Good news for Aussie cricket fans

Good news for Aussie cricket fans

Post by clark.matthew.. » Fri, 16 May 1997 04:00:00


I heard on the radio this morning that the ABC will cover the second and
third session of each days play while Nine is covering Wimbledon (Test
3?).  I'm not sure whether they will use Nine commentators and coverage,
or Pay TV, but they will not have their own commentators on TV, simply
broadcast whatever Nine gives them.

This is a relief after speculations that there would be no coverage while
Nine has Wimbledon commitments.  The only thing is that I heard the news
on ABC radio, so maybe it was wishful thinking on their part?  They did
sound very convincing though!

One advantage is that there won't be any ads!!  If only ABC had enough
money to cover the cricket permanently we'd all be laughing!

Cheers,
Matt

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Good news for Aussie cricket fans

Post by Rick Eyr » Sun, 18 May 1997 04:00:00



Quote:
> I heard on the radio this morning that the ABC will cover the second and
> third session of each days play while Nine is covering Wimbledon (Test
> 3?).  I'm not sure whether they will use Nine commentators and coverage,
> or Pay TV, but they will not have their own commentators on TV, simply
> broadcast whatever Nine gives them.

When this happened on the 1989 tour the ABC televised the Third Test and
used their own commentary crew.  This clearly won't happen this time.  My
guess is that we will get the Optus Vision commentators (who may well be
the Channel Nine people, I don't know).  Better still would be if we
receive the BBC-TV feed.

Quote:
> One advantage is that there won't be any ads!!     If only ABC had enough
> money to cover the cricket permanently we'd all be laughing!

ABC having enough money?  Johnny Howard and the gang have put a stop to
that nonsense!

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