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@rapido said in And the winner of the RWC broadcasting rights is...:
@chris-b said in And the winner of the RWC broadcasting rights is...:
If Nisbo etc is tied down by an exclusive contract.
I suspect the main Sky guys are - they didn't feature in 2007.
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@stockcar86 said in And the winner of the RWC broadcasting rights is...:
A combo of John McBeth and Keith Quinn
Too many old white men. Diversity will trump rugby knowledge so they'll have Anika Moa and Golriz Ghahraman calling the game. John Campbell and Hillary Barry in the studio.
It could happen and you know it.
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@nzzp said in And the winner of the RWC broadcasting rights is...:
@akan004 said in And the winner of the RWC broadcasting rights is...:
The last time we lost the RWC was when Labour were the govt and TVNZ had the broadcasting rights. Just saying.
Spurious correlations gives me this:
Potentially, a lot of those drownings could be intentional - after watching movies.
Some Nicholas Cage films I've seen it wouldn't surprise me!
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@jc only good thing about that movie is that I have been to many of the set locations on Kefalonia, by all accounts, Cage was not well received by locals, buying a house and building big f-off walls around it to stop anyone looking at him....
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Quinn said he felt TVNZ was well placed to handle the commentary aspects of World Cup coverage. TVNZ would have no problems "as they will send their own people for significant New Zealand matches," he said Quinn had no insights into who "those people" might be, nor would he comment on his own availability for the tournament. On Sunday, Andrew Saville and veteran John McBeth did the commentaries for the men's and women's sevens finals at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games. Both would likely be firmly in the mix for Japan. Saville is an experienced match caller, while McBeth was New Zealand's leading radio rugby commentator for 10 years, before taking the leading rugby role at TVNZ. Scheduling means TVNZ could not cover every game, so it was likely the World Commentary Team (WTC) feed would be taken for non-New Zealand games, Quinn said. Sky TV used the WTC in the past to bolster core commentators Grant Nisbett, Tony Johnson and Justin Marshall at the 2015 Cup. Those three and others - such as the high-profile Scotty Stevenson - contracted to Sky would seem to be not an option for TVNZ. Nor would TVNZ want to use them, as they would be intent on stamping their own brand on the Cup coverage. Contracts dependent, it is possible sevens specialist Karl Te Nana, experienced Radio Sport caller Nigel Yalden and Willie Lose, who has played rugby in Japan, might be available to TVNZ.Former Chiefs and All Blacks No 8 Steven Bates is another media-experienced former player who has played rugby in Japan, so has a valuable understanding of the local culture, and local rugby culture. WTC commentators are contracted by World Rugby to ensure all games have quality commentators. They operate under guidelines which mean they must make games sound exciting, without exhibiting a national bias. Quinn, Johnson and Te Nana have all called games for the WTC Quinn also commentated to a worldwide audience at the Rio Olympics two years ago, when he called the sevens for the Olympic Broadcasting Service - essentially the Olympic Games version of the WTC. He expected New Zealanders to be happy with the WTC callers, which featured the likes of Australian Gordon Bray, Welshman Eddie Butler, and Englishmen Miles Harrison and Ben Gollings. "There will be a lot of familiar voices for New Zealand viewers," Quinn said. "Some of the South African callers, and some of the British names like Miles Harrison and Eddie Butler, will be known." WTC will fly commentators to Japan, pay their accommodation, and give them a fee. In exchange WTC controls what they are able to say. No WTC broadcaster would criticise aspects of the way the tournament was run, or its infrastructure. -
Yealden is a great radio commentator, but not sure his 'style' would go down well on TV comms...?
Is Merhts contracted to anyone, I thought Kronfeld was decent in 2011 as well, wonder if they would try to get someone like Wayne SMith to do it, assume they will look at McCaw too?
Being analytical and knowledgable is one thing, but being able to commentate is another completely.
@Steven-Harris send them your CV bro
edit - wonder if Glen Osbourne or Eric Rush would be keen
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Reiko! oh! oh!
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@taniwharugby said in And the winner of the RWC broadcasting rights is...:
Yealden is a great radio commentator, but not sure his 'style' would go down well on TV comms...?
Yeah, not my bag at all. Listening to him in the car at the weekend, and find his enthusiasm grating. Still, some people like him (excluding me and Mrs NZZP, who described him as a muppet)
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Just watched a few Simon Moutter soundbites on TV3 News.
"At the end of the day there's a lot more Kiwis have a good broadband connection than a Sky dish".
Yeah - but, everyone can choose to have a Sky dish, Simon - and I'd guess a decent majority of ardent rugby fans have one. We're reliant on the fucking telecommunications industry to deliver us decent Broadband.
He came across as a smug piston wristed gibbon IMO!Let's hope Quinn's thoughts on commentators aren't on the money - 1980s broadcasters targeting millennials ambivalent about rugby - how could it possibly fail!
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