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Speaker 2: Hello there, and welcome to the back end of your
Speaker 2: working week, probably the front end of your working weeks,
Speaker 2: the front end of the sportscaster's working weekends. I'm Jason
Speaker 2: Pine on the Sports Fix podcast for Friday, February twenty one.
Speaker 3: Non as farsty water Grave, I suppose I do work
Speaker 3: over the weekend reviews. Count's sitting around on the couch,
Speaker 3: rotting and yelling at the television's work, which I kind
Speaker 3: of do. Yep, hard weekend in front of me.
Speaker 2: I know that a lot of people would swap with
Speaker 2: us in a heartbeat in terms of the way we
Speaker 2: spend our working weeks, our working weekends. But there is
Speaker 2: a heck of a lot of sport on and speaking
Speaker 2: of watching the game, the game of cricket has a
Speaker 2: new home, well, it will soon have a new home,
Speaker 2: Sky Sport and New Zealand Cricket agreeing to a six
Speaker 2: year deal.
Speaker 3: Revolution, isn't it as in rolling round and around, not
Speaker 3: as in we're gonna stick you up on a guillotine.
Speaker 3: It's gone from Spark through the TV and Z now
Speaker 3: back to Sky again. So Scott when it joins us
Speaker 3: short to talk about that process, how it operated in
Speaker 3: what happens next for the great ownash which just us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the ones who don't have Sky, what do they
Speaker 2: watch their cricket on? I'm interested their hair from Scott Wenneck,
Speaker 2: I got some thoughts. You has some thoughts as well.
Speaker 2: Derby tomorrow as well in the A League, So a
Speaker 2: lot to get through, Darcy. I wonder what you're doing
Speaker 2: up here, mate, I'm here looking apart from wanting to
Speaker 2: spend time being this close proximity to you, I'm here
Speaker 2: for the derby. We're here for sports fixed. Let's get
Speaker 2: into it.
Speaker 1: In other news, let's start, as always, with a look
Speaker 1: at the big sports stories around today.
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Speaker 2: How about that? And India of Chase down two hundred
Speaker 2: and twenty nine to eat Bangladesh with twenty one balls
Speaker 2: to spare in Crickets Champions Trophee, what it's make.
Speaker 3: To finish this up?
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Speaker 3: If you're welcoming that to the podcast. To the CEO
Speaker 3: of n Z Cricket, mister got weaning, Hi, Scott, Hi Darthy.
Speaker 3: I trust you're well and absolutely stoked at your new
Speaker 3: deal with sky TV came out today. Tell us all
Speaker 3: about that, the pleasure behind it, and I suppose the
Speaker 3: mechanics behind that deal.
Speaker 5: Scott, Yes, thrilled, thrilled to close that deal overnight. You know,
Speaker 5: Sky have been obviously a long term partner of New
Speaker 5: Zealand Cricket, previously a very experience experience broadcasts of cricket,
Speaker 5: so we're really really comfortable from that point of view.
Speaker 5: TV and Z have also been a fabulous partner and
Speaker 5: we've really enjoyed and been appreciative of the free to
Speaker 5: wear that Television New Zealand has provided. So as part
Speaker 5: of this deal, one of the key elements was to
Speaker 5: ensure there would continue to be free to wear aspects
Speaker 5: to it. So each eat, the first game of each
Speaker 5: T twenty series will be will be free to wear,
Speaker 5: and we're also going to continue to show super Smash.
Speaker 3: On free to wear.
Speaker 5: So no, we're really really delighted. You know, it's a
Speaker 5: tough broadcast market, so to lock in a long term
Speaker 5: deal at this stage gives New Zealand Cricket you know,
Speaker 5: some some real certainty around commercials, but also reach ensuring
Speaker 5: we maintain some free to wear.
Speaker 6: So how long is the deal for Scott So we've
Speaker 6: got the remainder of this year and then next season
Speaker 6: with TV and Z and then from twenty six to twenty.
Speaker 5: Seven, we will move to Sky for the six years following.
Speaker 3: Tell us about the Super Smash situation. So that's purely
Speaker 3: going to be free to wear. Is it going to
Speaker 3: actually be on the Sky platform as well? Just sharing
Speaker 3: out and that's that's the whole competition itself.
Speaker 5: No, So what we what we what we carved out, Kelly,
Speaker 5: was as I say, one T international T twenty of
Speaker 5: each series together with the Super Smash that we plan
Speaker 5: to package up together to then you know, to then
Speaker 5: potentially provide to TV and Z or another free to
Speaker 5: wear provider. So the Super Smash won't be shown on Sky,
Speaker 5: it'll be a free to wear provider.
Speaker 3: Right and you're not sure where that's going to go yet,
Speaker 3: still negotiating. Is that open for everybody? Scott?
Speaker 5: Yes, absolutely, yep. So this the deal with Sky was
Speaker 5: purely we we agree to just before international matches and
Speaker 5: that we would deal with the Super Smash separately. You know,
Speaker 5: it was really important to us to ensure that the
Speaker 5: Super Smash stays free to wear because of that, you
Speaker 5: know that that fan engagement aspect to it. And look,
Speaker 5: the numbers have been fantastic this year. The quality of
Speaker 5: cricketers obviously been incredible and the numbers that tv Z
Speaker 5: have sort of shown as on service smash had been great.
Speaker 3: So that's been a huge takeaway out of this delance
Speaker 3: away from Sky over the last few years. What you
Speaker 3: went to Sparkman TV and Z now back again. That
Speaker 3: free do we actually works for eyeballs. This is something
Speaker 3: you need to be engaged with.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it works for eyeballs.
Speaker 3: Obviously, it doesn't work quite.
Speaker 5: So well for the commercial aspects, and so that's why
Speaker 5: you need to balance it up because ultimately the New
Speaker 5: Zealand cricket financial model is still heavily reliant on broadcast
Speaker 5: fees and in particular domestic broadcast fees. So it's a
Speaker 5: case of balancing up getting those commercial broadcast fees by
Speaker 5: having some cricket behind a paywall while trying to maintain
Speaker 5: some free to wear to kind of continue to generate
Speaker 5: fan engagement. So it is a difficult balancing act. If
Speaker 5: we could, we'd have absolutely everything free to but that's
Speaker 5: just unrealistic from a commercial model.
Speaker 3: Scott, was there much of a fight? Did you have
Speaker 3: to challenge anyone else to get these rights? You just
Speaker 3: roll in and go TV and he can't afford it.
Speaker 3: Here's our offer. Even how did that and end up
Speaker 3: working through?
Speaker 5: No, Look, we've been in discussions with both TV and
Speaker 5: Z and Sky about our future rights for probably about
Speaker 5: nine months, and so this was just a unique opportunity
Speaker 5: came up with Sky. You know, they made a very
Speaker 5: compelling offer to us, and it made sense to look
Speaker 5: at that now. But as I say, one of the
Speaker 5: key elements to it was to ensure that we still
Speaker 5: maintained the free to wear element.
Speaker 3: What are they paying for it?
Speaker 5: Oh well, I.
Speaker 3: Couldn't tell you.
Speaker 5: But I couldn't tell you. No, it's commercially sensitive. But
Speaker 5: you know, look it's a fair deal. Look, we're obviously
Speaker 5: really pleased, but it's a good deal for Sky too,
Speaker 5: because you know, the Black Caps and White Fern's brands
Speaker 5: are absolutely humming at the moment, and you know, we
Speaker 5: expect to partners together to really drive the Sky business
Speaker 5: as well. So so look, I think they are really
Speaker 5: pleased to have us back, and we're obviously really pleased
Speaker 5: with the with the you know, with the commercials and
Speaker 5: been able to kind of get some certainty for revenue
Speaker 5: streams sort of long term.
Speaker 3: Scott Way, thanks for your time, mate, you go well
Speaker 3: of a great weekend thanks.
Speaker 5: To ARCI Sports perfects.
Speaker 2: The Third A League New Zealand Derby tomorrow Auckland f
Speaker 2: C against Wellington Phoenix, and the contrasting current fortunes could
Speaker 2: hardly be any starker between the two and the new Boys,
Speaker 2: Auckland f C charging into the competition, boisterous fan base
Speaker 2: there up at the top of the table. By comparison,
Speaker 2: Wellington Phoenix clinging on really the hopes of a top
Speaker 2: six finish and desperate really to break out of a
Speaker 2: goal scoring drought which is really affected them in recent weeks.
Speaker 2: But when it comes to the derby, any derby, I
Speaker 2: feel like all bets are off. The form book just
Speaker 2: goes out the window. When you come up against your
Speaker 2: fiercest rivals. You might have a bit of momentum or not.
Speaker 2: You might be high on confidence or not. You might
Speaker 2: have bragging rights as Auckland FC do from earlier meetings,
Speaker 2: or you might not have those bragging rights as Wellington
Speaker 2: Phoenix don't. But none of that matters tomorrow because when
Speaker 2: those twenty two players walk out of the tunnel at
Speaker 2: a jam packed go Media stadium, some of them in
Speaker 2: blue and black the other half in bright yellow history
Speaker 2: becomes entirely irrelevant because funny things happen on days like these.
Speaker 2: Players thrive under the pressure or they wilt under that pressure.
Speaker 2: Mistakes are magnified, flashes of brilliance are accentuated, and matches
Speaker 2: like these are often decided on very small moments, even
Speaker 2: might moments within moments. And I get the feeling that
Speaker 2: is what's going to happen tomorrow. So who will taste
Speaker 2: a bit of Darby delight and who will face Darby
Speaker 2: despair on a day to stand up and be counted?
Speaker 2: Who's going to rise the highest?
Speaker 1: The chamber is now in session on Sportsfix.
Speaker 2: Let us pop into the chamber, the room of discussion
Speaker 2: when it comes to the Sports Fixed podcast.
Speaker 3: To this said, the ruin of disgust of what's going
Speaker 3: on in this chamber.
Speaker 2: Brother, that's a different podcast. You've seen my episode lists
Speaker 2: on my podcast feed. We digress. The chamber is where
Speaker 2: we talk about authors sport. Interested to hear from Scott Weenink,
Speaker 2: there has to be a free to wear element, not
Speaker 2: just for cricket these days, disk, but for all professional sport. Yes,
Speaker 2: the broadcast revenue is important, and yes you get less
Speaker 2: of that if you put some of your sport on
Speaker 2: free to wear. But you have to do it, don't you.
Speaker 3: It's about engaging people, it's about getting them in front.
Speaker 3: I like to call it a lost leader and you
Speaker 3: would have heard that from the supermarket speak if you
Speaker 3: will say, Okay, we're not making any money at that,
Speaker 3: but man, we're going to get people through the door.
Speaker 3: And that's the key thing with this. And they've seen
Speaker 3: the numbers go and I think with Spark and it
Speaker 3: was brave at the time when they did it, but
Speaker 3: I understand why they did and moving into TV and Z,
Speaker 3: it's like, Okay, people actually do want to see this game.
Speaker 3: And I don't know if they thought that was the case.
Speaker 3: So it was almost like it was an occurrence that
Speaker 3: they didn't think was going to happen, but it did.
Speaker 3: And now they've worked with it and they've capitalized on it,
Speaker 3: which is really really important. What do they say, put
Speaker 3: the fan at the center of.
Speaker 2: The room, that's at the center of the conversation, and
Speaker 2: that means every fan, not just a fan who can
Speaker 2: afford Sky sport. But you know, like if you take
Speaker 2: it back to our childhood, dost that the sports that
Speaker 2: we grew to love were the ones we could see,
Speaker 2: and most of the time that was on television.
Speaker 3: Right, you can't be it if you can't see it.
Speaker 3: It's really really someone. I love the way it's reverting
Speaker 3: to that. I mean, I'm a fan of that's going
Speaker 3: back to sky Use. I like the fact that it's
Speaker 3: all on that. I love my new Skybox. It's so cool,
Speaker 3: i'd say new. I'm a very late developer before I
Speaker 3: got it, but I like it all on pretty much
Speaker 3: the same platform. That's all the international stuff anyway, And
Speaker 3: when it comes to Super Smash, that's up, free to
Speaker 3: wear it, fantastic watch that.
Speaker 2: You're still getting to watch cricket on TV. You're right,
Speaker 2: so that's important. All right, let's talk some super rugby.
Speaker 2: Round two is underway tonight. A couple of unbeaten sides,
Speaker 2: Chiefs Crusaders. How you feeling in Red and Black Country.
Speaker 3: Well, this is always a really nervous fixture and it
Speaker 3: used to be about Auckland Canterbury, but I think that
Speaker 3: disappeared years ago. The whole Chiefs Crusaders rivalry. Now there's
Speaker 3: actually a bit of anguish, a bit of aggression, a
Speaker 3: bit of it's quite tough, and I like that from
Speaker 3: both of those places. So we're looking at it. A
Speaker 3: lot of people involved in Super Rugby fantasy, they've all
Speaker 3: pitched Namie McKenzie to hope that he tears it a
Speaker 3: part again. As a Crusaders fan, there was no way
Speaker 3: I can pick a chieved it, tear it up. He
Speaker 3: must collapse. This has got so much on it because
Speaker 3: if the Crusaders end up going two on the bounce
Speaker 3: and they beat the Chiefs, who in that second half
Speaker 3: was lucky enough to be eating Park last week they
Speaker 3: rolled on their bomb squad, if you will, that was
Speaker 3: quite something to behold. So if the Crusaders can stop
Speaker 3: them in their tracks, that'll say a whole lot about
Speaker 3: their prospects this season. And that looked the second week
Speaker 3: in and already there's these key matchups right across the board.
Speaker 3: I don't even think they thought it'd go so well
Speaker 3: at the start.
Speaker 2: Right, There's no way they did. There's no way they
Speaker 2: did it. And look high scoring close encounters last week.
Speaker 2: You know, biggest margin the game he just talked about
Speaker 2: eleven points between the Chiefs and the Blues. All of
Speaker 2: the other games were in single digits, but so many tries.
Speaker 2: I don't think we're going to see a triyfes tonight.
Speaker 2: This ain't a forty five forty four game. But I
Speaker 2: am so intrigued, in particular from a Crusader's point of view,
Speaker 2: but also from a Chiefs point of view. Chiefs, probably
Speaker 2: the best team two seasons ago, lost in the Grand Final.
Speaker 2: Probably with the Blues the best team last year lost
Speaker 2: in the Grand Final. You have to lose two to
Speaker 2: win one.
Speaker 3: I thought you just had to lose one.
Speaker 2: That's what I thought too, So I turned over by
Speaker 2: the Blues last season in the final.
Speaker 3: Well the Blues did to them last year what the
Speaker 3: Crusaders did the Blues the year before. Yes, Also, what's
Speaker 3: going to happen this time around? It's going to be
Speaker 3: a I don't know who's going to be in the final?
Speaker 3: Who's going to be?
Speaker 6: Do?
Speaker 2: I still think the Chiefs are favorites to win the
Speaker 2: whole thing. I watched the Blues last week against the Chiefs,
Speaker 2: and it's one game, it's a small sample size, but
Speaker 2: I still think the Chiefs have the best roster and
Speaker 2: with Damien McKenzie, look, oh i'll give you tonight. I
Speaker 2: don't want him to run over the top of your
Speaker 2: crusaders tonight. But he is a very very very important
Speaker 2: super rugby player for the Chiefs, but.
Speaker 3: For me and looking toward All Black representation, which is
Speaker 3: where all this funnels into, you need to see consistency
Speaker 3: from Damien McKenzie. You need to know that he's going
Speaker 3: to provide. He's going to be the man every time
Speaker 3: he goes on them, and you is the keyword. You
Speaker 3: trust him to make the right decisions and do the
Speaker 3: right thing. It's super level, yep. At All Black level.
Speaker 3: Maybe not, but he needs to set that platform and
Speaker 3: now he knows it's between him and Bowden Barrett. This
Speaker 3: is going to do a lot for his game and
Speaker 3: Boden's game. It's it's mouth watering.
Speaker 2: Quick word on the derby. I've already given you my
Speaker 2: thoughts on the podcast, but will you take an interest
Speaker 2: in the derby tomorrow? Wellington still wearing yellow and black
Speaker 2: when it comes to football.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I am, I am, I'm not, haven't got it
Speaker 3: on today, but I do have that shirt at home.
Speaker 3: It's another sell out. It's astonishing and we spoke about
Speaker 3: the nature of the NRL and how to be nice
Speaker 3: to have something similar with the Warriors versus someone else
Speaker 3: and Cameron George from the No No, No five, ten,
Speaker 3: fifteen years. I'll stop it. I get they want to
Speaker 3: protect their patch. I completely understand that, but it needs
Speaker 3: to look out his window tomorrow at Go Media Stadium
Speaker 3: and go wow, because I think it lifts everybody. And
Speaker 3: that's what we've seen. It's another sell out game. Kraka,
Speaker 3: A bit of fighting talk going on there. We want
Speaker 3: to go through on the bounce. We're going to roll
Speaker 3: you right the way through. And of course makarrothas back
Speaker 3: off the bench for the Phoenix, so that's that's huge
Speaker 3: for them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what a what a what a game? And Prospect
Speaker 2: can't wait to be among the sold outcrowd there at
Speaker 2: I'll be.
Speaker 3: Listening because I can't go through in a yellow jump
Speaker 3: because I might not get out, So I'll be watching
Speaker 3: it from the comfort and safety of my own living room.
Speaker 2: Neutral colors for me tomorrow at Go Media. It's a
Speaker 2: very busy sporting weekend. We can't wait to wrap it
Speaker 2: for you.
Speaker 3: Oh you've forgot the supercars. I'll shut up now.
Speaker 2: We can't wait to wrap it for you right across
Speaker 2: the weekend on News Talks heed.
Speaker 1: Be dissecting the sporting agenda. It's Sportsfix with Jason Vine
Speaker 1: and Darcy Watergrave.
Speaker 2: And that is us for the Sports Fix podcast for today.
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Speaker 2: As far as news talks HEADB, sport is concerned across
Speaker 2: the weekend and across the week Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, Jason of course has got week in sport from
Speaker 3: at midday three o'clock both Saturday and Sunday. Then we
Speaker 3: job share from Monday through till Friday seven to eight
Speaker 3: at night with Sports Talk, always keen to bring you
Speaker 3: the best when we can how we can, with the
Speaker 3: best guests as well. Interestingly, had Joe Parker on the
Speaker 3: show yesterday. I'm glad we got on then because of
Speaker 3: course overnight it all change. So this weekend is no
Speaker 3: longer fighting for that belt. That's the nature, the movable
Speaker 3: feast that is sport, and if you want to keep
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Speaker 2: I thought you were trying to edge us back into
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