Richie Benaud 1930-2015
Richie Benaud, 1930–2015: Cricketing legend, broadcasting giant, cultural icon My full obituary for Richie Benaud is published at Medium.
Will Channel Nine lose its hold on Australian cricket?
For a third of a century, Australia’s Channel Nine has been, to use its long-running advertising slogan, Still The One for telecasting international cricket. This may be soon to come to an end.
Nine live: cricket’s TV blackouts face the axe
Nine live: cricket’s TV blackouts face the axe (Sydney Morning Herald, 29.4.05) The SMH is reporting today that the antiquated home city Test TV blackout of the first two sessions of the day might be canned, if Cricket Australia signs up with Channel 9 for another seven years of covering Australian cricket.
Channel 9 moves Bundaberg to Cairns
We come to expect the ABC sports department to mangle, ignore, or totally re-invent sporting ground titles when there are naming rights sponsorships involved. But what is behind Channel Nine’s renaming of “Bundaberg Rum Stadium”, the venue of the Second Test between the Australian cricket team and Bangladesh, to “Bundaberg Stadium”?
Made for TV, not for people
Made-for-television cricket. We’ve seen a lot of it in the past five years dished out in the name of “globalising” the sport. Televised but meaningless one-day matches dished up for an insatiable market from the “emerging” regions of world cricket. Singapore, Toronto, Kuala Lumpur, Kathmandu, and even a park in northern Los Angeles have all […]
It’s all just a commodity
So South Africa won the Australian one-day triseries for 2001-02. They defeated New Zealand 2-0 in the best-of-three final, and congratulations to them. We should be thankful to them, too, for sparing us from an episode that would have shown us just a little more evidence that cricket is nothing but a commodity for television. […]
Don Bradman 87 Not Out – A Television Review
When I heard that “A Current Affair”‘s Gold Logie winning anchorperson Ray Martin had obtained the rights to an exclusive interview with Sir Donald Bradman – the last interview he intends to give – I recoiled with horror. “Toupee Ray” – the former king of daytime television – the frontman of night-time tabloid journalism – […]