Lee Grant
John Eales (66)
There are 30 games in the tournament and 16 are being televised, and all of those will be televised on FoxSports.
As usual the schedule sucks from an Oz point of view. All the finals and the match for 3rd and 4th place will be televised but the only pool game involving Oz will be their game against France.
All teams play in 3 pool games. 12 pool games get broadcast. New Zealand, South Africa, England, Argentina, Italy and Wales get all their pool games televised and Ireland and Scotland get two. A lot of that is based on who plays whom, with the European market favoured, though France, like Oz, gets only one pool game. Tonga and Fiji don't get any games televised and both are in the pool of Oz and France.
The anomaly is that NZ v Argentina gets televised, but that decision was probably predicated on the popularity that NZ brings to any rugby tournament. Let's hope that Oz gets a 2nd European pool opponent, especially England, next year. That would increase our chances of getting a second pool game on TV.
We talked about the broadcasting schedule last year and we whinged about it. Some folks said the IRB should get the broadcaster to televise all the games. I said that if the IRB could make money out of it they would, since there would be no reason not to do it, and they would get more world wide viewers.
Some suggested that the ARU should finance the broadcasting of the other two Oz games as a separate contract with the IRB and I said that the IRB would say "Show me the money." Some suggested that the ARU should send their own production team over for the two missing Oz pool games and I made the same comment.
But it sucks all the same.
PS - Watching the livestreaming of any of the 16 games on the IRB website is legal.
As usual the schedule sucks from an Oz point of view. All the finals and the match for 3rd and 4th place will be televised but the only pool game involving Oz will be their game against France.
All teams play in 3 pool games. 12 pool games get broadcast. New Zealand, South Africa, England, Argentina, Italy and Wales get all their pool games televised and Ireland and Scotland get two. A lot of that is based on who plays whom, with the European market favoured, though France, like Oz, gets only one pool game. Tonga and Fiji don't get any games televised and both are in the pool of Oz and France.
The anomaly is that NZ v Argentina gets televised, but that decision was probably predicated on the popularity that NZ brings to any rugby tournament. Let's hope that Oz gets a 2nd European pool opponent, especially England, next year. That would increase our chances of getting a second pool game on TV.
We talked about the broadcasting schedule last year and we whinged about it. Some folks said the IRB should get the broadcaster to televise all the games. I said that if the IRB could make money out of it they would, since there would be no reason not to do it, and they would get more world wide viewers.
Some suggested that the ARU should finance the broadcasting of the other two Oz games as a separate contract with the IRB and I said that the IRB would say "Show me the money." Some suggested that the ARU should send their own production team over for the two missing Oz pool games and I made the same comment.
But it sucks all the same.
PS - Watching the livestreaming of any of the 16 games on the IRB website is legal.
