Tokyo 2020: Seven Olympics info

From Sunrise to late night, Seven has you covered for all the action from the Tokyo Olympics across Seven, 7mate, 7TWO, 7Plus -including streaming of 45 Live channels.

Seven’s Olympic Games
The Games of the XXXII Olympiad are live on Seven in what will be the country’s biggest-ever broadcast and digital event. For the first time in Australian free-to-air television history, there will be 45 dedicated Olympic channels across Seven and 7plus all live, free and in HD.

With Tokyo in substantially the same time zone, the stage is set perfectly for Australians to enjoy every moment of the Games’ 17 days, with all the biggest events poised to light up prime time.

Viewers will wake up to all the latest Olympic highlights, news and exclusive athlete interviews each day with Australia’s #1 breakfast show Sunrise before Johanna Griggs, returning for her seventh Olympic Games coverage, steers Seven’s morning broadcast alongside Luke Darcy.

Legendary Olympic sprinter Matt Shirvington and Edwina Bartholomew, who will be covering her third Olympic Games for Seven, then take the reins each afternoon.

Following 7NEWS live at 6.00 every night of the Games, two of Australia’s best sports broadcasters, Hamish McLachlan and Abbey Gelmi, will take audiences on a prime-time golden rollercoaster of competition.

The Olympics will be essential late-night viewing with only a one-hour time difference on the East Coast and as the night kicks on, viewers will be welcomed to Tokyo Shinya with Andy Maher, Lisa Sthalekar and Andrew Gaze, a show so mysterious, we can’t reveal any more.

Exactly 16 days after the Olympic Flame is extinguished in Tokyo, a new one will be lit, signalling the start of the Paralympic Games. Johanna Griggs, Paralympic gold medallist Annabelle Williams and Paralympics legend Kurt Fearnley will anchor Seven’s unprecedented coverage across Seven and 7plus featuring up to 16 live streams. Full broadcast details will be confirmed in coming weeks.

Sunrise is the place Australians will be able to see live competition and all the Olympic highlights every morning. David Koch and Natalie Barr will be live to Mark Beretta at the centre of all the action in Tokyo, while a panel of some of our greatest ever Olympians and athletes’ families will be cheering on as our Olympians go for Gold.

7NEWS, Australia’s official Olympic news service, is the only network with unrestricted access to the Games and will have the biggest team on the ground in Tokyo.

7NEWS Chief Correspondent Chris Reason and sports anchor Mel McLaughlin will lead a team of reporters, including Ashlee Mullany, Matthew Carmichael, Sharnelle Vella, Mylee Hogan, Rob Scott, Blake Johnson and Ryan Daniels, operating 24-hours a day from inside venues and alongside athletes, taking Australians into the inner sanctum.

And 7NEWS.com.au will be the #1 online destination for Olympic news, updates and daily event schedules. The website will feature a dedicated hub for results and medal tallies, plus all the latest breaking news, exclusive content, in-depth features and the greatest stories from the Games.

7plus: Your Olympics Hub
Seven West Media has unveiled the most advanced digital product in Australian viewing history to deliver the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 to all screens live and free from 23 July.

For the first time in Australian Olympics history, there will be one destination to watch every medal, every record and every inspiring moment from the Games.

7plus is the only place to watch over 40 channels of sport, see what’s on when, create a watchlist to follow your favourite events, choose a language or catch up on highlights – the most live streams ever hosted by an Australian broadcaster. Wherever you are, whatever you’re doing, the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 are just one click away on your SmartTV, mobile, tablet or computer.

Extending across Seven’s entire digital ecosystem including 7plus, 7NEWS. com.au and The West Australian, over one billion minutes will be streamed across the 17-day period, with four modes of viewing: live, full replay, Olympic minis (compressed replays) and short-form highlights.

The broadcast will feature a consistent experience across 20 different platforms allowing Australians to stream across any device of their choosing, and live EPG integration to ensure they never miss a moment.

Experience Evolution uses a data-driven approach to deliver a highly engaging, personalised and innovative experience to users. Experience Evolution introduces the following features to 7plus:

• Watchlist: Provides users with the ability to add their favourite sports to an easily discoverable watchlist.

• Continue Watching: This gives signed-in users the ability to watch a sport full replay and pick up where they left off via the continue watching carousel located on their home screen.

Captions: Live and VOD (including multilingual): To provide the ultimate accessible viewing experience for all of our users, it’s important to provide captioning to ensure as many users as possible can watch their favourite sports, events and highlights.

• Autoplay: The autoplay functionality provides viewers with a simple way to binge multiple event replays, highlights and sports minis without needing to lift a finger. It simply plays the next relevant piece of content.

• Chromecast and Airplay: As most people own multiple devices, including smart TVs and mobile phones, it’s becoming ever more important to provide a streaming service that supports this behaviour. The 7plus app will allow users to either Chromecast or Airplay content to their Chromecast or Airplay compatible device. This allows users to stream Tokyo 2020 on 7plus no matter the age of their television device.

• HD/SD selector: The 7plus player provides users with the ability to toggle between HD/SD to allow for the best and most data efficient streaming.

• Freeze Frame: A select, scaled range of devices have been enabled with Freeze Frame ads that appear as an overlay whenever a user pauses the content.

Australians will be able to keep up to date with all the latest news, the biggest and best moments, and exclusive content, on the 7Olympics social channels on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube.