NZ Cricket
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I'll miss having the cricket on tvnz, but this was inevitable the moment spark pulled out, tvnz don't have the cash to be involved. I'd be surprised if they were even bidding for the rights.
Hopefully nzc have spent the last couple of years preparing for a revenue drop, and making the most of the inflated price they got from the bidding war.
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@Donsteppa said in NZ Cricket:
Probably inevitable, but still gutted. Our junior numbers are up by 34 overall since the start of the 23/24 summer, and girls numbers have about doubled. Free to air coverage of mens and womens games has definitely helped.
Hopefully Sky pushes quite a few of the games to Prime (Sky Open, whatever).
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Yeah, I've really enjoyed having super smash on TV. Despite Chromecast making it stupid easy, I still wouldn't bother normally for super smash, but when it's just chucking it on the TV, I basically had it on every day in the background (for both men's and women's games).
I think tvnz's rights include 2025/26 so we'll have one more free to air summer.
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@nzzp The soothsayers are almost always right - schedule an international cricket match in Napier during a dry period and it will inevitably rain. Well it started raining here about three quarters of an hour ago, just about as predicted by those investing millions of dollars in forecasting technology. Save money guys, us locals could have done it for free!
