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Channel 7 has out bidded channel 9 for the live
telecast of the cricket from England in 2001.

At last no more ch 9 commentators. This is a breath
of fresh air.

Channel 7 will telecast all the test matches and all the
one day matches.

Anything is better than the appauling telecast of ch 9
last time round in 1997 when only we west aussies only
got the last session of play.

kort
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Now, if Seven had had the rights to last year's tour, there would
have been 16 instances of AFL matches clashing with Test matches.
There would also have been six Mondays on which the cricket
would have clashed with Talking Footy. Talk about clashes for the
Ashes!

Bateman said that where clashes could not be avoided, the cricket
would be shown on "another service". Translated, that might mean
another free-to-air network, but almost certainly means one of the
pay networks, Optus or Foxtel.
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I hope for the sake of Aussie cricket fans that The Age is wrong, but
knowing the way Channel 7 works, I would guess that if you don't have
pay TV, you won't see much of the 2001 ashes.

Cheers,
Brian

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What I would imagine will happen is that they will delay the football
repeats until after the cricket is finished.  Hell for we poor
creatures in Sydney who have a rotten time in seeing them in the first
place (or course, owning a TV would help...)

On that note, just before this weekend GO THE MIGHTY BOMBERS!!  Kill
the cats!  (sorry, I know wrong sport)

Cheers

Di
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Chris Weston

Here are some of the paragraphs in the artical.
West Australian 26/8/98

SEVEN WINS 2001 ASHES COVERAGE
Ch 7 yesterday won the television rights to the 2001 Ashes cricket
series between England and Australia in England.

A spokesman for the network, Alan Bateman, said ch 9 had been
caught with there pants down in the bidding war.
He believed ch 9 had treated its cricket veiwers with contempt
in its 1997 Ashes coverage.

"Ch 9's coverage would either be a telecast of the third and final
session of play only to be delayed telecast of the final two
sessions", He said.

Bateman said the format was unpopular with cricket supporters
and contributed to the poor television ratings for the 1997 Ashes
tour of England.

He admitted there would be potential clashes with AFL football
but Seven would work closely with the AFL in the next three
years to minimise the problems.

Bateman said Seven was e***d about winning the bid to telecast
the premeir cricket event in the world. It would broadcast all
Test matches and ODI's during the 2001 tour.

Regards

Colin

Regards

Colin

I think channel 9 have done an extremely good job televising cricket in
this country since they first took over as the cricket channel. Do you
remember the days of one camera only on the ABC? So every second over, all
you saw was the batsman's back and you had to guess what was going on. Most
of the tecnology that we now take for granted was introduced by channel 9.

They have been not as successful broadcasting overseas tours - and for a
very valid reason. Just because I like to watch every ball of every day of
every match doesn't mean that everyone else in the country wants to. And
our game does take up a lot of broadcast time. Could you imagine how you
would feel if they announced that they were going to show Days of Our Lives
6 hours per day for five days straight, then take three days off and do it
again and again?? And not just during the day but in prime time too?? You
would be very angry! (Well, I would!) And that's how non-cricket fans feel
about the way we monopolise the TV station during the summer. And the
ratings don't necessarily justify generating that sort of anger.

I am sure you will find that channel 7 will show no more of a commitment to
show every ball than 9 did. And their previous record does not necessarily
fill me with confidence that they will do a better job. I'd better renew
that Optus contract - and hope like hell that 7 don't change their mind and
switch to Foxtel.

Drewy  

Dan