LukeParkerno1
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What has been so wrong? Have more coverage than ever. The BBL coverage wasn't optimal but everything else they have done fantastic.
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What has been so wrong? Have more coverage than ever. The BBL coverage wasn't optimal but everything else they have done fantastic.
LukeParkerno1
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Trade off was more womens cricket on TV which is a good thing to be honest. They can't win. Not as if Kayo costs much.
There's been 4 games in the last 3 years.
Not to derail the thread, but just looked this up and it gave me a bit of a shock. Melbourne hasn't hosted an ODI in three years and Brisbane hasn't hosted an ODI in four years. Not that too many people in either city would have noticed mind you.
LukeParkerno1
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Love test cricket but I'm not fussed about ODI cricket. Much more likely to watch a t20.
To think it could've been on Channel 10 who also said they'd broadcast the Sheffield Shield, but they chose Fox/7 so they could get their '$1 billion rights deal' headline.
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Yeah Ch10 made CA an offer to show all the international cricket, tests, ODIs and T20s, all the Big Bash games and the Sheffield Shield as well but it was slightly below the billion dollar offer from Ch7/Fox so they knocked it back. A very short sighted approach from CA that looks like it's coming back to bite them on the arse.
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Jesus christ we've been over this. Ten's offer was $230m less. CA would be absolutely ****ed right now if they had taken that deal.
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They would have been financially worse off in the short term but may have been better off in the long term, switching the Big Bash from Ch10 to Ch7 who don't show all the matches and have worse coverage/commentators has reduced ratings and crowds, not showing limited overs international matches has done likewise.
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7 show plenty of BBL matches. The reduced ratings and crowds are due to CA killing the golden goose - that is they grossly expanded the fixture to the point where it was too much, and people just lost interest.
CA's own greed has bitten them on the arse.
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Strange when people act like there's a difference between 10 and 7's BBL coverage. It was all overseen by the same guy! (until he went to CA directly and helped introduce awesome innovations, such as... the X Factor)
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I'm having a look at CA's financials for the years ended 30 June 2018 (the financial year before the new rights deal started) compared to the year ended 30 June 2021 and trying to work out what would have been cut had they received $38 million less for the year ended 30 June 2021.
Obviously $10.5 million less would have gone to the players due to their 27.5% revenue sharing model. Admin expenses between 2018 and 2021 are up 68% to $42 million so I'd be interested to see what that relates to.
It's too complex to know exactly what would have been cut had they received less in the rights deal but I also think its too simple to say they'd be absolutely ****ed had they taken the 10 deal without really knowing where that $38mil/year actually went.
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Well even if the BBL coverage isn't that much different on Ch7 the commentators are definitely worse, for the majority of the BBL this summer we have had the likes of Andy Maher, Jason Richardson and Lisa Sthalaker on high rotation and they are mostly awful, they spend more time gasbagging amongst themselves rather than talking about the matches they are supposed to commentate on.
Ch10 used to have the likes of Ricky Ponting, Adam Gilchrist, Mark Waugh and Damien Fleming commentating BBL matches regularly amongst other ex-international cricketers from both Australia and overseas which provided much better commentary and a much more enjoyable product.
10's coverage was better because the likes of Gilchrist, Ponting, Fleming et al only had one comp to focus on and cover. The fact that both 7 and Fox have Test and BBL rights means they need to have more commentators on staff, which inevitably leads to the lesser commentators (or B team) being assigned to the less important fixtures (i.e. the BBL).
Fox's coverage hasn't really been much better than 7's. Yes they have had some of their 'A team' in regular rotation on BBL matches but for the majority of the time they sound like they couldn't care less about the game in front of them. They spend half the time speculating about the Test series or recounting old anecdotes.
It's no wonder the public are rapidly losing interest in the comp if the people covering it make it pretty clear that games are of little important to them.
Fox's coverage hasn't really been much better than 7's. Yes they have had some of their 'A team' in regular rotation on BBL matches but for the majority of the time they sound like they couldn't care less about the game in front of them. They spend half the time speculating about the Test series or recounting old anecdotes.
It's no wonder the public are rapidly losing interest in the comp if the people covering it make it pretty clear that games are of little important to them.
They also had Viv Richards who was an all time awful commentator, and in the same style used Ian Botham for a couple of BBL games.
Considering how stretched the commentary teams were, it was fine, bar the one guy who seems to be from the basil zempilas school of commentary and is constantly stating the wrong things
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I thought Viv was quite good value but he seemed more interested in flirting with Mel McLaughlin than he was with the cricket, can't blame him for that though.
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Tennis rights going up. Cricket rights going down? you would assume Ch7 won't be bidding again... If Ch9 sticks with the tennis (no matter the cost), it doesn't leave many other parties (although streaming could be more of a major player when the rights are being negotiated)
Surely he was not. Old enough to be her father.
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