They had the four tennis majors, NRL, the AFL programming, Champions League, Rugby, the US Masters, Ironman, cycling, and Sports Sunday, along with the cricket. Might have been more, but that’s what I can remember for the moment.
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Any mention of Women’s ODI Cricket World Cup? It will be held in New Zealand in March.
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It should be on FTA
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Will be on Fox Cricket only
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Why is Nine not interested in women’s World Cup tournaments?
Probably because they are sexist
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No doubt will rate well. Should’ve been on 7.
Think Nine’s attitude towards women’s cricket was illustrated by how they didn’t air the 2020 WT20 World Cup final which featured Australia and was played at the MCG on the main channel.
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I hope CA are asking Nine some difficult questions on this - our women’s team is a realistic chance of outperforming the men’s team in these tournaments.
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It’s not a great look for Nine - but it’s not a great look for Seven either. They could leverage the WAshes coverage with World Cup promos if they had the rights. Unless Fox and Nine have a first look arrangement for ICC events.
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No FTA Coverage of the Women’s ODI World Cup isn’t a good look for the women’s game
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Pretty sure Fox is the main rightsholder for ICC events (until 2023) and they can then sub-licence the rights as they see fit (eg; to Nine in order to comply with anti-siphoning rules).
When it comes to the T20 World Cup, think Nine probably had some type of first right of refusal considering they would have been the FTA sub-licensee had the tournament gone ahead as originally scheduled in 2020. About the Women’s World Cup, I don’t see what’s stopping Seven (or another FTA network for that matter) from approaching Fox and doing a sub-licensing deal seeing Nine aren’t interested in broadcasting it.
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It’s a poorer reflection on the broadcasters than it is on the game IMO
Based on the CA article - Fox hold the Australian rights that they on-sell to meet the requirements of local broadcasting rules, but as we know, they’re not the greatest fan of said rules so it works to their advantage to make enough effort to on-sell the rights but at the same time claim they’ve followed the rules when no-one takes them up.
If Fox wanted to keep them exclusively, offering them to Nine (maybe at crap terms?) may satisfy the requirement that they were offered to the FTA market with no interest.
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Nine has confirmed it will screen every game involving Aaron Finch’s side at this year’s men’s T20 World Cup, which is being staged in Australia from October 16 to November 13.
The network has flagged it will broadcast “other big match-ups”, likely to include a blockbuster between India and Pakistan at the MCG on October 23.
Nine will also show the 2023 men’s one-day World Cup as part of its broadcast deal with the International Cricket Council (ICC) that covers major tournaments.
Every match at the two World Cups will be screened on Foxtel and Kayo.
But it appears the women’s ODI World Cup, which begins in March and is being hosted by New Zealand, will only be available to Australian fans via Foxtel and its streaming service.
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Let’s set the record straight. Fox didn’t allow Nine to bid for the rights, as Fox wanted them exclusively. It’s not that Nine didn’t want the rights, it’s that Fox wouldn’t let them have them.
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Nine should get exclusive rights next time round and air the matches on 9 and Stan like the tennis and rugby
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That’s what they want, although Fox are incumbents and know that these events are key for them.