Ten And Seven Win AFL Rights - Hooray

[Wardy]

They have matched PBL - and have won it - no more Eddie - I think I might just have to go and have a celebratory beverage!

[AussieAnge]

Re: Ten And Seven Win AFL Rights - Hooray

Originally posted by Wardy
They have matched PBL - and have won it - no more Eddie - I think I might just have to go and have a celebratory beverage!

Yippee! A champagne by any chance?

[Wardy]

Re: Re: Ten And Seven Win AFL Rights - Hooray

Originally posted by AussieAnge
Yippee! A champagne by any chance?

You bet your bippy!

[Jeffers1984]

Seven/Ten secure rights

What will happen to Fox Footy is my question now.

[Refried Noodle]

Well apparently 3 games will be sold to fox

but one is rumoured to be the live friday night slot so after all we still may not get friday night footy til after 10.

here's hoping not, but it's definately much better than 1am (which would be the time slot in 9's offer).

[DST]

Originally posted by Jeffers1984
Seven/Ten secure rights

What will happen to Fox Footy is my question now.

One of two things:

1) 7 & 10 will sell the rights to Foxtel for three live games and all replays and the station will continue on as is.

2) 7 & 10 might just combine and produce their own pay tv footy channel and then sell it to Foxtel.

While the first seems the most likely, it maybe easier for Foxtel to just buy the channel from 7 & 10 as a pay tv channel to include in the basic package. That way they don't need to fork out the big bucks to the run the station and they get the added bonus of getting all the 7 & 10 content outside of football like Talking Footy, Before the Game etc to televise during the week. They would also get better access to archives of the games this way as well.

I think the 7 & 10 pay tv channel idea has some merit.

DST

[DST]

Originally posted by Refried Noodle
Well apparently 3 games will be sold to fox

but one is rumoured to be the live friday night slot so after all we still may not get friday night footy til after 10.

here's hoping not, but it's definately much better than 1am (which would be the time slot in 9's offer).

You will get the option to pay for it live on Friday night or wait until 10.30 to see an abridged version on 7.

I think that is a rather good compromise, if things improve ratings wise then 7 may look to go earlier.

One thing is for sure we will at least be given at least a couple of games live on Friday night after 2006 which will be good from an exposure point of view for sponsors and club marketing. In this situation 7 would just televise our games live on a Friday night on FTA.

DST

[THERBS]

Good news. I was sick of Nine stuffing up footy coverage and the smugness of Eddie. Will Cometti go back to 7? Will JB jump ships?

[hammo]

As far as I'm aware 7 hasn't made any commitments re: Friday nights so I think the champagne popping is very premature.

Under the 9 bid, Fox Footy would have showed Friday night live into Sydney.

Channel 7 & 10 haven't even spoken to Foxtel and its highly unlikely 7 would take the hit of going live up against the league on 9. What's to stop 7 from preventing any live coverage until it shows the game at 10.30 for example?? (Hopefully the AFL sorts this out before the deal is signed, unlike last time).

Whatever people's views on 9 and Eddie, Fox Footy's replays of old 7 games has reminded me how pathetic their coverage actually was.

[Damien]

Great news. Really dislike 9 and their coverage.

My guess is that 7 and 10 have matched everything 9 was offering including whatever Northern State coverage was promised.

Can't wait for all the details to emerge.

[Bas]

Originally posted by hammo
What's to stop 7 from preventing any live coverage until it shows the game at 10.30 for example?? (Hopefully the AFL sorts this out before the deal is signed, unlike last time).

Whatever people's views on 9 and Eddie, Fox Footy's replays of old 7 games has reminded me how pathetic their coverage actually was.

My greatest fear in all this. Everyone in northern states will have to wait till 10:30 pm in northern states.

Bruce calling the footy again..............................special!

[Glenn]

As someone without Pay TV, 10:30pm timeslot for Friday Night Football wouldn't be to bad, at least it wouldn't be shunted to early the next morning if at all due to Tennis,Golf etc

[Reggi]

A Premiership and no more Dwayne Russell. There is a god, now if 10 will drop Tim Lane, victory will be complete.

This is great - I hate channel 9 coverage it's crap. Well done 7 and especially 10 - a good outcome for us to I suspect.

I suspect this is really good news for everyone north of the Murrumbidgee

[j s]

The way I read the announcement ("negotiation on details" etc) 7/10 has matvched 9's cash offer up front but has left the deal open for negotiations for some of the "developing markets" stuff (presumably with some financial tradeoff)

[Damien]

Originally posted by j s
The way I read the announcement ("negotiation on details" etc) 7/10 has matvched 9's cash offer up front but has left the deal open for negotiations for some of the "developing markets" stuff (presumably with some financial tradeoff)

CEO of 10 tonight said that it wasn't simply meeting the cash, they had to meet the conditions that were agreed to with PBL.

It unfortuantly allowed 10 to remove their initial agreement to telecast all 22 Saturday night games into Sydney live because PBL's bid was accepted without that condition.

Overall it seems as if it is going to be quite positive though..(fingers crossed!)

I really do think the AFL were mad for not accepting the initial offer from 7 and 10. It wasn't that far removed from PBL's and ensured Sydney Saturday night live AFL on Free to Air......big opportunity missed.