The weirdly schedule Road to the Melbourne Cup is back Friday 6 October 10:30pm
Join Michael Felgate, Glen Boss, Britt Taylor and David Gately as they delve into the Melbourne Cup Carnival’s history and examine the contenders for the 2023 race that stops a nation.
Honestly, what’s the point of this at the all glorious slot of 10.30pm on a dead Friday night of all nights?
Why not a bit earlier during the week after their 8.30 shows or at 7.30 on Friday?
The Road to the Melbourne Cup has been airing at oddly times in recent years. This seems to be no different.
Agree that its odd that its scheduled to air on at 10.30 (plus the usual overrun) on a Friday night.
10 usually run this show on Friday nights for a couple of weeks then on the Monday night there is an episode at an earlier slot on Monday the day before the race.
Sunday NBL Action Live And Free From Sunday, 1 October At 2.00pm AEDT On 10 Peach And 10 Play.
The 2023/2024 Hungry Jack’s NBL season gets underway this weekend with Sunday Hoops bringing viewers back-to-back basketball action live and free from 2.00pm AEDT on 10 Peach and 10 Play.
The Adelaide 36ers will play host to Melbourne United, tipping off the Sunday Hoops season. And straight afterwards, the South East Melbourne Phoenix are taking on the Perth Wildcats live from 4.00pm AEDT.
As the NBL’s free-to-air partner, 10 Peach and 10 Play will take viewers court side to the biggest matches of the 2023/2024 Hungry Jack’s NBL season. Visit 10 Play for the full Sunday Hoops season fixture.
NB: Match fixtures subject to change.
Surely the Australian MotoGP times are off on the 10 schedule released.
| ### Date | ### Time AEDT | ### Grand Prix | ### Round | ### Channel |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 Oct | 1300-1600, Race Start 1500 | 2023 Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix | Round 17 | Live and free on 10 and 10 Play |
| 22 Oct | 1200-1500, Race Start 1400 | 2023 Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix | Round 17 | Live and free on 10 and 10 Play |
On the MotoGP website it says this for Saturday:
Free Practice Nr. 2
Qualifying Nr. 1
Qualifying Nr. 2
Best of
Qualifying Nr. 1
Qualifying Nr. 2
Qualifying Nr. 1
Qualifying Nr. 2
Tissot Sprint
Sounds correct, Saturday coverage from 1-4pm AEDT with the Sprint race at 3pm.
In the past they covered MotoGP practice and all qualifying sessions and no build up on Sunday??
Would appear that Foxtel, being the ‘master’ rights holder, has gone to 10 and said you can only have Moto2 Qualifying and the Sprint Race on the Saturday and the Moto2 and MotoGP races on Sunday live.
I thought 10 were paying “big bucks” for the access to this prestigious event on MotoGP calendar. I hope its different next season.
Originally 10 had 10am to 4pm on Saturday and 1030am to 3pm on Sunday on their website.
10 would be paying peanuts for this extremely niche event. It’s a shitty simulcast deal because of the anti siphoning rules.
Fox own the rights and sell the dregs because they have to. 10 will not be back in the sport game in this decade if ever again. No sport wants to sell to them despite the big money they put on the table. And most sports do not want to sell u less fox is involved. It’s a rigged system that’s a disaster for sport in this country.
is 750k peanuts for MotoGP, compare to 6m for F1
Now do you know this is what they are paying?
I think it’s peanuts compared to their unsuccessful $6b 10 year AFL bid. 750k is nothing if these figures you quote are accurate.
MotoGP is a good example of a sport that frankly shouldn’t be on the list (and is only there for the locally held event) - FTA has shown limited interest in the sport.
it has been reported in the media
Foxtel has F1 rights until 2026
Sunday Hoops Round 2.
Sunday NBL Action Live From 2.00pm AEDT On 10 Peach And 10 Play.
Round 2 of the 2023/2024 Hungry Jack’s NBL season is here with Melbourne United hosting Tasmania JackJumpers, then the Sydney Kings take on Adelaide 36ers, in a blockbuster Sunday Hoops live from 2.00pm AEDT on 10 Peach and 10 Play.
After two from two in the opening round, Melbourne United will take on the JackJumpers as they look to bounce back after a defeat in their opening match. Then, reigning champs Sydney Kings will be hoping to continue their winning ways when they host the Adelaide 36ers live from 4.00pm AEDT.
10 Peach and 10 Play take viewers court side to all the biggest matches of the 2023/24 Hungry Jack’s NBL season. Visit 10 Play for the full Sunday Hoops season fixture.
The MotoGP qualifying is on in the morning (like 10.50-11.30), and Ten would’ve been very unlikely to take that at that hour… it’d likely make more sense to show that on delay than the Moto2 qualifying, followed by the sprint race (and I suspect they will).
The qualifying in the morning determines the grid for both races, so there is likely some extended period for tweaking permitted between getting a qualifying run for what might be in full-race mode, and the sprint.
Seems very similar to the (somewhat controversial) decision to put F1 full-race qualifying on Friday when there’s a sprint race on, so they can focus entirely on the sprint race (which in that code, has a separate qualifying session) on Saturday.
And they might not have it after that date.
Formula one and apple are currently discussing a rights deal that is worldwide!
Also will be interesting to see how that would work here in Australia under our current FTA rights deal with F1 for Melbs GP.
If this were to come to fruition, I could see part of the deal being that Apple can sub-licence rights where appropriate.
