Interesting take on Seven and the Olympics.
You do know Bruce is originally from Adelaide.
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And now (temporarily) living in Sydney.
Bruce has done enough Olympics & other non AFL broadcasts to be very well known Oz Wide for his excellent work.
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What exactly is the point of this comment? Are you saying Bruce McAvaney doesn’t deserve the universal recognition he regularly gets as a highly respected and long serving Australian sports caller, because “Sydney don’t really care” and that statement is really according to… Just yourself?
So I’m guessing with the ban on crowds at games, this can only mean an increase in ratings for the AFL (and the RL as well).
There could be a back-lash by the public at the decision(s) though, as I heard one radio caller suggest. I think many if not most fans wanted a postponement rather than ‘business as usual’ with no crowds.
The traditional first game between Richmond and Carlton is always huge, 90-100 thousand crowd at the MCG, atmosphere is incredible. It’s going to look and sound so weird. And the commercial impact from that missing crowd(s) will affect the AFL and MCG financially anyway.
Random tailback callers on 3aw should be last people we take any notice of. Was that the biologist who’s studied virology who phoned Denis Walter last night? He was sprouting complete nonsense.
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LOL I think it actually was, got in the car around 6:30pm, sometime after then? 
Just after 7 I think, I suspect he’d had a few glasses of fruity lexia.
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I switched off not long after when I realised Denis was just going to get callers to froth over coronavirus all night
Saturday 28 March -
Jason Richardson hosting Seven’s horse racing coverage from the Talking Footy set in Melbourne, with trainer Henry Dwyer and jockey Chris Symons. Regular crosses to Bruce McAvaney who is working from his Sydney apartment and Richard Freedman at Rosehill Gardens.
This is the only sports telecast in the country yes?
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Yep. The only live sports this weekend.
The Championships
LIVE Saturday 12.00pm AEDT on 7, 7TWO and 7plus
All the excitement of one of Australian racing’s biggest days will unfold LIVE and FREE on Seven this Saturday, when day one of The Championships kicks off at Royal Randwick with a quartet of prestigious Group 1 races.
The action at Randwick will be headlined by one of Australia’s feature 1600m races, the $1.5 million Doncaster Mile, which shapes as wide-open contest between a quality field including Brandenburg , Super Seth and Melody Belle . Master trainer Chris Waller has a remarkable eight runners in the race including Mister Sea Wolf , Shared Ambition and Imaging .
In the $1.25 million TJ Smith Stakes, star sprinters Nature Strip , Bivouac , Santa Ana Lane and Loving Gaby are again set to square off.
And the Australian Derby (2400m) will feature the best three-year-old stayers including Castelvecchio , Shadow Hero and Warning , while Randwick’s championship race for two-year-olds, the Inglis Sires’ (1400m), looms as a battle between Mamaragan , Prague , Aim and Ole Kirk .
Seven will also bring viewers all the action from the nine-race card at Caulfield.
Jason Richardson will host Seven’s coverage on Saturday, Caulfield trainer Henry Dwyer and Victorian jockey Chris Symons will provide expert comments, while Rosehill trainer Richard Freedman will be on track for previews and interviews. Bruce McAvaney , Emily Bosson , Katelyn Mallyon and Corey Brown will provide insights through the day from their living rooms.
TV Broadcast times:
Randwick – The Championships Day One
Caulfield – Caulfield Race Day
Saturday April 4
Sydney 12.00pm LIVE on Channel 7 and 7plus, 5.00pm LIVE on 7TWO
Melbourne 12.00pm LIVE on Channel 7 and 7plus, 5.00pm LIVE on 7TWO
Brisbane 11.00am LIVE on Channel 7 and 7plus
Adelaide 11.30am LIVE on Channel 7 and 7plus, 5.00pm LIVE on 7TWO
Perth 9.00am LIVE on 7TWO and 7plus, 10.00am LIVE on Channel 7
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You beauty!
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Good luck with that when they’re currently in financial dire straits.
Spw68 must be ecstatic.
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As much as I don’t watch the NRL, I hope its time for a change in broadcaster. CHannel 9 had the coverage for too long and treated coverage with contempt.
Their streaming platforms on 9Now are good and can stream it in HD. However, Tasmania, VIC, SA and WA didn’t have the post-match interviews. Instead, they cut off telecast after the final siren. On several State of Origin nights, VIC, SA and Tasmania cut off the post-match presentation and instead went to Footy Show. The sooner Nine loses the rights, the better.
More likely that CBS will back Ten to pickup NRL rights surely. Is that more likely you think?
That’s the viewpoint that I have
It’s been obvious to me that Seven have been interested in the NRL broadcast rights since mid-March when it was announced the network signed up Bill Harrigan, Brett Kimmorley, Craig Wing, Mark Geyer, Robbie Farah and Tim Mannah for their news coverage of the game.
After being the main FTA broadcaster of rugby league for the better part of three decades (there would be many fans of the game today who haven’t known it being anywhere else but on Nine), it’s probably about time that Nine no longer had the NRL broadcast rights.
Nine have a very long track record of poor rugby league coverage even in NSW & Queensland, remembering the bad old days when there was no live coverage of regular season matches.
Things have improved marginally in recent years, but it was still pretty bad how Sunday Football aired on delay until 2015 (I think)!
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