Tokyo Olympics Coverage

Television Seven Network
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Does anyone know this song from the promo?
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This Is Our Time by Jack Gray

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LOL remember the one they used last year in the lead up to the GC Comm Games “golden years” or something, and the teenager actually performed it on Opening Ceremony night to negative reaction

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Early details about Seven’s Tokyo Olympics coverage next year:


Multilingual captioning is a great idea.

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And great to see all 35 channels available at no extra cost

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The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games will be two steps up from Rio 2016.

  • Multilingual language
  • You can stream all 35 channels available at no cost. If I am going to stream the swimming commentary, will I be listening to Basil Zempilas calling the race or a worldwide feed?
  • This will be a time zone friendly for Australians (though Japan will get daylight saving from 20 July through to mid August).
  • Also, Kudos to Seven of having the primary channel in HD for the big event.
  • I think Seven will take out the ratings year for 2020 by a substantial margin over Nine.
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She will also be part of the Tokyo Olympics coverage for Seven.

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Interesting that SWM’s former Chief Digital Officer, Clive Dickens who moved to Optus earlier this year has probably been involved in this arrangement.

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Mediaweek notes that for people in areas where 5G Optus broadband is available, a package with the internet connection, an Optus Sport subscription and a Fetch Mighty set-top box will cost $100 monthly, to see Seven’s Olympics coverage in 4K.

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So many hoops to jump just to see the Olympics in 4k. I don’t see many people going for it, especially after Optus’ World Cup debacle.

But after C7 Sport I don’t think Seven would want to do it with Foxtel.

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C7 Sport and the Sydney 2000 Olympics. What happened to the C7 case for the Olympics in 2000?

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Just think how many 4K channels Foxtel would have for the Olympics if they had it 5!!

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That’s just ridiculous; what idiots agreed to limit UHD/4k to people who:

  1. Live in an Optus 5G area
  2. Subscribe to Optus 5G home + Optus Sport
  3. Subscribe to Fetch Mighty

Why are the rest of the population, including those who already have sufficient Internet connectivity for UHD streaming, and those who are already signed up (contracted) to another Internet provider, denied the ability to UHD?

Seven continue to screw Olympics viewers over; 2000 in 4x3, then they stuck with SD for too long, and now this.

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The 5g network coverage will be larger by the start of the Olympics then it is today

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The World Anti-doping Agency has banned Russia from all major sports for 4 years including the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

But athletes who can prove they are untainted by the doping scandal will be able to compete under a neutral flag.

Rusada has 21 days to appeal against the ban. If it does so, the appeal will be referred to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas).

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True but then again will it still be able to deliver 5G with more people logging in to view 4K it has to fail!!

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Irrelevant; I don’t want to use 5G for fixed home Internet instead of FttP.

This should be available as a short-term subscription, over any Internet connection (with enough bandwidth).

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A faint hope from Clive Dickens at Optus that the 4K Olympics coverage might be available to Optus NBN Fetch Mighty subscribers.

Full story:

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So that’s a no then