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A different time , these days everything is at your finger tips. Just a paywall away.
Back then people actually left the house to do things.
No Free to Air game
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Back then people actually left the house to do things.
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It's all relative really.
$39 a month for someone who has nothing else in their life other than sport sounds like a bargain.
$460 annually for someone who wants to watch 3 or 4 non-FTA games a year, has no interest in ESPN or BEIN (whatever that is) and actively dislikes cricket, NRL and horse racing is a fair bit of cash.
Exactly. Basically from when I started watching footy right through until I finished high school we did not have Foxtel. My old man refused to buy it as he saw it as a waste of money and Carlton was always mediocre.
Many kids would be in a similar boat to what I was, although there are more ways that are cheaper and don't lock you in these days, but plenty of parents still wouldn't be signing up.
It's always been affordable. Affordability is dependent on the individual.
Completely different market. You're comparing apples with oranges. Any form of online streaming will be through a partnership, controlled by the AFL. They already have a valid service for $100 a year, they would be insane to outsource it.
Congratulations. Best of luck to yourself and your company. You are not representative of the entire population
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Was there that many games back in the day on FTA?
I remember rugby league up here you had sat arvo and a Sunday delayed game. That was it until the Friday night game came in and then foxsports kicked off a little later on.
Theres def more fta footy now than ever before up here.
Was the VFL all on tv in the 80s/early 90s?
If it wasnt I dont see what the fuss is about.
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I remember rugby league up here you had sat arvo and a Sunday delayed game. That was it until the Friday night game came in and then foxsports kicked off a little later on.
Theres def more fta footy now than ever before up here.
Was the VFL all on tv in the 80s/early 90s?
If it wasnt I dont see what the fuss is about.
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Sport pack has been $50 (+/- $10 & $10 for HD) for a long time, which is fair, and I’d wager there’s at least another sport or 2 people are interested in on Foxtel.
I dont like rupert.
But i like to think my cash goes directly to the pockets of sarah jones, neroli meadows, and the girls on the weather channel.
But i like to think my cash goes directly to the pockets of sarah jones, neroli meadows, and the girls on the weather channel.
pre-Foxtel, Ch7 in the southern heartland states had 1-3 live games per week, but they also had a lot of 1-2 hr highlights packages and delayed/late night replays which covered a lot of the other games as well.... so your side would appear on FTA quite often in some capacity.... whether it be a LIVE game, a full delayed/replay of the game, or condensed highlights
now its just LIVE games on FTA since the current Internet era produces poor ratings for replays/highlights, so they don't do them anymore....
now its just LIVE games on FTA since the current Internet era produces poor ratings for replays/highlights, so they don't do them anymore....
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Just find a mate to go halves with and share a Foxtel Now account as two devices can play at the same time.
If your TV doesn't have the Foxtel Now app available just by a Telstra TV media player from Gumtree.
$20 each per month will get you every AFL/League game in glorious HD.
If your TV doesn't have the Foxtel Now app available just by a Telstra TV media player from Gumtree.
$20 each per month will get you every AFL/League game in glorious HD.
Jumpers for goalposts...
My mate hooked up a free two week trial with just his email just so we could watch the Tigers play the Cats yesterday. It'l be someone elses turn in a few weeks. But seriously, its a pretty decent product tbh. Easily worth the money if you watch enough sport.
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Not really a surprise I’d say, wasn’t shown against 7 and the day was awful - plenty of people staying inside with the heater on.
In the 90s, they only had a delayed telecast of Friday and Saturday night, with a highlight package on the sunday.
When 9/10 got the rights, it was live against the gate on Friday and Saturday, and live early game on Sunday, with a highlight package at 4-6
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Sooo fta is better now.
Plus with the added option of streaming(for free if with telstra) and or paying for an entire channel of non stop footy with all games live.
What am I missing here?
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No, its not.
1. 7 not 10 has the rights.
2.
2002 - 2006 - 5/8 games on F2A (Friday, 2 Saturday, 2 Sunday) (+ 10 with rights to every final means 7 not ruining games with countdown clocks.)
2007 - 2011 - 4/8 games on F2A (Friday, 2 Saturday, Sunday)
2012 - 2016 - 4/9 games on F2A (Friday, 2 Saturday, Sunday)
2017 - 2022 - 3/9 games on F2A (Friday, Saturday Night, Sunday Afternoon) + 11 Thursday Night/Special matches (such as ANZAC Day).
Not only has coverage got worse but there are less games. The issue here is that 7 should have broadcast that game on Sunday regardless, since the Thursday night game is included in their contract.
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Wasnt talking about quality
Fta always sucks.
But you get what you pay for.
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Friday and Saturday were still delayed... live against the gate night games didn't start until this decade
Gillon Antoinette: "Why can't people just catch a limo to a bar to watch the Foxtel game?"....well, not an exact quote, but.... 
Let them just watch carltonGillon Antoinette: "Why can't people just catch a limo to a bar to watch the Foxtel game?"....well, not an exact quote, but....
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Exactly what I do.
I rekon you'd be amazed what some of these whingers waste a lot more than $20 a month on.
They had more games but there was a hell of a lot more of them telecast on delay which sucks arse.
It varied a lot.
In Tas in the 90s on some weekends we could get a Friday game, a Saturday game on delay (after the TFL game), a Saturday night, sometimes another game on replay afterwards, a Sunday game, and often the second half of another Sunday game. Add another game if it was a long weekend.
On rare occasions you might only get one or two if there was Olympics or something else on. Usually four in full (some delayed) and half of at least one other game - often a Perth game. And that was back when there was just the one channel and seven games a round pre-Freo.
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