Comments on: Wimbledon guide

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:08:48 +0000

Here we go again…in Sydney tonight 9′s tennis coverage starts at 11:30pm, 1st men’s semi actually starts at 10pm. Why you may ask? Well, because apparently it’s more important to show (on delay!) an NRL match involving Brisbane and NZ (!!!) from 9:30 to 11:30pm.

I rang 9 and asked why…”it’s a programming decision”. They plan to pick up the tennis live at 11:30pm…Tommy Haas may well be in the showers by then!

I defy anyone to make sense of this…

By: Mel

Mel — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:18:26 +0000

Why can we watch Wimbledon on Fox until early in the second week, then suddenly have to put up with Channel 9/WIN and their pathetic delayed telecast? As for the suggestions to show the tennis on the HD channel – that is all very nice for people who live in the cities. Out here in the woop-woops we can’t get the HD channels. If commercial stations want the rights to sporting events, they should have to show them live (even at the expense of the bloody stupid Footy Show).

By: Richard W

Richard W — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:49:24 +0000

RE: Sarah from Perth,

Whats pathetic is that WA voted against day light savings.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:04:09 +0000

It is beyond pathetic in this day and age that a tv channel can get away with treating it’s viewers like this. Why is the government protecting a commercial station by allowing these anti-siphoning laws? My friends in Ireland can watch the Oz Open final live, but because I live in Perth I have to wait two hours???
(Three next year cos no daylight saving!!!!)
Come on people, don’t stand for it. In Ireland, I could watch 5 matches at once on the BBC! Thank God I will be in Queensland for the wimbledon final. Oh, and before you say “watch it on the net”, I would but thanks to Telstra we can’t get ADSL and my wireless is not up to it, but that’s a whole other rant…

By: JohnTV

JohnTV — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:01:37 +0000

Seriously who is this show made for? A lot of money and energy for a 4:30 afternoon news/magazine show for kids and mums who are already at home – and they will be watch B&B anyway.

If Nine want to really do something different and give their news brand some edge, how about giving GTV9 a new news set like TCN9 (that Blue Chroma key was a nice look in the 80′s) and move the news to 7pm when people are actually getting home from work. Do something that makes you stand out from the crowd and give people a reason to watch… This looks like Sunrise Lite.

By: Belinda

Belinda — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:34:14 +0000

They could put The Footy Show on 9HD and get around the anti-siphoning laws.

By: sam

sam — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:26:50 +0000

nine could get away with this treatmernt in 1980 when there was no iternet /paytv…but there is no excuse now in 2009…either give it all to fox/ or for two weeks of the year start the riducluas footy show at 8.30 so they can cross at 10.30pm…why on earth we have to endure underbelly repeats etc!!! Nine suck…or 9HD god there are answers all over the place..

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 03:59:44 +0000

Nine’s Wimbledon coverage is crap…as it was last year. Instead of seeing Hewitt v Del Potro live we had to sit through the usual Footy Show rubbish; Mario Fenech getting dunked in green slime! Tonight it’s an Underbelly repeat instead of Federer v Soderling live. One of the biggest sporting events in the world and this is the treatment it gets…Kerry would be turning in his grave!

This is where the anti-siphoning laws must be reviewed. If a FTA channel buys it they should have to show it or lose it to Fox.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:43:15 +0000

Agai, you can’t use the secondary channel because of anti-siphoning laws. There’s not too much Nine could do. I wouldn’t survive living in Perth

By: mac

mac — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:12:30 +0000

although i live in melbourne i can understand why wa fans would be annoyed, it so stupid to show on a 2 hrs delay why can they just show it live.

By: Pete

Pete — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:48:44 +0000

The HD channel should be used, as us in the West are getting a raw deal with Wimbledon.

Lucky SBS TWO will save us with Le Tour.

By: damo

damo — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:42:30 +0000

thursady night. that wont come on at 11 oclock. i would bet any money it will start closer to 12

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:10:05 +0000

Yeah .. What’s the point of having that HD channel and not use it. It’s not as though they have the excuse “We only have one channel” Clowns

By: Andrew B

Andrew B — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:48:17 +0000

Important matches should be live regardless of time zone.

Maybe the solution in WA is to have the tennis live on a secondary channel then delayed on the main channel? Wouldn’t that get around those crazy anti-sihponing laws? That way the viewer can chose whether to watch it live, or watch the regualr program then the tennis on delay.

Its only the biggets tennis grand slam of the year, and when there’s an AUssie in it, it should do alot better than normal programming, especially on 9 – which only win ratings with event TV now in any case.

By: Dean

Dean — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:30:33 +0000

I’m sick of it. Fox Sports are the only people who can cover tennis right.