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interesting http://trendsmap.com/local/au/melbourne
DanGinnane Dan Ginnane
Ok storm fans, it's not #showstormlive but it the best alternative for tmrw night's game. Go to ******** or ******* #NRL
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I'd suggest his sports media studies are not going well reading that effort!![]()
I assume this is a joke?Personally I am really disgusted at the acts by the Storm fans who have gone and abused the club about this. It is not in the club's control what the broadcasters do, obviously the club doesn't own the broadcast rights so they can't negotiate. Channel 9 have the list of what they can or can't show and according to it there is x amount of games they can show and apparently for Melbourne they have reached this quota already so will not show anything more then this.
League in Melbourne is still fighting an internal war with the AFL in all areas, sponsors, broadcast, fans...etc. Perhaps the nature of it might change (Storm's had I think three record crowds this year? Maybe four...I know they had it vs Warriors, Knights and Dragons...this year can't remember if the Broncos one was a big draw card or if the previous season's last home game was the big drawcard) but until then a lot of what goes in is not not up to the club.
This I thin is one of the problems of having media control the sporting product, because now the media has more say in what they believe fits best, and for Melbourne they know AFL rates high then any other sport and will push for what the audience (well majority of the audience) wants. Unfortunately league doesn't rate that well in Melbourne. Sure Storm fans might argue this but the reality is pretty obvious. Just about every AFL game I've seen on tv (I've never attended an AFL game out of interest, only because I used to work at the MCG....) are sold out. How often are the Storm games sold out and how often do big crowd turns up? Many have been less then 10,000 some you might get 11-12 depending on opposition too.
And it doesn't help that the idiot Collingwoood guy...Eddie...?? What's his face has a lot to do with Channel9, or rather nearly anything media related in Melbourne...
PS - currently studying Bachelor of Business (Sport Management) and one of my subjects at the moment is Sport Media. Interesting stuff.
If you pass any subject you are studying we can only assume education is dead.LOL, I'm still learning the subject, duh. Obviously I don't know that much about it yet. And it's my first year, 2nd semester and I haven't done any serious studying in 10 years.
By the way why do you immediately assume its a guy? Maybe you should check before you make assumption about a person's gender and jumping to conclusions.
Unless of course you are assuming only smart females are allowed to post
Unfortunately league doesn't rate that well in Melbourne. Sure Storm fans might argue this but the reality is pretty obvious.
Just about every AFL game I've seen on tv (I've never attended an AFL game out of interest, only because I used to work at the MCG....) are sold out. How often are the Storm games sold out and how often do big crowd turns up? Many have been less then 10,000 some you might get 11-12 depending on opposition too.
Years ago the sitcoms did outrate. But not anymore, storms supporter group is slowly but surely growing.