No Coverage of the Kangaroos Tour in NZ?

[Beavers Headgear]

Give me a proper broadcast over streaming every day of the week

 

[Izz]

Give me a proper broadcast over streaming every day of the week

Even though Sky will just do exactly what nrl.com would've done: play the English broadcast?

I guess you can record on sky if you don't feel like getting up at 2am

 

[Beavers Headgear]

Even though Sky will just do exactly what nrl.com would've done: play the English broadcast?

I guess you can record on sky if you don't feel like getting up at 2am

Yeah, I’m probably a bit of a dinosaur that isn’t a fan of streaming at all, and the recording and watching at your own convenience and being able to flick through it is 100x better overall for me

Bit of a crazy thread really when Sky are getting bagged for not showing the game, and now bagged for showing it lol

 

[Bobby DIGital]

I wonder when the Winfield Cup switched from TVNZ to Sky, if it was immediately I guess we would have been early adopters. Although, I doubt we got Sky straight away in Hawkes Bay, it was probably delayed.

Given all that I'm going to assume the tour was on TVNZ.

It was definitely on TVNZ. I didn't have Sky growing up and I remember watching it on Sunday afternoons.

TVNZ lost the rights to the ARL in 97 and would only play the Wahs games (SL). In 96 TVNZ started reducing its coverage of the Winfield cup. I remember the non-wahs games getting pushed back to very late at night. It was a sad time in NZ considering the Wahs had just come into the comp. The SL war really reduced the popularity of the game here at the time.

 

[Izz]

Bit of a crazy thread really when Sky are getting bagged for not showing the game, and now bagged for showing it lol

I just like bagging Sky, tbh

 

[Big Marn]

It was definitely on TVNZ. I didn't have Sky growing up and I remember watching it on Sunday afternoons.

TVNZ lost the rights to the ARL in 97 and would only play the Wahs games (SL). In 96 TVNZ started reducing its coverage of the Winfield cup. I remember the non-wahs games getting pushed back to very late at night. It was a sad time in NZ considering the Wahs had just come into the comp. The SL war really reduced the popularity of the game here at the time.

definitely on tvnz in the early 80s. As a young kid i got fooled into thinking Canterbury-Bankstown was a NZ team for quite some time and would want them to win - usually a sunday arvo from memory.

 

[Big Marn]

Walsh continues to dominate. not too shabby a test debut if im being honest.

 

[Scott]

I'm confused - was this game shown on sky after all?

 

[Beavers Headgear]

I'm confused - was this game shown on sky after all?

Yep, they announced it yesterday afternoon

 

[hitro]

they also replayed it in the middle of Samoa/Tonga while the game was on hold for lightning

 

[Matua]

It was definitely on TVNZ. I didn't have Sky growing up and I remember watching it on Sunday afternoons.

TVNZ lost the rights to the ARL in 97 and would only play the Wahs games (SL). In 96 TVNZ started reducing its coverage of the Winfield cup. I remember the non-wahs games getting pushed back to very late at night. It was a sad time in NZ considering the Wahs had just come into the comp. The SL war really reduced the popularity of the game here at the time.

I wonder is there was a crossover period when TVNZ and Sky both had coverage (like 9 and Fox in Oz) as I can remember my Aussie cousin being annoyed that we'd get all games on the weekend including some that weren't even televised in Oz. I also remember watching Super Rugby and it perfectly lining up to watch the league straight after.