Toyota cup will be broadcast on Foxtel

[Mr. Fahrenheit]

It will, but that has nothing to do with coverage? :-S

 

[innsaneink]

Yeh OK.

 

[Highlander]

I wish they'd put some of this on free to air channels , ABC would do just nicely for all the country folk who can't get cableTV!

Super idea

 

[yakstorm]

Whilst Fox Sports will most likely be the primary broadcaster for the Toyota Cup, and has comitted so, nothing has been officially signed yet in terms of how many of the 8 games will be shown and whether they will be live or delayed.

There are avenues for other channels to explore, and even Channel 9 has shown some interest in covering one of the Sunday Toyota Cup games in the lead up to their Sunday NRL game.

Naturally Telstra is also keen on signing some of the games for their League TV service when that is launched.

 

[Copa]

An article on page 2 of this paper;
http://www.newcastleknights.com.au/news/itc/itc-200703.pdf
clearly states that games will be broadcast by foxtel.

While this is fantastic in itself - it brings up questions of sponsership of teams.

The Knights juniors are sponsered by Pepsi - so with TV coverage it could be that all under 20's sides could pick up good sponsership money and the comp could pay for itself.
That would be fantastic.

good stuff


I'd like the new "Premier league" to get some games broadcast also.... i hope the PL teams don't share the same name as an nrl team otherwise it may as well market itself as an off-cuts team

 

[yakstorm]

Okay the latest I've heard on the Toyota Cup coverage is Channel 9 will show a 60 minute replay of one of the FNF Toyota Cup games on Sunday in the lead up to its Sunday Afternoon football.

Similar to how it use to package up the old Sunday games to fit within the hour (that's going back a few years now), the coverage is designed to fill the gap between the Sunday Footy Show, the Roast and the Sunday game.

Should be good, if Fox also show 2 games, thats pretty reasonable coverage of the competition and 3 more games of League to watch!

 

[Mr. Fahrenheit]

Would this be shown interstate? I think not :evil:

And there is a 2 hour gap between the Sunday Arvo game and the footy shows and roast in the morning?

I would hope that Ch9 will televise a live game in this period, or a game that is not usually televised on Fox.

 

[eels_fan_01]

Wouldn't it be great if they showed if before the 5:30 NRL game, then we would still have a Saturday Arvo game to watch all be it not NRL level but i really think this under 20's comp will have some very entertaining games.

I really hope the coaches basically get these kids and say get out there and play footy, throw the ball around and have fun.

 

[brendothejet]

when you think about it - the outside broadcast van and all the tech guys are all already there and just scratching their nuts during the prelim game - so costs are maybe an extra hour and a half pay for a dozen 'roadies' and pay for a few commentators - cost of an hour and a half of TV = 2k or less. You can't get re runs of Gilligans Island for that.

you obviously know nothing about television.

People are not standing around scratching their nuts before a game. there is about 3 hours worth of prep that goes into a broadcast.

So the crew then need to be there 3-4 hours before the first game to setup and get everything tested. then they need to work a full game, then back up and do it again.

by the time the crew has packed down you've got yourself a big day.

an hour and a half of television does not cost 2k.

Wake up to yourself mate.

 

[diab0lik]

Naturally Telstra is also keen on signing some of the games for their League TV service when that is launched.

Telstra's launching league tv? is that a channel dedicated to League?

 

[roopy]

you obviously know nothing about television.

People are not standing around scratching their nuts before a game. there is about 3 hours worth of prep that goes into a broadcast.

So the crew then need to be there 3-4 hours before the first game to setup and get everything tested. then they need to work a full game, then back up and do it again.

by the time the crew has packed down you've got yourself a big day.

an hour and a half of television does not cost 2k.

Wake up to yourself mate.

can you read?

 

[yakstorm]

Telstra's launching league tv? is that a channel dedicated to League?

It's acctually already live now - http://bigpondvideo.com/leaguetv

It's 24/7 league for your Mobile and Internet.

 

[diab0lik]

oh ok i thought it was going to be a new foxtel channel like the one they used to have for afl... that'd be cool

It's acctually already live now - http://bigpondvideo.com/leaguetv

It's 24/7 league for your Mobile and Internet.