Tokyo Olympics Coverage

[RabbitEars]

Yeah same. Not a lot of national advertisers which has surprised me.

[ticky]

The world feed graphics are not good at all. I’ve seen better font choices on community television.

[foxyrover]

@VictorianSun

milkman

Millman?

[VictorianSun]

Edwina and Matt have taken over (so let’s assume they take the shift from 2pm?)

[OnAir]

Let’s try and keep this to discussing Australian coverage as much as possible.

Overseas sets, interesting coverage/pres elsewhere is fine but running commentary on another country’s broadcast that not many of the board has seen is probably better elsewhere - like an existing thread for that country’s TV product (NZ, Britain, US etc)

[TV.Cynic]

Having them in Sydney in front of a green screen of the Melbourne studio doesn’t seem to be the correct perspective.

[VictorianSun]

I assume Steve Robilliard commentating the gymnastics is for the OBS not seven?

[AJ_Lucantonio]

Yep - he and Liz are on OBS exactly the same as Rio

[mitch]

honestly they could just use the sunrise set/desk for Sydney and it’d look better.

[VictorianSun]

I wonder if we will see ‘Olympic Updates’ like we saw at Rio, Gold Coast and PyeongChang?

[William_C]

I wish Seven would play something else other than the Men’s Road Race. Go in between other sports and then come back to the Road Race after an hour.

[cmo]

@AJ_Lucantonio

Yep - he and Liz are on OBS exactly the same as Rio

So 7 probably deciding given two Australian voices for the world feed they wouldn’t need to employ their own commentary for a sport where we would struggle to win a medal.

[AJ_Lucantonio]

I’m of the personal opinion that there should be a local voice for most sports (well at least sports Australia is entered in).

[VictorianSun]

NBC boxes in Parade of Nations graphics

[Super_SC]

You can pick out some events to watch on 7Plus. From fencing to badminton to archery to Cycling.

[Jeffmister]

@FirstAt4

With so many eyes on 7 last night, does anyone fee that it was a missed opportunity to promote 7News in some of the many ad breaks?

I understand the huge dollars and the reasoning for the ads, but surely a short, appropriate promo or two for their news service would be a given to capitalise on viewers. Something promoting their exclusive coverage and ability to show highlights, for example.

Not sure about other cities but I definitely saw such a promo run in Melbourne during the pre-show.

@BigVic

Good to see 7plus showing every event live and at no extra cost.

The downside for people like me who switch from stream to stream regularly though is having to put up with pre-roll ads (and usually the same ones) every time.

I understand that’s the necessary price paid for having free coverage but it’s still annoying nonetheless.

[bacco007]

@RabbitEars

Yeah same. Not a lot of national advertisers which has surprised me.

It appears to be the same handful of advertisers as well

@ticky

The world feed graphics are not good at all. I’ve seen better font choices on community television.

I really dont understand the hate - they’re simple, theres no need for them to be flashy

[Biscuit45]

@FirstAt4

With so many eyes on 7 last night, does anyone fee that it was a missed opportunity to promote 7News in some of the many ad breaks?

Haven’t been able to take any caps, but there were a few promos in Perth last night. One touted 7NEWS and Sunrise in regards to Olympic coverage and had a similar tagline to “Australia’s Olympic Network” (something like “Australia’s Olympic News”?)

Another featured later on that was similar to the “Know the News” promos seen in other states and featured the three-note piano jingle of “The Mission”.

[VictorianSun]

Agreed about the ads it’s very frustrating and annoying. Maybe they could make it that once it’s been let’s say 10 minutes since you’ve clicked on a new stream then the ad is played. If your channel surfing though between the streams it then wouldn’t come up as an ad?

[John.S]

Install adblocker, no pre-roll ads on 7+