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Old 08-11-2016, 11:58
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Anyone able to offer a comparison with Sky?

I tried finding an average for a comparable match on last year's BARB data but couldn't see any Australian tests in the channel Top 10s.
What was the lowest fiqure in the top 10, it would be lower than that.
Anyway non England games don't rate well on sky, think only really India or Pakistan games would get decent ratings on sky and even then struggling to make top 10 unless it is a quiet day for sports.
Better comparison would be what they get for the ashes considering what they got for the first test is what sky normally get for the Australia home games as well excluding England games.
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Old 08-11-2016, 12:00
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Big bash ratings the key though since sky got some good ratings for those with some games getting 100-200k average ratings.
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Old 08-11-2016, 13:07
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Big bash ratings the key though since sky got some good ratings for those with some games getting 100-200k average ratings.
Still not really an apples for apples comparison. For Big Bash you can watch the whole match in three hours, and something exciting (ie a boundary or wicket) happens more overs than not. Plus it tends to be played in the evenings in Oz, so for weekend matches at least one can watch them live at a reasonable time in the UK.

It just seems awfully ambitious of BT Sport if they were expecting a decent number of people in the UK to watch Australia v S Africa cricket starting at midnight every evening or whenever it was. Fine tuning in advance of the Ashes was probably more the objective.
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Old 08-11-2016, 13:11
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Going to hard to compare Aus v SA ratings anyway as they have change the venue order and are having day and nights tests too.

The 2nd test starts a bit earlier with coverage from 11pm. First test coverage started at 2am.
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Old 08-11-2016, 15:58
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Still not really an apples for apples comparison. For Big Bash you can watch the whole match in three hours, and something exciting (ie a boundary or wicket) happens more overs than not. Plus it tends to be played in the evenings in Oz, so for weekend matches at least one can watch them live at a reasonable time in the UK.

It just seems awfully ambitious of BT Sport if they were expecting a decent number of people in the UK to watch Australia v S Africa cricket starting at midnight every evening or whenever it was. Fine tuning in advance of the Ashes was probably more the objective.
I meant compare last year bash with this year bash, most of last year bash made the top 10 last year.
Tbh doubt BT expected much, sounded like sale making a huge fuss over nothing.
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Old 08-11-2016, 16:02
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Does anyone take Sale seriously? Shambolic excuse for a 'journalist'.
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Old 08-11-2016, 17:21
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I meant compare last year bash with this year bash, most of last year bash made the top 10 last year.
Tbh doubt BT expected much, sounded like sale making a huge fuss over nothing.
Ah, ok, I see what you mean.
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Old 08-11-2016, 18:32
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It's ALL about the ashes and showing ECB they can do Cricket at a high level. Ratings not even the key at this point. BT want a stronger summer line up.
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Old 08-11-2016, 19:07
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Anyone able to offer a comparison with Sky?

I tried finding an average for a comparable match on last year's BARB data but couldn't see any Australian tests in the channel Top 10s.
We won't be able to find any data on BARB website as none would be anywhere near top 10s.

I would expect similar content to rate similarly on Sky - maybe slightly higher but it won't be very different.

The point is that Australian tests in the middle of the night (other than Ashes) will rate very, very, low - whether on BT or Sky.

The point of my post was just to illustrate that - it's no big deal, it's no surprise, it's of no significance re other rights etc.
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Old 09-11-2016, 03:51
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looks like sky sports using the world feed from the full, started the coverage from 3.51 when the game start at 4.00.
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Old 09-11-2016, 06:10
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Seems like Botham, Nasser and Athers not wearing the indian cricket shirts and logo but all the indian comms are.
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Old 09-11-2016, 10:33
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What's with the wavey blue wave under the TV scorebox? Just what does that add to the presentation?? Grrr. Luckily with aspect on "zoom" it's hidden - and it puts the Indian logo further away too!
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Old 09-11-2016, 10:44
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That wave under the score bar is so annoying.....and intrusive....who on Earth thought that a good idea?

Only watched a little this morning, but haven't heard a negative word from the Indian commentators so far re India performance...Athers seems to be speaking his mind though
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Old 09-11-2016, 12:29
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As ITV 4 did hilights of the Bangla tests,can.t see anything re India.......or do I need to go back to Specsavers ?
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Old 09-11-2016, 12:43
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Read they wanted to bid but didn't offer enough..
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Old 09-11-2016, 12:48
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Read they wanted to bid but didn't offer enough..
Ok thanks. Saw on the odd bit I watched ,half the ground was half full and the other half of the ground,was "empty" ! Nice sunny day though, unlike here Brrrrrrrrrrrrrr
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Old 09-11-2016, 13:35
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looks like sky sports using the world feed from the full, started the coverage from 3.51 when the game start at 4.00.
Sky had their own studio coverage too.
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Old 09-11-2016, 16:55
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Read they wanted to bid but didn't offer enough..
A shame, the Bangladesh tests built themselves a nice audience, which they could have built on
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Old 09-11-2016, 18:39
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Cricinfo and espn channel in India got ganguly, trott and nick Compton working for them this series.
So guessing trott won't be doing the verdict considering he will be in Bangalore for the series.
Trotty, Butch and Bob doing the verdict.
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Old 09-11-2016, 21:04
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Trotty, Butch and Bob doing the verdict.
Only Compton was in the studio, wonder if trott does any pieces for them from London or will travel to Bangalore.
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Old 09-11-2016, 21:20
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Trott suffered with home sickness hence why he ended his England career earlier then expected he will probably just report from London
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Old 09-11-2016, 22:32
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NowTV doing a deal for 2 months pass for 25 quid to see the England cricket series.
(Just incase anyone was interested like)
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Old 10-11-2016, 11:11
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so looks like Ian ward interviewing Ali with the BCCI.TV mike.
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Old 10-11-2016, 13:29
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so looks like Ian ward interviewing Ali with the BCCI.TV mike.
Yeah he actually interviewed Joe Root twice at the end of play yesterday. Once for the World feed and again later for Sky.
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Old 10-11-2016, 17:08
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Yeah he actually interviewed Joe Root twice at the end of play yesterday. Once for the World feed and again later for Sky.
Not sure I seen them interview an Indian player either and that even on the star sports show.
Which is really awful with mayanti langer presenting awful voice with mostly atherton and gavaskar in studio, with dean Jones joining in.
Star sport shows are usually very good but didn't see any technical or analytical aspect it was a lot of sponsored highlight that ten sports in particular does a lot of which is common in Asia.
Would have been nice if they explained things more using touch screen or the zone like they did before sky even started using them.
Very odd coverage really since espn actually giving better analyst than what the right holders are given.
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