No, at the time they only bought the rights to Nine/9Now: Stan Sport didn’t exist.
Especially now with the paid streaming platforms.
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In the in the last series earlier this year, 3/4 Tests finished in 3 days and the last one was a boring draw. I can’t imagine the BCCI offer the rights cheaply either.
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One advantage is that they don’t get many weather related delays in India, unlike England with it’s frequent rain interruptions.
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The Ashes being on the anti-siphoning list are the only reason they’re on FTA - and the ECB is effectively forced to sell them outside their usual long term arrangements.
Those don’t apply to Indian (or other) series - meaning the BCCI can sell longer term deals to pay TV outlets and take a whole host of auxiliary content and series (would India v West Indies move the dial etc).
I’m not saying Nine etc couldn’t buy those deals - it could work as Stan content for the other stuff - but it would require a deeper investment both financially and airtime wise.
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The list doesn’t mean much anymore, aren’t the local 20 and 50 over mens internationals on that list, yet tbey are only on FOX?
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Nine either have the rights and have elected not to use them or they’ve secured rights that don’t permit ECB to seek an secondary deal
The anti-siphoning list doesnt preclude a secondary deal where there is a FTA deal
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I know - that was a bit of a shitshow however with Seven ‘on-selling’ them wasn’t it?
Regardless, the ECB has to separate it out from their usual rights deal.
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Is it even being done in 4k?
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Yeah, it’s been on Sky Sports Main Event in the UK, which is 4K 24/7 now.
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Unfortunate for Nine (and Australia?).
There will be no play before lunch at Edgbaston, which will be taken early at 12:30pm ☔️#ENGvAUS | #Ashes pic.twitter.com/kUxbtHodqo
— ESPNcricinfo (@ESPNcricinfo) June 20, 2023
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If 9Gem does even 1/3 the audience (~200k metro) of last night (during a rain delay / re-run telecast) and any share over 4%, that’d be a fantastic result! And tonight is a good reason to have it on a m/c, so main channel (even if entertainment programing not doing great) can sustain a solid audience, as if cricket does do 200k or less that’d have been shocking-level territory for a main ch (also says a lot about Seven persisting with MDI!!) Also, despite being tradition and a part of cricket, tonight is a key reason Nine became fed up with lost ad revenue / make goods and poor ratings and ditched CA’s contract.
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Perth market should come to 9Gem’s rescue tonight at least
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Perth barely watches 9, let alone 9Gem! 
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Surely 9 will find some time to schedule 1 or 2 hour highlights on 9 or GEM later today around Origin
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By 2027 it will be if it’s not already.
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