Olympic broadcasters back social to boost Games audience

The Seven Network's Rio 2016 Media Kit has a pertinent quote from Kurt Burnette (Seven's Event Director - Olympic Games and Chief Revenue Officer), where he notes that: You are about to become...

News Access Rules in force for Rio 2016

With the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio now just a few days away it is timely to take a look at the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) News Access Rules. That is the rules that govern the reporting of the Olympic...

Olympic build up continues

With 76 days until the start of the 2016 Rio Summer Olympic Games, Australia's Olympic broadcaster, the Seven Network, is ramping up its Olympic build-up coverage, with the announcement that from May 28, a weekly...

V8 Supercars' SuperView suffers major outage

International fans of the Australia's V8 Supercars Championship faced a live streaming blackout for Race 3 of the Clipsal 500 today, with V8 Supercars' online streaming offering, known as SuperView, suffering...

Star strikes last minute deal with Fox Sports & Nine

The ICC World T20 in India commences this Tuesday and until today it had appeared that television coverage of the tournament would not be available to Australian viewers, with no Australian broadcaster...