hours between 7.30pm and 10.30pm is long enough of a gap, right?)
And of course, the fairly archaic IOC restrictions will result in the networks other than Seven having to turn off their online streaming whenever they’re airing news programs where Olympics footage is used for the duration of PeyongChang 2018.
i’ll mostly be streaming the BBC coverage. 7’s coverage (going by the past) of the winter olympics is woeful
That’s not necessarily the case:
FYI: A ‘permitted simulcast transmission’ refers to a program which shows Olympic content in accordance with the News Access Rules and the simulcast is:
Thanks mate 
Looking for TV guides from Torino 2006 and SLC 2002. What was the coverage like back then.
NBC’s live coverage starts Thursday.
Terrible. Only 2-3 hour highlights packages in the late evening. Ice Hockey was relegated to the final after the closing ceremony.
We have come a long way from this. Extensive live coverage for 14.5 hours per day in 2018 plus 6 streams online
