Poor local attendances

MickeyD said:
The TV blame game is a toss-up between Supersport, SABC and the sporting codes, with MONEY being the root of the evil!
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Corruption. Corruption everywhere. With stuff like the EPL or F1 i.e. the big money sport I can understand Supersport buying up all the rights for eternity but local school/varsity stuff?

I remember a while back seeing highlights of "Craven Week" (? that school rugby tournament) on one of the Supersport channels and wondering to myself why that wasn't on SABC. And not just the highlights but all the games.
 
MartyMarts said:
Corruption. Corruption everywhere. With stuff like the EPL or F1 i.e. the big money sport I can understand Supersport buying up all the rights for eternity but local school/varsity stuff?

I remember a while back seeing highlights of "Craven Week" (? that school rugby tournament) on one of the Supersport channels and wondering to myself why that wasn't on SABC. And not just the highlights but all the games.
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I fully agree that the SABC as a national tv broadcaster should be more involved in local sport, not just soccer.
It should be a part of their marketing strategy.
But that does not mean it does not cost money to employ a team of guys to film and broadcast the games.

SABC should invest the money but won't.
 
Electric said:
I fully agree that the SABC as a national tv broadcaster should be more involved in local sport, not just soccer.
It should be a part of their marketing strategy.
But that does not mean it does not cost money to employ a team of guys to film and broadcast the games.

SABC should invest the money but won't.
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I'm sure there's plenty of companies that would happily "invest" to have their logos splashed all over the place and on live TV. If they did it right, the SABC probably wouldn't even need to spend a cent to do this.
I bend over and take a R700 knock from multichoice every month yet I still have to often experience that "make the screen small to cater for some MTN rubbish" during live games and still have the Samsung logo plastered at the bottom :wtf:
 
That's a valid point.
I doubt the SABC have even approached possible investors/sponsors for local sport.
 
Then where is the silverware to prove it? Who gives a darn about meaningless between-matches, when they don't win the tournaments that matter, number one or not? If they really are number one, why can't they win matches that actually matter? I don't buy some meaningless stats figures.

xeslaro said:
No 1 test team, and you battle to term them cricket players? Odd!
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kalongbat said:
Then where is the silverware to prove it? Who gives a darn about meaningless between-matches, when they don't win the tournaments that matter, number one or not? If they really are number one, why can't they win matches that actually matter? I don't buy some meaningless stats figures.
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TEST team... and we do have that piece of "silverware" in our cabinet.

http://www.icc-cricket.com/team-rankings/test
 
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And there was that one time when we got the silverware to say we were no1. in all aspects of the game.
 
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MartyMarts said:
I'm sure there's plenty of companies that would happily "invest" to have their logos splashed all over the place and on live TV. If they did it right, the SABC probably wouldn't even need to spend a cent to do this.
I bend over and take a R700 knock from multichoice every month yet I still have to often experience that "make the screen small to cater for some MTN rubbish" during live games and still have the Samsung logo plastered at the bottom :wtf:
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I have my doubts - covering live sport is pretty expensive. Monochoice has a whole slew of suckers lining up to fund it.
 
bwana said:
I have my doubts - covering live sport is pretty expensive. Monochoice has a whole slew of suckers lining up to fund it.
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Tbh, I have absolutely no idea of the costs involved - an area I know pretty much nothing about. But surely there must be a couple of rich [and not too bright :p] CEO's out there willing to pump some money into it something like this.
 
MartyMarts said:
Tbh, I have absolutely no idea of the costs involved - an area I know pretty much nothing about. But surely there must be a couple of rich [and not too bright :p] CEO's out there willing to pump some money into it something like this.
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If there's Supersport coverage at Wednesday's T20 match in East London I'll grab some behind the scenes photos for you. It should give you a rough idea.
 
bwana said:
If there's Supersport coverage at Wednesday's T20 match in East London I'll grab some behind the scenes photos for you. It should give you a rough idea.
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Supersport 2
17:45 - 21:30 > Cricket - Ram Slam T20 Challenge: Chevrolet Warriors v Chevrolet Knights
 
bwana said:
If there's Supersport coverage at Wednesday's T20 match in East London I'll grab some behind the scenes photos for you. It should give you a rough idea.
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Thanks, will be interesting. In my mind, a couple of cameramen, a dude switching between camera feeds, fat internet pipe (satellite uplink feed?) and it's sorted.

Hmmm... I'm starting to think my theory might have a hole or two :erm:
 
MickeyD said:
Supersport 2
17:45 - 21:30 > Cricket - Ram Slam T20 Challenge: Chevrolet Warriors v Chevrolet Knights
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Thanks. Means I'm looking at an overnight in EL. Oh joy.
MartyMarts said:
Thanks, will be interesting. In my mind, a couple of cameramen, a dude switching between camera feeds, fat internet pipe (satellite uplink feed?) and it's sorted.

Hmmm... I'm starting to think my theory might have a hole or two :erm:
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More like 4-6 cameramen, their lakkies, 4-5 working the boards, support crew... A couple of 18 wheelers for production and equipment, satellite crew... There's more I'm forgetting about. Obviously you can't just have one setup to cover the nation.
 
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