Not channel 7, they will screw it up
Hint on new TV deal for A-League
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i hope its not 7 last time they got the rights they buried the sport. Keep it on sbs
Ch10 now interested...
http://www.theage.com.au/sport/socc...-aleague-socceroos-games-20150319-1m32pm.html
http://www.theage.com.au/sport/socc...-aleague-socceroos-games-20150319-1m32pm.html
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interesting times ahead.
hope sbs doesn't completely pull out of the showing of football.
surely the World cup is a ratings bonanza for them?
hope sbs doesn't completely pull out of the showing of football.
surely the World cup is a ratings bonanza for them?
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I don't think they can compete with the commercial networks. Also going by their comments on A-league, it seems like the relationship between them and the FFA has somewhat broken down.
i wonder when nine are gonna announce they are interested
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Very interesting. Can only hope that the recent success of the Asian Cup has sparked interest in the game and the other broadcasters are keen to get involved.
Would be great to see a few of the networks bidding to try and drive the price up. Thought the ABC did a reasonable job for the Asian Cup but with the pressure and threat of reduced government funding, you'd think it would need to be one of the bigger commercial networks (7, 9 or 10 that) that go for it.
Would be great to see a few of the networks bidding to try and drive the price up. Thought the ABC did a reasonable job for the Asian Cup but with the pressure and threat of reduced government funding, you'd think it would need to be one of the bigger commercial networks (7, 9 or 10 that) that go for it.
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International coverage of the A League is exceptional. Every game live, plenty of replays.
Would hate to see that change.
Would hate to see that change.
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Anyone but seven. Does everyone forget when they got the rights in the 90s then deliberately went out of their way to try and bury the sport? It's a shame that SBS are going through the issues they have but they have just been overtaken by Pay TV and let it happen. Completely agree with the point about the FFA and them not getting along...how did they not have the rights to the Asian Cup.
Still, no more Craig Foster. Every cloud etc....
Still, no more Craig Foster. Every cloud etc....
No more Craig Foster would be like no more Luke Darcy or something. A wonderful dream 
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http://www.theage.com.au/sport/socc...ock-programming-upheaval-20150319-1m28og.html
Nothing to do with the lack of interest from neutrals who do not already have foxtel. I guess if there was an el classico level of skill displayed every Friday ratings would stay where they are this season because SBS broadcast the league on SBS 2 last season.
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Not sure what the point you're trying to make here BORK.
Of course you'd expect more viewers if the competition was a higher standard. Similarly you'd also expect better ratings if the games were broadcast on one of the other networks given SBS (as a whole) generally only gets about 5-6% of the total TV viewing audience watching their programing and SBS2 only makes up 1.5% of that (going of last Friday's figures).
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Ican live with that. 60 million dollar a year deal wher foxtel pays 50 mil a year having All A-league games and socceroos games live. 10/ Onehd pay 10 million a year witha live friday night game and 1 hour delay on socceroos world cup qualifiers.
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At least 10 treat their sport with a little respect and put some effort in.
I think 10 will favour their backyard cricket over A-League, FFA would be left with soggy seconds.
http://www.sponsorshipnews.com.au/nl...684&hlc=2&hlw=
Seven has signalled its intention to go after the A-League broadcast rights and is looking to upsell existing competition sponsors into its broadcasts, according to Seven West Media chief revenue officer Kurt Burnette.
http://www.sponsorshipnews.com.au/nl...684&hlc=2&hlw=
Seven has signalled its intention to go after the A-League broadcast rights and is looking to upsell existing competition sponsors into its broadcasts, according to Seven West Media chief revenue officer Kurt Burnette.
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I get the feeling if another network picks the A-League rights up, the games won't be shown live on the primary channel but farmed out to one of the secondary ones. FFA would definitely be trying to push for games to be shown on a main channel but might not have the chips to bargain with.
This is what I don't understand. I want all sport on the secondary channels so it's in HD. Everyone has digital TV now, so primary channel supremacy doesn't make sense to me anymore.
In the post-analogue era, does this even matter any more? It shouldn't. Happy for it to be on any channel as long as it's FTA
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10 is the only commercial network I want to get it, 7 & 9 have commitments to AFL & League so will run second fiddle to them.
Would imagine more people would watch on a 7mate or GEM then are on SBS at the moment.
7 wouldn't be bad (the past is the past) as their summer sport schedule (aside from the Tennis) is fairly open.
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I'm not sure what the difference in viewers across the primary and secondary channels are but I'm guessing the FFA would just be hoping to have games shown live on the primary channels because they think it will give the game more exposure to viewers otherwise (as others have said) there probably isn't much point given most people have access to digital TV.
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We play predominantly in the off season though? 10 has the big bash, 9 has the cricket and 7 has the tennis, those are the sport's real competitors.
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Come to think of it... I wouldnt mind the A-league on channell 9s 2nd channel gem. They play Rugby league games on sunday in Adelaide on gem
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Following on from the Grand Final yesterday, SBS have announced some encouraging stats for this season's TV viewings.
- 442,000 watched the Grand Final game on SBS. (2013-2014 GF had 360,000)
- The entire 2014-2015 A-League season airing on SBS reached 5,088,000 viewers, up 23.1% on the 2013-2014 season figure.
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