Is Channel 9 the home of rugby league?

[Valheru]

Personally I am not sure what people are on about with the tennis coverage.

Looks and feels exactly the same as previous years coverage on channel 7.

 

[El Diablo]

This is subjective, but the commentators and presenters to me are a noticeable difference.

aren't they using the same ones 7 had?

 

[Hello, I'm The Doctor]

Completely agree. FREE TO AIR TV COVERAGE is vital! Looking at the World Nines in October: Surely this should be on an FTA channel as well! ? Doesn't have to be a main channel (although a final deserves such coverage). But at least a minor channel simulcast with Fox! Otherwise it will be seen by less than 30 percent of the audience in Australia. A real shame and another example of poor endeavour from administrators within rugby league. A World nines deserves better tv coverage. Great venue just poor tv servicing to the general public.

I think the thing thats killed the NRL 9s was hiding it away on PTV. At least for the first few years, they should have gone to a FTA channel and just focused on exposure/quality of the broadcast.

Imagine if Origin was only on PTV. Suddenly no one would give a shit because it is hidden.

 

[El Diablo]

Personally I am not sure what people are on about with the tennis coverage.

Looks and feels exactly the same as previous years coverage on channel 7.

that's what i think when i see it too

same commentators and same camera angles yet it's somehow worse

 

[Hello, I'm The Doctor]

Personally I am not sure what people are on about with the tennis coverage.

Looks and feels exactly the same as previous years coverage on channel 7.

I havent seen the tennis since it moved, so i cannot be sure. BUT the C9 colour scheme is an absolute turn; washed out green-grey, where as 10 and 7 have very vibrant colours.

I assume there is also a change in the definition quality. C9 always lowballs that.

And the 9 RL camera crew is shit (i dont know if Tennis has the same crew as before or if that has changed). 9 are always too heavy with close-ups (focusing on the player/personality) rather than the wideshots needed to see the whole field/court.

Again, i havent seen the 9 coverage of Tennis, but i would not be surprised if it has the same problems RL has there...

 

[Hello, I'm The Doctor]

Yep, washed out colours. Dodgy, cheap effects. Soooooo sure their commentators are the funniest and most interesting people on earth.

Sigh.

 

[titoelcolombiano]

aren't they using the same ones 7 had?

Addition of Johnny Mac is a notable one - some love him, some hate him. All of the presenters are ch 9 ''personalities'' which as I said I can't cop but acknowledge that it is subjective.

 

[titoelcolombiano]

Yep, washed out colours. Dodgy, cheap effects. Soooooo sure their commentators are the funniest and most interesting people on earth.

Sigh.

It just feels tacky - I don't know maybe I just hate ch 9 and I'm being biased.

 

[titoelcolombiano]

I think that is the way they work.

I think the one thing they could do (specifically relating to RL) is promote and cross-promote their product more and ensure that commentators and presentors are not bagging the game out.

Channel 7 promote and cross-promote very well and you wouldn't get an AFL commentary gig if you were going to constantly bag out the game... the product that the network paid a fortune for.

AFL-Seven feels like a parnership
NRL-9 feels like an obligation to 9

 

[El Diablo]

Addition of Johnny Mac is a notable one - some love him, some hate him. All of the presenters are ch 9 ''personalities'' which as I said I can't cop but acknowledge that it is subjective.

and 7 used their personalities so no difference really

ratings seem the same too but can't say the same for the cricket on 7

 

[titoelcolombiano]

and 7 used their personalities so no difference really

ratings seem the same too but can't say the same for the cricket on 7

As mentioned in another post, it's probably just me - I'm letting my hate for channel 9 show a little...

 

[Hello, I'm The Doctor]

and 7 used their personalities so no difference really

ratings seem the same too but can't say the same for the cricket on 7

I dont think you can ever get personalities out of comentary, it would probably be very boring. I think the difference is that 7 uses their "personalities" to sell the game.

9 uses the game to sell their "personalities"....

 

[Stallion]

I think the thing thats killed the NRL 9s was hiding it away on PTV. At least for the first few years, they should have gone to a FTA channel and just focused on exposure/quality of the broadcast.

Imagine if Origin was only on PTV. Suddenly no one would give a shit because it is hidden.

Absolutely Doctor ! Thought this when it (the Nines) was funneled through to just Pay tv after its first year! I thought straight away :"this is not going well for the future of the concept!" It makes a big difference to relevance and market share.

 

[El Diablo]

it was part of the rights agreement that if they started things like that it went to pay TV

 

[Stallion]

it was part of the rights agreement that if they started things like that it went to pay TV

Seems an odd rights agreement!? Would have thought a fledgling tournament such as that very keen to maintain FTA coverage for continuing general public awareness? Nothing against pay tv but the FTA component is very important in creating general public awareness.(especially for a relatively new tournament)

 

[El Diablo]

well i think it was a safeguard so that the NRL couldn't do the rights deal and then add shit after it was done which then had to go to another bidding war

 

[Vee]

On Nein today was scheduled Women's Footy, a magazine style show on aflw.

FFS, they're taking the piss, aren't they?

 

[Stallion]

On Nein today was scheduled Women's Footy, a magazine style show on aflw.

FFS, they're taking the piss, aren't they?

Good observation. It's things like this that rugby league is not being afforded. This is despite rugby league delivering top ratings in the tv world! It's strange a women's AFL show can be screened on FTA yet an international World nines has no such coverage!? It's ridiculous.

 

[hutch]

On Nein today was scheduled Women's Footy, a magazine style show on aflw.

FFS, they're taking the piss, aren't they?

The afl invented women’s sport, didn’t you know that?

In all seriousness, why do nein keep promoting another channels sport and the biggest rival to their own main sport? Scum!

 

[Hello, I'm The Doctor]

The afl invented women’s sport, didn’t you know that?

In all seriousness, why do nein keep promoting another channels sport and the biggest rival to their own main sport? Scum!

AFL invented women.

(They needed to stop their players drugging and f*cking bananas)