We Need to Talk:- 17 September
The changing face of New Zealand sports broadcasting. NFL on free-to-air; who saw that coming? Why can’t Manchester City play Champions League football? And what do we believe may or[…]
Tagged: media
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Sporting pictures of the week :- 28 August
The World Athletics Champs. No, this is not the hop skip and jump; it’s the 400 metres heats. Which is a Segway into the moment when Usain Bolt got chopped[…]
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At last. SA v NZ ODIs to be screened here
Finally we have video coverage of the New Zealand tour to South Africa. Cricket South Africa has come to the party after SKY NZ and IMG fought out a ridiculously[…]
SKY. Why there’s anger
More fool us. Between the last T20 and last night’s first ODI there was the feeling that this was like the end of the Transfer Window. A lot of the[…]
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Following cricket 1956 style
The New Zealand cricket team is currently touring South Africa where they have just drawn a T20 series. We know this because there are scorecards on Cricinfo and the NZ[…]
Scraping the barrel
Sometimes you do wonder at what motivates the media when they run a news story. On both the Stuff and NZ Herald sites today, there is a non-story about former[…]
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We don’t know how lucky we are
Criticising television commentators is an enjoyable and honourable pastime. And Test Match cricket provides lots of time to indulge in it, and that is what a lot of people have[…]
The Coliseum Media / Lightbox Press Release
Online TV service Lightbox and Coliseum Sports Media today announced a joint venture partnership to bring premium sport content to more New Zealanders. The venture will be called Lightbox Sport[…]
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Cringe Week. The Aftermath
Two weeks ago there was Cringe Week where the nation found every possible reason, perceived or real, to feel outraged by the sheer evil of The English. Their players, their[…]
The potential of the infographic
The following clip is clearly nothing to do with sport. But, in coming up with this extraordinary infographic, NewtalkZB has set the bar somewhere for how news stories can be[…]
