Nine cameraman loses accreditation. (The Age)

From the article:

“Australian television network Channel Nine has been forced to hand back the accreditation of one of its cameramen.“

and

“It’s understood a Channel Nine cameraman walked into the velodrome with his equipment, breaching the rules for non-rights holders.

Nine sources said the cameraman had been out in the sun working for hours, was tired and went into the velodrome, sat in a chair and nodded off for about 10 minutes.“

also

“She told Olympic news website AroundTheRings.Com that the IOC had also issued a written warning to the network and another Australian TV broadcaster, Network Ten.

The warning to the Ten Network was believed to be because they breached the rules by broadcasting the women’s rowing eight media conference within 30 minutes of it taking place.“

I’ve been completely unimpressed by all the restrictions placed on the broadcasting of Olympic footage by the IOC and Channel 7. It is fair enough that they can purchase the rights to exclusively show the events live, or delayed but still in full, but it is not reasonable to claim exclusive usage of media conference footage for 30 minutes or to restrict other networks from showing gold medal or other highlights as would happen with any other sporting event. The message this sends out is that the Olympics is no longer about the sport - its now about money.

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