The first game between Australia and New Zealand took place tonight at the Dunedin Ice Stadium. For the final score head to the end of this forum topic.
Delayed coverage of tonights game will be shown on Sky TV tomorrow (Sunday 23rd August) and the next game will be shown live.
Tv times for those that missed it in the other thread
Sun 12:00pm ? 02:30pm SKY Sport 3 Delayed coverage of Ice Hockey Test 1
NZ V Australia from Saturday Night
05:00pm ? 07:30pm SKY Sport 3 Live coverage- Ice Hockey Test 2- NZ v Australia
One catch with having live TV coverage is that I’m quite tempted not to even bother turning up at the rink. The novelty of watching the game live on TV is very tempting. I wonder if it will hurt tickets sales or boost them from the extra advertising?
Yeah but that is hardly advertising to get people in the crowd.
No one looks at tv guide and says I am off to the rink. and especially bad if they go at Sunday 12 pm when the game is on tv but not at rink.
It will look bad on tv if there is an empty stadium.
In Christchurch, The Rock Radio Station, had an intro for the winter games in Dunedin but went on a 25 second rant about the bledisloe opener between the IB’s and Aus and to link off the Rock website for tickets, prizes and PJ double pass. I assume the broadcast at 8am was a national broadcast