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Test cricket is aging out. BBL all on Foxtel (or Optus or whatever else) would destroy any ambition of CA being as big as the AFL and NRL.
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If the BBL goes behind the paywall, just watch the crowds dwindle and the atmosphere die.
At least it will give the few die hards an excuse for why the BBL failed other than the fact the novelty has well and truly worn off
It’s dying out in every other part of the world but it’s still the most popular format of the game here. The only other country that regularly gets good crowds for test matches is England, but the game is now only popular there with 55+ upper class private-school types and South Asian migrant communities.
The reason Test cricket is still popular with the broader population here is because of its cultural legacy but more importantly its exposure to the lounge rooms of every household in Australia all summer long. There is no other country that has this luxury (SABC being an occasional exception in South Africa) and it’s why Test cricket has been relegated to a niche-interest sport in the rest of the world.
CA must not piss that away until such time as television becomes obsolete, and as far as live sport is concerned that’s still a long way off. They don’t need to be the AFL or the NRL or anything else. CA execs don’t need to be household names like Gill or Peter V’Landys. Their responsibility is to be a custodian of the game in this country. Nothing more, nothing less.
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so you have a defiant bone in your body... just wanting to know so I can follow your erudite reasoning in the future... no answer required..
Nah.
The depressing thing is that Kelly is probably the best of The Australian's political writers.
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Like saying Boy George is the coolest member of Culture Club.
Nattering Ned is a rambler who rails at any idea that is remotely progressive. PVO is the least worst of the Strayan's political writers, but he tends to sit on the fence too much.
Back on topic. Channel 7 are likely to dumb down the cricket to a cringeworthy level, like they do with their programming generally.
Channel 9's cricket coverage was innovative in the 1980s before descending into staleness for many years and, latterly, lazy jingoism, especially in the Brad McNamara era [hi to Brad if your Google alerts are still active]. Geoff Lemon's article from 2015 about the dire state of Channel 9's cricket coverage is superb.
'Killer' Creighton and "beating off" in the same sentence. Now I have heard it all.
If Tim Worner has any influence at all over the cricket coverage, the outlook is grim ...
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It was interesting to read that networks are prepared to take a hit (lose money) on the cricket coverage in order to cross-promote their hit shows in prime time. That says it all about how the networks view the game.
Its also odd. I would expect very little crossover between the cricket audience and the all-new-all-singing-all-cooking-all-makeover-all-the-same-as-last-year "reality" game show tripe audience.
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maybe it's based on the BBL grabbing families/female viewers?
I can see that for Olympics and Tennis, even footy gets a fair slice of female viewers. But I like to think cricket viewership (I'm including T20 under a loose definition of "cricket") is more discerning.
Networks clearly don't think so, otherwise Slats wouldn't kep getting gigs, and they would crunch numbers big time on these things.
Peter Lalor.
Slats doesn’t strike me as the sort of bloke that would have female viewers flocking. Somehow got a gig on that striptease show that Seven keep flogging so I must be missing something!
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For the record, here's what last month's Australian Cricket Press for Progress Report had to say about female tv viewership:
The latest figures I've seen for AFL has the female tv audience at around 43%.
The latest figures I've seen for AFL has the female tv audience at around 43%.
Second best, then. Pardon me for not recalling them all.
Yep. Hilarious that CA are being hoist by their own money-grubbing petard ATM.
I like his cricket commentary but I had to stop following him on twitter. Became insufferable as he ventured outside of sport.
Yet Ch10 spent more time promoting their jungle crap than analysing the cricket.
Which never really took off rating wise. Ten could never turn the BBL ratings to long term viewers after summer. Should have been a red flag for Seven.
Gave twitter a miss for that, not just Peter Lalor, pile on BS.
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Channel 7 makes dramatic statement in TV rights war with Cricket Australia
Channel 7 makes dramatic statement in TV rights war with Cricket Australia
www.foxsports.com.au
Broadcast war escalates as Seven, Fox refuse to pay in full
Seven West Media and Foxtel have upped their battle with Cricket Australia by making only a part payment to the sport's governing body on Tuesday.
The debt-laden network would not comment on how much it had paid but it was less than $25 million. Seven is due to make its three final payments in November, December and January but managing director James Warburton declared they would not make those instalments, effectively valuing the rights at a quarter of their annual value.
"Seven has paid the first instalment reflecting our fair value."
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