https://www.theroar.com.au/2022/01/23/womens-wc-made-free-by…
The women’s Cricket World Cup will be removed from a paywall after Alyssa Healy labelled the Nine Network’s failure to pick up the event as a “slap in the face”.
Foxtel have since confirmed to AAP they made the call on Sunday to make it part of their “freebies pack”, meaning viewers will be able to watch it on Kayo without a subscription.
@infinite: Obviously this deal isn't for you. Care to explain why you are putting so much effort to steer people away from watching womens cricket? If you just want people to know that you hate women playing cricket, then mission accomplished.
It's clear the deal is appreciated by lots of others (who are interested or do want to see this game develop further).
It's still going to cost you to power the TV so it's not really free is it? Maybe they can start subsidising that and more people would watch, doubtful though.
Agreed.
Sadly there's not enough neg votes for all these degenerate assholes.
They would probably have a better product to offer if certain people identified a certain way to get into the competition. I guess cricket's just not quite progressive enough yet.
Only a bargain if they paid us to watch this just like Alyssa Healy did by offering Kayo vouchers
Their good fundamentals make up for their lack of sixes
I take it that's a reference to the futurama episode about the amazon women playing basketball?
Maybe it's because the women are better cricket players than the men who are bashing it!
Just my thought
P.S I know they would kick my ass in cricket and I'm a male
Yes however in football the maitildas lost to an U-15 boys side by a comfortable margin.
The Under 15 boys who are probably better than 99% of us men on OzBargain
Yes. But we could use our collective strength ;)
Wow, that's quite a lofty standard you're holding professional athletes to.
Maybe try partonising some other group? Australia day should present some good opportunities for you.
Sorry very difficult to watch more then few balls
The last Womens T20 World Cup final pulled 825,000 viewers on a multichannel. It was the highest rated multichannel program of the year. There's demand for this despite the claims by many here.
Whilst this is true and I was one that wanted to and did watch this.
I think the high ratings are somewhat of a statistical anomaly, as it was scheduled perfectly. There was literally nothing else sports or otherwise worth watching at the timeslot. My mother watched it (somewhat out of being patriotic) because there was nothing else on and she doesn't really care for cricket in general.
You need to look at the ratings for the entire tournament, taking on a WC is dozens of games that take 4 hours a pop, which is a massive financial commitment during primetime.
People only ever expected them to show the Australian games. I think it was always assumed that the non-Australian games would be on Kayo. 9 couldn't even manage that.
Equal pay for equal work.
No… This is a very simple concept that so many people don't seem to understand, or are just willfully ignorant of as it doesn't fit their narrative.
Sportspeople ARE NOT paid for their work, you can be the hardest working squash player in the world, you can train 18hrs a day 7 days a week, putting in work, make it to the top, be ranked #1 in the world… but if you don't bring in sponsorship money, ad revenue and ticket sales then you aren't getting paid.
You certainly aren't getting paid what say a top tennis player makes even if they don't work as hard as you do… Why? They bring in more money.
Finally someone gets professional sport
If we follow that logic, considering tennis women only play 2 sets win at AO, should their prize money be decreased?
Note: answer is no.
Women’s tennis is an anomaly. Other female sports don’t come close to their pay.
Having said that, tennis players don't get a salary. They get prize money if they win.
You know why this is so? Women have had the privilege of playing with the more popular men at the majors.
Play devils advocate for a moment, but why should the women get equal prize money to men?
Assuming AusOpen's income is primarily from ticket sales and TV rights:
1. Ticket income is lower for the womens game (last years tickets started at $215 for the women final and $310 for the mens final).
2. It's a much shorter game (maximum 3 sets vs 5 sets) therefore TV rights down even further will less advertising opportunity.
3. The womens game puts on less of a show (fewer people want to watch it and therefore TV right are worth less).
Honest question here: If women truly want equality, why can't they play 5 sets like the men? It's not like they're on the verge of collapse after playing 3 sets.
Sponsorship. After all, sportspeople are salespeople. Tennis women managed to get equal prize money, good on them.
But yes it bares the question, why can't they play 3 sets win. Isn't that the whole purpose of a grand slam?
@ShouldIBuyIt: Sponsorship isn't Prize Money. They're very separate
Women managed to get equal prize money by invoking the whole woke equality thing, but you haven't answered any of my points.
I found some quotes from Serena Williams like this: "I think every female athlete is ready to play five sets. Actually, the tournaments have said, no, we like you guys playing three sets." That's quite telling about how good the womens game is.
@timle: Where is the prize money coming from if it's not sponsorship. (I'm talking about event sponsors, not individual sponsors)
@ShouldIBuyIt: Sorry, you mentioned 'sportspeople are salespeople', so I figured you were talking about personal sponsorships.
I imagine event sponsorship would follow a similar pattern to TV rights (fewer eyeballs and less time on TV == less advertising dollars == less prize money). Do you think Kia or Guojiao would be willing to put in the same money if the womens event was separate?
Anyway, I don't really care and I'm losing interest rapidly. Do you have an answer to my initial question (why should the women get equal prize money to men)?
@ShouldIBuyIt: We'd already established women earn the same prize money as men; that was the entire point of my 'should' question.
Your mistake is thinking logic plays any part of this.
Well said, the femnuts will ignore a logical comment like this because they prefer to play the victim game and cry like a spoilt brat and call for censorship of opposing views!
Ha! It's not the Nine networks fault if a non viable number of people want to watch women's cricket. They are a business in it to make profit, they know how many people watch. Don't be hating on them. CLEARLY not many folk are interested in watching women's cricket otherwise Nine would be all over it.
Meanwhile Foxtel and their brands are PAID by the government to broadcast womens sport as a social service. Folk still aren't watching it, nothing changed. Foxtel are not saints. They are going to broadcast something that will not be watched because they are paid to.
Channel Nine lost the rights to men's cricket so they decided to abandon cricket and brought tennis instead; can't blame them for this, Healy should have called out Channel Seven instead.
Channel Nine is broadcasting the men's T20 World Cup this year and the ODI World Cup next year.
Legacy rights I believe and also might be on the anti siphon list.
Great, women’s cricket have a major worldwide platform where the exact viewership can be measured.
It’s time for all the women’s sport advocates to go out and watch it.
'But, but… Home and Away, Australian Idol, Farmer wants a wife, Married at First Sight, My Kitchen Rules, etc?'
'See, things just get in the way, but I'm still complaining about the wrongdoing by men and corporations controlled by men, that's the right thing for me to be seen to be doing. Do as I say not as I do, because you know, I'm the moral one.'
Ratings drive everything. If it doesn't rate then business won't pay a premium for advertising. If you are interested then attend or watch it. If you do neither don't complain. Can't see why my taxes make up for people's lack of interest. Men's Sports also suffer if they have poor ratings.
Your taxes paid for this and kayo/foxtel getting the rights to netball.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jul/22/coali…
honestly not even if you paid me i would watch that dumpster fire
humane torture
@infinite:
While we're doing mental gymnastics, you could point out where I was trying convince anyone of that.