Who has televison rights ??

[Ljp86]

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Channel Nine would be a bit upset if Australia finish 2nd in their group. That means they would only show ONE of their Super-Eight matches. But they will show all 4 if they finish 1st.

I'd say if Australia do finish second they'll have to change their choice of matches around.

And only One Semi-Final too? So if Australia finished 1st or 4th in the Super-Eight stage they wouldn't show the Australian Semi-Final.

Their choices for matches astound me a bit.

It's all very poor by Channel 9. I'd say they would show it if they finished first or fourth.

The whole thing is just not what anyone expected. Their coverage of the World Cup, a premier cricket event, is well below standard. There will be many disappointed cricket fans in Australia that can't get Foxtel.

And it's not as if, there'll be missing important shows. The only one I can think of is "Today" which is hammered by Channel 7's "Sunrise" anyway. It seems that 9 has put mediocre ratings ahead of the World Cup.

 

[m.ehsan]

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Will it be on SBS ? Seven ? Or Foxtel ?

can i see it

 

[schwab2clarkson]

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I'd say if Australia do finish second they'll have to change their choice of matches around.



It's all very poor by Channel 9. I'd say they would show it if they finished first or fourth.

The whole thing is just not what anyone expected. Their coverage of the World Cup, a premier cricket event, is well below standard. There will be many disappointed cricket fans in Australia that can't get Foxtel.

And it's not as if, there'll be missing important shows. The only one I can think of is "Today" which is hammered by Channel 7's "Sunrise" anyway. It seems that 9 has put mediocre ratings ahead of the World Cup.

Hey at least they are showing the aussie matches.

 

[Chandu]

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Can anyone down in Australia explain what is so bad about Channel 9 coverage?

During the Australia vs. England warmup matches, I noticed one of the cameramen had HD written in big letters on his camera. Is Channel 9 bringing any coverage in HD over there, or maybe it is limited for the UK market? I know for a fact there are no HD transmissions yet in India / Pakistan / Sri Lanka / Bangladesh. I had spoken with a friend in South Africa last year and he wasn't aware of any HD in South Africa at that time. Not sure if much has changed since then. I know nothing about HD in New Zealand.

Over here in USA and Canada we're stuck with SD transmissions. To make it worse, picture quality of some of the matches with PPV from Echostar satellites is pretty poor. I don't know if it's any better from DirecTV satellite. Anyway, I'm thankful that there 100% LIVE coverage and there is choice of broadband internet coverage as well.

 

[aussieman]

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Chandu mate, the problem with the Channel Nine coverage is that it is a free-to-air network, so obviously no-one has to pay to watch the games, while Foxtel who are showing ALL the games live is a pay television service. At this moment in time Foxtel have about 20% of the national market. So 20% of the population get to see ALL the World Cup games, while the 80% of the population get to see very few games.


I don't have a problem with Foxtel showing games, i think the annoying thing with Channel Nine is the fact they are showing next to no games. While they don't have to show all the games - ie. i don't think much of the population want to watch Scotland play Netherlands, but i think a lot of the fans would want to see Australia play South Africa, India and Sri Lanka, New Zealand and England in the group stages. Channel Nine have ALWAYS shown those types of games in the World Cup. And heck, now we only get one semi-final on Channel Nine.

Another thing is, like was mentioned previously by Ljp, it's not as if the matches are being played at 6pm to midnight where obviously prime-time television rules, the games start at around midnight our time, and would finish at around 8am-9am-ish. From midnight to 6am we get to see a show called Quizmania which is for insomniacs and is enough to send insomniacs to sleep, Entertainment Tonight , Home Shopping and then direct from the US -ABC's Good Morning America. From 6am to 9am we get the Today Show, which isn't exactly the best show going around either, but we think that is where Channel Nine have discarded the cricket, - so the Today Show can be on air.

That's my thoughts on it all!

As for HD television, i haven't heard anything. I'd hope so, but as far as i'm concerned there isn't much difference between HD and SD, but that's just my opinion - Widescreen coverage of the World Cup would be good though.


anyone else can add their thoughts too

 

[Chandu]

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Chandu mate, the problem with the Channel Nine coverage is that it is a free-to-air network, so obviously no-one has to pay to watch the games, while Foxtel who are showing ALL the games live is a pay television service. At this moment in time Foxtel have about 20% of the national market. So 20% of the population get to see ALL the World Cup games, while the 80% of the population get to see very few games.

Yeah, that's the name of the game these days. It's all about the media rights and money those for-profit companies pay to get those rights.

Even in India last month, there was big uproar when almost all of the matches involving India, West Indies and Sri Lanka were going to be unavailable to majority of country due to the way BCCI sold media rights for them. Finally there were some last minute negotations with involvement of lawyers. They came up with a weird proposal under which Doordarshan (Free to air national service) would be able to show matches after all, but not live. They showed the matches on a weird 8 minute delay or something like that, so that legally the contract BCCI signed wouldn't be broken.

...as far as i'm concerned there isn't much difference between HD and SD, but that's just my opinion...

I don't know how much experience you have personally watching HD, and also don't know if HD transmissions in Australia support resolution in full HD specification: 1920 x 1080 interlaced (or even 720 progressive). Also, it is possible that the SD resolutions supported in Australia are better than SD resolutions supported in USA. This is definitely true when comparing SD resolutions between USA and Europe.

At least within the US context of resolutions supported for SD and HD, your statement is definitely not true.

Widescreen coverage of the World Cup would be good though.

Completely agreed.

BTW, were the Ashes and the ODIs which followed them (Chapell-Hadlee, VB Series) shown in HD in Australia? Or at least widescreen?

 

[aussieman]

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Ashes, Tri-Series and Aus-NZ games were all widescreen.
Everything on television that is Australian appears in Widescreen now. Sport, News, etc. etc. everything is widescreen.

As for HD - i'm not sure about the Chappell-Hadlee series, because that was NZ coverage, and it only appeared on Foxtel, which i still don't subscribe too. But Channel Nine put all their sporting events in HD.

I was just having a thought: the HD coverage here in Adelaide is a little bit behind the times than Sydney and Melbourne. Especially with sporting events - don't ask me why - you'll have to ask Channel Nine. So maybe that is why i don't think there is much difference, but i'm not going to argue about HD - SD transmissions.

 

[Chandu]

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That's good to know. So you will get all of the World Cup in widescreen then. We won't over here. It is the old style in 4:3 aspect ratio over here.

 

[aussieman]

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I'm not sure about the World Cup though, because it isn't an Australian broadcast it may only be 4:3 which will be annoying. But television is at that stage where it could well be 16:9.

Who knows, we'll have to wait and see

 

[Necrohammer]

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If ya have a THREE mobile phone, $5 a month for the World Cup LIVE!!! I think they are showing most games live.

 

[Wilbix]

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4:3 makes me cry. I have my beautiful, wide, HD TV with ugly grey bars down the sides. *sigh* I'll just have to watch some HD stuff between overs to make me happy.

 

[Chandu]

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...ugly grey bars...

Hey, I had a tradmark over that term!!

Maybe we can all go to those ugly grey bars and look for dates!!

Sorry, that was an insider joke of mine, which I don't expect anyone here to understand. It comes from another message-board where I was expressing frustration about original 16:9 aspect pictures forcibly truncated into a 4:3 aspect leading to loss of information.

Some other poster with attention deficit who didn't really understand the problem and offered me irrelevant HD versus non-HD advice in this post, asked me to go to an ugly grey bar to find a date.

http://www.dbstalk.com/showpost.php?p=811297&postcount=21

I've been using it ever since to sarcastically poke fun at this forced 4:3 hell.

 

[Chandu]

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I'm not sure about the World Cup though, because it isn't an Australian broadcast it may only be 4:3 which will be annoying. But television is at that stage where it could well be 16:9.

Who knows, we'll have to wait and see

So aussieman, is it or is it not in widescreen down there in Australia?

 

[aussieman]

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from what i have seen it is widescreen

 

[Chandu]

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from what i have seen it is widescreen

Good for you guys! See, you don't have as much to complain as before, and as much as we do.

 

[aussieman]

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true, but we still don't have any free-to-air coverage

us poor chums who can't afford to pay/don't want to pay the $48 a month or whatever it is now still don't get to see much cricket.

 

[aussieman]

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after all these years, i finally have something good to say about Channel Nine and their sporting coverage!

After showing the Australian innings of the match against the Windies i wasn't expecting them to show the Windies innings on Day Two.

But god almighty, they are actually showing the West Indies innings.

They've finally done something right after all these years.

 

[Ljp86]

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after all these years, i finally have something good to say about Channel Nine and their sporting coverage!

After showing the Australian innings of the match against the Windies i wasn't expecting them to show the Windies innings on Day Two.

But god almighty, they are actually showing the West Indies innings.

They've finally done something right after all these years.

They kind of had to.

Had they not shown the West Indies innings, it would have been an absolute joke. There would have been a huge uproar had they not shown the second half to the game.

 

[aussieman]

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they had to, without a doubt.

But you know Channel Nine, they like to do things half-arsed.

Full credit to them though. They've did well.