Live Cricket on Terrestrial TV - RIP.
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Bad.
Cricket is nowhere near as popular as it once was.....the gov't are trying their hardest to promote it in schools, promote local teams etc. PUtting it on channel 836 and making you pay £30/month.....then perhaps £10 to watch the actual game....is not the way to do it!
I used to watch cricket, and from 2006 will not (I dont have sky sports anyway).
I really thought the C4 commentary was very good! Cricket really must be a difficult game to talk to!
Cricket is nowhere near as popular as it once was.....the gov't are trying their hardest to promote it in schools, promote local teams etc. PUtting it on channel 836 and making you pay £30/month.....then perhaps £10 to watch the actual game....is not the way to do it!
I used to watch cricket, and from 2006 will not (I dont have sky sports anyway).
I really thought the C4 commentary was very good! Cricket really must be a difficult game to talk to!
Bad, bad, bad. 
Now of course it means that cricket will never be seen by the wider audience who don't have access to sky and that bloody football will continue its domination as the only sport in Britain. Channel 4's coverage was brilliant and I for one see this as a very sad day for English Cricket. F
g ECB. 
Now of course it means that cricket will never be seen by the wider audience who don't have access to sky and that bloody football will continue its domination as the only sport in Britain. Channel 4's coverage was brilliant and I for one see this as a very sad day for English Cricket. Fg ECB. 
Iceman82 said:
Bad, bad, bad.
How d'you work that out? The only place you can watch live Premiership football is on Sky - so it'll be exactly the same for both sports. If you want to watch either, bend over for the nice Mr Murdoch.
Personally I'd rather watch paint dry than cricket. At least I know I'll have a nice wall at the end of it.
No, it's not like football at all.
OK, the Premiership and Division 1 games (or whatever it's called these days) are only shown live on Sky. However, if you think back to pre-Sky days, old Division 1 games and Division 2 games were NEVER shown live on BBC or ITV either. This was due to restrictions placed on the TV stations by the Football League itself as they were afraid (rightly) that live TV coverage of soccer matches would have a detrimental affect on attendances. Sky came in and offered something new (and mega-bucks)when they started live broadcasts of the new Premiership.
The highlight programmes that had been shown on BBC and ITV before then (Match of the Day and The Big Match) continued more or less unaffected. What's more, lots of other football championships (the European Cup/Champions League, EUFA Cup, World Cup etc) HAVE retained a live presence on terrestrial TV.
This cricket deal removes ALL live coverage from terrestrial TV. There is none at all.... Zippo.... Zilch....
>> Edited by Eric Mc on Wednesday 15th December 14:13
OK, the Premiership and Division 1 games (or whatever it's called these days) are only shown live on Sky. However, if you think back to pre-Sky days, old Division 1 games and Division 2 games were NEVER shown live on BBC or ITV either. This was due to restrictions placed on the TV stations by the Football League itself as they were afraid (rightly) that live TV coverage of soccer matches would have a detrimental affect on attendances. Sky came in and offered something new (and mega-bucks)when they started live broadcasts of the new Premiership.
The highlight programmes that had been shown on BBC and ITV before then (Match of the Day and The Big Match) continued more or less unaffected. What's more, lots of other football championships (the European Cup/Champions League, EUFA Cup, World Cup etc) HAVE retained a live presence on terrestrial TV.
This cricket deal removes ALL live coverage from terrestrial TV. There is none at all.... Zippo.... Zilch....
>> Edited by Eric Mc on Wednesday 15th December 14:13
daver said:
Bad, bad, bad.
How d'you work that out? The only place you can watch live Premiership football is on Sky - so it'll be exactly the same for both sports. If you want to watch either, bend over for the nice Mr Murdoch.
Personally I'd rather watch paint dry than cricket. At least I know I'll have a nice wall at the end of it.
Apologies, I didn't phrase it that well. What I meant was that as cricket slips off Channel 4, it will also lose its place in the public mindset as it is hardly represented in the grass roots education system. Whereas you can walk into most pubs in Britain and there is bound to be some football match on and football is always played at schools, cricket doesn't have that level of representation and knocking it onto sky just so the ECB get more money is not going to help the game in the long term.
tycho said:And on Cricketheads.com someone sung their praises after Top Gear was moved to Men and Motors
Great news, now all we need to do is get shut of snooker and horse racing!
FFS if you don't like it don't watch it
Better than "another soap or an innovative i'm a celebrity big brother can't cook non singing ground force cash in the attic changing room"
A very sad day for English cricket.
Another total sell out by a governing body. When money is the dominating factor in a sport, then the fat cats get fatter while the spectator loses out (see e.g. F1).
I appreciate that the ECB needs to make money, but any decision must be weighed against the cost/benefit to the sport.
Cricket hardly has the largest following, and is considered by many (on here too, it would seem) to be a dull game. Squirreling it away on satellite TV would seem to be doing no good to lift the sport's presence, profile or fanbase.
Oh, and I don't have satellite and that's the real per...
Too right old boy. It is a national sport and something that is quintessentially English. There are few other sports that are personal to England, as opposed to the rest of the UK. Even if one isn't a fan, it's still got to be worth protecting; preventing the erosion of our national heritage by reality TV shows, US sitcoms, fast food chains et al.
>> Edited by Nuggs on Wednesday 15th December 14:37
Another total sell out by a governing body. When money is the dominating factor in a sport, then the fat cats get fatter while the spectator loses out (see e.g. F1).
I appreciate that the ECB needs to make money, but any decision must be weighed against the cost/benefit to the sport.
Cricket hardly has the largest following, and is considered by many (on here too, it would seem) to be a dull game. Squirreling it away on satellite TV would seem to be doing no good to lift the sport's presence, profile or fanbase.
Oh, and I don't have satellite and that's the real p
er... Incorrigible said:
Better than "another soap or an innovative i'm a celebrity big brother can't cook non singing ground force cash in the attic changing room"
Too right old boy. It is a national sport and something that is quintessentially English. There are few other sports that are personal to England, as opposed to the rest of the UK. Even if one isn't a fan, it's still got to be worth protecting; preventing the erosion of our national heritage by reality TV shows, US sitcoms, fast food chains et al.
>> Edited by Nuggs on Wednesday 15th December 14:37
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