International ODI’s and Twenty20s exclusive to Foxtel is also a very dubious call
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Can the Australian government have this deal overturned given it could be preventing events prescribed on the anti-siphoning list, especially if it was a $1 billion deal compared to a $900 million or are their hands tied due to CA rejecting the lower offer?
So I wonder if the ACMA or whoever in the Government get involved with all this, legal / antisiphoning situation?
At least Foxtel will breathe some life into the JLT One Day Cup. It would be nice to one day see some Sheffield Shield back on TV too, and if a Fox Cricket channel should eventuate it would be the perfect scenario to do so.
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Perhaps of just as much concern is how Seven will schedule both the Australian Open and the Big Bash in 2019 before Nine get the tennis in 2020.
Nine and Ten will be left with nothing this summer while Seven will have to relegate Big Bash or Tennis to a multichannel. I can’t see any real winners out of this whole deal other than Seven and Fox directly.
Cricket Australia’s greediness will see certain parts of its code die. Their ridiculous attempts to extend BBL for 14 home and away matches per team (56 total) is also overkill given there is only 8 teams.
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Embarrassing for Foxtel that they lied to Darren Davidson. Foxtel is going to pay around what Duke reported.
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Has the Sheffield Shield ever been broadcasted on FTA before?
It’s likely that the Foxtel deal will be similar to the AFL in that the home team gets FTA coverage in the home state, the rest of the country has to watch via Foxtel.
ie.
Strikers v Renegades (live into SA/VIC on FTA) (Rest of the country via Foxtel)
Sixers v Thunder (live into NSW on FTA) (Rest of the country via Foxtel)
With Cricket Australia wanting to expand the number of BBL matches per season, the only way is to eventually have multiple matches running at the same time which Foxtel and a FTA partner can easily provide into multiple markets on multiple channels similar to AFL. That’ll be better than the “double headers” that Ten ran that ended up finishing nearly 1am on the east coast.
WIN Television dies first! 
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I thought Macquarie Radio did cover the games from the ground. At least for the BBL matches in Melbourne they do.
So Ten looses big bash coverage, well for me big bash was not really important for my viewing, but i understand it was for others .
What a fucked up deal. No digital rights for Seven. Wasn’t the anti-siphoning laws passed to prevent this shit from happening? Or am I confusing it with something else. How many matches do Seven get… and I am not impressed with Seven either lol. Cricket has always been on nine. What’s worrying the monopilization of the Empire that is Foxtel who will probably fuck FTA viewers in the end.
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I stand correcred @littlegezzybear
Yes, ABC would do local broadcasts of the last sessionin each state. Nine used to do the final in the competing states, possibly only highlights though. STW 9 used to produce the matches shown on Optus Vision from Perth in the 90s so I’d imagine they must have shown Warriors games.
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Well, that’s what happens when you try to take advantage with low-ball offers. CA aren’t some two-bit organisation that can’t handle a rough patch. It really wasn’t that difficult. CA wanted $1 billion dollars and they got it.
Congratulations to Cricket Australia, Foxtel and Seven.
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As it retired from cricket after a long innings, a Nine spokesperson said this morning:
“Nine is immensely proud of our decades-long association between Wide World of Sports and the game of cricket in this country. We wish Cricket Australia and its new broadcast partners well for the future success of the game.
“Cricket will continue to be a part of Nine’s schedule into the future with current deals in place covering the next Ashes series from England in 2019, the ODI World Cup in the UK in the same year and in 2020 the T20 World Cups to be held in Australia.
“But most of all, Nine is excited by our new partnership with Tennis Australia – a partnership that enables us to further evolve our business model into a new future, a partnership built on common values and vision to mutually build the game and Nine’s business as we connect with more audiences the way they choose.
“Our focus remains on the cross-platform opportunities in front of us and finding the best ways to continue to create value for our shareholders into the future.”
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There we have it!
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Friday the 13th will turn out to be a bad day for Ten and Australian cricket fans in general. CA originally divided the rights deal into 11 packages, hoping each broadcaster would get some matches. Instead Foxtel got them all plus the all important streaming rights.
The only way this upcoming broadcast deal will change, is through Federal Government intervention through the anti-siphoning laws.
Ian Chappell will continue to be part of Macquarie Radio’s cricket commentary team (assuming it keeps the radio rights).
I didn’t think of that. Not a bad idea.
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Looks like Nine bailed at the last minute and left Ten up the creek without a paddle
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Sad day for cricket
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Can the Australian government have this deal overturned given it could be preventing events prescribed on the anti-siphoning list, especially if it was a $1 billion deal compared to a $900 million or are their hands tied due to CA rejecting the lower offer?
If seven has the right yet ‘refuses’ to show the matches there’s nothing that can be done.
Let’s face it, the current government won’t do a thing, they already loosened up anti-siphoning last year.