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Oops. FOX Sports sprung faking NRL crowds?
FOX Sports blames archival vision of crowd on producer error, after Seven News calls it out.
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NRL Crowds: Broadcasters have even been sprung using old video presumably to make crowds look bigger. @josh_massoud #NRL #7News pic.twitter.com/swWGeWLUoz
— 7NEWS Sydney (@7NewsSydney) August 18, 2017
Are broadcasters faking crowd footage to make up for poor attendances at NRL games?
That was the claim recently made by Seven News, surrounding an NRL match on Friday 16 June on FOX Sports.
A FOX Sports spokesperson told TV Tonight, “During the Rabbitohs v Titans Round 15 simulcast 8pm match, a producer aired archived vision after failing to time out the half time break. It was an error in judgment which we have addressed. This is not a regular practice of FOX Sports.”
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10 Responses
umm just Q but the 7.50pm friday night games are ch 9 pics all Fox do is commentate they use the picture that nine use so did nine do this also
No.
This is one of the most bizarre and laughable things I’ve ever seen happen.
What on earth.
Who knew that OB vans covering live matches at stadiums had access to archive footage?
LOL
My take? This has happened many times before but they were caught this one time. I have watched the crowd shots and seeing the sparsely populated ‘open’ side in the past and thought maybe the shot was taken of the ‘main’ side where there is generally more people…now I know better!
It’s bizarre that Sydney people just don’t go to watch NRL games with their big population. The Rugby League heartlands and averaging 13,000? That’s hardly more than the average A-League attendances. AFL average 33k which is one of the highest attendance averages of any league in the world.
Make it cheaper to go to games, give incentives. Living in Sydney means you can’t afford to do much other than “living” in Sydney.
Call it a NRL Thunderdome call. 3 men enter, 1 gets the blame. 2 men leave.
David, found your quote of the week for you 😉
The “producer” did it by himself, yeah? No one else was there with him/her in the director’s box, yeah? He/she had full control of the video switcher and was also the director and tape operator, yeah?