With the excitement of that Day 1 feeling now behind us, competition heated up on Day 2 of the Laver Cup. The afternoon session started at 1pm and it was a packed house at Prague’s O2 Arena as the one and only Roger Federer was kicking off the afternoon program. While Federer took a little… Continue reading Report: Laver Cup Day 2
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Report: Laver Cup Day 1
The first day of tennis’ newest teams competition has finished and what a day of tennis it was. The Laver Cup, named after tennis great Rod Laver, has seen strong but friendly competition on Day 1 with Team Europe taking a 3-1 lead over Team World ahead Day 2. The unique teams format (modeled on… Continue reading Report: Laver Cup Day 1
Olympic broadcasters back social to boost Games audience
The Seven Network’s Rio 2016 Media Kit has a pertinent quote from Kurt Burnette (Seven’s Event Director - Olympic Games and Chief Revenue Officer), where he notes that: You are about to become deeply involved with what we are now referring to as “the very first unmissable Olympic Games”. This statement is in reference to the fact… Continue reading Olympic broadcasters back social to boost Games audience
News Access Rules in force for Rio 2016
With the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio now just a few days away it is timely to take a look at the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) News Access Rules. That is the rules that govern the reporting of the Olympic Games by non-rights holding television and radio media. The News Access Rules came into effect on… Continue reading News Access Rules in force for Rio 2016
Olympic build up continues
With 76 days until the start of the 2016 Rio Summer Olympic Games, Australia’s Olympic broadcaster, the Seven Network, is ramping up its Olympic build-up coverage, with the announcement that from May 28, a weekly live panel show ‘Road to Rio’, will be broadcast on Seven until July 30 (it will air each Saturday at… Continue reading Olympic build up continues
V8 Supercars’ SuperView suffers major outage
International fans of the Australia’s V8 Supercars Championship faced a live streaming blackout for Race 3 of the Clipsal 500 today, with V8 Supercars’ online streaming offering, known as SuperView, suffering a major outage. The technical issue could not be rectified for the duration of Race 3 of the Clipsal 500. The service had been… Continue reading V8 Supercars’ SuperView suffers major outage
Star strikes last minute deal with Fox Sports & Nine
The ICC World T20 in India commences this Tuesday and until today it had appeared that television coverage of the tournament would not be available to Australian viewers, with no Australian broadcaster electing to purchase the rights from global rights holder Star Sports (a unit of 21st Century Fox) (see Fairfax Media’s story here). However a list… Continue reading Star strikes last minute deal with Fox Sports & Nine
The romance of Grand Slam radio
The four ‘Grand Slam’ tournaments are the pinnacle of tennis for players – it is where champions are made. The Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon Championships and US Open each year attract the world’s best tennis players, hundreds of thousands of spectators attending each two-week event, millions of television viewers around the world and ever-increasing… Continue reading The romance of Grand Slam radio
Fox Sports secures new NRL rights deal
In August the NRL awarded the Nine Network exclusive broadcast rights to 4 weekly NRL Premiership Games from 2018. At the time, the now former NRL CEO Dave Smith said “…there will be more live and free Rugby League on television – and that is what the fans want.” This agreement with Nine blindsided incumbent NRL media partners… Continue reading Fox Sports secures new NRL rights deal
Seven’s Olympic coverage
Seven’s investor presentation on its financial year 2014-15 performance on page 24 had a really interested overview of how Seven will be delivering its Olympic Games coverage (see screen shot below). According to the slide, Seven West Media will deliver its coverage of the Olympics across its broadcast channels Seven, 7Two and 7mate and via… Continue reading Seven’s Olympic coverage