Australian Cricket - New TV rights negotiations/deal

[Starfighter]

It will be a disaster if it does.


I do wonder, if it departs Channel Nine will the deification of Kerry Packer finally subside?

 

[Burgey]

You'd hope so.

I wonder if Seven might be interested in it now Nine has the tennis rights.

 

[stephen]

If 7 for the rights I wonder who they could get to commentate. Are Ponting, Fleming and co contacted to 10? What about Tubbs, Clarke and the channel 9 boys. AB?

Most of the former living captains are commentators already and 7 doesn't have the rights to any of them. We could be getting a bunch of ex AFL players commentating.

 

[Burgey]

Nine won't want to keep blokes on their payroll at several hundred grand a year each who aren't working though.

 

[Burgey]

If Cricket goes to Fox you can see the by line for the coverage as “Hard but fair and balanced.”

 

[vic_orthdox]

Stensholt reporting that Seven, Ten sharing FTA with Fox Sports getting simulcast rights to everything and some international & BBL exclusively.

 

[vic_orthdox]

Cricket Australia set for $1b rights bonanza; Foxtel to underpin deal | afr.com

Article above.

 

[Spikey]

bloody hell

 

[Spikey]

although maybe Foxtel will pick up all the C9 commentators

 

[vic_orthdox]

As long as there's no Basil... ahhh ****.

 

[Spark]

Bruce McAvaney commentating on cricket...

 

[Borges]

So what's wrong with Foxtel picking up the broadcast rights? If CA can make them cough up more than Channel Nine, it's all for the good, isn't it?

 

[GotSpin]

You don't want a Paywall put up for cricket...Some serious money though. Im kinda hoping 10 scoop this up though

 

[Starfighter]

If the BBL ends up back on Fox (or a proportion of it) it'll be interesting to se what happens to ground attendances.

 

[Burgey]

Bruce McAvaney commentating on cricket...

Bruce would actually be an awesome pre-game host. Knows what he doesn’t know.

Really hoping the Nine blokes mostly get a rest. Would like to see a Bill cameo now and then, but otherwise I hope they pick up the aren’t blokes who’ve been doing the BBL comms with TOTAB and probably Julian having a fair presence on Foxtel.

No Deano plz

 

[Starfighter]

Chances of KP making the switch? It'd be another summer of the mute button then.

 

[howardj]

Just to summarize the details:

Channel Nine has lost the cricket rights totally, to Foxtel and Channel Seven.

CA Australia receives up to $600 million from its just expired five-year deal. Of this, $500m is generated by Nine’s international rights and $100m comes from Ten’s BBL.

New deal is one billion over six years (most of which would be paid by Foxtel who will show every Australian cricket match home and overseas (including all Big Bash)).

Seven will only show Test matches in Australia, and selected Big Bash games.

One-day Internationals will be exclusively on Fox who will have a 24-hour cricket channel in HD

 

[howardj]

Nine won't want to keep blokes on their payroll at several hundred grand a year each who aren't working though.

I doubt they are contracted as their contracts surely would have dovetailed with the expiration of the old cricket rights deal which has just expired.

 

[Starfighter]

One-day Internationals will be exclusively on Fox who will have a 24-hour cricket channel in HD

****

Edit: I'm guessing this means the World Cup matches too. Double ****

 

[NZTailender]

Will Seven get Jeff Thomson back to swear on air about leaky commentary boxes?