Does SEN have the rights to the women’s cricket?
No - they only have rights to test matches and the BBL (which were shared with MSR)
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No cricket on either 3AW or Magic this afternoon.
Quentin Hull, Geoff Lemon, Kirsten Pike and Kirby Short calling the first women’s T20 for ABC Radio at Allan Border Field. Kirby Short retired from Queensland Fire and Brisbane Heat at the end of last season, after captaining the Heat to two WBBL titles.
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Nothing on NTS either.
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BBL star Ben Cutting (who is joining Sydney Thunder this summer) will fill in for Kirby Short for ABC’s call of second women’s T20 at AB Field on Sunday, with Short returning for game 3 on Wednesday. Cutting’s fiance Erin Holland hosted Seven’s telecast this afternoon, so if she does the job again tomorrow it will create a unique situation.
EDIT 27/9: Kirby Short is providing special comments for Seven’s coverage of game two.
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ABC Radio’s coverage of the 1st women’s ODI between Australia and New Zealand at Brisbane tomorrow (October 3) will be on Grandstand Extra from 10am AEST, due to NRL and AFL finals coverage on Local Radio.
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Herald Sun reports Nine Radio is set to terminate its broadcast deal with Cricket Australia early. Two years ago Macquarie Radio and Crocmedia signed a new six-year radio agreement with CA, with Macquarie covering men’s tests, ODIs, Twenty20 internationals and the BBL. But since Nine inherited the deal when it merged with Fairfax (owner of Macquarie Radio) last year, the focus has been on cost cutting, and cricket is the latest casualty.
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You would think SEN would pick up the rights they currently don’t have (ie; ODIs, Twenty20 internationals & perhaps women’s cricket) so that they can cover the Australian cricket summer in full instead of just test matches and the BBL
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Do you have a link?
No unfortunately. It is from the print edition in today’s paper and yet to be published on the website.
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CRICKET’S turbulent year on the broadcast front continues with 3AW set to pull the pin on the summer.
While Cricket Australia is in the middle of an ugly fight with its main TV broadcaster Channel 7, the loss of a key radio outlet is another body blow it can clearly do without.
Just over two years ago CA was spruiking the six-year radio broadcast rights deal it clinched with Macquarie Media – the owner of 3AW – the ABC and Crocmedia (now Sports Entertainment Network).
But since the Nine network took over Macquarie last year, the focus has been on costcutting, and cricket is the latest casualty.
As part of the original deal 3AW was to cover all men’s and women’s internationals, plus Big Bash matches, which would be produced and supplied by Crocmedia.
Clearly the uncertainty around this summer of cricket has played a part in the 3AW’s withdrawal. India is scheduled to arrive in Australia in December, with a quarantine hub to be set up at the Adelaide Oval, while there are mixed feelings about how the Big Bash will shape up because of the COVID-19 implications.
is there really that much of a market for commercial stations to broadcast cricket? It seems companies get into it and realize it won’t work quite quickly, but are stuck in these contracts - you had triple m in 2016/2017 and if they can’t make it work with there audiance there is not much hope for others
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News Corp is reporting that Nine Radio will be giving up their rights to SEN as early as this week.
Giving up is the correct term because apparently Nine & Crocmedia/SEN are joint partners on the same agreement so Nine are apparently transferring their rights/obligations to SEN
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The Australian, who broke the story yesterday, states that Nine Radio “had owned the rights and sublet to SEN, which will now take over the contract”.
I hope they will let the ABC broadcast domestic cricket. It was good they use to do some live commentary of some shield cricket on the weekends. Because of the contract with MSR they could no longer do live commentary. It wasn’t as if MSR where bringing ball by ball shield cricket.
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Sports Entertainment Network (SEN) is expanding its cricket coverage, partnering with Cricket Australia (CA) as its major commercial domestic radio rights holder.
The partnership results in SEN securing exclusive AM commercial metro city radio rights to broadcast International and KFC Big Bash League cricket this summer.
Cricket fans can enjoy all the ball-by-ball coverage on 1116 SEN in Melbourne, 1629 SEN SA in Adelaide and for the first time on the new 1170 SEN Sydney, 1053 AM Brisbane, 1620 AM Gold Coast and 657 AM Perth as well as SEN Spirit 621 AM in Bunbury and 1629 AM Mt Gambier.
This will also extend to regional Australia where Sports Entertainment Network has exclusive AM and FM radio commercial radio rights to broadcast and syndicate its International and BBL cricket coverage.
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So is there still no cricket on FM in Melbourne?
Still no coverage in Tasmania this summer either, which is bad news for fans of Hobart Hurricanes.
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No-one syndicating it?
No, as far as I know. If local fans really want to hear the coverage they will have to go online and listen to streaming on SEN or CA website.
(IIRC, a few years ago a community radio station did cover the Hurricanes’ home matches)
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