The game was also on Prime free to air.
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The game was also on Prime free to air.
more big qtys, someone still selling, someone still buying
We still jogging on the spot with SKT ? ;)
No take out developments yet ? ;)
Sky is delighted to announce that we will broadcast and stream all 64 matches of the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 live and on-demand. This is fantastic news for Sky and for women in sport.
Sarai Bareman, Chief Women’s Football Officer, FIFA (and proud New Zealander!) says: “FIFA is excited to welcome Sky as our official broadcaster of the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023™ for New Zealand. Sky has shown a strong track record of broadcasting women’s football in New Zealand and this deal will provide unprecedented coverage of the tournament, as well as bringing women’s football to more fans and new audiences. We look forward to working with Sky to promote the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 to accelerate the growth and visibility of the women’s game in New Zealand in the lead up to 2023.”
We are honoured to have been chosen to deliver the FIFA Women’s World Cup and are committed to supporting the growth and development of the women’s game alongside our support for women in sport across dozens of other codes, athletes, teams and communities throughout Aotearoa.
Almost one billion fans watched the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup in France and we think the 2023 tournament will be bigger again, with more teams and an even larger fanbase, and of course in two fantastic countries – Australia and New Zealand.
The last word must surely go to Ali Riley current captain of the Football Ferns: “The FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 will be the biggest sporting event ever held in Aotearoa and it is great to know every game will be broadcast live on Sky Sport. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for kiwi fans to see the best players in the world right here in New Zealand. This is our chance to inspire in future generations at home, and across the wider Pacific, and I know the whole squad can’t wait to get started.”
I guess FIFA will be paying NEP a handsome fee to produce the live broadcasts, after sky sold them the OSB business?
slimming down operations does have its drawbacks sometimes.
Today’s announcement is merely Sky getting the broadcast & streaming rights for the tournament in New Zealand (most games are played in Australia), sky is not producing the content AFAIK. FIFA owns the worldwide rights to the tournament and sell them off country by country.
As part of the broadcast rights, Sky will need to be able to produce the domestic matches. Just like they do with SANZAAR or any other code that has domestic matches.
The sporting codes negotiate a price to broadcast their matches with the Broadcasters around the world, but the it is up to whoever wins the rights to facilitate the production of any home games. The sporting codes do not have separate negotiations with companies like NEP - it's not their problem.
And right on cue after that great news, sky shares dip. As per usual.
that’s not the case with big tournaments like world cups. Usually for those events the organizer (IOC, FIFA etc) provide generic raw video product for everyone to layer their own commentary and visual effects/replays etc on. For instance a Swiss company HBS has produced all the FIFA men’s World Cup tournaments around the world since 2000, rather than the host country broadcaster, and that’s because fifa want consistent high quality, rather than just going with whichever network paid the most for the broadcast rights in the host country.
having said that I don’t know if they will do the same with the women’s World Cup yet.
At least NZ doesn’t need to qualify for this World Cup …..will see a few games with them in before the competition gets serious
so the property sale must be going well.....