Ten And Seven Win AFL Rights - Hooray

[cruiser]

Originally posted by goswannie14
But then that is how 7 Melbourne treats most of its viewers of shows such as "The Amazing Race", "Stargate SG-1" (I can hear Charlie getting worked up already), "Stargate Atlantis", and numerous other shows that they move around the timeslots at their whim regardless of viewer numbers. I just don't trust 7 in Melbourne, but I trust 9 Melbourne a lot more.

You're obviously not a fan of shows on Ch 9 such as Star Trek, Six Feet Under, West Wing etc. I think that Ch 9's treatment of viewers is worse than 7's.

[goswannie14]

Originally posted by cruiser
You're obviously not a fan of shows on Ch 9 such as Star Trek, Six Feet Under, West Wing etc. I think that Ch 9's treatment of viewers is worse than 7's.

You're right...I don't watch any of them

[NMWBloods]

Originally posted by cruiser
Its commitment first to NRL. There is no way Ch 9 in Sydney would show Fri night AFL until after the NRL had finished ie after 11pm at night.

Unusual... I don't think I've heard people complain before about not being able to see other teams play...

[liz]

Originally posted by NMWBloods
Unusual... I don't think I've heard people complain before about not being able to see other teams play...

Some of us like watching football, not just the Swans.

The worst thing with Nine was that games would often start nearly an hour after their advertised time - and then run until well past two o'clock in the morning.

Mind you, Ten wasn't much better with its non-Swans Saturday night games.

[RogueSwan]

Originally posted by liz

The worst thing with Nine was that games would often start nearly an hour after their advertised time - and then run until well past two o'clock in the morning.

IIRC I saw a game at 6am Saturday morning (Wimbledon?) which was much better than waiting til after midnight to see a game. If 7 can't commit to 10:30pm friday night start, at the latest, put it on before the saturday morning cartoons!

[goswannie14]

Originally posted by NMWBloods
Unusual... I don't think I've heard people complain before about not being able to see other teams play...

Bizarre isn't it, I don't care what time other teams are televised, as long as the Swans are being televised I am happy.

I'll watch Friday night footy if the Swans are on, otherwise, if there is nothing better on I'll watch it, but non Swans games are not a priority. I have better things to do with my time...like post on here

[NMWBloods]

Not really bizarre. When I lived in Sydney I found it exceptionally frustrating that I couldn't get Friday night games, although it was great to get Saturday games live. I like watching football, not just the Swans. I knew there were a few other people here like that, but I didn't think it was that many.

[Eala ?ireann]

This can only be good! Don't need to see Eddie Maguire besmirching my good family name anymore!!!

(Any chance we'll get rid of the ads after every goal now, please, pretty please - I'm begging!)

[Eala ?ireann]

BTW, I find it totally bizarre that people would only watch matches with their own team playing - very, very weird.

[FredFlintstone]

Originally posted by Eala ?ireann


(Any chance we'll get rid of the ads after every goal now, please, pretty please - I'm begging!) [/B]

No way, no chance of that happening now not after the huge amount of cash 7/10 have forked out....they need to recoup that money somehow and advertising is the first place they will start, so expect to see more ads and not necessarily after the goals either.

[goswannie14]

Originally posted by NMWBloods
Not really bizarre. When I lived in Sydney I found it exceptionally frustrating that I couldn't get Friday night games, although it was great to get Saturday games live. I like watching football, not just the Swans. I knew there were a few other people here like that, but I didn't think it was that many.

I should expand...I just find it strange that people get so het up about what time all footy matches are telecast. Maybe it has something to do with having grown up in Melbourne and mostly in the past getting to watch any game I wanted to watch. I guess IMO there are more important things in life than simply watching football for the sake of watching football. I did that in my teenage years, but at 43, with a new bub, priorities have definitely changed.

I also wanted to watch whatever footy I could when I lived in Townsville, to escape from the League hype, especially when the Cowboys were launched. I also had to stoop to reading The Australian newspaper as it was the only one with some sort of AFL coverage. It was pretty hard to get hold of one in the Officers Mess on a Monday morning though.

I must admit, whilst I like a good game of footy, no matter who is playing, I am still trying to work out why people are so uptight about Friday night games telecast in Sydney when we hardly ever play on Friday nights (finals excepted of course).

My best conclusion is that when you live in an AFL dominated state where saturation coverage is the go for 12 months of the year, when you see a match isn't that important, it is that fact that you can see the match.

[goswannie14]

Originally posted by Eala ?ireann
(Any chance we'll get rid of the ads after every goal now, please, pretty please - I'm begging!)

You would have to be kidding, which network do you think introduced that in the first place??? I'll give you a hint, it was a commercial station and it wasn't 9 or 10.

Now we will also get the stupid cross promotion that 7 has become expert at particularly when the tennis is on.

(SANDY) Bruce, did you see the previews of desperate housewives?

(BRUCE) No Sandy, tell me about it.

(SANDY) Oh it was blah blah blah

(BRUCE) So Sandy when is it going to be on?

It really made me puke, and that was only the start of it.

[Charlie]

Generally you can make the same criticisms for all commercial networks - obviously you're not a cricket fan, or you would have listened too often to Mark Taylor pretending that he loves some show that he's never seen.

For me, the clincher is the attitude that Seven and Nine took to footy. Yes, Seven made a lot of money out of footy (which is fine) but they gave a lot back, too. You could rely on Seven providing ample footy news even in the middle of January. You could rely on Seven to televise the draft - not because it's high-rating television but because footy fans and draft hopefuls want to see who ends up where. You could rely on Seven to provide saturation coverage during GF Week - with the marathon the night before the game and all.

Nine never did any of that. Their contribution to footy is a couple of games (in the middle of the night if they aren't guaranteed to win the ratings) and an increasingly tired variety show that has less and less to do with football every year. With the Packers, it's all about the money. They don't give a crap about the sport - which Seven Melbourne did.

[liz]

Originally posted by goswannie14

Now we will also get the stupid cross promotion that 7 has become expert at particularly when the tennis is on.

(SANDY) Bruce, did you see the previews of desperate housewives?

(BRUCE) No Sandy, tell me about it.

(SANDY) Oh it was blah blah blah

(BRUCE) So Sandy when is it going to be on?

It really made me puke, and that was only the start of it.

I take it you never watch the cricket on Nine then?

[NMWBloods]

Originally posted by Eala ?ireann
(Any chance we'll get rid of the ads after every goal now, please, pretty please - I'm begging!)

Maybe if we kicked more goals...