Australian Cricket Broadcast Rights 2018 - 2023
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Most would have internet.
Just live stream it.
If you really want to watch.
Just live stream it.
If you really want to watch.
Totally agree you shouldn't have to.
Just go to search engine and type cricket live stream and take your pick.
he's gonna look like a genius when 3 bowlers mysteriously get injured the morning of the test
There are plenty of cricket matches involving Australia that aren't on FTA. They've just added another half dozen. It's not that big a deal, tbh.
Welcome to the 21st century.
I can't afford one for myself. It's really not the end of the world.
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I absolutely understand that a lot of people live pretty tightly financially.
But "welcome to the 21st century" is a pretty appropriate reply. In a developed world that has quickly moved away from terrestrial television and is watching their network tv online or through apps, and watching series and movies through iTunes and Netflix, it's not like you're locked into 70 bucks a month for Foxtel any more. While they're still ironing out the kinks in Kayo sports, being able to watch all this for 25 bucks is a game changer that, to me, makes it far less offensive that a code like cricket would sell a few games to pay television. (That's without mentioning that, when you're playing a big country ie. England and India, it takes literally 30 seconds to find a "free" stream.)
Its a disastrous decision
Cricket is in a very vulnerable position in Australia at the moment.
It used to be a premier sport that is now becoming secondary
I think this summer we will see it by indian fan attendance at games becoming almost embarrassing compared to the lukewarm australian support.
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there's a 14 day free trial for Kayo.
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https://www.theage.com.au/sport/cri...-viewers-for-foxtel-cash-20181123-p50huk.html
CA made their bed, now they have to lie in it.
CA made their bed, now they have to lie in it.
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It's not that hard to find free streams for tech savvy adults but would kids or elderly people be able to watch games like that? Most probably wouldn't bother.
CA are lucky India are touring here as the crowds would probably be disastrous like they were for the South Africa games here.
I'll be interested to see what we get in Brisbane. We've always blamed low crowds on early November tests but we've got a day night test over the Australia day weekend this summer so it'll be hard to make excuses. If we are thrashed by India though it won't help.
Pretty confident the Australian support will be as strong as ever during the Test series. A few of the Indians I spoke to last night who were up and about for the T20 weren’t really interested in attending tests, whereas for Aussies it’s generally the opposite case.
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Beat me to posting that.
Maximizing cash for the broadcasting rights was clearly the priority for CA, rather than promotion of the game.
The idiots running the joint clearly lost sight of why they were there.
So, encourage kids to act (depending which lawyer you listen to) illegally?
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You can't fit a heap of people into Manuka Oval anyway, so that scheduling has probably turned out well. As a native Tasmanian I was pretty disappointed that Canberra got the 6th test rather than Hobart, but it's probably for the best now. The Hobart crowds would've been really terrible in the 6th test of a long, possibly hard-to-watch summer, but there'll be enough novelty value in Canberra that it will at least look good on tv.
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CA spinning bullshit as well, saying it's not possible to broadcast cricket without Foxtel. Free-to-air channels now have multiple channels, 10 said they would broadcast everything, men's and women's. It's possible, they just wanted the cash now, screw the future.
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Like the AFL admin CA are treating the game as a purely money making venture to help line their own pockets rather than being custodians of the game.
They've followed the AFL model of selling some exclusive games to Foxtel but at least the AFL still has some games on FTA each week, with the cricket situation now you have a whole month of the home season here with no games at all on FTA. That would be like the AFL not broadcasting any games on FTA for the first month of the footy season, you could just imagine the uproar from people if that happened.
The offer from Ch10 wasn't substantially less than the Ch7/Foxtel offer either, it seems like CA had already done some shady backroom deal which promised Foxtel some exclusive rights to international games here so weren't even open to the idea of other offers that could have kept all international games on FTA.
Cricket in this country has an existential crisis every decade or so. Bad attendance years happen relatively frequently and that forces it to change and then it bounces back.
Look I'd love to have it all on FTA but we won't know whether it is a disastrous decision or a stroke of genius for a few years. It's likely to be somewhere in the middle.
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