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Gallery: Rio Olympics production

This is the view into the Olympic Broadcasting Services master control in Rio.

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It takes a lot to bring the Olympics to our screens.

This is the view into the Olympic Broadcasting Services master control area in the International Broadcast Centre in Rio.

Seven also has a smaller master control room in its production office in the IBC (below)

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In Rio Seven has a room in the IBC where people can do crosses to Sunrise or Seven News. There are also crosses from Olympic venues and locations around the city.

Seven also has two outdoor posts which overlook Olympic Park, primarily used for Sunrise and Seven News.

Seven’s main set is back in Redfern with hosts Hamish McLachlan, Jim Wilson, Mel McLaughlin, Todd Woodbridge and Kylie Gillies, plus the the News Updates team.

As of yesterday Seven had now notched up 21.6m Olympic online streams plus social video views at:
Facebook 18.5m
YouTube 5.4m
Twitter 3.3m

A few people in Rio have even downloaded a VPN app just to watch the Games through Seven’s own Olympics app, despite the geo-blocking.

Here’s a selection of Seven commentators on the ground, plus sports stars including the Campbell sisters.

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13 Responses

  1. I’m enjoying Seven/Telstra’s app on my desktop (when it isn’t showing error messages). No watermarks, no commentary, just the original OBS feed whenever you want to watch it. It’s what we’ve been wanting for many years. Not even Foxtel at the last Olympics were able to match that.

  2. Yes an informative “menu” is an important part of any major TV coverage. It should be shown regularly and it really is so easy to do. I think 7 wants to confuse us because no sport is live in prime time. They should definitely be showing more “menus”.

  3. Seven have this huge impressive production facility but they don’t “super” any footage so at any particular time you don’ have any idea what you’re watching. If I’m watching the swimming – is it a Mens 100m freestyle heat, semi or final – who would know ? Every event has been the same.
    They also haven’t offered a concise program guide as to what events are on at what time and on what channel.
    All in all a very average performance given they just take the feeds from someone else.

    1. Thank God! I thought it was just me. I have no idea what is being shown, what is coming up later on and if it is really live, replay or edited highlights. Sometimes having 3 channels without a proper guide is worse than having only 1 channel.

      1. Think they have been transparent with whatever is live is watermarked live but yes very hard to work out what is on which channel . Don’t think the FTA coverage is that much better than when Seven shared with SBS but with the app if you really wanted to see something then at least you have the option

  4. Of all the world timezones, I don’t think there is a worse one for Australians than the east coast of South America. It is hard for Seven to keep anything fresh for primetime; fortunately their app is good.

    Hopefully all this will be a memory when the Olympics are in Tokyo in 2020 unless NBC flex their muscles and the finals are allfirst thing in the morning in Tokyo to align with US east coast prime-time.

  6. Nothing.Beats.Live.Sport. That’s the premise and with an unfavourable time zone there’s really no live sport in prime time. I think the prime channel ratings are soft, consequently 7 needs all these other “platforms” to make it worthwhile.

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