Next TV rights deal

[taipan]

Thursday night worries me ,just to placate not having a doubler on Friday nights.


However having an 18 team comp ,one extra game gives more opportunities for Sunday arvos.
Maybe Perth timeslot Sunday can assist ,combined with NZ time.


Or even Saturday 2/4/6/8 pm .

Don't know whether Roy is guessing assuming,or has inside knowledge.But it does look like were are stuck with Monday nights.

There has to be more financial incentive for people to attend on Thursday and Monday nights.

Looks like we'll get a big TV deal,but surely the NRL should control the scheduling , so we don't have the current crap situation.

 

[Danish]

5 night per week league will be a complete joke. The broncos, Cowboys, Dogs, and Souths will continue to get 7 day turnarounds as they'll all get their preferred slots, Canberra and Manly will keep getting dudded with mondays (but at least get decent recovery times), and the rest of the teams will inevitably wind up backing up in 4 days regularly as they jump between all the time slots depending on which of the broadcast favourites they are playing.


As for this being the last broadcast deal before league switches to streaming a heap of games, I honestly don't see that happening either. The amount of households with a suitable enough internet speed plus enough technical know how to stream something to their television simply won't be high enough even in 6-7 years time.

More likely the NRL will simply start selling online HD streaming as an alternative to the current options, as opposed to a complete replacement.

 

[El Diablo]

be nice to get the networks to broadcast in anything at the moment. No NRL in WA again as Ashes on GEM.

according to this site http://www.yourtv.com.au/ the Ashes is on 9 and the footy is on GEM

says the same thing here too https://au.tv.yahoo.com/tv-guide/101/0/

 

[gallagher]

according to this site http://www.yourtv.com.au/ the Ashes is on 9 and the footy is on GEM

says the same thing here too https://au.tv.yahoo.com/tv-guide/101/0/

The first test was on Gem with origin on 9 and Friday night on Go. Was disappointed that they didn't show the Sunday footy show but some soccer game instead.

 

[El Diablo]

Perth Dickhead often has nfi http://forums.leagueunlimited.com/showthread.php?t=426402

 

[DMS]

5 night per week league will be a complete joke. The broncos, Cowboys, Dogs, and Souths will continue to get 7 day turnarounds as they'll all get their preferred slots, Canberra and Manly will keep getting dudded with mondays (but at least get decent recovery times), and the rest of the teams will inevitably wind up backing up in 4 days regularly as they jump between all the time slots depending on which of the broadcast favourites they are playing.


As for this being the last broadcast deal before league switches to streaming a heap of games, I honestly don't see that happening either. The amount of households with a suitable enough internet speed plus enough technical know how to stream something to their television simply won't be high enough even in 6-7 years time.

More likely the NRL will simply start selling online HD streaming as an alternative to the current options, as opposed to a complete replacement.

You do realise that the Cowboys have had more than their fair share of Monday Night games, i believe they have been scheduled for 5 or 6 this years draw.

 

[Canard]

You do realise that the Cowboys have had more than their fair share of Monday Night games, i believe they have been scheduled for 5 or 6 this years draw.

We virtually never get consistent turn arounds.

Playing some home games Sat night doesn't guarantee a consistent turn around

 

[BuffaloRules]

be nice to get the networks to broadcast in anything at the moment. No NRL in WA again as Ashes on GEM.

Gutted for the 7,000 that may miss out on their NRL over there...

 

[big hit!]

5 days a week of footy is f**ked.

A schedule predominantly made up of night games is f**ked.

Just as the move to more rounds per season to appease broadcasters has led to a ho-hum season for all but die hard fans.

Look at the NFL, how each match is an event due to the importance of each game (just 16 regular season matches per team), how all but 2 of the 13-16 matches per week are scheduled on Sundays, and just 3 of the 13-16 matches per week are scheduled for a night start.

Over exposure has killing rugby league, and expanding will just lessen any anticipation and excitement for the competition. The short-term $$$ may be tempting, but it will continue to destroy the long-term pull of the game.

 

[Perth Red]

as you should be. I forget there was a channel called GO, lol.

 

[Diesel]

Classic TV thinking disregarding overexposure. How will you look forward to something when it's on every night? Once you put someone in a position where they can miss something it becomes a habit.

Agree. It's like when the Big Bash is on, it's great but 6-7 nights a week is a bit full on. Or day 12 or 13 at the Commonwealth or Olympic Games

 

[miguel de cervantes]

5 days a week of footy is f**ked.

A schedule predominantly made up of night games is f**ked.

Just as the move to more rounds per season to appease broadcasters has led to a ho-hum season for all but die hard fans.

Look at the NFL, how each match is an event due to the importance of each game (just 16 regular season matches per team), how all but 2 of the 13-16 matches per week are scheduled on Sundays, and just 3 of the 13-16 matches per week are scheduled for a night start.

Over exposure has killing rugby league, and expanding will just lessen any anticipation and excitement for the competition. The short-term $$$ may be tempting, but it will continue to destroy the long-term pull of the game.

Couldn't agree more with this. The repetitive nature innate to the game of rugby league plus over-exposure = a slow but sure bleeding of the game for all involved. It's a situation that must be avoided and reversed even. Less games is a must.

 

[Hello, I'm The Doctor]

The only thing by saying organisations like Netflix will get exclusive rights to some games, the anti-siphoning legislation will hamstring that approach just as much as it does Fox Sports.

Anti-syphoning only applies to FTA...

The ARLC could sell the rights Fox hold now to Netflix or Youtube without the government getting involved.

 

[Hello, I'm The Doctor]

Gutted for the 7,000 that may miss out on their NRL over there...

Judging by the Cronulla team's continued existence, it seems we place great value on an audience of 7000.....

 

[taipan]

Judging by the Cronulla team's continued existence, it seems we place great value on an audience of 7000.....

As if Canberra,West Tigers,Titans,Manly or Penrith are happy with their sub 10,000 audiences.:roll:

 

[big hit!]

Couldn't agree more with this. The repetitive nature innate to the game of rugby league plus over-exposure = a slow but sure bleeding of the game for all involved. It's a situation that must be avoided and reversed even. Less games is a must.

the unfortunate thing is that the genie is out of the bottle and the broadcasters wishes have been granted on much of their conditions over the years to stump up the cash. it will be difficult to reel the concessions back in.

 

[Perth Red]

5 days a week of footy is f**ked.

A schedule predominantly made up of night games is f**ked.

Just as the move to more rounds per season to appease broadcasters has led to a ho-hum season for all but die hard fans.

Look at the NFL, how each match is an event due to the importance of each game (just 16 regular season matches per team), how all but 2 of the 13-16 matches per week are scheduled on Sundays, and just 3 of the 13-16 matches per week are scheduled for a night start.

Over exposure has killing rugby league, and expanding will just lessen any anticipation and excitement for the competition. The short-term $$$ may be tempting, but it will continue to destroy the long-term pull of the game.

I agree, what we have seen with this massive pay day the NRL has had is that it has translated into very little positive outcome for grass roots, or the fans, even the clubs and players are whinging they are still no better off. At some point the NRL needs to work out how much it needs to operate and where it will draw the line between squeezing every $ it can but losing fans and interest in the game that will long term come back to bite it big time. AFL seem to have managed to keep reasonably fan friendly times, keep control of their scheduling and still get a big pay out from TV. We have to find that balance, if we decide no expansion, games on 5 nights a week and 26 rounds featuring 4/5 games at night out of 8 then the game NRL is going to struggle big time to maintain its fanbase in years ahead.

 

[Perth Red]

the unfortunate thing is that the genie is out of the bottle and the broadcasters wishes have been granted on much of their conditions over the years to stump up the cash. it will be difficult to reel the concessions back in.

True but it, the clubs, media and fans maybe have to accept that sometimes less is more. Rather than expecting to get $2bill maybe the game needs to say $1.5bill is more than enough to do what we want to do so we are going to have less rounds, more teams and a fan friendly shcedule and take less money? Longer term it is an investment in the game becoming much bigger and stronger.

 

[bobmar28]

I agree, what we have seen with this massive pay day the NRL has had is that it has translated into very little positive outcome for grass roots, or the fans, even the clubs and players are whinging they are still no better off. At some point the NRL needs to work out how much it needs to operate and where it will draw the line between squeezing every $ it can but losing fans and interest in the game that will long term come back to bite it big time. AFL seem to have managed to keep reasonably fan friendly times, keep control of their scheduling and still get a big pay out from TV. We have to find that balance, if we decide no expansion, games on 5 nights a week and 26 rounds featuring 4/5 games at night out of 8 then the game NRL is going to struggle big time to maintain its fanbase in years ahead.

Losing fans and interest? Give me a break. NRL is smashing AFL virtually every weekend in the TV ratings.

 

[Perth Red]

Tbf that is largely due to regional nsw. Metro ratings are pretty even. Doesn't matter if metro or regional generally but when you add afl TV ratings to the $ value of their large attendances and memberships they are streets ahead. Unless you can translate the extra TV audience to $'s in clubs pockets you have to question if an extra 100k viewers a weekend is better than an extra 100k fans through the gate at games?

Many would say attendances are the best indicator of the interest in the sport as takes money and effort by fans to attend as opposed to sitting on your couch half watching the TV whilst playing on your iPad. 3k people not turning up to a game and watching on TV instead adds little to TV value but is a significant loss for the game.

Last night metro afl got total of 716k across three channels shown so as can see ratings are pretty close. Big difference was there game drew 31k whilst ours only attracted 17k.