Start of 500 hours live on July 24th with the Olympic football tournament, opening ceremony on July 26th from 7:25 p.m
Vienna (OTS) – After the EURO is before the Olympics: ORF will broadcast the Summer Games in Paris (from July 26th to August 11th, 2024) in full – ORF 1 (from 9:00 a.m. to midnight) and ORF SPORT + (from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m.) will be there for a total of 490 hours of Olympic channels. It starts on July 24th with the Olympic football tournament and the match between Argentina and Morocco. The eagerly awaited opening ceremony on the Seine will be live on ORF 1’s program on July 26th from 7:25 p.m. ORF Sport will report daily from the “Haus Austria” in the “Pavilion Montsouris”, the meeting point for Austrian athletes Celebrities and fans (all details about the TV broadcast schedule can be found at presse.ORF.at). The offer is rounded off by radio live entries, accompanying further reporting on the Olympic channel on sport.ORF.at, streams on ORF ON and a look “behind the scenes” in the ORF social media offerings.
As with the EURO, the center of ORF reporting will be the new ORF sports studio, where the “Zeit im Bild” programs were broadcast until February 2023. Using state-of-the-art technology with a convertible studio design and, among other things, playable from studio floor to ceiling using augmented reality elements, an exciting combination of virtual elements, video, image and sound recordings as well as graphics for the audience is created with just one click. All ORF Sport live broadcasts will in future be broadcast from the new sports studio.
Live 29 hours a day on ORF 1 and ORF SPORT +
When the 2024 Summer Olympics take place in Paris, the sports day for ORF fans will not last 24, but 29 hours. Because:
ORF 1 becomes the Olympic channel every day from 9 a.m. to midnight, ORF SPORT + from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. The ORF correspondent office in Paris is involved in editorial and production technology. Together with the radio live entries, the accompanying Olympic channel on sport.ORF.at, the comprehensive streaming offering on ORF ON and the “behind the scenes” insights via ORF social media offerings, sports fans won’t miss anything . To ensure that local athletes are in the picture, the ORF is in Paris with around 40 employees and eight “flying” camera teams – in collaboration with the ÖOC.
The ORF has the Olympic motto “Being there is everything”: the competitions of all local Olympic starters should be shown live, and all top sports will also be shown live, such as the athletics and swimming competitions.
Under the overall leadership of Hans Hengst and the team leader in Paris, Gerhard Lackner, Oliver Polzer, Karoline Rath-Zobernig, Bernhard Stöhr and Alina Zellhofer will host the daily “Olympia Studio” broadcasts. Rainer Pariasek, Lukas Schweighofer, Caroline Plantl, Daniel Warmuth, Veronika Kratochwil and Paul Passler collect current interviews in Paris, especially with Austrian athletes.
The commentators for the Olympic competitions are Dietmar Wolff and Thomas König (athletics), Dieter Helbig (sailing), Andreas Barth (basketball, 3×3), Norbert Belina (climbing), Michael Berger (golf), Peter Brunner (road cycling, track cycling). and judo), Alina Eberstaller (breaking), Michael Guttmann (diving, synchronized swimming, basketball, water polo), Johannes Hahn (swimming, ball sports, marathon swimming), Mathias Haiden (weightlifting), Thomas Hölzl (wrestling, taekwondo), Boris Kastner -Jirka (opening, mountain bike, triathlon, rugby, ball sports), Johannes Karner (shooting, archery, boxing, ball sports), Megan Leybourne (gymnastics, trampoline), Michael Mangge (surfing, skateboard, BMX), Gerfried Nagel (ball sports), Toni Oberndorfer (table tennis), Lukas Osztovics (rowing, canoe slalom & sprint), Michael Pinter (badminton), Oliver Polzer (tennis, closing ceremony), Karoline Rath-Zobernig (rhythmic gymnastics), Thomas Rathgeb (fencing, modern pentathlon), Michael Roscher (equestrian sports) and Uli Schwarz (hockey, handball, water polo).
The Paralympic Games will also be taking place in Paris from August 28th to September 8th, from which ORF Sport will also be reporting comprehensively with a team in Paris.
Olympia in ORF III
On Saturday, July 27th, ORF III is dedicating the “zeit.geschichte” documentary “Berlin 1936 – Nazi Olympics” (8:15 p.m.) to the history of the Olympic Games: The film shows the collaboration between the National Socialists and the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which transformed the Olympic Games from an elite event into a global spectacle.
Olympic Games Paris 2024 on ORF Hitradio Ö3
The Ö3 sports editorial team takes Ö3 listeners to the Olympic Games in Paris! The Ö3 sports reporters Veronika Kratochwil, who competed as a diver at the 2008 Olympic Games, Wolfgang Eichinger and Gerhard Prohaska report on the medal decisions with Austrian participation. They report from the sports venues, from the medal parties in the Austria House and from the side events to provide mood reports and background information.
Olympic Games Paris 2024 on ORF sport.ORF.at, ORF ON and ORF TELETEXT
sport.ORF.at and ORF ON are putting together a multimedia offering that enables all sports fans to get a continuous and quick overview of everything happening at the Olympic Games in Paris via stories, streams, live blogs, etc.:
sport.ORF.at creates an accompanying special channel that clearly shows the course of competitions in dozens of sports. Daily multimedia live blogs with all the latest information, reports on what is happening in the individual sports venues as well as a statistics and table section with all the results at a glance make sport.ORF.at the number one online contact point for the Olympics. The Austrian athletes and their performance in Paris are the particular focus of the ORF multimedia sports reporters on site, who also supply sport.ORF.at with stories.
The comprehensive offering on the streaming platform ORF ON (centrally summarized as part of its own Olympic video lane) and also on sport.ORF.at provides live streams and videos on demand of all ORF television broadcasts as well as the entire TV coverage of other programs relating to the Summer Games including the “Olympia Studios”. This ensures that sports fans can always be part of the games directly via laptop, tablet and smartphone.
In the ORF TELETEXT, the focus of the sports magazine from page 200 will also be on the Paris Games. The focus is on pre- and post-reporting on the most important competitions, live tickers and result lists.
Highest quality with ORF technology
State-of-the-art production and transmission technologies guarantee that fans of the Summer Olympics can enjoy the best picture and sound quality. The signals provided digitally by the host broadcasters from all sports venues in France converge in the ORF media campus in the “Content Management Center”, are connected to the ORF commentator feeds and made available for linear TV as well as for streaming via web and apps. Broadcasts and studio broadcasts are handled centrally in the renovated sports control center RP 7. ORF camera teams on site can also use “Cellular Network Bonding” technology to upload highly mobile TV images to Vienna and also live in broadcasts.
Olympia Paris 2024 barrier-free on ORF
The ORF also broadcasts the Summer Olympics in Paris in a comprehensive, barrier-free manner on ORF 1 and ORF SPORT +. For the blind and visually impaired audience, the competitions are offered in an audio version. This acoustic image description by experienced audio commentators can be heard by switching to the second sound channel (TV set) and to ORF ON (stream). For deaf and hearing-impaired viewers, live subtitles are available daily from 1 p.m. on ORF TELETEXT on page 777 and on ORF ON.
The barrier-free programs are available as video-on-demand on on.ORF.at.
The barrier-free transmission of major sporting events – whether the Olympic Games, the World Ski Championships, Formula 1 or football – with subtitles and audio commentary has been the standard on ORF television for more than ten years and is provided in the highest technical quality.
ORF provides comprehensive, barrier-free coverage of the Paralympics in Paris
The ORF reports on the most important major sporting event for people with physical disabilities on ORF 1 in a comprehensive, barrier-free manner using audio commentary and subtitles. An acoustic image description is available for the blind and visually impaired audience. This audio version can be set via the remote control on the second sound channel or can be heard via ORF ON. For deaf and hearing-impaired viewers, live subtitles are available on ORF TELETEXT on page 777 and on ORF ON.
“Sport aktuell” also in Austrian sign language
Shortly before the Summer Olympics in Paris, ORF took the next important step in terms of accessibility: the daily “Sport aktuell” program has recently been offered shortly before 8 p.m. on ORF Europe and ORF ON in Austrian sign language. The ORF “Accessibility and Inclusion” department is expanding its offering during the high-reach period around “ZIB 1” – especially for the many sports enthusiasts who use ÖGS. The highly qualified sign language interpreters Barbara Gerstbach, Ferdinand Leszecz, Lydia Sammer, Sabine Zeller and Delil Yilmaz work for the ORF: They offer the only daily news program with ÖGS to the approximately 10,000 people in Austria who use sign language.