No Australian radio coverage of World Cup

[DC_fan]

Following the back out of SBS, there will be no radio coverage here in Australia of the World Cup.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sp...s/news-story/ecd4a39330a40cd7742cb8233125bbd5

 

[morningstar]

IMG are merkins. Glad the RLIF have binned them after this tournament.

 

[Jim from Oz]

IMG are merkins. Glad the RLIF have binned them after this tournament.

Agreed

 

[adamkungl]

Radio rights should be free ffs
Let anyone f**king do it

 

[miguel de cervantes]

not a huge issue in this say and age I would have thought

 

[gUt]

I don't click on DT links out of principle but where are the ABC? They dedicate 2 channels to the AFL...

 

[Dakink]

Serious...I'm driving Friday night and had planned on the abc

 

[morningstar]

Triple M and ABC don't want to compromise their ashes coverage apparently.

 

[adamkungl]

Triple M and ABC don't want to compromise their ashes coverage apparently.

Don't want to *pay* to conflict their Ashes coverage. Just give it to everyone for free and they'll put it on when they can

 

[morningstar]

Don't want to *pay* to conflict their Ashes coverage. Just give it to everyone for free and they'll put it on when they can

IMG bought the rights from RLIF to on sell. What is their incentive to give it away for free?

 

[Captain Apollo]

I read the article. The key parts in it are -

Rugby league fans will not be able to listen to the Kangaroos take on England on Friday night, nor any other international for the next month after International Management Group failed to lock in a deal with an Australian network.

Triple M and the ABC were not prepared to pay for the rights, understood to be as little as $50,000, because of their Ashes commitments.

and..

Several other AM and FM stations passed on the rights before SBS Digital 3 showed interest, but ‘geo-blocking’’ issues forced them to abandon their plans on Wednesday.

With the radio rights already sold in England and the Pacific, SBS did not have the technology in place to prevent their call from being heard outside of Australia.

SBS has the local radio rights for next year’s FIFA World Cup, and they were keen to use the Rugby League World Cup as a ‘’test run’’.

The call would have also been heard on their Facebook page and SBS website.

 

[Frank Discussion]

I'm gonna do something. Watch this space.

 

[Brutus]

So the ABC can't cover the World Cup opener between Aus and Eng because of the Ashes which do not start for several weeks.

Right.

 

[Frank Discussion]

So the ABC can't cover the World Cup opener between Aus and Eng because of the Ashes which do not start for several weeks.

Right.

The rights are an all or nothing proposition.

 

[Billythekid]

Radio rights should never have been sold off. Give them away for free to get maximum coverage. It makes us f**k all money anyway. Yet another example of hurting the game looking to eek out any tiny amounts of money we can.

 

[Stallion]

A rugby league world cup not covered by radio in Australia! ? Shame on all concerned!

 

[DC_fan]

Radio rights should never have been sold off. Give them away for free to get maximum coverage. It makes us f**k all money anyway. Yet another example of hurting the game looking to eek out any tiny amounts of money we can.

I agree, but the response would be that they would be cheapening the tournament by doing so

 

[adamkungl]

I agree, but the response would be that they would be cheapening the tournament by doing so

Who cares, radio is an all but dead medium. Now they've tried to sell it for peanuts and failed.

 

[DC_fan]

Who cares, radio is an all but dead medium. Now they've tried to sell it for peanuts and failed.

Don't try and tell that to Ray Hadley. But seriously, I don't see the RLWC not being covered by radio being a problem.

 

[thorson1987]

Who cares, radio is an all but dead medium. Now they've tried to sell it for peanuts and failed.

The RLIF did sell the rights.

IMG failed to onsell in Australia. SBS couldn't guarantee that their broadcast wouldn't be heard outside of Aus.

This is on them not the RLIF. (although I do agree with radio rights just being given out)