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Nine’s NRL team to commentate from studio
“The safety of Nine’s commentators & production crew is our absolute priority,” says Nine.
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Nine’s NRL commentary team will host from Nine studios and not from sports stadiums due to the current coronavirus epidemic.
The news was confirmed by Nine News reporter Danny Weidler on Twitter.
TV COVERAGE. Coronavirus leads to changes. Ray “Rabbits” Warren and the all star Nine team will call & host from studio until further notice.
“The safety of Nine’s commentators & production crew is our absolute priority,” said Nine NRL head Simon Fordham. @9NewsSyd @NRLonNine— Danny Weidler (@Danny_Weidler) March 14, 2020
Yesterday Nine also directed 2GB radio hosts Alan Jones and Ray Hadley to broadcast from home.
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8 Responses
Hi all, I have a gripe with the format of the NRL commentary team, Brad Fittler, when are they going to replace him and Guss??? Freddy does not have a television-friendly voice and Gus is always whinging!, I tune in to the radio now and watch the play on TV, even with it`s few seconds delay…get rid of these two channel 9
If these games (both NRL and AFL), keep going ahead without spectators then perhaps Foxtel or Telstra (who do the streaming), should open up the games they broadcast to people to view. Perhaps for Foxtel allowing people to subscribe to the AFL and NRL channels only via one of their streaming platforms (Foxtel Now/Kayo). Telstra AFL/NRL Live is $99.00 for the seasons, so perhaps a discount on that due to all this, basically as a show of goodwill which also of course would garner some good publicity.
I know 9’s NRL team will be in Sydney studios calling the matches, but what about 7/Fox AFL callers? In case there are matches being played in Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, they may need to call the AFL matches in a studio, rather than outside.
7s callers will be calling from a sanitised booth at 7’s Melbourne HQ.
Some but not all.
Foxtel apparently cancelled all travel for commentators and commentary will be done in-studio.
Foxtel did the same for A-League matches.
It’s the inter/intrastate travel to Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, etc. where they are trying to minimise risk.
Because having a small commentary team at the venue (with no spectators) broadcasting from a room away from everyone else isn’t safe enough?! What’s next – “the safety of our camera operators is paramount, so they won’t be working these events. Instead we’ll have static wide-shots of the playing area, switched between by a producer isolated off-site in their own production room”? I get no studio audiences etc, but this seems a bit over-the-top.