Today, I think was the Last Sports Sunday for 2020 as well as the last studio production at TCN-9 Original Willoughby Studios ending 64 Years of Production there.
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Yes, todayâs edition of sports sunday was the last episode for the year. They had a âsports in reviewâ clip towards the end of the show.
At the end of the show, Peter Fitzimmons acknowledged that the show will be at the new studios next year, and jokingly saying âbulldozers are waiting for the show to finish so they can knock down the studiosâ.
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James Bracey has beem a good host this year. They have covered alot of things this year. I hope the show does return next year
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Nine have renamed the Facebook page to âRugby Sports Sundayâ.
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Do they think a Rugby specific sports show is better than a general one?
Iâd rather watch one that covered all sports and news, they could have made another show entirely just for rugby coverage.
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It appears that page hasnât been used for over 2 years, unless Nine deleted a bunch of non union and league posts?
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Iâd say that it probably just hasnât been used, fragmenting their audience across multiple Facebook pages doesnât make sense when they can just easily use the WWOS one which has over 750k vs a measly 13k.
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Sports Sunday should be a generic sports show. Like it always has been.
Not sure why Rugby was added to this shows Facebook page. Unless a Rugby highlights show will also be airing on Nine in 2021, alongside the normal Sports Sunday show?
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Itâs now been renamed again to: âRugby on Nineâ
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Could a rugby union show take over the Sports Sunday timeslot during the Super Rugby season?
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Probably because you canât change a Facebook page name too dissimilar to its original name, so they slowly transitioned itâs name. As I suspected when the original name was changed.
I find it highly unlikely that Ch9 would get rid of Sports Sunday in favour of a weekly rugby show in that time slot. Rugby doesnât rate, a show about it definitely wouldnât.
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Pretty simple really.
This facebook change allows them to push content out from rugby coverage on social and use rugby specific stories (like they do with netball and rugby league with their respective social channels).
Theyâve probably figured they donât need a page for Sport Sunday (13k) and can just utilise the WWOS (756k) page for any Sport Sunday content. While at the same time growing a new rugby community.
Nothing to do with the on air product.
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Correct. Convert pages (with likes/followers) for new things when you donât need them. It gives them a head start, and also getting into peopleâs following lists and feeds without them knowing, potentially getting more viewers, etc.
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Sports Sunday returns to our screens this Sunday at 10am - as its normal generic sports-panel show. Is James Bracey returning as host?
Not sure what is currently happening to the facebook page (re discussion over the last few posts here).
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Iâd assume Bracey will return as host given thereâs been no announcement on any changes.
Facebook and Twitter pages werenât used for a couple of years for the show, and now seem to be dedicated accounts for Nineâs Rugby coverage.
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Used the new WWOS set today plus the additional soft couch set for WWOS as well. Looked good.
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Set looks great. Shame what Today ended up with wasnât as nice.
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Is there a reason Today ended up with the news studio set and not this one?
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A great looking set
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