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The county fixtures have been released for the 2015 season (http://www.espncricinfo.com/county-cricket-2015/content/match/fixtures.html?country=1;season=2015;class=4;class=5;class=6)

Key Dates
Sunday April 12 - First round of county championship matches
Friday May 15 - T20 Blast begins
Friday July 24 - T20 group stages end
Saturday July 25 - One Day Cup Begins
Wednesday August 12 - Saturday August 15 - T20 Q Finals
Tuesday August 25 - Thursday August 27 - One day cup quarter finals
Saturday August 29 - T20 Finals Day
Sunday September 6 & Monday September 7 - One day cup Semi finals
Saturday September 19 - One Day Cup final
Tuesday September 22 - Friday September 25 - Final Round of county championship matches
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    arsenalsriarsenalsri Posts: 153
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    Interesting story. oh and there is the obligatory mention of everybody's favorite channel at the end - Pick Tv:)

    Domestic cricket could return to free-to-air television as early as the 2015 season, according to Surrey chief executive, Richard Gould.

    http://www.espncricinfo.com/county-cricket-2015/content/story/806261.html
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    mikey1980mikey1980 Posts: 3,647
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    arsenalsri wrote: »
    Interesting story. oh and there is the obligatory mention of everybody's favorite channel at the end - Pick Tv:)

    Domestic cricket could return to free-to-air television as early as the 2015 season, according to Surrey chief executive, Richard Gould.

    http://www.espncricinfo.com/county-cricket-2015/content/story/806261.html

    What the counties want to offer are the equivalent of a few crumbs from the rich man's table.

    A small highlights packages rounding up games from, say the T20, and shown on Pick TV is simply not going to reverse declining interest.

    Until we see at least some of England's international matches each summer shown on a FTA channel such as the BBC or Channel 4, I doubt much will change.
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    CricketbladeCricketblade Posts: 2,218
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    yeah surely only the hardcore will care about a highlights show. However a full game with the full presentation would pick up fans. Just look at how highly the IPL rated on 1TV4 for its timeslot!
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    mlt11mlt11 Posts: 21,095
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    arsenalsri wrote: »
    Interesting story. oh and there is the obligatory mention of everybody's favorite channel at the end - Pick Tv:)

    Domestic cricket could return to free-to-air television as early as the 2015 season, according to Surrey chief executive, Richard Gould.

    http://www.espncricinfo.com/county-cricket-2015/content/story/806261.html

    TVSM says the expiry date for Sky to exercise its option on 2018 and 2019 is the end of this month so if any deal is to be done which requires Sky's consent then it looks like we may hear something fairly soon.

    Incidentally Gould's comments re how much Burnley receives from Sky is completely wrong - because a substantial amount of PL TV money comes from overseas rights, BT and BBC. Gould appears to think that Sky pays the lot - whereas in fact they pay well under half.

    http://www.sportbusiness.com/sport-news/counties-renew-free-air-call-domestic-cricket
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    tim456tim456 Posts: 137
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    Putting FTA highlights on Pick would be a waste of time. Needs to be on one of the mainstream channels that have a higher profile than Pick does.
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    Alex2606Alex2606 Posts: 2,682
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    mlt11 wrote: »
    TVSM says the expiry date for Sky to exercise its option on 2018 and 2019 is the end of this month so if any deal is to be done which requires Sky's consent then it looks like we may hear something fairly soon.

    Incidentally Gould's comments re how much Burnley receives from Sky is completely wrong - because a substantial amount of PL TV money comes from overseas rights, BT and BBC. Gould appears to think that Sky pays the lot - whereas in fact they pay well under half.

    http://www.sportbusiness.com/sport-news/counties-renew-free-air-call-domestic-cricket

    There's nothing quite like a man who was passed over for the job stirring up a hornet's nest just a month before the new ECB Chief Exec takes over............
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    Nick GNick G Posts: 1,099
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    Neil_Harris wrote: »
    The county fixtures have been released for the 2015 season (http://www.espncricinfo.com/county-cricket-2015/content/match/fixtures.html?country=1;season=2015;class=4;class=5;class=6)

    Key Dates
    Sunday April 12 - First round of county championship matches
    Friday May 15 - T20 Blast begins
    Friday July 24 - T20 group stages end
    Saturday July 25 - One Day Cup Begins
    Wednesday August 12 - Saturday August 15 - T20 Q Finals
    Tuesday August 25 - Thursday August 27 - One day cup quarter finals
    Saturday August 29 - T20 Finals Day
    Sunday September 6 & Monday September 7 - One day cup Semi finals
    Saturday September 19 - One Day Cup final
    Tuesday September 22 - Friday September 25 - Final Round of county championship matches

    Look at that Semi final day for the 50 over competition. Monday 7th September, the first post holiday working or school day for many. Presumably this is at Sky's insistence but can they not see how such a decision devalues the competition? Both semis should be played on the Sunday when there is no Premier League football for Sky to broadcast.
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    Neil_HarrisNeil_Harris Posts: 1,822
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    tim456 wrote: »
    Putting FTA highlights on Pick would be a waste of time. Needs to be on one of the mainstream channels that have a higher profile than Pick does.

    It's a start. There is nothing at the moment, So anything is an improvement
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    Alex2606Alex2606 Posts: 2,682
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    Nick G wrote: »
    Look at that Semi final day for the 50 over competition. Monday 7th September, the first post holiday working or school day for many. Presumably this is at Sky's insistence but can they not see how such a decision devalues the competition? Both semis should be played on the Sunday when there is no Premier League football for Sky to broadcast.

    It's a no win situation for Sky because of the ODIs on the Saturday and Tuesday, either they have them on separate days and are forced to put one on the Monday or they have them both on the Sunday and some people complain that they are both on at the same time
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    chrisfinchchrisfinch Posts: 5,735
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    Neil_Harris wrote: »
    It's a start. There is nothing at the moment, So anything is an improvement

    That curious Cricket Fever show was on Pick on Sunday mornings this past season, but it had no publicity, nobody knew it was on, nobody cared and by August they'd dropped it.

    That's the sort of programme you'd realistically get if there was a FTA highlights show.
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    tvphiltvphil Posts: 990
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    chrisfinch wrote: »
    That curious Cricket Fever show was on Pick on Sunday mornings this past season, but it had no publicity, nobody knew it was on, nobody cared and by August they'd dropped it.

    That's the sort of programme you'd realistically get if there was a FTA highlights show.

    There would be little point in having a highlights show on Pick TV.

    Am sure the reason this is being proposed is to get increased exposure on a channel with a mass audience. This ideally means one of the 5 original terrestrial channels, or as next best option the likes of BBC3 or ITV4.

    Of all of these options I would imagine BBC2, Channel5 or ITV4 would be the most obvious candidates.

    The question is - would any of these broadcasters be interested and prepared to pay?
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    Ginger DaddyGinger Daddy Posts: 8,507
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    Who will be the first person to suggest BBC Two could show full four day county matches? **head in hands**
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    howard hhoward h Posts: 23,369
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    Ginger Daddy wrote: »
    Who will be the first person to suggest BBC Two could show full four day county matches? **head in hands**

    Well, it would be an improvement on what's on now!

    I know it's virtually impossible; but if there was a dedicated FTA live sports channel/ where all companies can show their sports (so if the BBC provides there would be no ads etc) I'm sure it would gain a large audience. Get rid of some +24 channels to make space!!

    What, having commercial and BBC television on the same channels? Well, isn't that what S4C is/was??
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    BenFranklinBenFranklin Posts: 5,814
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    Stung by news of falling participating numbers and a drop in the average number of spectators per game in the re-launched NatWest T20 Blast, the counties are keen to reverse an apparent decline in interest in the sport.

    Something approaching a consensus has formed among the county chief executives who feel a return of some cricket on free-to-air television would help spark a revival.

    "The highest priority of county chief executives at the moment is getting county cricket back in front of the pay-wall," Gould, who was recently on the shortlist for the CEO role of the ECB, told ESPNcricinfo.

    "We need to get a domestic highlights package on free-to-air television as soon as possible. It would help promote and develop the game. We have looked at the contracts and we understand we can do that now."

    Well I hate to say I told you so, but this is all so predictable.

    If the ECB had any sense they would get as much live 20/20 (domestic and international) on FTA TV as they can. This won't happen of course.
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    howard hhoward h Posts: 23,369
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    One problem with county cricket is that if Kent v Essex is on, huge interest from their fans but not much from the rest of the country.
    One way round that is if ITV1 could put aside a couple of Sundays (or something) where each region could show a 20/20 game involving that region. So on one partucular Sunday afternoon, say five games could be covered but only one shown in each region (ie Lancs v Durham shown in Granada, Tyne Tees and any of the regions without cricket could show). Would that cost much more than when they covered 8+ regional games on the highlights programmes, as per 70's/80's?
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    malcy30malcy30 Posts: 7,175
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    I still think the best idea is a T20 game live once per week on ITV4 or BBC2 starting at 6pm. I can't see C5 wanting 3 hours of coverage into their Primetime shows. Wasn't this something the BBC asked for / looked at in the last rights auction but Sky stopped it as they wanted an exclusive deal they paid extra for.

    I suppose you can't blame the ECB going for the cash as that's what India has done as well. Let ITV4 build an audience for IPL then sell to Sky for more money.
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    Darren LethemDarren Lethem Posts: 61,692
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    Ginger Daddy wrote: »
    Who will be the first person to suggest BBC Two could show full four day county matches? **head in hands**

    I think we both know/knew the answer to that one :D
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    Neil_HarrisNeil_Harris Posts: 1,822
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    malcy30 wrote: »
    I still think the best idea is a T20 game live once per week on ITV4 or BBC2 starting at 6pm. I can't see C5 wanting 3 hours of coverage into their Primetime shows. Wasn't this something the BBC asked for / looked at in the last rights auction but Sky stopped it as they wanted an exclusive deal they paid extra for.

    I suppose you can't blame the ECB going for the cash as that's what India has done as well. Let ITV4 build an audience for IPL then sell to Sky for more money.

    ITV4 could have the Friday teatime game, Sky could still then have a Friday night game. Everyone's a winner
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    Neil_HarrisNeil_Harris Posts: 1,822
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    England games coming up on Sky

    FRI 16TH JANUARY

    Australia 03:20 England
    Tri-Series in Australia 2015, Sky Sports 2 HD (03:00)

    TUE 20TH JANUARY

    England 03:20 India
    Tri-Series in Australia 2015, Sky Sports 2 HD (03:00)

    FRI 23RD JANUARY

    Australia 03:20 England
    Tri-Series in Australia 2015, Sky Sports 2 HD (03:00)

    FRI 30TH JANUARY

    England 03:20 India
    Tri-Series in Australia 2015, Sky Sports 2 HD (03:00)

    And possibly

    SUN 1ST FEBRUARY

    Finalist 1 03:20 Finalist 2
    Tri-Series in Australia 2015, Sky Sports 2 HD (03:00)
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    ed1747ed1747 Posts: 136
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    I noticed that in Sky's 2015 cricket promo there's no mention on the Pakistan v England series later in the year so presumably the rights for that haven't been sorted yet.
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    BhaveshgorBhaveshgor Posts: 9,312
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    ed1747 wrote: »
    I noticed that in Sky's 2015 cricket promo there's no mention on the Pakistan v England series later in the year so presumably the rights for that haven't been sorted yet.

    TBH it hasn't even been officially announced yet.

    Asian, WI and even Australia and South Africa release fixtures date so late which is always a pain for Barmy Army travellers.
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    Alex2606Alex2606 Posts: 2,682
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    ed1747 wrote: »
    I noticed that in Sky's 2015 cricket promo there's no mention on the Pakistan v England series later in the year so presumably the rights for that haven't been sorted yet.
    Bhaveshgor wrote: »
    TBH it hasn't even been officially announced yet.

    Asian, WI and even Australia and South Africa release fixtures date so late which is always a pain for Barmy Army travellers.

    The PCB have been very behind the game in sorting out rights, the host broadcaster rights for the recent Australia and New Zealand series were only sorted out a few weeks before
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    Steveaustin316Steveaustin316 Posts: 15,779
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    I presume Sky Sports 2 will turn into Sky Sports Ashes again this summer. Hopefully we will get some different games from the archive this time, such as the game where Australia failed to chase 124 in the 1997 Oval test.
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    cosmo crumbcosmo crumb Posts: 127
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    Steveaustin316 wrote: »
    I presume Sky Sports 2 will turn into Sky Sports Ashes again this summer. Hopefully we will get some different games from the archive this time, such as the game where Australia failed to chase 124 in the 1997 Oval test.

    I doubt it, variety isn't Sky's strong point when it comes ot their cricket archive, despite the huge back catalogue of games they must have their "Cricket classics" seem to be about six matches shown over and over again and if Ricky Ponting gets any repeat fees for his masterclass I doubt he ever has to work again
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    Neil_HarrisNeil_Harris Posts: 1,822
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    Very frustrating that sky shove New Zealand behind the red button when the Australia coverage starts.
    Of course it's good they are showing it at all, but why do it half hearted?
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