Specific to the BBL rather than just “7 cricket”, generic in that it wasn’t promoting a particular game.
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I don’t expect the new broadcast deal to fix this, but it’s frustrating that there’s been no BBL for two nights in a row on Channel 7. Rain disruptions at the New Year’s Test are now a settled part of tradition, which only compounds the lack of cricket on television. The competition cannot regain any lost momentum with scheduling such as this.
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Fox games will be only Saturday. So there won’t be 2 days in a row of no cricket
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And just when we thought cricket and rights wouldn’t come up for a while, this just dropped.
The ICC is looking into who wants the big events.
Will Nine or Ten go for it? Or will Seven/fox also pick these up?
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I think if 7 wants to be known as FTA home of cricket then they need try and get these. Before they didn’t have a chance because I think the deals were done & also 7 wanted out of cricket
It’s basically replacing what 9 has done the last couple of world cups
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Who has 2023 Ashes FTA rights.
9
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If 10/Paramount still want to show some live cricket in near term, this is their last chance.
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Nine. 7 aired the Ashes back in 2001 on their C7 Sport channel
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Nine/Foxtel
I don’t think Fox has it. Nine have it exclusively.
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Correct.
The ICC men’s rights can be bought for four or eight years. If it was just for four years (2024-2027), the FTA networks would steer well clear of it - there’s nothing in our time zone and anti-siphoning doesn’t apply.
For eight years, I’m not sure if anti-siphoning gets in the way of Foxtel taking it themselves, as AUS and NZ split a T20 World Cup in 2028. The timing of it (particularly if it clashes with the tennis season) would likely decide whether Nine is interested in taking it, I imagine.
One wonders whether the ICC would be secretly wanting it to only go 4 years, now local rights (not just for cricket) have drained a bit of cash out of the coffers, and hoping the excitement of a much closer T20WC, maybe one or two more tournaments in the next cycle, and being a little more out of Covid “not normal” might bring more cash then.
On the flipside, if the ICC do wait, 50-over cricket might be so dead that the T20WC might be the only thing they have left to sell… unless they rotate the test championship final between England/Australia/India (which I don’t see happening until Lord’s has had their go, which won’t be this year).
So the second half of the BBL was much better then the first (including improved ratings), have to wonder if CA trying to secure a deal early might have left something on the table trying to get a deal just in case.
Getting the internationals into the tournament is going to remain a challenge, but its clear they attract the punters
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I still feel the haste with which CA did the deal was absurd, if Paramount executives requested additional time to negotiate after the New Year holidays then CA should have been more flexible, unless they weren’t negotiating with Paramount in good faith and just stringing them along to get a higher price from Fox. 7 are obviously the big winners from the deal, which will look like a bargain in a couple of years.
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Seven have been rewarded for their bad behaviour and bad faith in negotiations. It sets a dangerous precedent to me that a rights holder can sue on the grounds of effectively ‘buyers remorse’ and get rewarded with a better deal in the long term.
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The ICC is offering up rights in either a four-year or eight-year block from 2024, and is understood to have attracted interest from the traditional free-to-air broadcasters looking to leverage their streaming platforms, as well as subscription players such as Foxtel, Google and Amazon, who have partnered with CA on producing two seasons of The Test documentary.
The ICC initially went to market in September for a new rights deal for Australia, but paused its process when it realised it coincided with Cricket Australia’s negotiations for its domestic media rights.
CA secured a $1.512bn, seven-year extension of its deal with Foxtel and Seven West Media in January. Part of that arrangement will see Seven stream men’s Test and women’s international cricket on 7Plus, it’s free-to-access streaming platform.
The ICC has now restarted its hunt and is working directly with broadcasters for the first time, with negotiations over rights for women’s events a key part of the discussions.
The ICC has a tentative April date for finalising its negotiations and is watching closely the outcome of the Albanese Government’s review of the anti-siphoning legislation, which is also expected to be completed before April given the current legislation expires on April 1.
Previously, the ICC has dealt with one global broadcast rights partner – currently India’s Star Sports – which then sub-licenced the Australian broadcast rights to Foxtel, who in turn on-sells to the Nine Network certain matches to meet the conditions of Australia’s anti-siphoning legislation.
Foxtel and Nine have been in a joint venture arrangement to share those ICC event broadcasts since 2008. The latest iteration of that deal comes to an end with November’s men’s ODI World Cup in India.
Separately, Nine has an existing deal with the England and Wales Cricket Board to broadcast the men’s Ashes Tests in the UK this winter, which are currently on the anti-siphoning list.
A Nine spokesperson confirmed the network would also be covering the women’s Ashes multi-format tour.
Foxtel’s submission to the anti-siphoning review called for Ashes Tests to be removed from the anti-siphoning list, noting that only 45 per cent of the 2019 Ashes tour was broadcast on Nine’s primary channel, with the rest on GEM.
Foxtel has its own deal with the ECB to broadcast all non-Ashes cricket, which is up for renewal this year.
Foxtel also submitted that bilateral ODI and T20 internationals played in Australia should be removed from the list – those matches have been exclusive to Fox Cricket and Kayo since CA’s 2018 media rights deal.
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And Fox’s “solution” would be to put 100% of the tour behind a paywall 
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Yes but that doesn’t help Murdoch by having it on a FTA network… if sporting bodies stopped placing sport on Murdoch TV, it would cripple him, and he’ll not be able to afford food for the family.
Come on cricket, think of Murdoch and how only 30% of people have fox compared to 95% that have FTA…
Remember Murdoch told CA no one watches ten… tennis is bad and nine wasted money…
I’ll show myself out!
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If Murdoch had brains maybe he would start up or bye a FTA network then they won’t need to deal with the others just deal with their FTA network???
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