Channel 9's Disgraceful coverage of finals

[mave]

Does a contract have any meaning at all these days?

 

[Loudstrat]

El Drivel, there have been quite a few people lamenting the inconvenience on NZ fans playing the game late. I mean, if it ended up being Roosters v Sharks, it would have been at 7.30, right?

Or can the entire world go to hell as long as you aren't inconvenienced by one hour?

Face it, you had kittens because you'd miss the last hour of the semi final because the Gay FL was on!

 

[El Diablo]

El Drivel, there have been quite a few people lamenting the inconvenience on NZ fans playing the game late. I mean, if it ended up being Roosters v Sharks, it would have been at 7.30, right?

Or can the entire world go to hell as long as you aren't inconvenienced by one hour?

Face it, you had kittens because you'd miss the last hour of the semi final because the Gay FL was on!

go jack off to Tracey and Charlie

you're one of the only ones who wanted it shown not live

i doubt many consider you a league fan. certainly not a Parra fan after ditching them when you chucked a hissy fit

 

[Loudstrat]

Geez your pathetic? Jack off? Ditching Parra? Compare sigs, numbnuts. Whose got Hindmarsh, and whose got AFL?

Get a job. Then you'll have to commute. Then you may understand there's benefit to not showing a game when the masses are still stuck in traffic.

BTW, see you boycotting 7, and bagging off nine. That leaves, Channel 10 - the AFL channel. Obviously your preferred station. Seriously.

And whose Tracey and Charlie? Your pretend friends in your forward pocket?

 

[Perth Red]

It's just reflective of the different profiles of the two codes. Everyone gets their knickers in a twist when one state gets an AFL game on a 1 hour delay. Nobody gives a sh1t when 1/2 the country can't get NRL until gone midnight and the rest gets it on delay.

 

[bartman]

When our game is played at a significant level in more than 3 states, then the federal government will probably care as much as it does about a game played at a significant level in 5 states + being more dominant in the northern territory and probably tassie.

Unfortunately Super League ultimately sent us backwards in that regard, by rushing the expansions and f**king it up for the next ten years.

 

[cumberlandsashes81]

Weren't the AFL finals pretty much Victorian-only after the second week?

At least the NRL finals still have teams from NSW, Qld, Vic and NZ all still in contention.

 

[Timmah]

Judging by the lack of traffic on here until the 9:30pm mark it seemed plenty were happy to wait for the replay. While yeah, it breaks a contract, and Nine should face some sort of penalty - it's not the end of the world as we know it. Everyone still got to watch a great game of footy and you can bet it rated it's ass off.

Not to mention the 25.5k crowd there!!

 

[Dr Crane]

I'm reminded of a Simpsons episode featuring Australia.



I'm taking this to my member of parliament!

 

[Dr Crane]

Was it live into NZ?

On pay TV and about a two hour delay on a relatively obscure FTA channel, with woeful commentary.

So a one hour delay on 9 isn't that bad.

 

[Karmawave]

It is my understanding that the current Federal government legislation does not allow television networks to multicast live sporting events / programs over various digital channels on a secondary channel that is not their main network.

This was the reason Channel 7 was unable to use multiple digital channels to televise different events simultaneously at the Olympic games.

Australia has primative media legislation that drags behind the rest of the world when it comes to the digital age of television.

http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/watch/default.htm?program=mediawatch&pres=20080825_2120&story=3

Apparently the legislation as it stands that prevents FTA networks multicasting different sports/programs over various channels is being reviewed and likely changed in early 2009, which will then allow networks to put a live sporting event on one of their secondary channels if they do not wish to televise it on their main channel.

Legislation as it stands is the major reason this isn't already occuring, not the reluctance of TV stations to do so.

 

[LeedsRhinos]

How many live games do you get?

We get 3 live NRL games a week here in the UK mostly, think one comes from Channel 9 and 2 from Fox.

 

[Razor]

How many live games do you get?

Generally

1 on 9
4 on Fox

Sometimes 5 on Fox when Auckland play on Sunday, and there's just 2 games on Saturday night,

 

[LESStar58]

Brian Waldron was pushing Nein to use Nine's digital channels as options to broadcast Storm games a while back.

 

[LESStar58]

f**kIN' MERKINS!

 

[Brutus]

There has to better NRL coverage into Melbourne.

Gallop has been an utter disgrace on this matter.

 

[shinobi]

Well they had a lot of ad breaks!

 

[Brutus]

The ads pissed me off. One of the major drawbacks of a delayed game.

Let's hope MR Gallop and his men can enforce the contract in the future no matter what situation is thrown at them.

 

[El Diablo]

http://www.astra.org.au/content/pdf/MediaReleases/ASTRA-Media-Release-18-Sept-08.pdf

FOOTY AND NETBALL FANS LEFT WAITING
ASTRA has cited the significantly delayed coverage of this weekend’s football finals and the
recent delays in the broadcast of the Australia-New Zealand international netball match as a
powerful reason why the Federal Government should adopt a new approach to restrictive
sports rights regulation.
Fans of NRL defending premiers Melbourne Storm will have to wait four hours in Victoria to
watch their team play Brisbane in the elimination semi-final this weekend, instead getting a
movie called Take The Lead and drama series Fringe.
NRL fans will have to wait an hour in Sydney and Brisbane before the elimination semi-final
goes to air on Friday between the Sydney Roosters and the New Zealand Warriors.
Saturday's second elimination semi between Brisbane and reigning premiers Melbourne will be
delayed in Melbourne until 11.30pm on Network Nine, four hours after the game actually starts.
ASTRA has repeatedly called on the Federal Government to reduce the length of the restrictive
anti-siphoning list, which allows free-to-air networks (FTA) a monopoly first right to buy sports
that are repeatedly not shown live and nationally.
The anti-siphoning list includes more than 4,700 sporting events in an Olympic year, and is
leaving sports fans effectively waiting for delayed sport.
And despite having the rights to broadcast the AFL Preliminary Finals live, FTA networks will
delay the broadcast by up to two hours.
Friday's Preliminary final between defending premiers Geelong and the Western Bulldogs will
be delayed by Network Seven by an hour across New South Wales, Queensland and Perth,
with AFL fans again forced to watch programs like Better Homes and Gardens and Deal or No
Deal instead.
On Saturday night Network Ten will show the movie Stuart Little instead of the second
preliminary final between Hawthorn and St Kilda will be delayed by two hours in NSW and
Queensland.
ASTRA CEO Debra Richards says AFL fans in NSW and Queensland in particular are being
treated extremely poorly by the current legislation and conduct of FTA networks.
“The solution to providing more live sport on television and the choice of more live sport on
subscription television is to remove events from the list that aren’t currently shown live and
nationally, with all broadcasters to compete fairly for the rights to broadcast these events.”
“Despite having the ability to broadcast these matches live, the FTA networks continue the
delaying tactics. It's good enough for them to show the grand final live nationally, but not so for
the matches that actually determine the two teams that make the grand final."

 

[steaming stormer]

yep, they changed it originally to bring it forward to 11.25, and then today they've decided to show friggen White Chicks, meaning the game is pushed back until 12.10 again.
Where's the NRL on this one??