Comments on: Idiocy

By: Ben Payne

Ben Payne — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:26:24 +0000

I agree with Miller, i think it’s utter stupidity that, with the World Cup fast becoming the height of cricketing achievement, so little is being done to promote it.

It’s sad that since Cable tv arrived, the most exciting cricket has not been available…. most of the best series Australia has been involved in in the last ten years have been outside Australia (where we tend to boringly thrash everyone)… and as you say, the most interesting World Cup matches haven’t involved Australia….

I believe in the future administrators will look back and see it as a time when they pretty much threw away potential future fans…

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 01:18:33 +0000

that happens here too, with the olympics (and i’m sure other stuff as well). try watching an event or a sport if it doesn’t feature the u.s., and you’re pretty much out of luck. even some of the usian sports don’t get coverage. my friend is an olympic archer, but we won’t be able to watch her compete in beijing, because they just don’t cover archery.

heh. i thought cable here was overpriced. when i was in eighth grade, my mom got fed up and cut off the cable. i cried. television used to be the center of my life.

By: Justine

Justine — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 22:20:27 +0000

Yeah, but that means you didn’t get to watch Malinga snag four wickets in a row against South Africa and almost put the kybosh on what was going to be an easy win. It’s nice to be able to watch our boys but all the interesting matches so far have not involved them.

By: jonathan

jonathan — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 22:04:30 +0000

the super eight games, semi-finals, and final – at least any of those with australia playing in them – are being shown live on free-to-air tv in australia. and it starts at about 9.30pm, which is reasonable.

By: John H

John H — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 21:51:48 +0000

Have you looked at selectv?

By: Justine

Justine — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 21:33:57 +0000

And UK cable sucks compared to US cable. It’s all about population base. They are many and we are few.

By: lili

lili — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 21:25:14 +0000

most of the sport is free-to-air in australia, but this year the world cup is only being shown once a week, at some ridiculous hour of the night.

justine, you are so right about pay-tv here. when i was in london last year, i was all ‘it does WHAT?’ ‘it has how many channels?’ ‘what does this red button do?’

here it’s just the shopping channel, and millions and millions of seinfeld reruns and episodes of antiques roadshow. (and sport.) most aussies save their $100 a month (for only 30 channels), and just buy what they want to watch on dvd from the US.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:10:55 +0000

wells, in u.s. land, we get tons of free sports. you can access certain channels for free if you have an antenna, and they broadcast a lot of local sports, plus some others. the spanish channels show a lot of soccer, and we can get basketball, baseball, golf, football, and probably more. anyone with a tv can watch the superbowl. same for nba finals. we also get the olympics. i’m pretty sure we got at least certain games of the soccer world cup on local channels. of course, we only get the stuff these channels choose to cover. but it’s still way more than any ten minute youtube video, and it’s all free.

By: John H

John H — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:06:21 +0000

I would agree with you if they weren't providing those videos themselves. I don't believe it's free, but I wouldn't expect it to be---just as I wouldn't expect to be given free access to the match if I went there in person.