Supersport announces Olympic broadcast plans

On a fancy boat party in Durban yesterday, Supersport announced their broadcast plans for the upcoming Rio Olympics. The plans are summarised below:

Channel	Minimum Bouquet	Sports
Supersport4	Compact	Opening ceremony, swimming, athletics, marathon, walk, closing ceremony.
Supersport 5	Premium	Hockey, handball, volleyball (beach and indoors), gymnastics, trampoline.
Supersport 6	Premium	Tennis, basketball, four cycling disciplines, table tennis, badminton.
Supersport 7	Premium	Boxing, weight lifting, judo.
Supersport12	Premium	Olympic News Channel.
Supersport13	Premium	Watersport: rowing, diving, etc.
Supersport14	Premium	Fencing, modern pentathlon, equestrian.

Even though the latter three are currently not available in South Africa, they will be made available for the Olympics. If you wondering why Supersport 10 and 11 are skipped, 10 is a sports channel focussing on Nigerian sport whilst 11 will be used exclusively for English Premier League in the rest of Africa.

All channels will be available in High Definition.

The soccer tournament will be shown on Supersport 3, but not exclusively.

The rugby and golf tournaments will be shown on Supersport 1, but not exclusively.

Every gold medal event will be shown live on Supersport.

SuperSport will also have roving reporters in Rio with Crystal Arnold, Carol Tshabalala, James Wokabi and Rui de Oliveira (Portuguese) reporting directly from various venues and the team village. Former Olympic champion, Ryk Neethling, will once again report from poolside.

In addition, Supersport will be producing Ola Rio, a magazine show that will be produced from Rio.