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Despite gambling ad bans during live sport in Australia, many World Cup viewers are still being bombarded with betting ads and marketing content.
Cameras mounted on the referee, trialled at the Fifa Club World Cup last year, will show us what the ref can – and can’t – see.
Dennis Cometti was one of Australia’s finest sports broadcasters, with many of his one-liners to live on in footy vernacular.
The business model of the AFL and NRL is simple: attract a television audience, sell that audience to advertisers. To do that they need crowds.
A new set of postage stamps pays tribute to the male voices of Australian sports commentary - but there have long been female sports broadcasters and their voices are getting louder.
The lesson from other sports is clear: women’s football must be broadcast on free-to-air if it isn’t to disappear.
Rights packages aimed at attracting the digital market failed to attract a bidder.
Could the WWE’s grip on professional wrestling be weakening?
Negotiations for the new media rights for cricket in Australia could see a change in how we watch games, and even be linked to a drop in people actually playing the game.
Radio legend Graham McNamee was baseball’s first broadcast star. So why did it take 74 years for the National Baseball Hall of Fame to honor him?
The Seven Network’s decision to offer an additional subscription service for its coverage of the Rio Olympics makes it the first free-to-air broadcaster in Australia to charge for broadcasting sport.
A string of quick victories for the home side have left cricket’s backers massively out of pocket.
As more and more sporting bodies seek to speak directly to consumers, independence could disappear. Will consumers care?
As Optus takes the fight for sports viewers to Foxtel and Telstra, it’s unclear if consumers will benefit.
Media players are jostling for a piece of the lucrative sports broadcast market, but a lot can happen in two years.
Free-to-air broadcasters will pay big price for right to broadcast AFL games from 2017-2021. But there are ways networks can leverage more value.
Yesterday Cricket Australia launched onto the Apple TV network, becoming the first Australian sports organisation to join the platform. The new Cricket Australia channel will feature a mixture of interviews…
Twitter’s IPO filing has today revealed a loss of $US69 million on $US254 million in revenue in the first half of the year - which is up on the US$49 million loss in the same period last year. With results…
















