Ok, Mel has managed to do her role with News and Cricket well
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Yep probably not a smart idea to expose a pregnant woman to a Six, she was involved in presenting sport updates from the MCG during the Boxing day test as per her Insta.
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Andrew Moore suggested on ABC Radio during the last test that he’s in Japan at his resort.
What?
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The ball might hit Abbey’s stomach where the baby is held, causing possible stillbirth or brain damage.
Or if she hosts from a studio that won’t be a problem
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I’m beginning to doubt whether anyone here has ever met a pregnant women given some of the posts here.
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Good Lord. Honestly wasn’t expecting that as response.
It wouldn’t be a problem wherever she hosted from.
Didn’t think it was that stupid a response, every employer has a duty of care and the last thing you’d want to see is someone injured on the job, especially when the host/reporter sits on the boundary and is exposed to flying cricket balls.
If she was to commence studio hosting, no issue, however Seven haven’t been using their main hosts on the BBL coverage and have the B grade teams hosting from the studio, come finals they’ll hopefully be live at the venue.
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This discussion is really quite bizare. There are no safety issues to pregnant women being on the boundary at a BBL game. I have never seen a ball hit and remain at waist height and hit someone on the full. Let’s get some sensible discussion back in this thread please.
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I thought that’s how they made cricketers?
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So it’s a danger to anyone based on your risk assessment, why single out pregnant women? Have presenters and commentators been injured in such a way previously? Surely they’d just move out of the way if the ball was coming towards them?
What next , banning pregnant women from the crowds? Robotic cameras to avoid having camera operators stand near the boundary?
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Fair call, anyone on the boundary could cop one and cause some form of injury, not having a go at anyone whom may be pregnant if that’s what your implying. At least two BBL spectators have been injured in BBL12 as well, I witnessed the 1st one at Adelaide Oval and he was in the 1st tier, so there’s nothing preventing someone on the boundary from being hurt as well.
This discussion is a real waste of time if you can’t see sense with some form of risk-assessment, for anyone who has worked in Film or TV on location, these are the things you consider when on set/location, trust me I’ve done many location scouts and risk assessments in my time, being aware of your surroundings is a must.
Cricket bowls over 8.1m viewers on Seven
Australia’s victory over South Africa’s Test team this summer was a hit with viewers, with the Seven Network’s live and free coverage of the three-Test series reaching 8.1 million people nationally and averaging a daily peak audience of 1.13 million viewers.
Seven’s coverage of the third Test reached 5.6 million viewers nationally and peaked at 1.16 million viewers.
Seven’s day five coverage of the third Test reached 3.13 million viewers nationally and peaked at 1.15 million viewers. Session 3 had an average audience of 850,000 viewers, while Session 2 had 819,000 viewers. All sessions dominated their timeslot audience, ranking #1 in total people.
Session 3 was the #1 non-news program last night in total people and people 16 to 39, while Session 2 was the #1 non-news program in 25 to 54s. The final day’s play helped Seven secure a huge daytime network share of 64%.
Day 1 of the second Test on 26 December had the biggest average audience of the series, with 1.21 million viewers tuning in on Boxing Day to watch Session 3. Day 2 of the second Test also recorded 1.21 million viewers for Session 3.
Seven delivered 74% of the broadcast audience across the three-Test series.
Managing Director Seven Melbourne and Head of Network Sport, Lewis Martin, said: “Seven’s sensational summer of cricket still has more to deliver, all live and free. The explosive action of the Big Bash League continues in the lead-up to the five-game finals series that kicks off on Friday, 27 January, and the world-beating Australian women’s team take on Pakistan in a series of exciting international matches from Monday, 16 January.
“Australia’s showdown with South Africa is just the start of a massive year of sport on Seven, including AFL, Supercars, horse racing and the FIFA Women’s World Cup Australia & New Zealand 2023™ in July and August.
“Seven is the home of sport and we can’t wait to bring all the drama, emotion and heart-stopping moments to all Australians in 2023, live and free, across a full 52-week schedule,” he said.
“A huge thanks to Seven’s entire cricket production team for their extraordinary efforts which, despite rain delays, contributed to outstanding coverage and an amazing outcome for the McGrath Foundation, which sold more than 250,000 Virtual Pink Seats and raised more than $5 million during the 15th NRMA Insurance Pink Test.”
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Oi, I told you that in confidence
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I’m sorry but I’m pissing myself 
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Going to need a risk assessment form before you continue actually.
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Might have to dust off the Mediaspy cabinet to hunt for it.
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Forgive me for a slight tangent, but it does strike me as odd that Ricky Ponting hasn’t appeared on the BBL coverage since 20th December and has only commentated twice in the competition this season. It’s a far cry from the first season of 7’s coverage in 2018/19 when Ponting missed part of the Boxing Day and New Year’s Tests against India to cover the BBL and didn’t feature on the Sri Lanka Tests at all. Goes to show how the BBL has lost value over the course of the last 4 years.
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Enjoying the commentary and commentators tonight. Entertaining and easy to listen to.
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JB hasn’t appeared as well. I think they might be having a break & might return next week. Especially when the broadcast team will be stretched thin with the Women’s Internationals starting on Monday