errant bounce
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The fixture gets a lot of attention for cramming in new teams while clinging onto an old fixturing norm that hasn't made sense for close to 40 years, but another one is the landscape of start times for the nine matches.
Thursday has only just become an all-round, all-year lock in.
The 4.40 Saturday twilight fixture has become really popular from a crowd point of view, and I imagine its ratings have climbed in the last year, too.
Sunday has become more important than Saturday football to Channel 7. The late game in Perth broadcast out from 4pm or so into 6pm or so for Melbourne is just about a weekly lock-in for the fixture.
And with Fox especially loving the UK Sky Sports-style 'Super ---day' style of a marathon of games, is it weird reconsidering how we lay out the weekend's games?
There's also the significant change to independent presentation and comms which probably encourages broadcasters to show games they aren't fully producing. it always felt a bit awkward when Fox were apprehensively replicating a 7 match.
Then, there's also the curious case of Binge getting what will likely be the 7 game with the Fox/Kayo graphics and comms. I wonder if they're one day considering putting the odd game on there as an exclusive?
I think you'd have to be pretty naive to expect it stays at this rate, too, despite the very justified outcry of a lack of free to air football during the day – especially on Saturday. it's always been a landmine to get games for the American sports, but it's all over the place now in the UK for football (throw in wanting to watch England and having a team in Europe and you'd be using close to six broadcasters or services to watch all the games you have a vested interest in). I imagine we'll one day get that third odd-job broadcaster ala Amazon. it might just be Binge for now. but it'll happen.
So what's the future?
I personally think we'll get rival Super Saturdays and Super Sundays where the Sunday goes to FTA to do their stupid and surely not even that worthwhile run in to the news that they love, with a lighter panel-style show from Sunday morning through to the first game and then a second in the afternoon. it gives people a day of publicly accessible football and they'd likely talk it up as '25 hours of football!'
Thursday 7.30 - FTA
Friday 7.30 - FTA
Saturday 1.30 - P
Saturday 4.30 - P
Saturday 7.30 - P
Sunday 1.00 - FTA
Sunday 3.30 - FTA
Sunday 6.30 (4.30 WAST) - P
with the ninth game being... a 2.00pm Saturday game marketed as the 'traditional' timeslot, to be on FTA and to mostly feature Victorian clubs + Sydney + Brisbane, but also allowing the paywalled provider to probably have a more captive viewership due to a roll through of games that all stitch into one another.
A floating paywall game that goes from Friday to a second 'goal rush' back-and-forth style broadcast option for the paywalled provider on Saturday nights, with floating extra matches (such as second games on Good Friday, Anzac Day, etc.)
Be very interested to see some ideas.
Thursday has only just become an all-round, all-year lock in.
The 4.40 Saturday twilight fixture has become really popular from a crowd point of view, and I imagine its ratings have climbed in the last year, too.
Sunday has become more important than Saturday football to Channel 7. The late game in Perth broadcast out from 4pm or so into 6pm or so for Melbourne is just about a weekly lock-in for the fixture.
And with Fox especially loving the UK Sky Sports-style 'Super ---day' style of a marathon of games, is it weird reconsidering how we lay out the weekend's games?
There's also the significant change to independent presentation and comms which probably encourages broadcasters to show games they aren't fully producing. it always felt a bit awkward when Fox were apprehensively replicating a 7 match.
Then, there's also the curious case of Binge getting what will likely be the 7 game with the Fox/Kayo graphics and comms. I wonder if they're one day considering putting the odd game on there as an exclusive?
I think you'd have to be pretty naive to expect it stays at this rate, too, despite the very justified outcry of a lack of free to air football during the day – especially on Saturday. it's always been a landmine to get games for the American sports, but it's all over the place now in the UK for football (throw in wanting to watch England and having a team in Europe and you'd be using close to six broadcasters or services to watch all the games you have a vested interest in). I imagine we'll one day get that third odd-job broadcaster ala Amazon. it might just be Binge for now. but it'll happen.
So what's the future?
I personally think we'll get rival Super Saturdays and Super Sundays where the Sunday goes to FTA to do their stupid and surely not even that worthwhile run in to the news that they love, with a lighter panel-style show from Sunday morning through to the first game and then a second in the afternoon. it gives people a day of publicly accessible football and they'd likely talk it up as '25 hours of football!'
Thursday 7.30 - FTA
Friday 7.30 - FTA
Saturday 1.30 - P
Saturday 4.30 - P
Saturday 7.30 - P
Sunday 1.00 - FTA
Sunday 3.30 - FTA
Sunday 6.30 (4.30 WAST) - P
with the ninth game being... a 2.00pm Saturday game marketed as the 'traditional' timeslot, to be on FTA and to mostly feature Victorian clubs + Sydney + Brisbane, but also allowing the paywalled provider to probably have a more captive viewership due to a roll through of games that all stitch into one another.
A floating paywall game that goes from Friday to a second 'goal rush' back-and-forth style broadcast option for the paywalled provider on Saturday nights, with floating extra matches (such as second games on Good Friday, Anzac Day, etc.)
Be very interested to see some ideas.
