Report on Seven News Melbourne tonight.
David Barham says Seven will not follow ICC regulations and turn up stump microphones at all times:
https://au.sports.yahoo.com/seven-wont-exploit-stars-stump-mic-230020009--spt.html
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Driving, listening to the 6pm bulletin of 7 and had to turn it off. A promo story in the first block for their summer of cricket.
Going to take quite an adjustment, cricket in Australia in the modern era without 9 simply isn’t cricket.
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I wonder if they’ll be a Hobart launch for Southern Cross/7 Tasmania/another independent regional brand’s Summer of cricket!
Tim Watson said on Seven News Melbourne this evening that fixture for this summer’s Women’s Big Bash League would be released tomorrow morning (July 16). He said the season would start with the Melbourne derby (Stars v Renegades).
Cricket Australia have released a schedule for the 2018-19 WBBL Season (WBBL04). The first match will be Scorchers v Hurricanes at Junction Oval on Dec 1, 2018 at 10:40AM. The WBBL Finals will be a stand-alone with the Big Final on Australia Day.
Not sure if this has been mentioned previously here or elsewhere at this forums.
Seven Sport returning to intentional cricket matches broadcast in Australia for the 1st time since the mid 1970’s.
HSV-7 did heaps of Australian Cricket into Melbourne and regional commercial networks while ABC did the rest for national service. Check out the “Made in Melbourne” TV show which can be found on youtube, of course this was well before Kerry Packer figured out live sport means money but only if its a national sport and not a regional one, remember this is the mid to late 70’s.
lol, then what about the time Premier Sports Network & Sports Australia used to do cricket in the mid 90’s.
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Wait that was 20+ years ago 
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I disagree. I think the adjustment will be easy as we’ve been conditioned in recent years with Ten broadcasting BBL for the last 5 seasons and Channel Nine was already way past their glory days of cricket broadcasting of the 70s/80s/90s (ala Kerry Packer’s WSC, Tony Greig, Richie Benaud, etc.).
Australian Cricket fans are ready for change.
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as are Tennis supporters.
It’s amazing that we often over look the 2002 to about 2015 era of sports broadcasting in Australia 
On the pay TV side Fox Sports have had no competition since C7 Sport was dumped by Optus in March 2002 and by AUSTAR a few months later, unless you count ESPN and various minor IPTV channels from Telstra Bigpond as competition (which were just re-broadcast FTA or Fox Sports content), it was not until Optus re-entered sports broadcasting by doing EPL (+ several FIFA comps, international friendlies and FWC) on Optus Sport that Fox Sports has had competition, I guess you could count EDGE Sport which has taken away UFC from various Foxtel channels & Fox Sports but that is niche content at best as is Bellator on Spike TV (only on Fetch), on the FTA side changes have happened but NRL is the only major sport to stay with one broadcaster that said the international game of Rugby League has seen Seven step up and do the World Cups.
I don’t remember when ABC stopped doing regional sports broadcasting of Cricket, I think it might of been around 1992/3 as by then Nine had WIN/SCB_(?)_/NBN and Imparja covering the regional broadcast zones and Optus Aurora doing the rest via satellite into WA and off shore regions.
It’s a massive shake up, even bigger than the Ten/Nine broadcasting of AFL in the 2002 to 2006 time frame as this is national and not only for the AFL states.
? Since I was never in those Southern Cross Nine regions (before June 30 2016) I have no idea if they took the Nine Network feed, that said I do remember watching Nine Network ODI matches on Imparja when travelling out North West NSW.
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UFC content still on Fox Sports
Personally, I think it’ll be harder for Nine to replicate the exceptional Aus Open coverage Seven did (it was their best event).
Won’t take much for Seven/Foxtel to out-do Nine’s horrible cricket coverage in recent years.
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for how much longer though? Fetch with Fetch PPV & EDGE have all but taken over and in the US as of I think this September everything is off FS1 and moving to ESPN & ESPN+ (IPTV streamcast), I think that applies here for Australia also.
Mainevent PPV will continue but again just how many will be bothered with that if they don’t get the rest of the UFC content (other than UFC Fight Pass), just how hard will Fox Sports promote UFC, we know from the past that once Fox Sports looses a sport they loose interest very fast in that sport and no longer promote it and as Mainevent is linked to Foxtel (and technically Optus, actually just on that Optus still own 50% of Mainevent) will they be bothered to continue with it on PPV? My guess is no.
Since I don’t have Foxtel (and if I did it would be through Optus HFC in any case I don’t now if they have EDGE Sport.
all Seven did was provide the announcers and transmission, Tennis Australia does their own production and have several world feeds as various countries don’t show the women’s version of the sport while Seven/Prime/SCB get a clean feed and over-lay with there graphics.
I would think that would be the same now for Nine/9Now / IMP & SCB + the various WIN/PRIME versions of Nine.
I have a theory about why things have changed with the swap of networks but not for this thread.
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Contract renewed last year
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See I did not know that, then again I am not a Foxtel subscriber.
So UFC is on both Fetch & Fox Sports, interesting.
Apologies for these post being in the Seven Cricket thread.
Naive comment. I was speaking holistically. Are you implying Nine’s coverage will be identical?
no of course not, but from the playout/production side Nine Tennis coverage will be virtually the same as Seven Tennis since its Tennis Australia that is providing Nine with the feed, that is not to say that Nine won’t have their own cameras and studio to do their own thing.
Scroll through the Seven Tennis Coverage thread over the last couple of Australian Opens and you’ll have seen plenty of criticism of Seven’s exceptional (your word) coverage, ranging from commentators to presenters to match choices. Seven’s coverage was hardly without issue.
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Are you implying that Nine’s coverage will be defective in comparison to Seven’s previous efforts?
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This is the thing… seven have been woeful at so many sports. Tennis… rubbish. Winter Games… woeful. Rio Olympics… diabolical. I would characterize their AFL coverage as unprofessional, cheap and nasty. Their comm games effort was sub par. They didn’t even have a decent set overlooking a beach or something.
You look at SBS and their coverage of the World Cup and Tour de France and the comparison is stark.
Seven will butcher the cricket. It’s a shit deal. No exclusivity, no streaming and not comprehensive enough with some games behind a pay wall.
All points to shit coverage.
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