More Netball on TV please

By , August 25, 2009 4:12 pm
Australia v England Netball Test - Adelaide, October 2008

Australia v England Netball Test - Adelaide, October 2008

Why isn’t there more netball on TV in the UK? If netball was a male dominated sport, it would be on prime time TV on the major channels.It’s great that you can now catch Superleague games on Sky but what about those of us who don’t have Sky?

Compare this with the situation in NZ. I lived there in 2006 and there was live coverage of games from their premier domestic competition, (the National Bank Cup now replaced by the ANZ Championships), on prime time TV every Saturday and Sunday throughout the whole competition. Women make up 51% of the population in the UK – why not try and engage our attention? To have more netball on TV would be encouraging to netball players at all levels and especially to young girls who tend to drop out of sport sooner than their male counterparts.

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