Footy Fans Shafted Again

[mick500]

Has Kayo stopped people sharing accounts yet? As in couldn't 2 people living at 2 different addresses use the 1 account and go 50-50 on paying for it?

I don't know about kayo but Foxtel haven't. I've got 2 different houses (other than mine) using the Foxtel app without issue.

 

[iameviljez]

Saturday afternoon grand final looking as antiquated as ever

Surely it's only a matter of a few years till it goes to twilight.

 

[Rusty Brookes]

Has Kayo stopped people sharing accounts yet? As in couldn't 2 people living at 2 different addresses use the 1 account and go 50-50 on paying for it?

I was watching the Hawks-Cats praccy match the other day when suddenly I got a message saying someone else is using your account and a blank screen. Turns out my son was sneaking a look at school on his phone - so yep, this looks to be the case.

 

[Cleavy]

I was watching the Hawks-Cats praccy match the other day when suddenly I got a message saying someone else is using your account and a blank screen. Turns out my son was sneaking a look at school on his phone - so yep, this looks to be the case.

using the same profile or different profiles?

 

[mick500]

I was watching the Hawks-Cats praccy match the other day when suddenly I got a message saying someone else is using your account and a blank screen. Turns out my son was sneaking a look at school on his phone - so yep, this looks to be the case.

That's pretty shit. I'm getting $20 a month towards my Foxtel by letting other people use it and I'm on a pretty good discount paying only $45 a month for everything Foxtel has with 4k and the iq5. So only costing me $25 a month. You would think they would clamp down on people sharing Foxtel if they're gonna clamp down on kayo.

 

[maskmcgee]

I was watching the Hawks-Cats praccy match the other day when suddenly I got a message saying someone else is using your account and a blank screen. Turns out my son was sneaking a look at school on his phone - so yep, this looks to be the case.

Well if you have Kayo basic which is one screen, yes it's doing what is intended. Nothing to do with account sharing crackdowns.

 

[Clark G]

'It's awful': Footy fans react to AFL's 2025 Saturday subscription TV model

Saturday used to be the home of footy but in 2025 fans better get used to paying to watch AFL on a Saturday, when most matches are traditionally played.

www.abc.net.au

 

[TheLastCall]

'It's awful': Footy fans react to AFL's 2025 Saturday subscription TV model

Saturday used to be the home of footy but in 2025 fans better get used to paying to watch AFL on a Saturday, when most matches are traditionally played.

www.abc.net.au

This will bite the AFL in the butt. It will piss fans off.
Haven't they learnt the mistake the Basketball made in the 90's. They built the game on free to air and it was incredibly strong, then they switched to all pay TV games and they lost more than half their fans. Took 20 years to recover and they are still not at the levels they had in the 90's.

 

[YianniYianni]

The AFL and media creaming over Super Saturday footy. Load of Crap! So during this cost of living crisis...lets screw the fans and force them onto streaming services as opposed to free to air tv. Total bullshite!

We fans should revolt against their decision, How would the AFL feel if no one purchased tickets to any Saturday game, blockbuster games in front of no fans, that's the only way to hurt them in the hip pocket!! IMHO
Cheers

 

[YianniYianni]

The AFL and media creaming over Super Saturday footy. Load of Crap! So during this cost of living crisis...lets screw the fans and force them onto streaming services as opposed to free to air tv. Total bullshite!

Fans should boycott all Saturday Games!!
Start asking for refunds for this Saturdays game

 

[chooke]

I couldn't watch FTA footy now even if I had access to all the games. Being able to fast forward and pause is worth the $25 per month alone. I couldn't go back.

You can do that on most TVs or watching TV through a PVR

 

[Cleric]

While I get your frustration, in the AFL defence, they have long term gone out of their way to make sure matches are on FTA. Anti-siphoning laws only cover the finals.

If the AFL wanted to & they probably get more money doing so, then every in season game could be behind a paywall. Most major domestic competitions around the world are & Australia is the outlier.

There is also a commercial reality for channel 7, that reality is why they were so keen on Thursday night, Saturday day doesn’t rate. It’s the same production costs as Thursday, the return on a next to nothing broadcast of a 1980’s midday movie, in many cases makes more financial sense for them. So the amount they are willing to pay to secure that match is far lower than PayTV.

We also complain about the price of food at stadiums. But go overseas, by comparison it’s ridiculous cheap, not to mention the cost of tickets to games here is also unbelievable cheap. Go to a NFL game in season in the US & you are remortgaging your house just for the ticket.

Reality is FTA is dying, just look at the ratings. Sport is the one thing they are hanging onto, but subscription sport services such as Kayo are only increasing their penetration. This is going to be turned around. Within the next couple of decades, it’s realistic that FTA TV will be a thing of the past

It’s fun to kick the AFL, but commercial reality & trends say that they can only do so much

I was totally against paying to watch my team play, but after subscribing to Kayo last season, it's actually worth it. You can watch any game, including the U18s, and you can replay at your leisure.

 

[Joao]

You can do that on most TVs or watching TV through a PVR

I suppose, but the app is already on my TV. Also, I would literally watch nothing else on FTA where as I might watch something else on Kayo from time to time.

 

[kranky al]

I get that but if $25 a month is 'unaffordable', then you should be prioritising making money instead of watching footy.

Retirees?

 

[kranky al]

Hey folks - life hack:

If you have a foxtel / vast dish on your roof - go to a caravan/ tv shop and buy a vast decoder ($250ish)

Register it to a random address in the state who’s tv you would like to watch fta tv on and register it in the travellers registration. Tick that you are travelling in that state.

Voila - fta tv from another state for free for ever

Any questions hmu.


You will in the offseason have to flick it on once a month or rehit on the website each footy season

 

[Obeanie1]

I get that, why then claim supporters and members are the backbone of footy? When in reality they are just cash cows!

Because cash is the backbone of the AFL.

In reality it is all they care about.

All the fluff they put out their is noise used covering up the corporate greed that dominates their decisions.

 

[Purple Suit]

This will bite the AFL in the butt. It will piss fans off.
Haven't they learnt the mistake the Basketball made in the 90's. They built the game on free to air and it was incredibly strong, then they switched to all pay TV games and they lost more than half their fans. Took 20 years to recover and they are still not at the levels they had in the 90's.

The cyclone has brought them another week of peace. Once the casual viewers find out next Saturday what the AFL has done, the complaints will be at cat 5 levels.

 

[Sainter3and7]

I've been thinking about this a lot. I had a stroke in 2020, and am on the disability pension. I'm older as well, and desperately trying to get back into the workforce, but... no luck with any application (yet). I've not given up hope, and am still trying all the time.

But on the disability pension, in a cost of living crisis, in Brisbane, I won't be watching much AFL, and certainly can't afford pay TV. So, I've been wondering... is it really worth it, watching footy, if I can't really follow the season? It feels like it isn't.

We have a lot bigger problems (and bills) than footy, so... I am really sad to say I will probably give this season a miss, at least until I get a job. And that is tragic, cause after my stroke, footy was one thing I could think about (even when I couldn't speak), so... I'm sad. (But maybe I'm sad anyway... life is feeling tough). Dunno.

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

I've been thinking about this a lot. I had a stroke in 2020, and am on the disability pension. I'm older as well, and desperately trying to get back into the workforce, but... no luck with any application (yet). I've not given up hope, and am still trying all the time.

But on the disability pension, in a cost of living crisis, in Brisbane, I won't be watching much AFL, and certainly can't afford pay TV. So, I've been wondering... is it really worth it, watching footy, if I can't really follow the season? It feels like it isn't.

We have a lot bigger problems (and bills) than footy, so... I am really sad to say I will probably give this season a miss, at least until I get a job. And that is tragic, cause after my stroke, footy was one thing I could think about (even when I couldn't speak), so... I'm sad. (But maybe I'm sad anyway... life is feeling tough). Dunno.

Check the AFL site a day or two after the game. I'm not sure, but hoping all gams will be there on delay again this year.
It does mean trying to stick clear of news and social media for a day or two though if you don't want to know the scores in advance. And unlike a couple of years earlier, you don't need to be with Telstra (I'm not).
Otherwise, yep, I won't be seeing my team much (if at all) this year.

 

[Billy ray]

I've been thinking about this a lot. I had a stroke in 2020, and am on the disability pension. I'm older as well, and desperately trying to get back into the workforce, but... no luck with any application (yet). I've not given up hope, and am still trying all the time.

But on the disability pension, in a cost of living crisis, in Brisbane, I won't be watching much AFL, and certainly can't afford pay TV. So, I've been wondering... is it really worth it, watching footy, if I can't really follow the season? It feels like it isn't.

We have a lot bigger problems (and bills) than footy, so... I am really sad to say I will probably give this season a miss, at least until I get a job. And that is tragic, cause after my stroke, footy was one thing I could think about (even when I couldn't speak), so... I'm sad. (But maybe I'm sad anyway... life is feeling tough). Dunno.

Its only the first 8 rounds in Brisbane not on free tv on Saturday. And even then, if lions or suns game it still on free just delayed. After then its back to norma

 

[kranky al]

I get that but if $25 a month is 'unaffordable', then you should be prioritising making money instead of watching footy.

Let them eat cake.

 

[bzparkes]

Let them eat cake.

People aren't entitled to pay TV.

Plenty of local footy to go watch, or just watch FTA when it's on.

 

[kranky al]

People aren't entitled to pay TV.

Plenty of local footy to go watch, or just watch FTA when it's on.

F-o

This is Australia not seppoland.

Saturday night footy should be on fta

 

[bzparkes]

F-o

This is Australia not seppoland.

Saturday night footy should be on fta

Then 7 need to offer more for the rights.

AFL's a business and they sell to the highest bidder.

Sucks for those of us who grew up watching FTA footy on a Saturday night but that's never going to change until a FTA channel offers more for the rights than Fox.

 

[kranky al]

Then 7 need to offer more for the rights.

AFL's a business and they sell to the highest bidder.

Sucks for those of us who grew up watching FTA footy on a Saturday night but that's never going to change until a FTA channel offers more for the rights than Fox.

AFL is a not for profit.

It owes everything to its fans.