CTS' TV rights whinge part 356467

[CureTheSane]

OK, so the Eagles game isn't shown.

So far that's 3 games out of 8 rounds.
Over 1/3 of the games aren't on free to air.

Not good enough when you are left with 2 optins to see a game.
Flying interstate, and subscribing to Fox Footy and therefore the whole cable TV deal.

Hard on Melbourne supporters, but even more so when you consider that usually most of our games are televised delayed when the Swans are playing in Melbourne.

I don't really undstand why they show a game which I can drive to, and don't show the games which I can't get to.

It's pretty simple really.
I know in Sydney the games are televised live against the gate.
Weird to a Victorian person.
Games are delayed unless sold out here.
I understand why, buy I wonder what will happen when they decided to change that is Sydney.

Anyway, what it means for me, is that I won't see another game, because suddenly there is a big pain in the ass to get to see a footy game.

But I won't just sit here and complain, I will offer a verry verry simple alternative for the networks/AFL/Swans.
I have mentioned this before, and I am interested in how many people would be in favour of it.

Show the game on free to air, but do it at 12 midnight, or 2 am, or whateber.
Then I have the option of either staying up for it, or taping it to watch in the morning.
Have taped games before when I had something on and it is surprisingly easy to avoid hearing the result.

I know we can't have it all, but considering the crap on in the middle of the night, I can't see why they couldn't show the game then....

[The Boot]

Ultimately we are all going to be cabled up - like it or lump it. I appreciate where you are coming from CTS, but if Fox is an option, then get the gang together at the local (in our case the Alex in Sydney).

Today, we have it on live* on free-to-air at 4pm - totally cutting off the TEN news slot at five.



*I only wish Harry would give one of us the remote when the inane ads come on. Although, hopefully, we'll kick a bagful today so the dogfood & cereal blather will be less painful !!!!!!!

[bricon]

There maybe the possibility of some hope on the horizon. The introduction of digital television has been an unmitigated flop in Australia, but DTV does hold the (technological) answer to the television woes of the footy fan. DTV allows the possibility of multi-channeling; at the moment the legislation doesn?t allow this, but there seems to be a softening in the government?s approach over this matter and it seems that the government will overturn the legislative impediments to multi-channeling.


Most of the features of DTV have been promoted as technological advances in picture quality, the ability to select different camera angles, turn off the voice commentary but maintaining the ?live? sound etc. The feature of multi-channeled telecasts that would benefit the football community is the ability of the broadcaster to send out different signals simultaneously ? Channel 9 (for example) could broadcast a signal that contained the Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide feeds simultaneously at virtually zero extra cost to the broadcaster. The viewer would select which feed they would like to access, so a Melbourne viewer could watch the Swans on the ?Sydney feed? if it was not broadcast in Melbourne; a Sydney viewer could watch the second Sunday game through the ?Melbourne feed? instead of the NRL broadcast etc.

The viewer would need to replace their TV sets with a new digital model or buy a set-top-box to convert the digital signal so it can be viewed on an old (analogue) TV set. These set-top-boxes are falling drastically in price and will cost far less than $100 by the time the next rights deal comes into effect.

This technology is a big reason why Channel 7 are a HUGE chance to regain the AFL TV rights (or a single FTA bidder could win exclusive rights alone); it can effectively take pay-TV out of the equation altogether. The difficult part for the broadcaster is fiscal rather than technological; they have to figure out how to package advertising deals across a number of stations (simultaneously) to make the situation financially worthwhile. This should not be insurmountable, as a many advertisers would be prepared to pay a significant premium for a truly national advertising deal. The TV networks would have to think ?national? rather than ?regional? but they should be able to significantly increase advertising revenue with such an arrangement.

I?ve seen the future and the news isn?t all bad!

[swansrock4eva]

I think DTV would have worked a lot better if foxtel had actually been prepared for their own launch of it to the public...

[CureTheSane]

I'd like to retract my earlier statement.

I now would like to thank the TV networks, AFL and Swans for not showing tonights match

Damn Swans
Glad I only had to listen to it on the way to St.Kilda to see Kiss

[timbo]

Since the new rights deal came in 2002, teams like Essendon and Collingwood have gotten the good end of the deal.

Only once has the Magpies been broadcast in an exclusively pay tv game. As for the Bombers, they have ALWAYS bee broadcast in a free to air channel.

Dissapointing again that the Swans will never play a Friday night game in the current contract, as its the most watched game of the round.

An as for DTV, I get it installed on Friday and I can't wait! I cant finally remove the biased and substandard Fox Footy commentators (excepting Grybas, Healy and Schwass).

[peterh_oz]

Originally posted by timbo
An as for DTV, I get it installed on Friday and I can't wait! I cant finally remove the biased and substandard Fox Footy commentators (excepting Grybas, Healy and Schwass).

Yeah Digital Fox is great - unfortunately you WON'Y be removing biased fox commentators. This year it is ONLY the main Sunday live game that is "Active". Which means the best commentators are the ones which you'd be removing.

Hopefully next year, once Digital is more widespread, there's be more games "Active".

When you get it, put the umpires feed on, its quite funny hearing them huff & puff & spit!!!!! Oh - and classic when the players have an argument with them (un-beeped too lol).