Was thinking this this afternoon too!
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Genuinely thought it was a glitch in my tv when they cut off Gavaskar in the middle of a sentence.
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First Test a smash hit on Seven
Historic Aussie triumph reaches 6.37 million
Australia’s thrilling comeback victory in the First Test against India was a huge hit with fans, with the Seven Network’s live and free coverage of the three days’ play at Adelaide Oval reaching 6.37 million people and peaking at 1.48 million.
Yesterday, as opener Joe Burns finally found form after the dinner break to lead Australia to an eight-wicket victory, Seven recorded an average audience of 893,000 viewers nationally for the second session and 587,000 in the capital cities.
The first session had 831,000 national viewers and 531,000 capital-city viewers. Both sessions dominated their timeslots, ranking #1 in 25 to 54s, 16 to 39s and total people.
On a historic day three when inspired spells from Aussie quicks Josh Hazlewood and Patrick Cummins reduced India to its lowest ever Test score of 36, a total average national audience of 701,000 tuned in to the Home of Cricket, while the capital city audience was 498,000.
BBL prime-time blockbuster on Channel 7 and 7mate
Sydney Sixers v Adelaide Strikers, 7.00pm AEDT
With the early finish of the First Test, today’s BBL match between Sydney Sixers and Adelaide Strikers moves to prime time, with the crucial clash now live and free on Seven at 7.00pm AEDT.
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Very good reach numbers on Seven’s Test Cricket.
I think Boxing Day Test will see more viewers watching the match
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See what was seven worried about, this country loves cricket and will watch it.
CA would be looking at these numbers saying “and you thought it wouldn’t rate”.
Oh the popcorn is ready to see how this plays out now, will seven fold quicker than the Indians?
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Don’t get caught up in reach and peak figures though.
Doubt Seven would call 500-600k ‘extraordinary’ though, nor Nine beating them recently in shares and raw rarings, as well as not being happy about a 2 day Test LOL
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Exactly, Seven need to polish the turd for their clients. They’re solid ratings, but hardly setting records.
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And when you’re sharing the coverage you wont either - there needs to be a tempering of expectations around Seven’s ratings for the cricket.
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Also, Seven lost the ratings last night (to Nine), network and main channel, thanks to the cricket blow-up result and very early finish, would’ve otherwise been the total opposite.
Another thing that Seven can whinge about.
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Nice use of Tenacious D’s Tribute during in tonight’s BBL coverage…
Also, Hodge’s jacket needs to be burnt. What a horrible design.
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Has Glenn McGrath been on Seven’s coverage of the test at all?
Harsha Bhogle made the comment on Fox Cricket that Glenn McGrath is in a nearby room to him in Mumbai which suggests to me that Glenn is working on the English-language coverage in a studio in India.
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Insights into the Seven Commentary Teams
BBL Sides Supported
Scorchers- Abbey Gelmi, Simon Katich, Ryan Daniels
Renegades- James Brayshaw, Brad Hodge, Jess Duffin,
Thunder- Erin Holland
Strikers- Greg Blewett, Jason Gillespie, Amelia Mulcahy
Sixers- Michael Slater, Glenn McGrath, Trent Copeland, Lisa Sthaleker,
Hurricanes- Ricky Ponting, Julia Price, Tim Paine, Tom Cooper
Heat- Kirby Short, Brendon McCullum
Stars- Damien Fleming, Holly Ferling, Elyse Villani, Katy Martin, Kristen Beams
None- Mel McLaughlin, Alison Mitchell, Tim Lane, Simon Taufel, Andy Maher, Jason Richardson, Belinda Clarke, Mel Jones
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This was 2018. I was talking about this current series.
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Mcgrath is commentating for Sony in India. Won’t be in Australia for the summer and will miss the Pink Test for the first time. Obviously therefore won’t be, and hasn’t been, on 7 this season.
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It looks as if 7’s Big Bash ratings have fallen off a cliff this year. Numbers hovering well below 500k in the 5 city metro for the game yesterday. The competition is an absolute dud for any FTA network sans exclusivity.
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Any sports deal that isn’t exclusive is a dud now!
Look at nine NRL ratings, everything was below par besides the games that were exclusive.
Supercars, Union was the same.
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Which is why the future has to be the Nine/Stan Sport model. Nine will never do a simulcast deal with Foxtel again if Stan Sport works.
Seven may well continue with the Foxtel arrangements but if Stan Sport works they may need to compete with their own service. That or News Limited Australia merges with Seven West anyway and it becomes moot.
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The only sports that networks should really go for these days is AFL, Tennis, Melbourne Cup and State of Origin.
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If you view it through the prism of average ratings being the be all and end all, perhaps. But it’s an outdated view.
Sponsors love being linked with sports and sports TV. There’s so many packages networks can sell around it compared to other shows (replay sponsor, halftime sponsor, MOTM sponsor etc). The ROI is actually pretty good.
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