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TEN renews netball broadcast deal

Netball is returning to TEN in 2012 with two live matches every Sunday afternoon from March - July.

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Live ANZ Championship Netball is returning to TEN in 2012 following a deal with TTNL Ltd.

TEN announces it will broadcast 69 matches over 17 weeks, hosted by former Australian Netball Captain Liz Ellis.

TEN is promising whopping four hour block of netball every Sunday afternoon from March to July next year with all matches played in Australia on TEN and all matches played in New Zealand on ONE.

TEN’s Head of Sport, David Barham added: “Network TEN is delighted to be broadcasting the 2012 season of ANZ Championship Netball for the fourth consecutive season.”

“Our commitment to producing the highest quality netball coverage is unwavering and is further cemented by the Network’s decision to broadcast two matches of netball every Sunday afternoon exclusively on TEN, representing the biggest commitment ever made to Netball by a free-to-air broadcaster.

“A consistent four-hour block of the world’s most competitive netball competition is a win-win for fans, advertisers and TEN’s afternoon schedule.”

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  1. @Armchair Analyst, on some rough numbers, 69 games over 17 weeks sounds like every game will be shown on Ten and/or One – ten team comp, whereby each team plays the teams in their own country twice, and the teams in the other country once, means thirteen games each during the regular season, with five games per round. That’s 65 games plus four for finals. Not that I watch a lot of netball – I will if I’m at home, I remember it’s on, and there’s no other sport on that I prefer more – but I’m guessing their finals series is 1v2 and 3v4, then the loser of 1v2 v winner of 3v4, then the winner of that one versus the winner of 1v2 in the GF. Voila, 69 games.

  2. @Phoenix727. Lachlan will not be given the boot afterall the shareholders at Ten approved his and the rest of his rich cronies board possitions, so him being sacked is unlikely. The best we can hope for is like any other business man who buys low and sells high, is that he or anyone else turns Ten profitable so he can than sell it. Although judging by the crap decision they have been making that seems a long way off. I do agree with you with the A league needing to be on FTA and that Ten should seriously consider buying partial rights to it, afterall the rights are as cheap as chips, however i cant see that happening maybe it would have with the old management but not with this. I mean they axed the only football/soccer show they had, i think that shows you how much they think of the game.

  3. First off I appluade Ten on retaining the Netball, I think it’s a boost the sport really needs. On the same line they should negociate a contract for the A-League and give the sport the boost it so desperately needs right now.

    However the fact they’re keeping the Netball while letting go of the AFL rights is utterly insane. The sooner Lachlan Murdoch is out of a job the better.

  6. I doubt Luke Darcy will be commentating netball going forward. Rumor is that he has signed with Seven and this will be announced immediately after the finals….no big loss; I don’t think he really knows much about netball and when I was at a game last year I got to see how he and Liz really got on…they didn’t.

  7. THis is indeed good news. The last three three year deal was a good one. We got new zealand matches aswell on ONE live on monday afternoon/evening. I wonder if under this new deal that it will be the same i hope it is but considering Ten has massively scaled back ONE’s sports content i doubt we will get all of the matches not just the australian team ones. My guess is thats the real reason why it was so affordable.

  9. Excellent move, very exciting. Is Luke Darcy back on commentary? He and Liz worked really well, but that was only on ONE.
    I don’t quite understand the TEN/ONE split, surely TEN would have been better off running John Wayne movies (or something) on Sundays and leaving all netball to ONE?
    And JB, do you mean Firebirds?

  10. Weren’t there complaints a few months back because TEN were playing the netball on a delayed telecast on ONE? Or was that the swimming? Or both?

    Perhaps TEN are turning a corner.. good News I say considering they’re currently heading over a cliff ratings wise

  15. I can’t imagine they will have paid too much for this as neither Seven (AFL & V8s) or Nine (NRL) will have been able to bid live coverage om primary channels anyway.

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