Posts Tagged "Channel Seven"

For as long as I can remember football fans have complained about a lack of free-to-air coverage for the game. They’ve bemoaned the unfair advantage given to other codes by Australia’s commercial media to maintain the status-quo.

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Football will continue its free-to-air expansion after the FFA announced this morning that the A-League All Stars’ clash with Manchester United and Melbourne Victory’s game against Liverpool in July will both be broadcast on Channel Seven.

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Cricket Australia may be a year too late to the table in negotiating a new rights package with television stations.

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Everyone complains about the fixture. The coaches say it’s too long, the fans say teams get easy rides, and the broadcasters get angry if two heavyweight matches are on at the same time.

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Here is a simple overview of how the free-to-air sporting rights landscape looks following the completion of the AFL and NRL’s new media deals: the Seven Network has AFL, Nine has NRL, and Network Ten has nothing.

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Was it just me or did anyone else feel slightly removed from footy during this year’s bye rounds? The lack of free-to-air games on Sunday for three weeks in a row was a real problem.

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For years, rugby league fans have been treated to “NRL Super Saturday” on Fox, with three games across the evening. However, with the first match kicking off at 5:30pm, there have been no Saturday afternoon matches.

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Last week, I was looking through the sports sections of the two major Sydney newspapers, The Sydney Morning Herald (Fairfax) and the Daily Telegraph (News Ltd). What I found were two different headlines and stories related to the NRL TV deal.

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Let me start by saying this, I’m an AFL person. I have always been an AFL person. My allegiance to the Broncos in the NRL is more to do with it being tied to my birthplace than any hardcore support like that I reserve for my beloved Carlton.

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Australians can thank Webber for Ten’s F1 backdown

By The Radical, 28 Apr 2012

 

If Mark Web­ber never wins the World Cham­pi­onship, he can be proud of one thing. Single-handedly ensur­ing that Aus­tralians con­tinue to receive live For­mula One coverage.

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With the AFL pre-season competition kicking off this week, it’s timely to examine the different AFL broadcasting packages and providers available to Australians in 2012.

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On Friday the 17th of February, to coincide with the commencement of the pre-season NAB Cup, Foxtel will launch a new AFL-dedicated channel called Fox Footy, which will prove to be the equivalent of heaven on earth for AFL fans.

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For some old school Australian football fans like yours truly, the news of Santo, Sam and Ed’s ‘Cup Fever’ moving from SBS to Channel Seven as ‘Sports Fever’ aroused a certain amount of suspicion.

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Commentators need to drop the adulation and call the game

By Peter Wilson, 31 Jan 2012

 

Now that the tennis is finished, I would like to focus on something that has irked me for awhile: sporting announcers ‘love’ of certain sportsmen.

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10 years ago, the 2001 AFL Grand Final was tinged with the emotion of Channel Seven exiting the footy telecasting business. It was marked with a lot of publicity in the lead up to the Grand Final (it was almost bigger than the match).

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It’s official. After a decade, Channel Ten will walk away from AFL at the conclusion of season 2011.

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Here is how I see the NRL faring in their next broadcast rights deal. I have assumed that the ARL Commission is up and running and the NRL have expanded to an 18-team competition by adding new teams in Perth and Brisbane.

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The AFL’s billion-dollar television deal is the equivalent of a big bang for Australian sports – a cosmic explosion that will redefine the landscape. With the AFL’s deal with Channel Seven and Foxtel locked in for 2012 to 2016, other codes most now jockey for their own deals from what’s left.

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It’s now official. In a massive coup for the game, the AFL today announced the rights to broadcast football from 2012-2016 have been sold for $1.253 billion. Channel Seven and Foxtel will be the TV broadcasters, while Telstra have won the mobile rights.

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Was there any ever doubt? When dealing with a figure as magical and epic as $1.253 billion and as a professional and resolute organisation as the AFL, they were always going to secure an agreement over ten figures.

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