According to TV Week, Seven has not scheduled any post-match presentation on any of its multichannels at 6pm AEDT. So if the match goes all the way and finishes just before 6pm AEDT, FTA viewers could miss out on post-match and will have to listen to radio or tune into Fox Cricket instead.
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If they’ve got access to Fox Cricket, they’re probably not punishing themselves with the 7 Coverage.
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According to online guides, this evening’s Australian Cricket Awards from Melbourne has been extended by one hour to 9.30pm AEDT.
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Not good
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Tim Paine is a guest commentator on 7 for tonight’s BBL semi final.
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The network has actually done a great deal for disabled sports in Australia.
Sure, but that wasn’t what I was showing
If you think that’s bad check out ESPN’s coverage of the NHL from TSN Canada, ESPN promotes the coverage to start at 11.30am but has a 50 minute pre-game show full of fluff and the actual game started at 12.20pm.
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I cannot believe that the Big Bash is still going. Seems ridiculous to be going 3 weeks into the school term for most states. Does nothing for crowd numbers or TV schedules (or eyeballs).
The scheduling of the matches is as much an issue in this deal as anything else. They should start 2 weeks earlier in December at least.
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I don’t like how it’s been night games for the most part, but the final is now on a Sunday afternoon.
That cheapens it a bit for me, all because Channel 7 want to show MKR that night. It should be a Saturday night final in this case.
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But a Saturday night BBL final will overlap with Seven’s coverage of AFLW.
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I would argue that the BBL final is more important than a regular season AFLW game.
Purely because it’s the final.
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I have to say that I’ve been disappointed with Seven’s cricket coverage. In many ways, they’ve been worse than Nine were. James Brayshaw, IMO, is unbearable. I know 7 covers AFL but that’s not a reason to call it like AFL. And it needs a bit more representation from Qld & WA. A lot of B grade talent from Melbourne just doesn’t cut it nationally.
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IMO James Brayshaw, Andy Maher and Michael Slater were the worst. So annoying and overbearing. How they let Fox sign up all the good talents like Mel Jones and Isa Guha is beyond me.
Next 5 years are going to be disastrous.
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Tests were good, BBL treated like the second child
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Yes, that’s a perfect summation.
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Good to see Seven coming to their senses with Ricky Ponting, Damian Fleming and Brad Hodge being the main commentators today. But why oh why do they still have Mel Mclaughlin hosting and James Brayshaw still around?
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And here comes James Brayshaw hosting with Punter and Fleming. I think I might just mute my TV.
Don’t know why they parachuted her in to host the BBL Finals when she wasn’t involved in the coverage during the regular season
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