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Following on from earlier speculation, Nine has confirmed Eddie McGuire will spearhead its Winter Olympics coverage, together with Ken Sutcliffe.
Nine will broadcast more than 130 hours from Vancouver next February, in what is billed as the biggest free-to-air broadcast of the Olympic Winter Games ever seen in Australia.
McGuire will host the prime-time coverage with Sutcliffe hosting the daily live coverage. He will also commentate the Opening and Closing Ceremonies with Leila McKinnon.
Also on the Nine team are Cameron Williams, Steven Bradbury, Alisa Camplin, James Brayshaw, Michael Kennedy, Jay Onley, Phil Liggett, Steven Lee, Roger White, Andrew Voss, Belinda Noonan, Warren Smith, Mike McCann, Carla Zijlstra and Dwayne Russell.
They are joined by Grant Hackett, Giaan Rooney, Tony Jones, Tim Sheridan and Tim Gilbert, Damian Ryan, Peter Stefanovic, some of whom will report on the Vancouver atmosphere.
Nine Network Head of Sport, Steve Crawley, said, “This is an outstanding group of talented presenters, commentators and reporters set to bring Australian viewers all the action and excitement of the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games.
“Nine is committed to providing more than 130 hours of exceptional coverage across 17 days of elite competition.”
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Who decided that Eddie Maguire would be the right person to host the winter olympic coverage?? A Sports commentator and interviewer he most definately is not. His commentary during the opening ceremony was absolutely dreadful. His inability to pronounce foreign names correctly, ask sensible questions during interviews and his constant pronouncement of “Australia” as “Austraya” are all soooo annoying. How did he get that job over others who have much more expertise and articulation??
The winter olympics coverage is incredibly disappointing. I want to watch the sporting events, not little sections of highlights.
Learned my lesson. If Nine hosts the next olympics coverage…Foxtell must be the way to go.
Why can’t Eddie Maguire, and many other commentators, pronounce our country’s name correctly? Australia has an “L” . Why do Eddie, Grant Hackett and many others insist on saying “Austraya”?
The Olympics would all be so watchable if we could just watch the sport and leave all the plastic commentating (mostly Eddie McGuire) somewhere else. Stick with your AFL Eddie!
Eddie Maguire’s interview with Begg-Smith was a disaster in my opinion. The ‘we was robbed’ line is just un-Australian – the Canadian born Begg-Smith was clearly uncomfortable with Maguire’s infantile questioning – and far more ‘aussie’.
Begg-Smith did a brilliant job on the moguls. The Canadian pipped him by a tiny margin, with a faster run. Maguire should get off television.
Sounds very Aussie to me!
At the opening ceremony we hear the athlete taking the oath on behalf of all athletes. She hopes for drug free dope free olymoics. Tonight in banter from Maguire and Malloy we hear that when describing some part of the opening ceremony (I think it was the uniform of a country) the word stoned (I think this was describing what the team unifrom looked like.) Regardless what they were bantering about surely the word stoned is terribly inappropriate in such a context. Shame on them and I hope some one can pull them up!
Eddie was a disaster during the opening ceremony. His robotic reading of the context for each aspect of the ceremony was way below even his most lackluster performance standard. It was absolutely dreadful and marred what would have otherwise been a stunning spectacular. What were you thinking?
Jay Onley is gorgeous tho. I will be watching him, not Eddie!
nice to see it on nine!
@neon Kittin…its a whole lot btter than your beloved CH7… sevens coverages was nothing short of crap!
maguire may not be everyone cup of tea but atleast he knows his sport and knows how to do his job.
no Ray Warren?
great cant wait. 9 wont have to do much to be better than anything 7 did with it’s coverage of last years olympics. all the stars that are heading up the commentary and the lead ups are a heap better than what 7 threw at us. sonia kruger, tom william, rebecca wilson and one of the daddo’s. they were terrible
thank god 9 has the rights
Cant wait go nine
Karl will be pi**ed if Cameron gets to go to Vancouver and he doesn’t! lol
Mr. Do-Bee, as much as I dislike Eddie, you can’t be serious about Ken Sutcliffe, the man can’t go through a sentence without stuffing up, I love my tennis and golf, believe me I have had to put up with him for many years. Always gets names of players wrong etc. At Least Eddie can speak.
Nine really not much else to use. I would prefer Tim Sheridan hosting than anyone else really, best of a fairly poor bunch really.
The thing I like best about Go! is it is brilliant for escaping sports I have no interest in. The Olympics hardly fits their format, and aside from curling the Winter Olympics fits very nicely into the category of sport I have no interest in.
Dave, Ken Sutcliffe is infinitely more watchable than McGuire and he’s not rammed down your throat at every opportunity as Ed is.
I don’t understand how Tony Jones keeps getting relegated well behind Eddie when he is the face of Nine News sport in Melbourne. I hold both Ken and Tony in much higher regard than the greedy man who wants his finger in every pie.
I won’t be watching. Eddie McGuire?? Ken Sutcliffe?? James Brayshaw?? Cameron Williams?? Andrew Voss?? It’s liked they’ve said, ok who’s the most annoying people on tv, let’s pick them. And Grant Hackett and Giaan Rooney, they do realise all the water is frozen. Don’t see how they’re relevant. Giaan Rooney isn’t even that great on tv anyway. My mind boggles at the decisions Nine make. I can already see the 2012 London Olympics being impossible to watch.
@newtaste, they’ll probably just have their prime-time highlights after the cricket starting from around. Like Seven’t coverage I’rm expecting the primetime coverage to be from 9.30pm onwards.
I’m more curious about the live coverage they’ll have but I’m sure they will make sure Today starts at 5.30am sharp…
Mr. Do-Bee, when will Nine realise people south of Wogonda really don’t care for Ken Sutcliffe?
so that means I’ll be watching Foxtel’s coverage then…So sick of Eddie!
what Nine would be wise to do is leave GO!s schedule totally intact – maybe put some extra new content on there over the two weeks – that makes GO! a place to turn to if you don’t want to watch the winter olympics (of which im sure there are plenty of people) and hopefully get some extra viewers on board
When will Nine realise that people north of Wodonga really don’t care for Eddie? I will probably sample some of Nine’s coverage but if I have to suffer through too many studio links fronted by McGuire I will turn off.
Russell: There is a good reason why, Nine can’t use GO! for Olympic coverage.
At least NBC don’t have to follow a anti-siphoning list.
@Russell they can’t show the winter olympics on go! unless the event has already been played on nine or at the same time as nine.
They can not play anything thats on the anti-siphoning list on digital multichannels before it airs on the main channel.
Please tell me Nine only won the rights for these two games only…most of these people probably have a lower q score than Kyle Sandilands.
leila…why?
one wonders what Leila would be doing if she wasnt married to David Gyngell?
Vancouver and cricket clash on about four nights. What happens on these night?
Yay 2 weeks I won’t be watching Nine in Feb… nothing new there.
Nine is committed to inflicting the same faces on their viewers day-in, day-out.
Honestly, I can’t imagine watching the Winter Olympics much now. Every time I have to endure Maguire’s non-personality on screen I want to break things.
Yawn …
In the US, NBC Universal uses all it’s networks to provide Olympic coverage: NBC, USA, Bravo, CNBC, msnbc, SyFy, Telemundo etc
Nine would be wise to do the same in Oz, and spread coverage across Nine and Go!
Would mean the two networks would dominate for those two weeks, and could really get people to go digital, tune into Go! and learn where Go! is on their channel dial.
Could also give Go! a fantastic ratings launch pad to launch some new shows out of.
The younger skewing extreme snow sports would be a perfect fit for Go!
David, any way of finding out if coverage will be on Nine and Go!?