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[hidefdave]

From TV tonight: http://www.tvtonight...-affiliate.html

Good news for coverage in Aus, bad news for seeing much of it in HD I reckon...

D.

[lizclinton]

Can't see any good news in any of if. Just more sport in crappy SD. Thanks CA for selling out the fans to fill your own pockets. Just another sport we won't be watching any more.

Edited by lizclinton, 04 June 2013 - 04:26 AM.

[DansDans]

lizclinton, on 04 June 2013 - 04:22 AM, said:

Can't see any good news in any of if. Just more sport in crappy SD. Thanks CA for selling out the fans to fill your own pockets. Just another sport we won't be watching any more.

Yeah god forbid they might want MORE people to watch the BBL now that it will be on FTA

The growth of that competition relies heavily on FTA - no point locking up an exciting competition on a niche service that has minimal year on year growth

As for no HD for BBL - I dont think TEN has made any announcements about that, have they?

And if anyone dares to complain about how BBL will be ruined with commercials, then clearly they've never seen the way Fox Sports broadcast a BBL match

[lizclinton]

Do really think they are going to pay all that money and then put it on one?? As for exposing the competition to a larger viewing audience, this is channel 10 we are talking about.

Edited by lizclinton, 04 June 2013 - 10:58 AM.

[DansDans]

lizclinton, on 04 June 2013 - 10:30 AM, said:

Do really think they are going to pay all that money and then put it on one?? As for exposing the competition to a larger viewing audience, this is channel 10 we are talking about.

The currently have a better reach that Fox Sports - whats your point?

By the time BBL comes around, analogue will have been shut down or will be in the process of being shut down for the remaining cities in Australia - no reason for them to not put every game on ONE and then home market games on TEN (ie Melb vs Adel live into Melb and Adel on TEN, nationwide on ONE HD)

[lizclinton]

Thats if ONE HD even exists after the analogue shutdown.

Edited by lizclinton, 04 June 2013 - 02:41 PM.

[pgdownload]

Its a big number to be sure to spend on one game that runs for about a third of the year. Nine ad revenue is about 500 million a year FWIW.

You'd have to reckon that there is only so much that you can dilute your content with ads. Based on the feedback of other big price tag items that then need to be stuffed to the gills with advertising to make them pay off, I'd have thought the networks would think they've reach that point.

I'm very thankful I don't have much interest in watching sport. The ads around it are bad enough but its the embedded ones that I find so distracting. It is not possible to look at the screen without flashing logos taking up large slabs of space.

Regards

Peter Gillespie

[turntable]

Channel 9 sucks big time with their refusal to show any sport in HD.

Why does the government allow it to happen.

[timj]

turntable, on 05 June 2013 - 02:35 PM, said:

Channel 9 sucks big time with their refusal to show any sport in HD.

Why does the government allow it to happen.

Maybe it's because of who the Nein Network knows?

[Soap]

Read the fine-print on this from News.com.au.  It looks like the main Nine channel could be going HD!:
http://www.news.com....l-1226454690915

The new broadcast agreement includes:
* A cash component of $925m, $90m of which will be paid prior to the start of the first season;
* Advertising packages to the value of $100m;
* The first 20 rounds of the premiership will be scheduled in advance of the season;
* The final six rounds will be scheduled at round 16.

The Nine Network will broadcast:
* Three weekly matches (two on Friday and one on Sunday);
* Three Thursday evening matches over the course of the year;
* A stand-alone Test and City v Country weekend;
* Wednesday night State of Origin matches;
* A night-time Grand Final (7.15pm kick-off);
* The Roosters-Dragons Anzac Day matches;
* Two hours of rugby league content each evening on digital Channel 94 plus two hours of content on Saturday and Sunday morning;
* Nine will ensure that all of its matches are telecast on either the ‘primary’ or ‘digital’ station in each state;
* The Queensland In Trust Super Cup;
* Nine will broadcast in HD from 2014.

[pgdownload]

Possibly. Although I suspect its more likely Nine will simulcast its primary and HD channels from 2014. Broadcasting in HD seems to have been a bargaining chip for the league. Presumably Nine figured they lose a few million dollars not showing HD reruns of I dream of Jeanie and said they'll show the footy instead.

Also wondering about the $925 million figure. I thought the ground breaking deal was worth only half a billion?

Regards

Peter Gillespie

[GoForMoe]

pgdownload, on 05 June 2013 - 08:53 PM, said:

Also wondering about the $925 million figure. I thought the ground breaking deal was worth only half a billion?

Cricket was half a billion, NRL was the billion.

Not to dwell - but again, that line about HD isn't on their website's version of that release and the two hours of rugby league content hasn't happened either.

[Slattery]

Do 9 have an e-mail address where we can write to find out if the ashes 2013/14 will be broadcast in HD at a paltry 8 mbps mpeg 2 or more of the SD 5mbps mpeg 2 crap lol

[justin25]

and good news all the cricket will now BE LIVE AND IN FULL NATIONALLY even into the host city eg Adelaide even if it isnt sold out. i have audio of James Sutherland discussing it on 1395 Fiveaa

[Slattery]

Did he say if they have demanded it be shown in HD or did they just take the cash and run leaving us with another 5 years of standard definition crap on 9 SD....

[lizclinton]

You can bet they just sold out the fans and took the dollars and ran.

[lizclinton]

Sorry double post

Edited by lizclinton, 13 June 2013 - 07:03 AM.

[Slattery]

Well it's a start. I saw an ad today for the Ashes in July from England will be broadcast in HD on GEM.