Bit of a shame no cricket from England on NZ radio. I assume it was on Radio Sports any NZ tour of England?
Usually, yeah. Tests only by and large.
Gold AM has the WTC final.
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Weird that Magic âthe home of cricketâ doesnât have any cricket. Right?
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Only ever got the home rights.
No doubt prohibitively expensive as a lot of overseas cricket rights are. Iâd assume this is why Gold is only doing the WTC and not the whole tour.
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âThe home of home cricketâ
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Is it that expensive? Is it for sale? If for example ABC leverage what the BBC has on in the winter and put it on the app and digital radio when the footy isnât on wouldnât it add content? I suppose Magic would need to slot in ads. I am not sure if that works with BBC coverage.
Yeah, it can be prohibitively expensive and very hard to make your money back.
Radio Sport used to take BBC commentary of cricket, but thereâs no natural way to slot in ads on their coverage so you get a lot of crashing in mid-sentence and you also canât embed your own content. (sponsor mentions, giveaways, etc etc). For the time at night, it just doesnât work well.
As for your other point about leveraging content from the BBC - itâs not really that simple. There are all sort of rights considerations (if a British sport is made aware the BBC broadcast is being taken in Australia, theyâll be wanting a rights fee!).
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Stating the obvious , yeah it is business after all I guess. It is not about giving fans a âmore waysâ to follow the game. I will still keep using my VPN 
. I know you can watch the game on Spark TV or Foxtel but there is something about listening to cricket on your radio in the night time especially from England.
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Newstalk ZB crowned as Station of the Year, Mike Hosking takes out Broadcaster of the Year in this yearâs NZ radio awards:
Four in a row is a great accomplishment for Fletch, Vaughan & Megan.
I havenât heard much of their show but Jay & Dunc winning the team show category was a surprise for me
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Looks like they are taking the gamble 
With there own commentary team without the analog network up either.
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SEN/SENZ clearly keen to make a splash.
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Ian Smith revealed during an interview with Gerard Whateley this morning that SENZ will launch on July 1
Further to SENZ news Trudi Nelson is starting news editor and sports presenter. (saw on LinkedIn
@OnAir @theGradyConnell Coast Northland (through NZME) is changing frequency to 96.4FM from tomorrow (20 June). This allows Coast to be heard across the entire Northland region, as a whole, on a single frequency except for the Bay of Islands, where it is on 89.6FM.
To make way for Coast, The Hits in the Mid and Far North will move to 95.6FM.
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Currently right now, Coast is now on 96.4FM around Northland.
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@foxyrover @OnAir In an SENZ media event that took place at 11am this morning (24 June; NZ time) at Eden Park in Auckland, Sports Entertainment Network CEO Craig Hutchison today announced that SENZ will launch in New Zealand at 6am (NZ time) on the morning of Monday 19 July.
SENZ, in future, will become âNew Zealandâs Home of Sportâ but racing will be strongly featured on Saturdays. What do you think?
I think theyâre overestimating the average New Zealanderâs interest in racing.
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Hutchy clearly prefers sports rights over sports talk on weekends - even the Melbourne flagship takes racing calls in the gaps between AFL matches despite SEN running a dedicated racing station.
Wouldâve thought the talkSPORT model is worth replicating more closely. Then again, perhaps this was part of the deal when SEN(Z) acquired the Trackside frequencies?
Could have been. I know they had to agree to a 2 hour racing show on Saturdays with TAB (NZ) as part of the handover.
They obviously donât have many sports rights that kiwis are interested in as yetâŚwill be interesting because I doubt Mediaworks (cricket) and NZME (rugby) will give up their existing properties easily.
The other interesting thing is Gold AM (formerly Radio Sport) is seemingly now back taking NRL coverage on weekends in the last few weeks.
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