The 2020/21 Kellogg’s Nutri-Grain Ironman and Ironwoman Series begins this weekend at Kingscliff Beach. Nine’s telecast starts at midday on both Saturday and Sunday (December 19-20) and will be shown live in NSW, VIC, ACT and TAS only and delayed in other regions.
Due to current COVID-19 measures, the Nutri-Grain Series will be without spectators until further notice.
Also, the next round of competition on January 17-18 next year will be held at Wanda Beach, after recent storms caused massive loss of sand at North Cronulla.
UPDATE 18/12: organisers have decided to postpone the first two rounds at Kingscliff, because nine athletes and officials hailed from Sydney’s Northern Beaches. The two rounds will be split across the remaining two weekends of competition in January and February.
The ABC is reporting that Netball Australia are close to finalising a new broadcast deal for Super Netball with Nine and Foxtel expected to be the rightsholders for the next five years.
Hopefully the 9 component is exclusive as it will be a disaster even considering foxtel. They’ve grown their sport without foxtel and they should be excluded from even gaining any rights.
Not entirely true. They have grown the sport but their broadcast has also left many games to be picked up on streaming. I reckon Foxtel would take on that part of the deal.
Yeah, wouldn’t be surprised if the new deal consists of Nine airing the same amount of games they currently do with Foxtel simply picking up the games Telstra currently shows exclusively
Just placing it back into the list of “when sports become greedy and not understand its base”
The sport almost died 4yrs ago when it was a cross platform deal with Foxtel and mixed with ten.
Their base numbers show, the growth has been via nine not via the app.
“ Each year since 2017 Super Netball’s audience growth has surpassed all other sports, including AFL and NRL, even during the COVID-affected winter of 2020”.
What is a surprise is that Nine isn’t going down the line of Stan Sport. Is this going to be a very short lived add on by Nine entertainment, now Marks is leaving and they have seen what News.Ltd and Murdoch could do to them?
I don’t understand the point you’re trying to make. If the ABC report is correct, Nine will still be broadcasting Super Netball matches. It’s just Foxtel (you would assume) is replacing Telstra as the secondary rights-holder which is arguably a good thing from a viewing POV because there are currently limited ways fans can watch the Telstra exclusive games
Popular caller Sean Maloney has been locked in as the network’s new voice of rugby and Nick McArdle will be the main host of the broadcast on Nine and Stan Sport.
Wallabies great Tim Horan has been secured as a panellist, while Andrew Swain will be a secondary caller and a senior producer. Former Wallabies winger Drew Mitchell is also on board.
The fixture for this year’s Constellation Cup netball series was announced on Thursday. NZ Silver Ferns will play Australian Diamonds over four tests, at Christchurch Arena on March 2 and 3, before two more clashes at Trustpower Baypark in Tauranga on March 6 and 7.
The Diamonds plan to travel to Christchurch on February 15 and undergo 14 days hotel quarantine.
The Constellation Cup will be broadcast on either Nine or 9Gem along with the Netball Live app, with broadcast information to be confirmed.
Nine has lost the broadcast rights to Super Netball and Australian Diamonds matches (excluding Netball World Cup and Commonwealth Games) to Foxtel from 2022 to the end of 2026.
“We are disappointed that after working with netball to grow the game for the past five years we find they have taken the deal with Foxtel which is supported by government money which we don’t have access to,” a Nine spokeswoman said.
The news came just a couple of hours after Nine revealed its commentary team for the rugby union coverage on the network and Stan.
I just couldn’t believe why Nine lost the rights to the Suncorp Super Netball after 5 years. They had a good run telecasting the Suncorp Super Netball. Their digital platforms were good. With the Suncrop Super Netball moving exclusively to Foxtel, this sport will suffer further. I feel that the new Netball broadcasting contract will be a disaster. THe Netball is covered under the anti-siphoning laws.
I’d dare say Nine didn’t want to pay what netball wanted, and went elsewhere.
I’d make a comment about basketball being better than netball as they are similar, but I’m already going to get my arse kicked for borderline racist comments in another thread. Plus Nine won’t pay for the NBL or NBA either (yet SBS does! - go figure).
I think the NBL wanted 9 to show more games (the games ESPN didn’t want to show) after Fox Sports bailed on showing every game, 9 didn’t want to and the NBL went to SBS instead. Don’t think there was much of a money component outside the shared advertising agreements.
