It’s about time we got some sports highlights shows
Roar Rookie By tobyb, 30 Jul 2011 tobyb is a Roar Rookie
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As a fan of most sports (either televised or not), I am getting more and more concerned that those of us who don’t have pay television are getting less access to coverage of games.
It’s all very well having a 10-second grab of Kevin Pietersen scoring a double century, or Italy beating France in the Six Nations, played in the sports section of an obscure news broadcast, but what is there for those of us who hanker for further information or analysis?
As a youth, I grew up watching Match of the Day religiously every Saturday night, and that was my exposure to Division 1/Premier League football.
Likewise, the 30-minute cricket highlights that I could watch in the evening after I’d finished my homework – I rarely watched live sport, and really didn’t notice the difference.
With the exception of AFL/NRL/EPL, which do have very good panel and highlight shows, what do we get?
Things I’d like to see shown on a decent hour on one of the free-to-air digital channels:
1: Super Rugby round highlights.
2: Cricket day’s play highlights for local Test matches, shown in the evening – instead WIN like us to watch “Two and a Half Men” and “Big Bang Theory” repeats on all channels.
3: Weekly highlights show for cricket when matches are played elsewhere in the world.
4: International rugby panel show – showing Six Nations, Tri Nations, and spring/winter tours.
I can’t imagine the rights to show a five-minute highlights package would be that extreme.
And yes, I can go to websites and watch things. But, you know, I’m just a watch TV on the lounge kinda guy.
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July 30th 2011 @ 8:59pm
Fivehole said | July 30th 2011 @ 8:59pm | Report comment
Hear Hear! I’m time poor but love shows like the bundesliga highlights ch 1 carries. All for this, but not sure about the contractual difficulties
August 1st 2011 @ 6:50am
David Lord said | August 1st 2011 @ 6:50am | Report comment
tobyb and Fivehole, it’s probably not exactly what you want but try “Sportsline” every night of the week at 1030 Sydney time on Sky’s Channel 601 – a 30-minute program with up-to-the-minute sporting news, and panel discussion. It’s different, and often lively. The show is repeated two hours later, same channel.
August 1st 2011 @ 7:01am
p.Tah said | August 1st 2011 @ 7:01am | Report comment
Tobyb, there are no cricket highlights but the IRBs total rugby show is brilliant… When you can work out when it’s showing on Fox. It would be a great to have on free to air. It has highlight of all international games, the top provincial tournaments and special interest segments such as rugby in lesser known rugby nations.