Cricket Australia

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Broadcast Partners

Nine 

Nine Network

The Nine Network has partnered with Cricket Australia since 1977 to broadcast all Australian home international cricket matches and has long been Australia's top-rating commercial television network. Its backbone is three television stations in Australia’s major metropolitan cities; Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.

The network's dominance comes from its extensive news and current affairs coverage, rights to broadcast popular sporting events, such as Cricket Australia’s cricket internationals played in Australia, and its slate of entertainment and lifestyle programs. Award-winning shows include 60 Minutes, Today, A Current Affair and the iconic Wide World of Sports with its world-class cricket commentary team including Richie Benaud, Mark Nicholas, Shane Warne, Michael Slater, Ian Healy, Mark Taylor et al.

The Nine Network’s reputation as a leading and innovative sports broadcaster is cemented in the enduring Wide World of Sports brand, originating from the popular weekend sports magazine program of the same name. The official site of Wide World of Sports is www.wwos.com.au.

 ESPN Star Sports

ESPN Star Sports

ESPN Star Sports is Cricket Australia's exclusive broadcast partner in the Pan–Asian region, broadcasting home international cricket matches as well as domestic interstate cricket matches to up to 40 countries across the region. ESPN Star Sports is a joint venture between Walt Disney (ESPN, Inc.) and News Corporation Limited (STAR).

ESPN Star Sports aims to reach consumers at any time, any place and through all new media platforms, including internet and mobile, and showcases an unparalleled variety of premier live sports from around the globe 24 hours a day to a cumulative reach of more than 310 million viewers in Asia.

For further information about ESS visit www.espnstar.com.

 Vodafone

Vodafone Hutchison Australia

As a result of the 2009 merger of Vodafone and 3 mobile, the mobile carrier offers exclusive cricket content and behind the scenes footage to more than 7 million Vodafone and 3 mobile customers in Australia.

 BSkyB

BSkyB

BSkyB is Cricket Australia’s exclusive broadcast partner in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, broadcasting Australia's home international cricket on its wholly-owned channel, Sky Sports.

Sky Sports broadcasts more than 40,000 hours of sports across five core channels and three HD channels and has had a major impact on how sport is covered on TV, pioneering new techniques such as interactivity, stump microphones, steady-cam and super-slo-mo which are now industry standard.

For further information on BSkyB and Sky Sports visit www.sky.com.

 

ABC Grandstand

ABC Grandstand, broadcast nationally on ABC Local Radio, is Cricket Australia’s exclusive radio and audio online broadcaster.

ABC Grandstand is synonymous with radio and audio online sports coverage, bringing Australians extensive coverage of international domestic and interstate domestic cricket, plus all the major football codes, Olympic and Commonwealth Games, tennis and much more.

Since the 1930s the ABC has been the home of cricket on the radio. Today this tradition continues. All international cricket games are broadcast on ABC Local Radio and ABC Grandstand Digital Radio with all domestic one day and Twenty20 games live on ABC Grandstand Digital Radio.

For details of online streaming, live scoreboards, podcasts, reports, news and on-demand listening go to www.abc.net.au/grandstand. Australian residents can tune in online to the live ball-by-ball coverage on ABC Grandstand at the following link: www.abc.net.au/grandstand/cricket

 Fox Sports

Fox Sports

FOX SPORTS is Cricket Australia’s exclusive domestic interstate cricket partner and one of Australia's leading sports broadcasters. FOX SPORTS is the live and exclusive broadcaster of Australian cricket’s key interstate competitions, the KFC Twenty20 Big Bash, the Ford Ranger Cup and the Weet Bix Sheffield Shield.

FOX SPORTS broadcasts an average of 20 hours of LIVE sport each day into 2.2 million homes on subscription television with almost seven million potential viewers through FOXTEL, AUSTAR and OPTUS TV. FOX SPORTS is also home to Australia's #1 sports website, www.foxsports.com.au.

 Sky Sports NZ

Sky Television

Sky Television is Cricket Australia's exclusive broadcast partner in New Zealand, broadcasting Australia’s home international cricket through its subscription service.

Sky Television is New Zealand’s pre-eminent pay television operator, offering a wide range of sports, movies, music, on-demand and general content across more than 100 channels. Sky's channel line-up includes 7 sports channels, 6 movie channels, 8 general entertainment channels, 5 documentary channels, 5 news channels, 4 children’s channels, as well as other niche and special interest channels.

For further information on Sky Television visit www.skytv.co.nz.

 Supersport

Supersport

Supersport is Cricket Australia’s exclusive broadcast partner in Africa, broadcasting selected Australian home international cricket across the continent.

SuperSport has an enthusiastic team of presenters who pride themselves on being experts in their fields and constantly work towards bettering their sporting general knowledge to give them the edge in the industry.

For further information on Supersport visit www.supersport.com.

 CATV

Cricket Australia TV (CATV)

Cricket Australia TV (CATV) enables viewers and listeners located in territories other than those covered by the above broadcasters to subscribe to live online streams of the Nine Network’s and ABC Grandstand’s coverage of Australian home international cricket. For more information visit the Video page at www.cricket.com.au/catv.

Cricket Australia also partners with a number of other overseas broadcasters, including:

Sports Max 

Sportsmax in the Caribbean. Visit www.sportsmax.tv.

 Fiji TV  Fiji TV in Fiji. Visit ww.fijitv.info
 Willow  Willow in North America. Visit www.willow.tv.

 

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