Paris 2024 Summer Olympics
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France Télévisions has unveiled how it will scheme its daily Paris 2024 schedule: France 2 and France 3 will free up the entirety of its schedule for live coverage (with the exception of its JTs, Télématin and the Les Chemins de la Foi religious strand on Sundays); during these times (roughly 12h-14h and 19h-20h55, plus 8h30-12h on Sundays), France 4 will take over as an overflow service, leading to Okoo programming being cut during the Games, and, depending on overruns, also Culturebox. The lone france.tv curated stream will eventually focus on the new breed of sports being introduced to the Games (3×3 basketball, breaking, skateboarding, surfing, sport climbing...); whilst France 2 will focus on popular sports (emphasizing swimming and athletics in prime time) and France 3 will be tailored to team-driven sports.

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The announcement was made during the Médias en Seine conference Wednesday, where it was also announced Radio France will temporarily restructure franceinfo radio into an Olympic-information-led service, with live coverage of events, plus service information. France Inter is also launching a daily round-up show. As a result, Radio France is staffing its small sports department, increasing payroll from 15 to around 100 journalists, plus a number of Olympics-only volunteers and an editorial partnership with L'Équipe which concludes after the Games are over.

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Nine’s Paris 2024 team, announced in September, including both core Wide World of Sports and 9News personalities. James Bracey and Allison Langdon will be the primetime presenters, and Todd Woodbrige and Dylan Alcott will helm the bulk of the coverage alongside returning presenters Eddie McGuire and Leila McKinnon, who were a part of Nine’s London 2012 coverage. Additionally, the entire Today team of Karl Stefanovic, Sarah Abo, Alex Cullen and Brooke Boney, will present the morning segment of their coverage, integrated within the Today show. Roz Kelly and Tony Jones will report for the 9News TV bulletins and platforms.

Nine is really investing a lot on its coverage, not only bringing its popular line-up of commentators and expert analysts, but also a line-up of Aussie Olympians into the mix: including Ian Thorpe, Steve Hooker, Dave Culbert, Andrew Gaze, Phil Liggett, James Tomkins and more.

Unlike Seven’s recent efforts, Nine will have an on-site main studio at Trocadero Square, on the grounds of the Chaillot National Dance Theatre, which will feature XR and AR elements and a live look to the Eiffel Tower. Additionally, Nine will have exclusive cameras inside the venues and the Olympic Village, including cams for stroboscopic replays and 360 replays, low angle tracking, 3D shot visualisation and first person drones for all key sports, plus behind the scenes vanity cams and exclusive press cameras. It will also broadcast coverage from a satellite studio at the IBC, used mostly for 9News and Today live coverage, plus OBs from key events (instead of relying on a flashcam position at the MPC, also like Seven did).

Alongside live, continuous coverage on Nine and 9Gem, all of Nine's TV networks (including 9Go!, 9Life and 9Rush) will feature "Olympic-themed" specials of its regular programming. Streaming on 9Now will also have a special Olympic homepage will direct access to the networks and also the 40 special Olympic channels, plus short VOD formats recapping the day's events, plus Team Australia-specific and sport-specific summaries. Additional to radio coverage on Nine's talk stations, 2GB's Ben Fordham and 3AW's Ross and Russ breakfast shows will broadcast from Paris, and a dedicated all-Olympics radio station will be available on DAB+ local muxes (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Canberra, Darwin, Hobart, the Gold Coast and Mandurah).

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So France get two TV streams and a TV stream free to air then. No secret I'm no fan of the Discovery deal but that extra stream should make the difference.

Nice neat linear schedule to thanks to the back to news bulletins giving a 2 hour block on France 4 - although losing the 8pm hour from the main channel feels like a chunk of the main action - though if events are scheduled around it for after 9pm that'll suit BBC1 with big events from 8pm.
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(23-11-2023, 07:27 PM)Brekkie Wrote:  So France get two TV streams and a TV stream free to air then.  No secret I'm no fan of the Discovery deal but that extra stream should make the difference.

Nice neat linear schedule to thanks to the back to news bulletins giving a 2 hour block on France 4  - although losing the 8pm hour from the main channel feels like a chunk of the main action - though if events are scheduled around it for after 9pm that'll suit BBC1 with big events from 8pm.

Swimming finals are scheduled 19:30-21:30 BST (20:30-22:30 CEST), and the athletics evening sessions are roughly 18:30-21:00 BST (19:30-22:00 CEST). So those schedules don't exactly line-up with France tv's schedule. On the other hand, that works quite well with the BBC One news blocks (all track finals start after 19:30 like the swimming).

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NBC have released an innaugral Olympic promo, starring Megan Three Stallion and a fire breathing, talking, winged horse in front of a Versailles backdrop...

It has to be seen to be believed.

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That's quite funny TBH, but not quite sure how it gets people deciding to tune in to watch a live sporting event in 8 months time. Guess these early ads are more about appealing to advertisers than viewers.
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Quelle surprise!

Never saw how that would be a practicle anyway (or would not massively increase the budget).
The Stade de France would be unavailable as it will host the rugby sevens on days -2, -1 and +1, so not sure what other alternative would there be.

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There is also critiscm of extortionate ticket prices. Rule 1 of event organising should be affordable ticket means full stadia which means the best look and sound, but maybe not.

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I would imagine the Rugby events would be moved elsewhere to allow the OC to happen in the Stade de France should it be required

The Paralympic OC is also (for now) set to take place outside a stadium at Place de La Concorde
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I can't see any reports about Rugby Sevens being moved. Parc des Princes is being used for football whilst the Racing 92 arena is actually being converted into the swimming venue for the games.
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(21-12-2023, 11:55 AM)Brekkie Wrote:  I can't see any reports about Rugby Sevens being moved. Parc des Princes is being used for football whilst the Racing 92 arena is actually being converted into the swimming venue for the games.

That's the trouble really. There are no other venues big enough to host ceremonies apart from the Stade de France, and it should be too late to move the rugby out of there (tickets have been sold etc.). They have put themselves in an awkward position if the centre of the city can't be secure enough.


Interestingly, the page below lists the Stade Jean-Bouin (home of the rugby side Stade Français) as the host of rugby sevens, with the ceremonies at the Stade de France, but I think this must be from years ago before they announced the Seine ceremonies idea.

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It's only a contingency plan at the moment, though their opening ceremony plans always sounded like a security nightmare. Does feel like we've got to a point in society where the idea of organisations having a back up plan should their intended plan not be feasible as rather baffling to some journalists.
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