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Ah, it must be nice to be Wayne Bennett. Unlike many other senior australians, Bennett's skill is still useful and in demand. But the…
The great fear factor that exists within the circles of Australian cricket has returned. Ask any modern cricketing expert and they will tell you…
The continued concerns that surround the Delhi Commonwealth Games may finally lead to the Games being put out to pasture and into retirement. For…
A pattern is beginning to repeat itself down at Kogarah. Again, it seems that a consistent and defensively sound St George Illawarra is struggling…
[caption id="attachment_29481" width="300" caption="Michael Schumacher at the 2010 Australian Formula One Grand Prix at Albert Park"][/caption] The past two weeks have illustrated the fundamental…
On an outside court at Wimbeldon on Tuesday afternoon, two players began competing for a second round spot in the men's singles draw. John…
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Six million dollars, that is the price for a shy boy from the western suburbs of Sydney to change from the code that taught…
Disappointed players, disappointed administrators, disappointed fans and a disappointed code. This is what the perfect storm has now amounted to, a feeling of disappointment.…
I think the line in the article about choosing to let david fifta go should be rewritten. They didn’t choose to let him go, they lost a bidding war for his services. The mistake was that they didn’t have him on contract a year before he went to market.
Unfortunately for Broncos fans, a fish rots from the head
A couple of points to be made…
1. Foxtel will lose exclusive socceroos rights under the next anti-siphoning list. As all socceroos qualifiers must be shown on free to air.
2. Nrl is the highest rating sport for foxtel because of the fact it gets a good choice of the matches. Under the afl agrement it gets mainly the low matches in the order.
3. News limited basically own rugby union. The wallibies are only seen on free to air due to the anti siphoning list.
4. Foxtel run up dozen or more exclusive sports channels on their pay tv services…they need content for them.
5. Are 84000 viewers in sydney and 77000 in brisbane worth a $1 billon dollar investment?
AFL's TV deal choking NRL, Socceroos
on the friday night point…compare matches from the week before carlton and collingwood.
AFL's TV deal choking NRL, Socceroos
Ive said this a couple of times on television blogs, A free to air sports channel is worth the investment. The problem one hd had was that it was owned by the ten network. The no3 network made some good signings, nbl, nba, nfl , netball etc but it doesnt have the clout to buy thos sports it needed for the channel to be succesful.
Let’s be honest the only way we will ever see a truly succesful free to air sports channel is if it is run and owned by the nine network.
Sports free-for-all? Not any more!
While general topic for the article is worth discussion…i think its a touch unfair to single out fox…
Ch 7 have called the majority of its big bash allotted games from a Melbourne studio and also are the senior broadcaster for the big bash so were actually the ones doing the poor camera work on Saturday.
Must also remember that espn called the entire completed Australian open this year from their home American base.
So ill think you’ll find that these off site calls are more now about the allocation of funds vs the atmosphere provided the viewer.
P>S the question about foxs coverage should possibly more be about why they called that renegades final located in Melbourne from their melbourne studio….
Fox's commentary cost-cutting has taken their coverage to rock bottom. It's time they were called out