Doing a bit of digging - the coverage on ABC Australia, BT Sport 1, Sky Sport NZ, TSN 2 (Canada) & TVNZ Duke are all scheduled to begin at 12:30pm eastern and go until 5:30pm (Sky/TVNZ) & 6pm (everyone else).
Therefore, it seems like the issue has more to do with FSP rather than Seven if the other overseas broadcasters are showing the full coverage
I heard that TSN did not want to show pre-match initially, but reluctantly accepted the conditions set by Seven so as not to disappoint footy fans in Canada.
Orbit Showtime Network in the Middle East will start its telecast at 2.24pm AEST like FSP, right before the national anthem, but will show the post-match up to 6pm.
Which certainly isn’t helping to promote the game overseas.
According to today’s Herald Sun, Hamish McLachlan will be master of ceremonies for today’s match, announcing the national anthem.
Red blocks were used to build the 7 logo at the beginning of the horse racing coverage on 7Two
did you have screencaps
Holy crap they brought back Fanfare For The Modern Man!
The state of 7 demanding overseas broadcasters take its sycophantic pre-match coverage.
They shouldn’t have too though. We don’t take any of the NFL pre game coverage?
When you hear the sentence “pre game Roaming Brian” you see where the international broadcasters are coming from
That’s what I mean. It’s awful, why are 7 inflicting this on the rest of the planet.
Don’t start me on Bruce. Time for him to be put out to pasture.
7’s coverage is just awful. The roaming Brian thing was so tacky. “Oh look Ling has been watching West Coast kick goals”. He had a fu*ken microphone. It was obviously set up.
Top effort cutting off a montage with a betting update. Shambolic
Sunrise’s Melbourne reporter Nathan Templeton has replaced Craig Willis as the voice of this year’s AFL Grand Final. According to today’s Herald Sun, Willis has decided to step back to give younger people a chance to work on the big day.
The sound quality of the prematch entertainment is soooo poor. How embarrassing.
At least Meat Loaf was entertaining
At least John Farnham sounds better with shit quality.
He should’ve played You’re the Voice instead of covering Cold Chisel
For anyone curious, the way the 7plus GF streaming has been implemented is on the available devices (eg; Telstra TV) - a separate GF stream has replaced the Seven stream
Streaming quality isn’t great though - looks below SD
