Live cricket on UK Terrestrial Television in 2010

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/twenty20/ipl/7362259/Cricket-back-on-free-to-air-as-ITV-win-rights-to-Indian-Premier-League.html

Can't imagine this has improved relations between ECB and the IPL.

[Not Tom]

Thought you said it was going to be live cricket.

Zat,

Hilarious, you should be on the stage.

This is pretty serious though, as ECB are spinning like mad here and suggesting that Cricket Australia are champing at the bit to get the Ashes removed from free-to-air, thus turning our little local difficulty into a more global issue.

[Still not Tom]

Which Ashes , Rachel?

The article mentioned 'home ashes" and I wouldnt think CA had any right about Pomgolian broadcast rights to those matches ....

embee,

Sorry, I should have been clearer. Rumour is that Cricket Australia doesn't want the UK government to make a ruling that the UK-based Ashes series has to be on free-to-air because this would make it difficult for CA to get the Aus government to remove its objection to the Aus-based Ashes series being removed from free-to-air in Aus.


[not him]

Eric Air Emu wrote:Cricket Australia are champing at the bit to get the Ashes removed from free-to-air

Really? Not aware of that in Aus. The govt here will eventually loosen up the rules and allow terrestrial TV channels here to show events on the anti-siphoning list on their extra channels. I hope. But given the shity way FTA TV in Aus treats events and their audience, I often feel they deserve every cattle prod in the date they get.

And there's the lag when I think before posting...

My bit about how the TV stations here treat their audience and events still stands, there needs to be something done.

Are you a lawyer? ...Not sure I follow all the twists in the rumour


CA and Nein are too cosy on home cricket ...cant see CA wanting to stuff up that relationship

nein wont show the Pomland Ashes (which is on the must be on Free Tv list) and so SBS does and Ch 7 did previously

Not sure who gets the money for that

AFAIKJ, Nein only has the rights to domestic cricket, not OS tours of any sort. ICC events notwithstanding.

SBS has (I think) the next Ashes tour as well.

Zat wrote:And there's the lag when I think before posting...

My bit about how the TV stations here treat their audience and events still stands, there needs to be something done.

dont know how bad it is in Wagga Wagga ...but Woztralia would have to be the worst in the world

Here's Cricket Australia's submission to your review:

http://www.dbcde.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0012/121233/Cricket_Australia_main_submission.pdf

I gather that a discussion paper has been published by your government, but that a final decision has yet to be made. As one of the appendices of your government's report is about similar regimes in place overseas, I'd say that the forthcoming decision by the UK government, taken together with Cricket Australia's pretty strident commercial view, makes this very much an issue for Australians as well as those of us who live in the civilised world.


[he is still asleep so it must be me]

embee wrote:

Zat wrote:And there's the lag when I think before posting...

My bit about how the TV stations here treat their audience and events still stands, there needs to be something done.

dont know how bad it is in Wagga Wagga ...but Woztralia would have to be the worst in the world

Have lived in Perth. TV coverage was shitful then, don't see that it's changed much now.

Broadcast TV as a medium is dying, It won't be too long before the web takes over something major in terms of broadcast rights.

Eric Air Emu wrote:Zat,

Hilarious, you should be on the stage.

He has been but the wimp won't put it up on EweTube.

skully wrote:

Eric Air Emu wrote:Zat,

Hilarious, you should be on the stage.

He has been but the wimp won't put it up on EweTube.

I sing a bit, and play some guitar, but I think you have the wrong FBer as the king of stand up comedy.

Perhaps I was inferring your axe-work and singing IS hilarious?

Bite me, groper.

Grover, Grover, who is this Grover person?

'The IPL will be a serious rival to English cricket'

Will it fark.

Wonder who ITV will get as their pundits.

Is there a cricketing equivalent of Andy Townsend and Robbie Earle?

Alec Stewart will no doubt whore himself to Iteevee.

Zzzzz

spangler wrote:Wonder who ITV will get as their pundits.

Is there a cricketing equivalent of Andy Townsend and Robbie Earle?

Yeah ... Michael Fecking Vawn ...

HTF did a nomark like Townsend (and Earle for that matter) ever get the job at ITV?
Townsend's worse than sh*t when it comes to 'summarising' and always always butts in with his crap analyses when it isn't needed. Tozzer.

Eric Air Emu wrote:embee,

Sorry, I should have been clearer. Rumour is that Cricket Australia doesn't want the UK government to make a ruling that the UK-based Ashes series has to be on free-to-air because this would make it difficult for CA to get the Aus government to remove its objection to the Aus-based Ashes series being removed from free-to-air in Aus.


[not him]

And how much influence does Cricket Australia think they have over UK government decision making?

Henry,

I think ECB's idea is to harness the support of the entire cricketing world in a "you laugh now but this could be you next" way.

It's a good job I had already heard that the IPL was coming to terrestrial TV, otherwise (judging by the name of the thread) I would have thought that there was actually live cricket going to be on terrestrial TV.

spangler wrote:Wonder who ITV will get as their pundits.

Is there a cricketing equivalent of Andy Townsend and Robbie Earle?

Not sure there's even a footballing equivalent.

It's somewhat apt that the shittest television broadcaster in living history should take on the IPL.