[Stooky Bill]

Even the sat uplink kit was set up by middle of last week.

I'd have thought a big event like this would all be fibre maybe with satellite as a backup?

With the number of broadcasters who need it, it's easier to do it by satellite - it can be downlinked by all their members. Generally the EBU use satellite for multilateral (feeds going to many locations)  and their fibre network for unilateral (feeds going to individual)

I'm not sure there's any fibre distribution of the contest multilateral, except for non members. But that doesn't mean it couldn't be done should one member lose it's satellite downlinks