Cricket broadcast rights could go cheap
Will it retain cricket rights?
While negotiations for the sporting rights to cricket are ongoing, many media insiders are tipping that the rights will be retained by Nine.
Betting agency Sportsbet has even opened a market on the negotiations offering just $1.15 for long-term rights holder Channel Nine to retain the rights, $5 for Ten and $9 on Seven.
“The cricket is in Nine’s DNA so we expect they will simply match any offer another broadcaster might put forward,” said Ben Hawkes, a spokesman for Sportsbet.
Please don’t report on anything that sport betting agencies say about anything to do with sport – everyone has been had and we ought now encourage this lowlife activity.
Why does the media report in what the bookies have as odds as part of a news story? All it is a free plug for them. There is no news worthiness in the odds provided from bookies. The bookies don’t have a clue all they are trying to do is create a mathmatical market for themeselves with mugs. Its a pet hate of mine with the media giving odds from bookies as part of story.
Why do it?