Bruce falls into a vulnerable age group doesn’t he?
They wouldn’t be on set during these games anyway, from my understanding. The rules for athletes are incredibly strict around any outside interaction and that includes media (as they won’t be in the Olympic village/bubble).
Just not worth it in this year of all years.
They are only hosting the late night show Tokyo Shinya, which I think will be similar to Yum Cha (with Andrew Daddo) when Seven showed the Beijing Games in 2008. Doesn’t really matter to me.
I remember this. One of the most stupid anoucments I’ve ever heard. One of the good things COVID did was hopefully stop this from happening.
If it was going to happen it should have been made available to all Fetch customers rather than just a handful, I think.
You had to be an Optus customer to watch in 4K. Was a stupid proposal
Specifically, you had to be an Optus customer with Optus 5G Home Internet and an Optus Fetch box. Meaning next to no one would have been watching.
5G was only rolled out for selected customers and the iPhone 12 wasn’t released.
Nothing to do with an iPhone or any mobile, you would had to have fixed Optus 5G Home Internet.
Exactly. It’s a waste of time doing it this way. They’re better off thinking of ways to bring the 4k to as many people as possible.
While ideal of course - what you propose costs literally millions more dollars. And the return on that investment would amount to over-capitalising on their investment.
Firstly, it’s less disjointed having presenters who’ll be able to present throughout the entire Olympics rather than having to swap halfway through. Not to mention that considering how much he’s been scaling back his commitments over the past few years, Bruce might just want to focus on commentating athletics.
Secondly, there’s going to be a lot of networks around the world who won’t be sending many presenters (if any) to Tokyo for obvious reasons. I mentioned this a few days ago but it’s been reported that some of the BBC’s coverage will be presented where BBC Sport is based (Salford, Manchester) rather than in Tokyo
er they’ve been doing it for a while and despite some nigglers who think that they can do it better most think they do a good job … including the IOC …
Johanna Griggs has revealed on Instagram that several Aussie athletes will join Seven’s Paralympics coverage once they finish their competitions.
…working alongside the fabulous Annabelle Williams hosting the 2021 Paralympics where we’ll be joined by Paralympic legends… Ryley Batt, Maddie De Rozario and Curtis McGrath once they’ve finished competing. Cannot Wait!
https://www.instagram.com/p/CNoeRU2AYqp/
During today’s virtual presentation, Seven also announced a competition where viewers would vote for their favourite advertisement of the Games.
(Seven West Media chief revenue officer and director of Olympics, Kurt) Burnette flags that full details of the competition will be released next week, but tells us the ad does not have to be locally produced. “The criteria is that it must run during the games, and it’s voted for by the consumer. You just have to register, there’s no specialist panel of creatives voting.
“We’re doing it because we want to highlight great creative throughout the games because these events bring Super Bowl moments for creative.”
I’ll be changing to another stream when the ads start, so I will not see any advertising.
Ratings will be big given the favourable Timezone. But with streaming it will be interesting to see the numbers on the terrestrial channels.
Spot on. This sentence answers a lot of questions/concerns tbh.
A shame with coronavirus, as Tokyo’s time was so ideal for Australia.
I also think it’s frankly reckless to be hosting the Olympics this year anyway. But if they’re going to do it, they should host/broadcast it with the utmost caution.
With most overseas visitors banned from attending the Olympics, the official broadcasters will have to do their best to bring the colour and excitement of the Games back home.
Imagine if much of their entire team were sent over too and then there was some major outbreak or quarantine… Kochie, Nat, some of their major sport, news, news sport and news reporters would’ve been stuck, not to mention technical broadcast, production and other crew!