Foxtel extends Cricket deal for South Africa, England, India.
The Foxtel Group announces multi-year extensions with cricket boards for Test Cricket, One Day International & T20 tours.
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The Foxtel Group has announced exclusive, multi-year rights extensions with the cricket boards of South Africa, England and India.
The long-term deals will see all competitions and all Australian men’s and women’s Test, One Day International (ODI) and T20 tours played in South Africa, England (except The Ashes) and India, on FOX Cricket and Kayo Sports.
Foxtel Group Executive Director, Commercial – Sport, Rebecca McCloy, said: “We have been proud partners of Cricket South Africa, the English and Wales Cricket Board and the BCCI for more than a decade. These renewed deals mean that the Foxtel Group will continue to deliver customers unrivalled coverage of the biggest and best line-up of international and local cricket.
“Alongside our comprehensive rights to domestic cricket, which we have until 2031, this announcement is great news for our millions of subscribers who can continue enjoy the most extensive coverage of cricket in Australia and around the world.”
FOX Cricket is also home to New Zealand Cricket and the Indian Premier League as well as all Australian men’s and women’s Tests, One Day Internationals, T20s, and Big Bash League and Women’s Big Bash League Matches.
Over the last 12 months, 53 million hours of cricket was streamed across Foxtel Group, almost two thirds of which were streamed on Kayo Sports.
The announcement comes as FOX Cricket revealed its 2023/24 commentary team at its ‘Summer of Cricket’ launch event: Wasim Akram, Ravi Shastri and Brian Lara along with returning international experts Isa Guha, Michael Vaughan, Ian Smith and Harsha Bhogle. Adam Gilchrist hosts with Mike Hussey, Mark Howard, Mel Jones, Brad Haddin, Brendon Julian, Allan Border, Brett Lee, Kerry O’Keeffe, Mark Waugh, Megan Barnard, Sarah Jones all to feature.
Current Australian champions including David Warner, Usman Khawaja and Alyssa Healy will also spend time behind the microphone outside of their playing commitments.
The FOX Cricket line-up boasts a total of 1131 tests, 2525 ODI’s and 389 T20 internationals – a total of 4045 international matches in all formats.
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Pertinax, sorry mate but Foxtel has shown the Ashes in England and shared to coverage with Nine on Gem. The 2015 series was the last to be done this way with Nine being exclusive after that. The arrangement is mentioned in the story in the link below.
mumbrella.com.au/nine-cops-backlash-from-foxtel-satellite-customers-unable-to-access-ashes-broadcast-304715
The Foxtel Group always trumpet their acquisitions but being a loser with the biggest events is an omission not to be proud of and not mentioned here. No Ashes in England, and now no World Cups coverage is a scar on their offerings. The Fox Sports portfolio of events is a fraction of what it used to be sadly and one could create quite a list of what has been removed, ie Tennis, Football, Rugby, Motorsports etc sadly and will probably be eroded more with the Streaming giants now moving their claws into Sport coverage.
Completely agree clutter44 – the Ashes in England is beyond their control as they’re on the government’s anti-siphoning list (and that’s one event that a FTA network will usually always jump on), but it makes a mockery of their claims as being “the home of cricket” when someone like Amazon who have no history in cricket broadcasting can swoop in underneath them and claim the rights to some of the biggest tournaments in the sport. Same with other sports too – at least a decade or so ago sports were either on FTA or Foxtel … if you had a Foxtel subscription, there’s a good chance if there was some sort of sporting event, you’d be able to see it on there… but now with all these online streaming services competing for customers and now seeing sporting events as a way to achieve this, the Fox Sports portfolio is being eroded, and viewers are needing to purchase multiple subscriptions to different services as a result.
Foxel has never had the ashes in England as FTA has had it. Like wise with the World Cup and others which are special events that Nine had been picking them up cheap because 7 wasn’t interested in them, before Prime bought them. Foxtel has for years been buying NZ, Indian, South African and English home series for their cricket channel, and as the article says they are just renewing those deals. It give them a lot of cricket cheaply.