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Nine pulls plans for Rugby World Cup Final in HD

Nine has dumped plans to simulcast the Rugby World Cup Final in HD on GEM this weekend. Instead it will screen Antiques Roadshow.

Nine has dumped plans to simulcast the Rugby World Cup Final in HD on GEM this weekend.

Instead it will screen Antiques Roadshow and British sitcom As Time Goes By on GEM.

Friday night’s Bronze final between Australia and Wales will also just screen in SD on Nine while Friends, The Zoo and Drop Dead Diva screen on GEM.

When previously asked why the NRL Grand Final wasn’t available in HD, Nine advised it wanted to offer viewers viewing alternatives. But last weekend Nine simulcast all its live Rugby World Cup matches simulcast on GEM.

That strategy appears to have been short-lived.

The match plays Live at 6:30pm AEDT.

On Nine….

43 Responses

  1. Since the 1980s the standards around broadcasting (regulated by ABA/ ACMA) have become significantly weaker/less effective. Program (time) creep, long, incessant ad breaks, ineffective use of new spectrum capabilty, etc are all examples of an industry which is essentially in “self-regulation” mode.

  2. geez, and I thought the kick up the bum by Media Watch had forced a rethink from Nine management.
    FTA sports will continue to be treated like this unless changes are made to the anti-siphoning list mandating that all top tier sports need to be simulcast on HD channels.

  3. I have Foxtel but am still a huge advocate for Live Sport in HD on FTA TV.
    No doubt if the Wallabies had won it would be live in HD this weekend. Way to get people’s hopes up and then just give up when your country loses. I’m calling it…Channel 9 = Un-Australian!

  4. I saw last weeks game at Event Cinema and was surprised they were screening the Nine telecast instead of the Gem telecast. It looked pretty ordinary on the cinema screen in SD.
    PS: Channel Nine suck.

  5. Makes you wonder if Nine will bother to simulcast the opening ceremony of the London Olympics next year on GEM HD…

    Imagine.. the only way to watch the opening ceremony Live in Australia is in SD on Nine while the HD channel GEM broadcasts old re-runs.

  6. it’s just frustrating as sport is practically the only thing that truly benefits from being in HD… i guess there goes my hopes for the summer of cricket in HD… Foxtel highlights it is

  7. Someone at Nine is having fits of laughter over this. We were given a morsel last week and we stupidly presumed that we would be allowed to watch the matches in HD again this week. I am starting to develop a deep-seated hatred of Nine instead of the passing annoyances that I used to have.

  8. Kerry Packer must be spinning in his grave at the direction Ch9 has taken since his death and its disposal by Jamie.And to think that it is still being run(?) by a Gyngell. Sometimes you need more than the same surname.

  9. Oh ch9 when will you let someone with a fully functioning brain make your programming decisions.

    Serously you can’t even stuff things up properly. FFS just show it live in black and white on a six hour delay…..that should bugger it up completely

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