Nine Cricket Coverage

TV.Cynic · August 24, 2019, 2:37am

Nine reports that the 5-city audience for session one of the cricket last night was 602,000, rising to 628,000 for session 2.

Qwerty · August 24, 2019, 10:52am

Ian Chappell in the studio with Ian Healy tonight.

sammy123 · August 24, 2019, 11:36am

jthommo · August 24, 2019, 12:19pm

Mel Jones and Mark Taylor chatting with Mark Nicholas during the lunch break.

Jeffmister · August 25, 2019, 12:25pm

Nine should have had Nicholas present their Ashes coverage

captaincupcake · August 25, 2019, 12:31pm

Nicholas is the host of Channel 5’s FTA coverage (and has been for many years now) in the UK which would prevent him from being able to host Nines coverage.

Jeffmister · August 25, 2019, 12:34pm

He juggled both in 2015 when Nine did their own coverage from top to bottom

Radiohead · August 25, 2019, 5:45pm

Good to know.

For some reason, I thought the Ashes weren’t on FTA in England (only on SKY).

bubandbob · August 25, 2019, 6:20pm

Highlights only I think…

spw68 · August 25, 2019, 9:21pm

Another great Test Match now setting up the final one as must see. Even the cricket is falling 9s way with really compelling matches… they definitely have the momentum… 7 will have to work hard to get back total weeks by year’s end…

akymbo82 · August 25, 2019, 9:56pm

So after three test; what’s everyone thoughts on the Ashes Coverage.

And when do Nine speak to the ECB who decide the next rights and try and get them before the other networks do?

Also with the ratings the way they are, is it time networks finally put to bed this simulcast right deals and just do exclusive deals. So they can get viewers across all their platforms?

OnAir · August 25, 2019, 10:14pm

While you’re right, they don’t have the pockets to match pay TV operators etc.

movido · August 26, 2019, 6:33am

Well they could if Nine can further monetise 9Now like a pay per view for some exclusive matches.

Radiohead · August 26, 2019, 9:16am

It would go against their general existence of being a “free to air” provider.

movido · August 26, 2019, 9:23am

Well there’s no such thing as real “free to air” if we’re doing semantics here.
Anyhow, Nine can easily set up a separate PPV provider if they want to. The constraints I reckon would be more on the anti-siphoning side of sporting events.

Radiohead · August 26, 2019, 10:05am

Which isn’t enforceable as we found out last summer when T20 and ODI home cricket internationals ended up behind a paywall, which wasn’t supposed to have been possible,

Jeffmister · August 26, 2019, 11:35am

Thought the way CA/Seven/Fox got around that was Seven ‘technically’ ‘gave up’ those rights to Fox?

(Happy to be corrected if I’m wrong about that)

TV.Cynic · August 27, 2019, 2:54am

3rd Test:

DIGITAL VIEWING ON 9NOW

Live Average VPM of 32,000 during live play, up 25% on Second Test
Live VPM Streams of 3 million, up 31% on Second Test
Live VPM minutes of 47 million, up 23% on Second Test
Day Five was the biggest day, with 15 million minutes streamed
Day Four – Session Two, of the Third Test achieved the highest Live VPM of 46,000 – this is the 3rd highest VPM for the Ashes this year so far.

Wally · August 27, 2019, 5:52am

People watching on their phones or computers in bed?

OnAir · August 27, 2019, 6:09am

Or cord cutters who don’t have STBs/any way to watch FTA usually.