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Deep in the fifth set, with 4 hours and 28 minutes on the clock, Tsitsipas is serving break point down to stay in an epic third round encounter. He manages to hold serve and force he and Coric into a match deciding 5th set tiebreak. A double fault ridden tiebreaker sees Tsitsipas lose to Coric, […]
Posted by Frost Global on Saturday, September 5, 2020 at 7:23 pm
Filed under Latest News and Views · Tagged Coric, ESPN, Flushing Meadows;, Indy Car, Motorsport, New York, PGA Championship, PGA Tour, Tennis, Tsitsipas, US Open, US Open Tennis, Virgin Australia Supercars
SBS has received strong viewer numbers for its broadcast coverage of the 2014 World Cup from Brazil. Coverage of the tournament on ESPN and ABC in the United States has seen record numbers for that market. However the real growth story is the number of users going online to follow the action from Brazil. According to […]
Posted by Frost Global on Tuesday, July 8, 2014 at 11:37 pm
Filed under Latest News and Views, SBS, Sport · Tagged ABC, Brazil, ESPN, FIFA, SBS, Stefan Wildemann, World Cup
On 13 June 2013 the NSW Government announced that Sydney had won the rights to host the #Openingseries of Major League Baseball (MLB) in 2014 – this would be the first time that such a match would be held in Australia. The #Openingseries of the MLB, which is one of the biggest sporting competitions in […]
Posted by Frost Global on Saturday, March 22, 2014 at 9:05 pm
Filed under 21st Century Fox, Channel Nine, Latest News and Views, Sport, Television · Tagged Destination NSW, Diamondbacks, Dodgers, ESPN, Fox Sports, GEM, Ian Chappell, Major League Baseball, MLB, NSW, openingseries, Qantas, SCG, Sydney, Volkswagen, WWOS
21st Century Fox’s new national US sports channel FOX Sports 1 (launching August 17) has secured a 12-year broadcast rights deal to bring major golf to FOX Sports from 2015. The new agreement will see the FOX network and FOX Sports 1 become the principal domestic media partner of the USGA and the U.S. Open, U.S. Women’s […]
Posted by Frost Global on Sunday, August 11, 2013 at 10:17 pm
Filed under 21st Century Fox, Latest News and Views, Sport, Television · Tagged 21st Century Fox, British Open, Comcast, Daytona 500, Disney, ESPN, Eurosport, Fox Footy, Fox Sports 1, Fox Sports Australia, Golf, NBC, PGA Championship, Setanta, Super Bowl, the Masters, US Open Golf, World Cup, World Series
Foxtel’s proposed merger with Austar took another step in the right direction last week when the Australian Competition and Consumer Commissions (ACCC) commenced market consultations over Foxtel’s draft undertakings. Foxtel has provided the ACCC with undertakings in order to allay ACCC concerns that a merged company would hamper competition in the IPTV market. Foxtel and Austar, along […]
Posted by Frost Global on Thursday, March 8, 2012 at 5:37 pm
Filed under Austar, Foxtel, IPTV, Latest News and Views, Television · Tagged ACCC, AFL, Austar, Bruce Gordon, Disney, ESPN, Fox Sports, Fox Sports News, Foxtel, Hulu, iiNet, iOS, IPTV, Optus, Optus TV, Playstation, Rod Sims, Select TV, Sky News, XYZ Networks
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 Austar, ESPN, Foxtel, Mediaweek, NBC, One, Superbowl XLVI
The English Cricket Board (ECB) today announced that the UK’s Sky Sports has been awarded the rights to continue broadcasting live international and county cricket in the UK exclusively until the end of the 2017 English summer. There is also an option for Sky Sports to extend the deal for an additional two years, which would cover Australia’s […]
Posted by Frost Global on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 7:04 pm
Filed under Channel Nine, Fox Sports, Latest News and Views, News Corporation, Sport, Television · Tagged ABC, Barbara Slater, Barney Francis, BBC Sport, Channel Five, Cricket, Cricket Australia, Disney, ECB, ESPN, F1, Fox Sports, Grandstand, KFC Big Bash League, MCN, Nine Network, Sky, Sky Sports, Test Match Special
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 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
In the lead up to the announcement of the new 2012-2016 television rights deal for the AFL, we are pleased to publish for the first time an original FrostGlobal article from 2006 examining the history and state of AFL broadcasting rights following the announcement of the 2007-2011 rights deal.
Posted by Frost Global on Monday, April 25, 2011 at 2:05 pm
Filed under Anti-siphoning, Channel Nine, Channel Seven, Channel Ten, Fox Sports, Foxtel, Internet, IPTV, Latest News and Views, One, Sport, Television · Tagged ACB, Adnre Demetriou, AFL, Anti-siphoning, Australian Open Tennis, BBC, Broadcasting Act, C7, Caroline Wilson, Channel 4, Dennis Commetti, E4, Eddie McGuire, ESPN, Fairfax, Federal Court, Fox Footy Channel, Foxtel, Freeview, Garry Lyon, ITV, Kerry Packer, More4, News Limited, Nine, NRL, On the Couch, PBL, SBS, Seven, Sky, T-Box, Telewest, Telstra, Ten, the Age, the Australia, Tour de France, White Line Fever
Many of you watching One HD”s coverage of the Accenture World Match Play Golf Championship over the weekend may have noticed a change to the Golf Channel’s usual coverage. Golf fans in Australia and around the world would be familiar with PGA Tour events having the first two rounds branded with Golf Channel graphics and […]
Posted by Frost Global on Monday, February 28, 2011 at 10:26 pm
Filed under Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Channel Nine, Channel Seven, Channel Ten, Fox Sports, Latest News and Views, One, Sport, Television · Tagged ABC, Accenture World Match Play Golf Championships, Australian News Channel, Bruce Gordon, BSkyB, CBS, Comcast, Consolidated Media Holdings, CVC Asia Pacific, ESPN, Fox Sports, Foxtel, Freeview, Gina Rinehart, Golf Channel, James Packer, Lachlan Murdoch, NBC, NBC Universal, Network Ten, News Ltd, Nine, Nine's Wide World of Sport, One, PGA Tour, Premier Media Group, Seven, Sports Business Daily, the Australian