Thread: Ashes to be on Terrestrial television

Quote: Originally Posted by Woddy Or you could look at it that hopefully with the greater exposure from terrestial tv, you will get more people paying subs to join your club etc It's only the home Ashes tests, it'd only be on terrestrial once every 4 years. I don't think that would be a very fair trade for a massive cut in funding. I see very little cricketing or financial reasons for this.

Quote: Originally Posted by Realale Great, there goes all the funding my club and the local schools use for youth cricket then. Or you could look at it that hopefully with the greater exposure from terrestial tv, you will get more people paying subs to join your club etc

Quote: Originally Posted by Woddy Or you could look at it that hopefully with the greater exposure from terrestial tv, you will get more people paying subs to join your club etc Nowhere near as many as we currently get from sending our coaches out to local schools on The Chance to Shine program and the kids enjoying this and then coming along to our training sessions. We currently get around 60-70 kids on a Friday night, without the school...

Quote: Originally Posted by MARTYM8 Are they going to show live paint drying shows on terrestrial TV too? Watching paint dry is far more entertaining than watching 5 day test cricket matches - which half the time end in a bore draw. Why do we even care if we beat a country on the other side of the world with half the population of Poland in the world's most boring sport? You stick to yr X Factor pal

Quote: Originally Posted by MARTYM8 Are they going to show live paint drying shows on terrestrial TV too? Watching paint dry is far more entertaining than watching 5 day test cricket matches - which half the time end in a bore draw. Why do we even care if we beat a country on the other side of the world with half the population of Poland in the world's most boring sport? Why did you feel the need to contribute to the thread with that? If...

Quote: Originally Posted by Arthur Pringle You stick to yr X Factor pal Well at least you get a result with that and it only lasts one hour. Five days and a draw - nothing quite like test match cricket.

Quote: Originally Posted by Tel69 SKy do a wonderful job with the cricket Pictures and technology fine but they need to find themselves a good commentary team to replace the dross they use now.

Not until 2017, so a while yet. As for overseas tests, then they never were on terrestial, certainly not live anyway. There's nothing the UK govmt can do about those.

so far it's only a recommendation the government are obliged to follow the advice after all look the whining drugs csars complaining that they are being ignored there's no gurantee anything will change

Here is the link. Finally the goverment has seen sense. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/front_page/8356391.stm