Would most of these United cups and Brisbane international matches be called off tube? Highly unlikely nine sending any commentators to the venues.
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Right, so the token courtside reporter with main commentaters elsewhere.
One thing i don’t like about nine is you never see the commentators so you can’t work it out. Deliberate strategy one thinks.
The world feed is also the Nine commentary. I’ll share caps in a moment but world feed has the same three commentators for this match.
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Caps of the world feed broadcast here, featuring a local game show host:
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Hosts/commentators might have more of a presence at night in Perth, perhaps?
Sydney starts their United Cup tomorrow. They sometimes commentate from the Ken Rosewell Arena itself, and other times from a separate studio. Will see how it goes tomorrow.
Unless they use minimal hosts and commentators for the Group Stages, and use more from the Quarter Stages from Thursday onwards?
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They really need to use a different studio, the shoe box isn’t working. Lighting isn’t great on Nick.
Why not use the usual Wide World Of Sports Studio in Sydney? Instead of that shoebox of a studio - where ever that is?
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No guests, essentially just throwing to feeds. Probably all it needs, really.
Although they could have just whacked the world feed up - anchored and all, but wouldn’t have been able to manage the ads etc as easy.
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AFAIK I’m pretty sure that Nine can amend the [world feed] coverage, at least in part, to suit their broadcasts. They share the same graphics package or rather took TA’s (vs Seven who used to opt for their own and even after production moved in-house to TA about a decade ago) and also share some talent and crew. More so since Stan Sport’s coverage. But yeah despite TA’s broadcast team, I’m positive Nine still have a significant role, that goes beyond simply just transmitting the domestic telecasts. Nine and TA definitely seem to have a more collaborative and less individualisd relationship compared to when Seven held rights.
I recall Nine’s first day back in 2019, Tournament Director Craig Tiley shared a photo on his social media of what might’ve been Nine’s new studio or ‘Court 9’ and there were hundreds of crew in the background all wearing that blue polo with “9 | AO” on it and he said “media briefing with new partner Channel 9”. So I’m guessing all were Nine wwos, some contractors and newly employed ex-Seven Sport staff, rather than purely TA. That could’ve changed a bit now though.
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What studios are those hostings coming from?
Also, has the hosting lineup for Australian Open been announced yet?
Sure, but there’s clearly a reason they don’t want to slap up the world feed even for a minor event like the United Cup - sponsorship, ads etc
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Because there really isn’t a need to fire up the big studio for one presenter and minimal screen time.
It’s Studio D at North Sydney, the old ACA studio from when they first moved in.
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And it’s a good thing they don’t IMO, comes across as better to the viewer, more effort. Many viewers aren’t dumb and would pick up on a pure world feed simulcast after a while. And not just advertisers (in-program pop-ups/plugs and the ad breaks), but also if some extended filler time might be required by the host or if something significant tournament-wise occurs with a big name or local, can ‘opt out’ and focus on that angle for a bit. Although I do feel the last couple of summers appeared a bit better from Nine, at least studio and host input wise, but only Day 1, so we’ll see. Of course there’s been an investment and push for Stan Sport as well.
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IIRC Seven Sport used to send their team on-location including some main talent like John Alexander, Kerry Pratt, Todd Woodbridge (although probably wasn’t a top commentator yet back then) and Johanna Griggs, to the then Hopman Cup Perth, Brisbane International and Medibank/Apia International Sydney. But this was at a time when they were contracted to produce the host and domestic broadcasts and when there was only one main channel and no live streaming. They continued from memory, but to a much lesser scale after about 2015 and with lesser talent like Tom Williams and even Recall oddly 7AFL’s Luke Darcy one year and some days were even from a ‘box’ studio out of Docklands with somebody like Geoff Masters and Michael Felgate.
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Remove the AEDTs and you have a nationally (well, except Perth) usable promo.
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Nine Entertainment made $86.7 million in profit last year and they’re still subjecting their audience to the dodgy Anko North Sydney sets
They should never have been installed, but they definitely should’ve been ripped out and upgraded long ago.
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