Olympics

Sunday, 14 September 2008
6.00pm

ABC1 continues to keep you up-to-date with all of Australia's medal winning moments with two one-hour highlight programs each day.

Steve Robilliard presents highlights of the day's session of competition from 6-7pm on ABC1, and Karen Tighe will present the evening session's highlights at approx 11.30pm (start time varies due to regular programming requirements) on ABC1.

These programs will screen simultaneously in high definition on ABC HD (digital channel 20) and be available on ABC iView.

Wednesday, 17 September 2008
9.55pm

Celebrate Australia's success at the Paralympic Games Beijing 2008 when your host, Adam Hills, along with Paralympic Gold Medallist Louise Sauvage and ABC Sport presenter Karen Tighe bring you all the colour and excitement of the spectacular Closing Ceremony, LIVE, on Wednesday September 17 at 9.55pm.

As the 13th Paralympic Games comes to a close, over 170 athletes from every Australian state and territory, who have competed in 13 sports over 11 action-packed days, take to the stadium one last time to bask in their achievements in Beijing.

The ceremony will be broadcast simultaneously on ABC1 and ABC2, and in high definition on ABC HD (digital channel 20). The ceremony will also be available on ABC iView.

The Olympic Games on Seven dominates Monday: peak audience of 3.8 million Australians.

The Games of the XXIX Olympiad deliver a powerhouse Monday – with a peak audience of 3.8 million.

The Olympic Games on Seven score an average audience of 2.80 million in primetime (58% audience share) and 1.44 million (60% audience share) across all broadcast hours on Monday.

Yum Cha peaks at 644,000 viewers (55% audience share). The Olympic Games on Seven hit a peak audience of 1.51 million (72% audience share) in the morning and 1.79 million (69% audience share) in the afternoon. Late afternoon peaks at 2.47 million (44% audience share). Primetime delivers a powerhouse peak of 3.779 million (58% audience share) and late-night hits a peak of 2.55 million (63% audience share).

Seven’s coverage of the Games of the XXIX Olympiad continues to dominate television.

Seven’s coverage hits a peak audience of 4.053 million viewers across Australia.

More than 9 million Australians (9.437 million) watch all or part of Seven’s coverage of the Olympic Games on Wednesday.

Across the opening days of the Games, 15.2 million Australians have now watched all or part of the Games of the XXIX Olympiad on Seven.

Thursday August 7 at 9:00pm (G)

MEN’S FOOTBALL: AUSTRALIA V SERBIA

Even before the Opening Ceremony of the XXIX Olympiad, competition is underway as AUSTRALIA plays SERBIA in the Beijing Olympics men's football competition.

Friday August 8 from 9:00pm (G)

OPENING CEREMONY

Seven years of preparation climaxes with China welcoming the world to the biggest sporting event in 2008, the GAMES OF THE XXIX OLYMPIAD.

Host MATTHEW WHITE will be joined by BRUCE MCAVANEY, SANDY ROBERTS, SONIA KRUGER and RIC BIRCH on a night you'll never forget.