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Sky Sports- ICC Cricket World Cup 2015
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How Will Sky sports coverage be during the World cup? Will they dedicate a channel for the tournament? Like show classic matches and features? And highlights through out the day?
Will the Coverage be presented from London studio, or will they fly out? Will there be a dedicated on site reporter?
Will the Coverage be presented from London studio, or will they fly out? Will there be a dedicated on site reporter?
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They'll probably fly the team out for the semis/finals rather than the whole tournament. Its crappy ESPN/Star broadcasting units used so only 2-3 of Sky's usual commentary team to be used.
With SS5 up & running I imagine they could dedicate a whole channel to the WC - getting sick of Ashes greatest moments on 24/7!
Holding, Warne, Bumble, Nasser, Atherton and probably one of Botham or Knight should all work for Star during the world cup.
Star would need lots of commentators for the event and I expect all of England games would have most of the Sky commentators working in them.
They should replace that with England's greatest moments (involving non Ashes matches as well).
YeahbI know what you mean, and it seems to be a loop of about 4 programmes.
I imagine the WC to be on SS2 as isntbthat the Cricket Channel, but just not called it
And they have the rights for the next 8 years as well.
he only really hate the Comm teams which is funny considering even if Sky had the options to choose commentators they would use the same commentators.
Why would sky want the rights anyway considering they don't get nothing out of it apart from very expensive expenditure when they can just get the cheaper option of getting world feed with all England games getting 3-4 sky commentators anyway.
Apparently Star couldn't even afford to send a team for the Australian summer this year because they will have to spent so much money for the World cup.
is the chance there will be a name change for the couple of months of World Cup?
ESPN Star are host broadcasters, as per their contract with the ICC
In Australia, Nine and Fox Sports have the rights. No specifics that I've seen have been released, but as a minimum Nine will have each of Australia's games along with the semi-final and final (per Broadcasting services law)
In New Zealand Sky Sport NZ have the rights, certain games will also be televised free-to-air through their partnership with Prime
SPI Feb highlights document lists all Feb World Cup games as being on SS2.
Doesn't say anything about renaming the channel but that doesn't mean it might not happen - from the start of the World Cup I can't see anything else listed on SS2 (but of course these are only highlights of what's on so it remains possible).
I see that KP has been doing some commentary work during Big Bash, so he may get some World Cup work, also Dominic Cork is always popular with Asian broadcasters.
So is it just the place for the non-peeved former employees that sky seem to employ? Don't get me wrong, I half agree with you that KP shouldn't necessarily be in the comm box, but mainly because I don't think being a good cricketer automatically makes you a good commentator.
Unless Sky are minded to put the highlights on Pick TV (klaxon time, I know!!) like the Ashes last year? But I think that has to be considered very doubtful indeed.
I believe World Cup matches involving England (and the semis and final) are Cat B protected. so highlights have to be FTA somewhere.
I suspect BBC or ITV will buy it and show it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ofcom_Code_on_Sports_and_Other_Listed_and_Designated_Events
Although only england, Ireland and scotland games + semis and final have to be available although they generally show the entire tournament since 2000.
I think the listed events status just means that the rights holder cannot deny a terrestrial broadcaster the rights if they bid *enough* - but what enough means is still up to the rights holder. Indeed, in 2003 the tournament had no FTA highlights, despite both C4 and the BBC being interested at one stage or another, as Sky deemed that neither had bid high enough. They then both lost interest and Sky had that tournament exclusively.
They didn't show all the games but certainly remember seeing england highlights on it.
anyway Dobell confirmed they will be FTA highlight but doesn't know the channel yet.
It's not purely up to the rights holder.
I can't be bothered to go back through the legislation but from memory it says something like the rights holder must offer the rights to an FTA broadcaster at a fair and reasonable price.
If there is then a dispute about what is fair and reasonable then it is a matter for the Secretary of State to determine whether the actual amount offered by an FTA broadcaster is fair and reasonable.
100% positive. No FTA coverage whatsoever for 2003. Even ICC Cricket World, which had shown two-minute highlights packages for each week of the 2002 Champions Trophy, had come off air the week before the World Cup. ("Enjoy the World Cup!" said Barbara Daniels, the voice-over artist, as the credits rolled on the final episode as I turned off in disgust, having expected the series to air through the World Cup, giving some small crumbs to us terrestrial viewers!) In fact, I have even put the final episode end up on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU6hYvlufZ8&spfreload=10
Great to hear that there may well be FTA coverage this time around - here's hoping!
Many thanks for the clarification - I knew I'd get it wrong! In any case, my main point stands - B list does not 100% mean that there will be FTA highlights - as evidenced in 2003.
But I take your word for it since I was only 9 during this world cup and only saw channel 4 coverage in you tube years later.
Mark Nicholas appears to have voiced that year's official DVD/VHS release following the tournament - this might have been what you found on YouTube?
I was only 11 during the tournament, but took an interest in all the broadcasting stuff even at that young age (!!) - I remember being absolutely devastated that C4 was not showing it, and that I (living in a terrestrial-only household) had no access to coverage beyond reports on the news. If C4 did show some highlights, then they must have been unbilled and unadvertised - I really don't think they did. I even remember Simon Hughes alluding to the lack of FTA highlights in newspaper columns he wrote at the time.
If you can find the package on YouTube I'd be really interested to see it.
EDIT: Was it this package? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2dTzER51-A&spfreload=10 I've always thought that this was from a post-tournament DVD release, rather than C4 highlights. Indeed, that YouTube user is an Aussie, so it's unlikely that this came from British TV.