Racing.com will also have coverage of every race plus live coverage of the Melbourne Cup Draw
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No doubt Ch 7’s PR will have a field day on the Wednesday after…
Talking about all the streaming numbers on 7Live, Plus7, facebook, twitter, etc.
Adding them to OzTam & RegTAM figures.
I do love his the race (and indeed) coverage is live streamed, so accessable 
All in SD
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BROADCAST TIMES
Saturday October 29 Victoria Derby Day
Sydney 11am LIVE on Channel 7, 5.30pm LIVE on 7TWO
Melbourne 11am LIVE on Channel 7
Brisbane 10am LIVE on Channel 7
Adelaide 10.30am LIVE on Channel 7
Perth 8am LIVE on 7TWO, 10am LIVE on Channel 7
Sunday October 30 Melbourne Cup Preview Show
Sydney 11.30am on Channel 7
Melbourne 11.30am on Channel 7
Brisbane 11.30am on Channel 7
Adelaide 11.30am on Channel 7
Perth 11.30am on Channel 7
Tuesday November 1 Melbourne Cup Day
Sydney 10am LIVE on Channel 7
Melbourne 10am LIVE on Channel 7
Brisbane 9am LIVE on Channel 7
Adelaide 9.30am LIVE on Channel 7
Perth 7am LIVE on 7TWO, 9am LIVE on Channel 7
Thursday November 3 Oaks Day
Sydney 11.30am LIVE on Channel 7, 5.30pm LIVE on 7TWO
Melbourne 11.30am LIVE on Channel 7, 5.30pm LIVE on 7TWO
Brisbane 10.30am LIVE on Channel 7
Adelaide 11am LIVE on Channel 7
Perth 8.30am LIVE on 7TWO, 9am LIVE on Channel 7
Saturday November 5 Stakes Day
Sydney 11.30am LIVE on Channel 7, 5.30pm LIVE on 7TWO
Melbourne 11.30am LIVE on Channel 7
Brisbane 10.30am LIVE on Channel 7
Adelaide 11am LIVE on Channel 7
Perth 8.30am LIVE on 7TWO, 10am LIVE on Channel 7
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No HD in Sydney, Brisbane and Perth. Will watch on RACING.com
Melbourne Cup Carnival LIVE on Seven
Seven’s coverage will be hosted by Bruce McAvaney, Francesca Cumani, Simon Marshall and Simon O’Donnell.
Jason Richardson will conduct live interviews post-race with relevant winning connections to feature race winners. Peter Donegan will have all the latest in the mounting yard, Pat Welsh in the betting ring and Australia’s premier race caller Greg Miles will call all the action on the track.
Seven News sports presenter Mel McLaughlin will be a roving reporter on Melbourne Cup Day and Derby Day, interviewing all of the stars from the wider sporting world.
Five-time Victoria Derby winning jockey Damien Oliver will also join our team to provide expert analysis this Saturday.
Throughout the Carnival, Hamish McLachlan will be hosting from the race stalls and pre-parade ring interviewing all the connections and reporting on horse arrivals.
Edwina Bartholomew, Rachael Finch, Neil Kearney, Jade Robran and Emily Angwin will bring all the colour, news and personalities from around the track, while James Jordan will deliver expert form analysis.
Seven News meteorologist Jane Bunn joins the coverage on Melbourne Cup Day and Oaks Day to keep race goers and punters across all the latest weather news.
Basil Zempilas will be Master of Ceremonies, while Sam Hyland will be on horseback with all the winning jockey interviews.
COMMENTARY TEAM
BRUCE MCAVANEY | Host
The doyen of sports broadcasting in Australia, Bruce McAvaney has hosted Seven’s expanded coverage of the Spring Racing Carnival, including the Caulfield Cup Carnival, the Cox Plate and now the Melbourne Cup Carnival. Bruce began his career as a race caller, and he has called the Melbourne Cup four times and hosted Seven’s Cup Carnival coverage 14 times, and throughout his decorated career he has retained an infectious enthusiasm for the so-called Sport of Kings.
FRANCESCA CUMANI | Co-Host
The daughter of English trainer Luca Cumani, Francesca joins the panel on-course throughout the Spring Racing Carnival. Francesca made her TV debut on Seven’s horseracing coverage in 2009 and has impressed ever since with her thorough racing knowledge.
SIMON MARSHALL | Co-Host
Simon Marshall enjoyed a decorated career as a jockey, winning 16 Group 1 races and piloting stars including Super Impose, Naturalism, Better Loosen Up, Mahogany and Mannerism. Simon will help dissect the form for Seven. Also a regular on Seven’s AFL Game Day, he brings a unique combination of racing insight and a sense of fun.
SIMON O’DONNELL | Co-Host
Simon has sporting credentials that few can match, having played cricket for Australia where he won a World Cup, as well as playing AFL at the highest level with St Kilda. Following his elite sporting career, he turned his attention to his love of racehorses, teaming up with Terry Henderson to deliver multiple Group 1 winners including Manighar, Brambles and Kibbutz.
HAMISH MCLACHLAN | Presenter
An accomplished horseman who grew up next to Lindsay Park Stud, one of Australia’s most successful racing and breeding establishments, Hamish is a feature of Seven’s Melbourne Cup Carnival coverage as well as being an AFL commentator and host of AFL Game Day, and a regular on Seven’s Australian Open coverage.
MEL McLAUGHLIN | Presenter
Fresh from hosting Seven’s Rio 2016 Olympic Games coverage, Seven News sports anchor Mel McLaughlin will be a roving reporter on Melbourne Cup Day and Derby Day interviewing all of the stars from the sporting world who descend on Flemington.
JASON RICHARDSON | Mounting Yard reporter
Known for his energetic passion and knowledge for horse racing, and a winner of the prestigious Stawell Gift, Jason will interview all the winning connections, along with form analysis from the Mounting Yard.
PETER DONEGAN | Mounting Yard presenter
Peter is one of the most respected sports broadcasters in the country, having covered athletics, golf, AFL, horseracing and tennis among many sports for radio and TV. Pete will be in the mounting yard where he has earned the respect of jockeys, trainers, owners and stewards over a Melbourne Cup broadcasting career stretching back over two decades to 1989.
DAMIEN OLIVER | Expert analysis Derby Day
Oliver is arguably Australia’s best known rider with over 100 Group 1 wins, along with the ‘Grand Slam’ of Australian racing including three Melbourne Cups, two Cox Plates, four Caulfield Cups and a Golden Slipper.
EDWINA BARTHOLOMEW | Presenter
Sunrise presenter Edwina Bartholomew will be a roving reporter for the racing coverage throughout the Melbourne Cup Carnival catching up with all the big names in the entertainment world.
BASIL ZEMPILAS | MC
Basil hosts and commentates AFL matches for Seven, presents sport for Seven News Perth and is an integral part of our Australian Open and Hopman Cup tennis coverage. To date he has been to six Olympic Games for Seven and was behind the microphone calling gold medals for Australia at the pool in 2016. He’ll MC the race presentations again this year at Flemington.
JANE BUNN | Meteorologist
Seven News meteorologist Jane Bunn joins the coverage on Melbourne Cup Day and Oaks Day to keep race goers and punters across all the latest weather news.
RACHAEL FINCH | Presenter
A vibrant personality and a former Miss Universe Australia, Rachael is a regular TV presenter for Seven who returns to Flemington as a roving fashion reporter for the coverage of the Melbourne Cup Carnival.
GREG MILES | Race caller
Greg Miles is widely regarded as Australia’s premier race caller and will again be heard throughout the Carnival on Seven for the 13th year running, as well as his 36th call of the Melbourne Cup. Australian race fans will always remember his iconic call of Makybe Diva’s third consecutive Cup win when he fittingly announced “a champion becomes a legend.”
PAT WELSH | BETTING RING
Being the son of a bookmaker meant it was almost inevitable Pat Welsh would end up involved in racing and sports. The Seven News sport presenter and reporter in Brisbane with more than 30 years’ experience, Pat will present viewers with all the happenings, movements and plunges from the Flemington betting ring.
NEIL KEARNEY | Reporter
A journalist for more than 35 years and over 20 years on television, Neil is one of Australia’s great storytellers, plying his craft on almost every major sport there is from the Olympics and AFL, to the Australian Open tennis, the Commonwealth Games and of course, horse racing.
EMILY ANGWIN | Reporter
Seven News reporter Emily Angwin will cover all the colour and fun from Flemington over the four days of the Carnival. Emily is also a presenter and ambassador for the Carlton Football Club.
JAMES JORDAN |Form analyst
Expert form analyst James Jordan settles in for another season with Seven analysing all the form and delivering tips for the punters at home.
JADE ROBRAN | Reporter
Seven News reporter Jade Robran will be out and about throughout the Melbourne Cup Carnival capturing all the characters and entertainment from around the track.
SAM HYLAND | Horseback interviewer
After almost two decades as a jockey, Sam Hyland retired from the sport having rode a Group 1 winner in Macau and the Warrnambool Cup and Hamilton Cup twice. He announced his retirement from race-riding after suffering significant injuries in March 2009 when he fell from Looking Light in Ballarat. Since then he has made an impressive foray into the world of broadcasting
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So Koch & Co is not live into Perth. A bit odd.
This is a disaster… no HD in Sydney, Perth or Brisbane. Seven are fucked
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How long has Simon O’Donnell been with Seven? Good get.
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2 years I think? He was definatly on the panel for Cup day last year. He replaced Richard Freedman.
Nice to see Mel McLaughlin involved.
AFL’s television landscape to change beyond the exit of Dennis Cometti
AFL football is not alone in starting a new deal with television.
The SANFL is in the same space. After three years of paying (an estimated $1 million a season) for McGuire Media to produce and supply telecasts to Channel Seven in Adelaide, there may be a very different deal next year — perhaps with Channel Nine, which last covered SANFL football in 1992.
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Ch 7 doing a stellar job with the Melbourne Cup coverage, always a highlight of the year 
Bruce flogging the air-time as usual though
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Would it be too hard to ask that this coverage be broadcast in HD? It’s 2016 for,fuck sake.
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Who watches tv on twitter? Just over the air would be nice in Sydney Brisbane and Perth.
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Been alot better this year, Racing.com is great as it just focus on the racing rather than the fashion.
I was at my uni’s bar to watch the race this afternoon. I’m not sure if they had Channel 7 on or Racing.com (they had both logos on screen for some of the time, and only the Racing.com one during the race).
If it was Channel 7, it was a piss poor effort - they only had cameras from the towers and no cameras in the chase car that they usually have. It looked like a bog standard race you’d see every day on Sky Channel at the TAB.
If it was Racing.com, I wonder why they didn’t take the video feed from Channel 7 (I did notice a Nissan Patrol following the horses around the track, so I’d think they had a camera in there).
It’s in HD in Melbourne & Adelaide.
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That was racing.com, no doubt contractual arrangements with Seven getting the better broadcast. Remember under TVN and Sky in years gone by they had to show the Flemington Carnival races on delay.