Stadiums will broadcast the highly anticipated quarter-final match between Australia and France on their screens before and after scheduled AFL games, after last Monday’s audience broke records.
More than one stadium full of fans will be cheering on the Matildas in their quarter-final showdown against France on Saturday. Organisers and broadcasters are expecting record-breaking crowds and audiences across the country for the 5pm AEST kick-off.
Optus has announced the Melbourne Cricket Ground, the Sydney Cricket Ground, tennis stadium Rod Laver Arena and Sydney Olympic Park will host broadcasts of the game in what has been described as an “unprecedented move by the most iconic sporting stadiums across the country”. Meanwhile, Channel Seven, which owns the free-to-air rights for the Matildas games, has changed the time of its news bulletin and worked with the AFL – which it also owns the broadcast rights for – to adjust its bounce times to cater for the demand to watch the World Cup.“This Saturday will be a historic moment for all Australians, and the biggest night of sport since Sydney 2000,” Seven Melbourne managing director and head of network sport, Lewis Martin, said.
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