On Thursday the Clipsal 500 gets underway on the streets of Adelaide which means it is the start of the V8 Supercars Championship series. The first V8 Supercars round of the 2015 season will be followed in a couple of weeks time by the opening of the FIA Formula One season at Albert Park in […]
Posted by Frost Global on Wednesday, February 25, 2015 at 8:01 am
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Tonight (Australian time) the 2013 FINA World Swimming Championships start in Barcelona and for the first time in living memory Australian viewers will not be able to watch the world’s best swimmers on Australian TV. Swimming Australia’s website informs fans that “the event will not be broadcast into Australia, however FINA tv will stream online […]
Posted by Frost Global on Sunday, July 28, 2013 at 11:08 am
Filed under Channel Ten, Internet, Latest News and Views, One, SBS, Sport · Tagged with Commonwealth Games, Courier Mail, Duncan Armstrong, FINA, James Magnussen, Network Ten, Nicole Livingstone, Nine, One, Ray Warren, SBS 2, Swimming Australia, Swimming World Championships
After the TEN Network was widely criticised for its lack of extensive live coverage of last year’s FINA World Championship, including by this website, in good news for swimming fans, TEN has announced that the 2012 EnergyAustralia Swimming Championships will be broadcast LIVE and EXCLUSIVELY on TEN and ONE from Thursday, March 15 until March 22. The competition this […]
Posted by Frost Global on Friday, February 24, 2012 at 5:33 pm
Filed under Channel Ten, Latest News and Views, One, Sport, Television · Tagged with Anthony Hudson, David Barham, EnergyAustralia, FINA, Fox Footy, Go Swim, Ian Thorpe, James Magnussen, Kevin Neil, London Olympics, Mark Howard, Nicole Livingstone, One, Samsung, Stephen Quartermain, Swimming, Swimming Australia, Telstra, Ten
Last week Frost Global published an article about the lack of HD broadcasting of sport on free-to-air TV in Australia, especially since the rebranding last year of ONE HD to simply ONE. Yesterday the SUPERBOWL XLVI was broadcast in Australia LIVE on TEN, ONE and through FOXTEL/AUSTAR on ESPN. According to the MediaWeek Morning Report and OzTAM, a total of 268,000 people watched […]
Posted by Frost Global on Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 12:31 pm
Filed under Channel Ten, Latest News and Views, One, Sport, Television, TV Ratings · Tagged with Austar, ESPN, Foxtel, Mediaweek, NBC, One, Superbowl XLVI
A report in the Australian last year confirmed that High Definition (HD) broadcasting of Australian sport on free-to-air television looks dead and buried. For those who did not notice Saturday coverage of AFL matches by the Network Ten only featured on the network’s primary channel towards the end of last season, whilst viewers were able to watch […]
Posted by Frost Global on Sunday, January 29, 2012 at 3:55 pm
Filed under Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Channel Nine, Channel Seven, Channel Ten, Fox Sports, Foxtel, Latest News and Views, One, SBS, Sport, Television · Tagged with 7mate, ABC News 24, AFL, Australian Open, BBC, Cricket, David Leckie, ESPN, Fox Footy, Fox Sports, Freeview, GEM, Go, Golf, Melbourne Cup, Moto GP, Network Ten, Nine, One, Rugby World Cup, SBS, Seven, Super Hi Vision, the Australian, Transformers, V8 Suerpcars, Wallabies
It is nearly that time of year again when the best tennis players in the world descend on Australia for the summer of tennis and the first Grand Slam of the year, the Australian Open. Broadcasting all the action again in 2012 from Melbourne Park will be the Seven Network. Seven’s Summer of tennis however begins […]
Posted by Frost Global on Friday, December 30, 2011 at 10:40 am
Filed under Channel Seven, Channel Ten, Fox Sports, Latest News and Views, One, Television · Tagged with 7TWO, AAMI Classic, Australian Open, Brisbane International, Bruce McAvaney, Casey Dellacqua, Davis Cup, Fox Sports, Hyundai Hopman Cup, John McEnroe, Morilla International, One, Peter Marcato, Seven Network, Sydney International, Tennis, World Tennis Challenge
The UK sports broadcast market has just been shaken up. It was announced today that the BBC and BSKyB have jointly won the television rights from Formula One Management to broadcast Formula 1 in the UK starting next year and running until 2018. This is despite the BBC’s current contract running until the end of […]
Posted by Frost Global on Friday, July 29, 2011 at 9:26 pm
Filed under Latest News and Views, News Corporation, One, Sport, Television · Tagged with BBC, Bernie Ecclestone, BSkyB, Channel 4, Channel 5, Formula 1, Foxtel, ITV, News Corporation, One, Radio 5 Live, Seven, Sky Sports, Telegraph
The decision by the Ten Network to broadcast the FINA Swimming World Championships on up to a four hour delay on its digital channel ONE is one of the most surprising programming decisions ever made by a broadcast network in covering a major international sporting event featuring many Australians, especially our most successful Olympic sport. […]
Posted by Frost Global on Monday, July 25, 2011 at 12:42 am
Filed under Latest News and Views, One, Sport, Television · Tagged with 7TWO, BBC, FINA, Formula 1, Fox Sports, Grant Hackett, Ian Thorpe, Kevin Neil, NBC Sports, Nine, One, Pan Pacific Championships, Ray Warren, Seven, Sunday Telegraph, Swimming World Championships, Telstra, Telstra Dolphins, Ten Network, Universal Sports, Wimbledon
In the early hours of this morning (Australian time) Rafael Nadal put the finishing touches to his sixth French Open crown, after defeating Roger Federer in the Men’s Final. The attention now turns to the grass courts and the All England Club for the Wimbledon Championships. For the first time ever the Seven Network have […]
Posted by Frost Global on Monday, June 6, 2011 at 5:15 pm
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On 8 May this year, Network Ten under the leadership of Interim Chief Executive Officer Lachlan Murdoch relaunched its 24-hour free-to-air digital sports network One HD, into a male skewing general entertainment channel with premium sport, known as ONE. At the announcement of the relaunch, Mr Murdoch said, “ONE was underperforming from a ratings point of […]
Posted by Frost Global on Friday, June 3, 2011 at 2:42 pm
Filed under Channel Ten, Latest News and Views, One, Sport, Television · Tagged with AFL, An Idiot Abroad, Commonwealth Games, Cops, Eleven, F1, Ice Road Truckers, Lachlan Murdoch, Macquarie Australia Conference, Mark Webber, Monaco GP, MotoGP, Network Ten, One, OzTam, RPM, Sons of Anarchy, the Game Plan