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Post by hhsussex on Dec 20, 2016 15:12:05 GMT
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Post by flashblade on Dec 20, 2016 15:24:41 GMT
Good news.
I'm a Sky subscriber but I'm not sure about having to pay for BT Sport if I want to watch ANY cricket from Australia in future. Does anyone else have the same dilemma, or are we just going to have to pay up if we want to watch next year's Ashes series?
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Post by hhsussex on Dec 20, 2016 15:34:37 GMT
Good news. I'm a Sky subscriber but I'm not sure about having to pay for BT Sport if I want to watch ANY cricket from Australia in future. Does anyone else have the same dilemma, or are we just going to have to pay up if we want to watch next year's Ashes series? For next year, yes, there aren't any other options. What can be hoped for in the future are multi-platform deals where some coverage is streamed via a major home provider and some is made available as highlights packages, either to terrestrial TV providers or through mobile outlets. The market is changing and if younger people are going to be attracted to it then it has to conform to their patterns of viewing. Good job we oldies are infinitely adaptable and undaunted by change!  |
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Post by hhsussex on Dec 26, 2016 9:50:46 GMT
Luke Wright live on Channel 5 this morning as Melbourne Stars chase Hobart Hurricanes 188.
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Post by longhops on Dec 26, 2016 10:40:39 GMT
Good news. I'm a Sky subscriber but I'm not sure about having to pay for BT Sport if I want to watch ANY cricket from Australia in future. Does anyone else have the same dilemma, or are we just going to have to pay up if we want to watch next year's Ashes series? FB, I only became aware of BT sport obtaining the BBL just before Christmas. This is a shame as I have always found watching cricket from down under helped pass away the winter months of fog, drizzle and rain in England. When my eldest was a mere baby, who needed a night feed, I would volunteer to do this and WE (baby son & I) would watch the test series from Australia( West Indies if I remember). I'm sure this introduction to colour and stimulus from the TV screen showing cricket down under led to him having cricket as his no 1 sport and the resultant pleasure it has brought him in his 16 years since.
For me cricket watching on TV in the winter has always been a bonus for cricket fans like me. Does it mean we have to keep changing our subscribing provider every 6 months? I've not thought about next year's Ashe series. I might just revert back to listening to cricket on BBC radio under the covers all night, like I did when I was my son's current age. Not sure if my wife would put up with it though!
I suspect it is the shape of things to come for Sports lovers nationwide, where we will need to subscribe to Sky and BT Sport to watch the sports(s) we love)
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Dec 26, 2016 15:51:26 GMT
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Post by hhsussex on Dec 26, 2016 17:13:35 GMT
Or Freesat. My Christmas present this year was sweet, to deprive the dirty digger, the chum of dictators and oligarchs everywhere of my monthly tithe to his stinking pile of excrescent votive offerings. |
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Post by nemmo on Dec 30, 2016 18:40:12 GMT
Is there a slight irony to the fact that one of the few chances you will get to watch English players in a domestic tournament on free-to-air television is when they are playing on the other side of the planet? Also Chris Lynn hit a rather large six in the last game. streamable.com/eg7pv |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2016 20:19:43 GMT
Is there a slight irony to the fact that one of the few chances you will get to watch English players in a domestic tournament on free-to-air television is when they are playing on the other side of the planet? To be honest, free-to-air televison is rapidly becoming utterly irrelevant. I write a monthly column for Hi-Fi Choice magazine about media trends, and my column for the next issue is about the consumption habits - both audio and visual - of Gen-Zers (that's anyone born since 1998 to you and me). The piece was based on research that shows 75 per cent of them don't watch an old-fashioned TV (and an even greater per centage of them never listen to music on a CD, a form of cultural delivery they regard as totally obsolete). Everything is accessed via mobile devices - phones or tablets. I find this is supported on a personal anecdotal level, too. My two grandchildren, aged five and three, both have tablets on which they watch everything that want to see (CBeebies rather than the BBL at present...) Even I watched the dramatic end of the Aus v Pak test last night on a tablet in bed. Yet some people in cricket still seem think free-to-air is essenial to capture what we all hope will be the next generation of cricket lovers. It's a hopelessly outdated notion and the BCCI have realised it - did you see the eye-watering sum which the mobile rights to the IPL went for? My guess would be that by 2020, mobile rights could well be worth more than TV rights. |
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Dec 31, 2016 11:11:57 GMT
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Post by hhsussex on Jan 1, 2017 8:55:44 GMT
Perth Scorchers v Sydney Thunders live on Channel 5 this morning at 9.45.
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Post by hhsussex on Jan 1, 2017 8:59:42 GMT
Meanwhile Luke Wright, or Kevin Pietersen, watchers might like to look up www.crictime.biz 68, 000 crowds to watch the Melbourne derby. |
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Post by hhsussex on Jan 6, 2017 8:43:33 GMT
Tymal Mills adds to his portfolio of T20 Leagues experienced, and largely conquered, as a replacement for the injured Samuel Badree with the Brisbane Heat. www.brisbaneheat.com.au/news/heat-sign-tymal-mills-as-badree-replacement/2017-01-06In 10 matches for the Auckland Aces in the New Zealand Super Smash tournament he took 10 wickets and he earlier took 5 wickets in 3 games for the Chittagong Vikings in the Bangladesh Premier League. He has now taken more T20 wickets than in his first class career and has made a successful transition to become a specialist in the shortest form. |
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Jan 6, 2017 9:44:27 GMT
I am delighted for Tymal. He has a mature wise head on his shoulders; sounds authoritative on the radio; and generally is a good egg.
Someone with his freak condition deserves all the success he can muster.
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Post by hhsussex on Jan 6, 2017 9:48:46 GMT
I am delighted for Tymal. He has a mature wise head on his shoulders; sounds authoritative on the radio; and generally is a good egg. Someone with his freak condition deserves all the success he can muster. An egg with a mature head and an authoritative sound certainly does qualify as a freak condition fluffy. |
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