Seven seeking to cancel Cricket Australia contract over alleged breach
Seven has launched court proceedings against Cricket Australia, in an attempt to ditch its broadcast rights deal, as reported this afternoon by The Australian.
The deal – worth up to $450 million – is headed to the Federal Court, as Network Seven reports “repeated breaches of its six-year media rights contract relating to quality and standards”, as claimed by the News Corp masthead.
Seven has two years left on its current deal with CA
I think you meant Channel 10 previously broadcast the Big Bash League. Paramount never did.
Hey GT,
Thanks for the pickup, that sentence was meant to include Network 10, but it slipped through!
It has been updated now.
Cheers,
Calum – Mumbrella
Can both teams in a match be all out in exactly the same play? Both Seven and CA hit are out hit wicket, but will they walk and could I jam in any more tortured cricket metaphors?
Pathetic.
You sign the contract and external events mean that it doesn’t deliver the ‘expected’ audience. One wonders whether the networks have noticed that across the board audience numbers are dropping. Two causes – digital delivery, and poor FTA delivery with endless repeats.
An analogy is that the horse I backed in the Melbourne Cup didn’t win, so I will sue the broadcaster.