Australian Cricket - New TV rights negotiations/deal

[brockley]

Insiders brought it up Nufan.
No one bit for the T20 internationals?

 

[Prince EWS]

Yeah look I openly don't think the anti-siphoning list should be a thing at all, but I'm not buying that no-one actually bid for the stuff that was on there. I wonder if Ten feels like challenging it in the courts for the right to show just those games though; probably not tbf.

 

[stephen]

This whole deal stinks. Peever and Sutherland have acted more disgracefully and done more damage to the sport than Steven Smith and David Warner could ever have done.

Going to Foxtel is the death knell of sports in this country.

This is something that we should be writing our MPs about.

My mother, a lifelong cricket game is absolutely livid. I've never seen her more upset. There's no way she can afford Foxtel and loved watching the limited officers matches in particular.

This deal makes me more angry the more I hear about it. Absolutely disgusting.

 

[Spark]

This whole deal stinks. Peever and Sutherland have acted more disgracefully and done more damage to the sport than Steven Smith and David Warner could ever have done.

Going to Foxtel is the death knell of sports in this country.

This is something that we should be writing our MPs about.

My mother, a lifelong cricket game is absolutely livid. I've never seen her more upset. There's no way she can afford Foxtel and loved watching the limited officers matches in particular.

This deal makes me more angry the more I hear about it. Absolutely disgusting.

Peever has been a disaster

 

[Victor Ian]

Peever? Never a more apt name.

 

[Daemon]

This whole deal stinks. Peever and Sutherland have acted more disgracefully and done more damage to the sport than Steven Smith and David Warner could ever have done.

Going to Foxtel is the death knell of sports in this country.

This is something that we should be writing our MPs about.

My mother, a lifelong cricket game is absolutely livid. I've never seen her more upset. There's no way she can afford Foxtel and loved watching the limited officers matches in particular.

This deal makes me more angry the more I hear about it. Absolutely disgusting.

Is this on Steam?

 

[Prince EWS]

 

[Spikey]

Yeah look I openly don't think the anti-siphoning list should be a thing at all, but I'm not buying that no-one actually bid for the stuff that was on there. I wonder if Ten feels like challenging it in the courts for the right to show just those games though; probably not tbf.

It's actual fact the stuff had bids taken on it, and CA rejected them 3 odd weeks ago, but that Fifield quote says to me that CA is free to reject the first FTA bids and then sell it to whoever, which uh, seems like a big change from how we've all thought this thing worked.

 

[Prince EWS]

It's actual fact the stuff had bids taken on it, and CA rejected them 3 odd weeks ago, but that Fifield quote says to me that CA is free to reject the first FTA bids and then sell it to whoever, which uh, seems like a big change from how we've all thought this thing worked.

It would render the whole thing entirely pointless if so.

Maybe the ODI stuff just didn't have any standalone bids - ie. the only bids including it were bundled with other stuff - but I find that unlikely as well.

 

[Burgey]

If there’s a way for this government to interpret a law to screw over the punters, they’ll find it.

Fifield gave $30 million in govt money to Foxtel last year off the budget books without explanation. He’s a crook.

 

[Spikey]

I assume the line CA would give is that C7 did buy the rights to the ODI's and T20's, and C7 decided to sell them onto Foxtel, but everyone knows who the number 1 broadcast partner in this agreement is.

 

[Spikey]

If there’s a way for this government to interpret a law to screw over the punters, they’ll find it.

Fifield gave $30 million in govt money to Foxtel last year off the budget books without explanation. He’s a crook.

There was an explanation wasn't they? It was to do with coverage of woman's sport

It's just that the 30 million almost certainly didn't go towards coverage of woman's sport

 

[Spikey]

I assume the line CA would give is that C7 did buy the rights to the ODI's and T20's, and C7 decided to sell them onto Foxtel, but everyone knows who the number 1 broadcast partner in this agreement is.

btw I believe this comes with some irony, as when the Murdoch's were circling around C10, it was feared this would be their plan. Buy the rights through C10 and sell the best parts to Foxtel

edit

Roy Masters took time out for advocating the SFS be demolished to write up about it last year

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/race-i...a-sports-rights-monolopy-20170824-gy3i16.html

 

[morgieb]

Yeah while I like some bits of the deal, the way it was handled was a ****ing farce.

 

[duffer]

Apologies for linking to Dennis Does Cricket, but this is pretty ugly if true:

How Channel 10 Lost The Cricket - Dennis Does Cricket

Pretty scandalous, if true.

 

[jimmy101]

Pretty scandalous, if true.

A quote from that article: "Let’s hope that in chasing that last penny, Cricket Australia haven’t driven a stake into the future growth of the game."

 

[Gnske]

I wish I was on steroids so I could find that Foxtel guy, get him in a headlock and pop his head off.

 

[the big bambino]

This makes me sad.

"Got him! The last ball! Can you believe that!" By Bill has been going around for a lot longer than I realised. I'm going to miss it.

No more Richie farewelling us at the end of a test with "this has been another presentation from nine's wide world of sports" really makes me incredibly emotional. It's like he really is gone forever now.

Three truth is that cricket is too good and has too much history to be entrusted to the likes of Sutherland and co. It should be given national funding on the same level as schools and hospitals and given three dedicated fta tv channels with zero advertising.

Vote 1 Stephen.

 

[Prince EWS]

I assume the line CA would give is that C7 did buy the rights to the ODI's and T20's, and C7 decided to sell them onto Foxtel, but everyone knows who the number 1 broadcast partner in this agreement is.

Yeah this makes sense.

Seven might even actually still have the rights to show them, but wink wink nudge nudge be choosing not to.

 

[quincywagstaff]

Apologies for linking to Dennis Does Cricket, but this is pretty ugly if true:

How Channel 10 Lost The Cricket - Dennis Does Cricket

Hmm, not entirely convinced by that; seems like a PR puff piece for Channel 10 and excuse making for them more than anything. Like I said previously, if Channel 10 were so determined to revolutionise cricket coverage why did they initially do a joint bid with 9 and not just go for the whole rights themselves? They have so little going for them as a TV station atm that it seemed like a totally obvious move to become the cricket station and they muffed it.

I'm disappointed that ODIs/T20s are gone from FTA but this is the way sport is run these days; as popular as AFL is in parts of Australia, we see less than half the games on FTA (same with NRL I believe) and most other sports in Oz have headed down similar paths.

I think there's negativity when events like this occur and articles like the above go viral is because there's a clash to what we imagine and pretend pro sport to be and what it really is and how corporate battles and backroom deals are how they're run these days. I wish it weren't so but that's the world we live in.