Ashes to be shown on SBS again.

I have Fox so don't have to worry but it will be great for those who don't. When Nine had it they didn't start until the second session and it overlapped with Wimbledon.

Following on from its rating success in 2005 and its strengthened partnership with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), SBS today announced it had secured the free-to-air television rights to broadcast the 2009 Ashes Test Series.

The agreement between SBS and the ECB makes provision for live telecasts of the five tests, all one-day internationals between Australia and England and daily online highlights clips.

In 2005 SBS were responsible for ensuring that the Ashes Test Series was available to free-to-air audiences, not just Pay TV viewers, when it committed to broadcasting that year’s series amid disinterest from other networks.

“No other free-to-air Australian broadcaster would commit to televising every ball live, in and out of prime-time,” said SBS Managing Director, Shaun Brown.

“SBS wanted to ensure it provided public access to an event such as the Ashes Series. The public deserve to see the Ashes, the premier cricket contest worldwide,” continued Mr Brown.

“We are very excited to announce this agreement with SBS for the 2009 Ashes Series which is great news for ECB at an exciting time for World cricket. SBS were broadcast partners for the 2005 ‘npower Ashes Series’, and we are delighted that we can extend that partnership into 2009 for the next home Ashes series,” said John Perera, ECB Commercial Director.

“The stock of Ashes Cricket has never been higher, as displayed by the enormous sense of anticipation surrounding the upcoming Ashes Series in Australia, and we’re all hoping for a repeat of the unprecedented scenes we saw last summer in the 2009 Ashes Series in England and Wales,” continued Mr Perera.

good, b/c ch9 suck big hairy donkey testicles.

who did the prematch/lunch show last time? MEW and Mo or was it Magoo . . . I've caught Clamson's amnesia . . .

Have a feeling Mo was was involved.

Kudos to Sex Before Soccer.

That Pom guy and Mo.

Dude, that's rad and just so cool, man.

Grouse.

Next question is whether they will put it on a few seconds delay so you can't listen to the radio.

Thanks God ... for a moment I thought they were showing the 2005 Ashes again.

lardbucket wrote:Thanks God ... for a moment I thought they were showing the 2005 Ashes again.

Strange, I don't seem to recall those.

JGK wrote:

lardbucket wrote:Thanks God ... for a moment I thought they were showing the 2005 Ashes again.

Strange, I don't seem to recall those.

How odd, they're the only one's I remember since 1986/7.

Big_Bad_Bob wrote:

JGK wrote:

lardbucket wrote:Thanks God ... for a moment I thought they were showing the 2005 Ashes again.

Strange, I don't seem to recall those.

How odd, they're the only one's I remember since 1986/7.

Aye I'm looking forward to defending them this year....

lardbucket wrote:Thanks God ... for a moment I thought they were showing the 2005 Ashes again.

Memories of a heap of Idiot Eagles supporters in 2006 watching Fox's replay of the 2005 GF ...

Good of you to share that so-called breaking news with us Red.

Given that SBS put out the press release you have cut and pasted on:
OCTOBER 29th, 2008
It's only taken you about 9 weeks to catch up.

The date's even in the name of the link, FFS.

http://www20.sbs.com.au/sbscorporate/media/documents/79442006__ashes_2009_29_oct.doc

embee wrote:

lardbucket wrote:Thanks God ... for a moment I thought they were showing the 2005 Ashes again.

Memories of a heap of Idiot Eagles supporters in 2006 watching Fox's replay of the 2005 GF ...

Classic stuff that from the weaglettes . . .

embee wrote:

lardbucket wrote:Thanks God ... for a moment I thought they were showing the 2005 Ashes again.

Memories of a heap of Idiot Eagles supporters in 2006 watching Fox's replay of the 2005 GF ...

Erm, is there any other kind?

skully wrote:

embee wrote:

lardbucket wrote:Thanks God ... for a moment I thought they were showing the 2005 Ashes again.

Memories of a heap of Idiot Eagles supporters in 2006 watching Fox's replay of the 2005 GF ...

Erm, is there any other kind?

Some are idiots, some are ferals (Some are, admittedly, both). That would cover about 98% of them from my experience.

Can you share some of the more choice insults with us? Or is their vocab limited to "you're a farkin qunt Filth supporter"?

skully wrote:Can you share some of the more choice insults with us?

they're not easily translated from their native 'Edentulous Bogan'

[snorfle]

They're a classy mob. What can I say?