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TNT Sports is the favorite company to broadcast the ashes of next winter with Rivals Sky showing little interest in rights.
TNT – Formerly BT SPORT – organized the rights of the Ashes via an agreement with Australia Cricket for all its international houses since the 2017-18 series and is considered to be the strong favorite to re -signate another cycle of four years.
England has not won the ashes since 2015 and will seek to correct a terrible record in Australia, where they have lost 13 and fired two of their last 15 tests, in a successful series that will define Ben Stokes and the Bazball project de Brendon McCullum.
Cricket Australia is expected to seek in the region of 15 million pounds sterling per year for the four -year agreement to show all their original internationals. The tender process is in progress, but an agreement may not be finalized for a while. Sky does not show great interest in acquiring rights, part of a broader strategy to move away from the dissemination of bilateral tours abroad.
Sky has a bumper agreement with the Cricket Council of England and Wales with a value of 220 million pounds sterling per year to show all international crickets at home, as well as rights for all cuts of the world and other ICC events. He only tended to display series abroad only when taking charge of a last minute -in -law agreement at a considerably reduced price, as did with the test tour in England Pakistan in October. Sky always has an agreement with cricket in South Africa to show its internationals at home. He also broadcasts a number of T20 leagues, such as The Big Bash, SA20 and Indian Premier League.
TNT has bought many rights packages abroad in recent years. In addition to Australia, he has a long -term agreement with the Board of Control For Cricket in India, he therefore currently shows the tour in England. He also broadcast the tours in England in New Zealand and the Antilles before Christmas, and will show the next Australian tour of Sri Lanka.
While TNT was ready to buy rights packages, he tended to take the comments of the host broadcaster, then to use experts in a studio at home (or, in the case of the tour of the India last year, in Sweden), rather than sending your own panel to the tour. On the other hand, when he won the rights of Pakistan, Sky sent the host Ian Ward, commentators Mike Atherton and Nasser Hussain, plus a producer. He remains to be seen if TNT will send his own team to Australia once a rights agreement is finalized.
