Fox to Broadcast Adelaide games?

[Vader]

There's an interesting paragraph in this article on The Age's website.

In last Friday's talks, Foxtel made a series of demands over exclusive live games into Adelaide and Perth — the pay-TV network wants four of those fixtures into each of those cities — and it now seems clear the situation will not be decided by Christmas.

Crows fans outside of SA have to put up with this anyway, but Crows fans inside SA have been insulated until now.

How do SA based fans feel about Crows games not being guarranteed on FTA?

 

[Mad Dog]

it would just force me to renew my foxtel subscription.

I ditched it when we built this current house 'cos we're too busy to watch 864 channels of crap costing $100 per month......but instead decided to renew if live footy was ever in jeopardy......

 

[RoosterLad]

Crow games will be on free to air.

 

[Vader]

Crow games will be on free to air.

Not if Foxtel get their way. 4 Games per season to be broadcast only on pay TV in each of SA & WA. Not sure what the breakdown of the four games would be between Port & Crows.

 

[macca23]

Not if Foxtel get their way. 4 Games per season to be broadcast only on pay TV in each of SA & WA. Not sure what the breakdown of the four games would be between Port & Crows.

Didn't the AFL give a guarantee that all Crows and Port matches would be on FTA for the next 5 years??

 

[Redline]

Didn't the AFL give a guarantee that all Crows and Port matches would be on FTA for the next 5 years??

Yeah but the AFL want this deal done, its a way of making it more attrative for Fox to pay more money.

 

[AdelUniCrowFan]

I'd be fine with the deal provided they are local games that I can attend and not interstate games.

Plus if I really want to see the match, I'll watch it on the web.

The thing that would concern me more would be if 5AA was the only broadcaster of Crows matches.

 

[Adam BK]

I would prefer that they keep the interstate games for both teams on FTA, but I would be fine with home games making up the 4 slots. Do you reckon that the AFL then would allow the FTA station perhaps to broadcast the 4 games after the match has completed. Perhaps later at night.

 

[Gets!]

I dont care.

Foxtel is one of the best things ever.

 

[Alex99]

I dont care.

Foxtel is one of the best things ever.

Agree - Season ticket and Foxtel so I don't miss out either way.

 

[Eggzoi]

I hate the idea but as my dad has fox and just got a new TV I'm not too upset about it. Still hate the idea of footy on Fox.

 

[maccas_no1]

Hope that doesnt go through, that will make it even worse for supporters in other states

 

[Leaping Lindner]

Watching Foxtel craps on FTA. No ads until the end of the quarter instead of after every single goal scored (no matter how many that is).
After the way FTA has ****** over Crows fans in Victoria in the past I say more Foxtel is better.

 

[Dandy_GO]

If they're home games I suppose I'd get over it, but it'd still be a little ********.
We had foxtel for two periods of about two years each, but it kept going up in price, and was being watched less and less in my house. We really don't watch all that much TV as a family and we can't really justify the cost for foxtel simply to watch 4 games of football a year, as much as I'd like to get it for EPL matches. It would certainly annoy the poorer or more casual fans if this were to happen, but it wouldn't surprise me at all if the AFL screwed over SA and WA simply to make a buck.

 

[- PC -]

Ahh I see why home games are more important than away games... people who would follow football would be at the game and those who are home would have to get Foxtel...thereby increasing the demand for season tickets


Guess what folks...Foxtel have done their sums and 450,000 on FTA watching the game from Subi = 200,000 new subscribers...x 4 games = chaching

If I was a Foxtel director I would be wanting away games to be the ''live'' games

 

[Markthirtytwo]

*****off Foxtel.


Rick Kelly for PM

 

[Fergus]

Looks like we're back to Ch 7 and 10 for all games again. This really is a shambles:



Foxtel rejected in bid to show four games weekly
Caroline Wilson
December 20, 2006



THE long-running football broadcasting saga seems to have come to a close, with Channels Seven and Ten last night rejecting a $50 million cash bid from Foxtel to buy and televise half the competition's 2007 home-and-away games.

The prospect of eight free-to-air games on television each weekend appears a certainty, with Channel Seven last night unofficially insisting it would negotiate with the AFL to stagger the two networks on Saturday night games and put Friday night football in Sydney and Brisbane to Channel 31.

Yesterday's failure in talks between the three parties looks certain to create more tension between Seven, Ten and the AFL, given that the league has continued to reject Channel 31 as a broadcaster and has indicated that it will not be moving the timeslots of its Saturday night games to appease commercial TV.

Both those issues are expected to come to a head in the new year, with the AFL stipulating it would accept only the ABC or SBS as an alternative to Seven as a free-to-air broadcaster of Friday night football into its two crucial northern markets.

After two weeks of delays, Seven and Ten will toss the 2007 grand final coin this week and both networks will finalise their broadcast teams. A more immediate issue will be the division of the eight pre-season games for round one of the NAB Cup series in February.

As revealed in The Age five days ago, Foxtel returned to the negotiating table last week, lifting its four-game bid from $45 million to $50 million. While the extra $5 million was to be funded by Austar, the pay-TV carrier also put forward a series of demands involving eight exclusive live games into Perth and Adelaide — demands rejected by Seven and Ten.

Yesterday, Channel Seven chief executive David Leckie, Ten sport chief David White, Foxtel executive Peter Campbell and Fox Sports chief David Malone — along with their respective legal teams — took one hour to discuss Foxtel's terms before Seven and Ten, after the close of talks, rejected the bid.

According to Foxtel's Campbell, the bid fell $8 million short. "We thought it was a good offer," Campbell said last night. "Obviously, Seven and Ten have a different methodology to us.

"It's been a 12-month period of us trying to get the broadcast rights and I suppose I feel the way I did in January, when Seven and Ten matched our offer with Nine. It's been a period of 12 months almost to the day since the AFL accepted our bid and our offer has been on the table since the beginning of the year.

"I think it's getting too late now to plan everything for next season and we're a fair ways apart."

Foxtel's five-year relationship with the AFL has been in trouble since the pay-TV provider announced in August that it would close its 24-hour, seven-day Fox Footy Channel.

AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou said then he believed the game would return to free-to-air full-time, and while the league has been privately barracking for a successful Foxtel bid, it is believed that Publishing and Broadcasting Ltd chief James Packer has resisted lifting the pay-TV bid while Seven boss Kerry Stokes has become more determined to retain all AFL rights on free-to-air.

 

[Smoooothy]

Agree - Season ticket and Foxtel so I don't miss out either way.

that way you can watch the replay when you get home too