Ashes set for free to air return
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/front_page/8356391.stm
Early Day Motion launched
John Grogan MP has now put an Early Day Motion down in Parliament which has so far attracted the signatures of 47 MPs from a number of parties.
You can see this here:
http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=39714&SESSION=903
Write to your MP now and ask them to sign
Disastrous for cricket?
Apparently, enabling the entire nation to watch live cricket, when it wants to, will ruin the game – David Collier and the ECB believe that free to air test match cricket in the UK will spell FINANCIAL RUIN for his organisation.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/8359046.stm
This thread on BBC’s 606 are not convinced (nor are we):
Will free test matches bankrupt the ECB?
If you believe the ECB, then Cricket in the UK is about to be bankrupted, if they are forced to relinquish their subscription-only deal with Sky.
Scyld Berry in The Daily Telegraph thinks otherwise.
test cricket back on free-to-air TV?
The recently published Review of Free-to-air listed events includes Ashes cricket!
http://www.culture.gov.uk/images/publications/independentpanelreport-to-SoS-Free-to-air-Nov2009.pdf
Could this mean that UK viewers may be able to watch some free live Test match cricket on TV?
