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With Fox Sports showing live A-League, Socceroos and live English Premier League matches, what is left for SBS?
The European Champions League is also on ESPN; ONE HD gives us German Bundesliga and EUROSPORT gives us the Greek SuperLeague. The time has come for SBS to make a stand.
Many people seem to be of the opinion that for the A-League too grow and prosper it must be on free to air television, but with a new contract more than likely to be signed between the FFA and Fox Sports to show the Socceroos matches and A-League matches, SBS is left in the lurch.
SBS is rumoured to be planning to show one match, live weekly, from the NSW Premier League competition and one from the Victorian Premier League competition, and also a one hour highlights and preview package of the competitions weekly.
This scheduling is speculated to be announced in early 2010, which will bring light to the unofficial second divisions of Australian football and give A-League fans the chance to see where the new, rough diamonds will be coming from in the future.
These competitions are set for bumper seasons with large crowds expected for teams like South Melbourne, Sutherland Sharks, South Coast Wolves, Sydney Olympic, Sydney United, Bonnyrigg and Rockdale City.
Things are looking good for football in this country. Well done to SBS and the state league clubs for fighting a hard battle to bring the heart of the sport to the media’s attention once again.
No doubt if this SBS deal goes through it will be a winner in the television ratings.
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