The T.V Rights Thread Part III

[TheRam]

Thats better. But did it include the girl from the "Wtf?" thread?

I was so smashed, could have included her and a hot looking horse for all I know. :lol:

 

[LESStar58]

There's nothing to do in Melbourne.

You've probably never been south of the Murray...

:roll:

 

[bluesbreaker]

Went there in height of AFL season... St Kilda esplanade is as depressing, cold and wind blown as it gets... Doesn't even have a f**king beach! CBD is like 3 tall buildings... pathetic place. should give them indepedence.

 

[Ron Swanson]

Yep, 3 tall buildings that are considerably taller than anything in Sydney. Hell, here in Brisbane we have taller buildings than Sydney. Should probably use a better argument to why Sydney is so superior (for the record I prefer it to Melbourne, until you venture out into NRL heartland to see the absolute shithole that is Western Sydney).

 

[bluesbreaker]

3 tall buildings does not a cbd make. did you miss the part about no beach, no decent weather btw?

Glad you like Melbourne! the city of bankstown has more to do than the entire melbourne metropolitan area.

 

[Cumberland Throw]

AFL GF got almost 1.4m into Melbourne last year. That was with 2 Melbourne teams though.

AFL also seems to rate higher into Melbourne than NRL into Sydney most weeks, although not by much.

TV shows across the board rate higher into Melbourne, no idea why.

It does seem strange that the Sydney pop is bigger than melbourne pop, but nearly all tv shows rate more viewers in Melbourne.

I would assume its the factor of WIN & NBN, i live 52km as crow flies from circular quay, but I watch the football and news etc through NBN... same with people in Wollongong...

I'd say the metro channel 9 etc coverage in Melbourne nearly covers 80% of vic population

 

[Edwahu]

One reason is there are less pay tv subs in Melbourne, hence higher FTA figures.

 

[russ13]

http://www.regionaltvmarketing.com.au/media/25429/rtv guide 2012 final.pdf

For ratings purposes the Sydney area has a population of 4.715 million & Melbourne's catchment (which includes Geelong) area has 4.626 million.

 

[El Diablo]

http://www.regionaltvmarketing.com.au/media/25429/rtv guide 2012 final.pdf

For ratings purposes the Sydney area has a population of 4.715 million & Melbourne's catchment (which includes Geelong) area has 4.626 million.

http://www.oztam.com.au/documents/Other/UEs Metro TV Q1 2012 - 141211.pdf

 

[LESStar58]

Went there in height of AFL season... St Kilda esplanade is as depressing, cold and wind blown as it gets... Doesn't even have a f**king beach! CBD is like 3 tall buildings... pathetic place. should give them indepedence.

But you said there's "nothing to do" which is complete tosh. I think Sydney is generally a toilet but I always find something "to do" while I'm there.

The 3 best things that Sydney has over Melbourne is that they play rugby league, and have better beaches and pubs. I will at this juncture share my love for the Dry Dock Hotel in Balmain that I happened upon walking up from the ferry to meet a freind for dinner at the London.

Got in there for a sneaky Resches (couldn't get enough of the stuff) and it turned out to be a "dog friendly" pub with these tradies letting their 4 legged friends run riot in the public bar. I loved it but f**ked if you think that'd happen in Melbourne!

 

[beave]

Im in Port Moresby at the moment and EM TV had both fox games on last night and the manly panthers game this arvo as well as the channel 9 games. I wonder how much EM tv pays the NRL and fox to show the games over here? Funny how we have to pay to see the fox games but over here its on FTA.

 

[Edwahu]

Interesting article in the Australian which echoes some of Docs comments

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/med...to-score-the-nrl/story-e6frg996-1226368687199

Its behind a pay wall but if you search for NRL TV rights in google, the full version should be accessible.

 

[Tweek]

Yep, 3 tall buildings that are considerably taller than anything in Sydney. Hell, here in Brisbane we have taller buildings than Sydney. Should probably use a better argument to why Sydney is so superior (for the record I prefer it to Melbourne, until you venture out into NRL heartland to see the absolute shithole that is Western Sydney).

I wouldn't call Canberra an absolute shithole.

 

[Ron Swanson]

So we now have proper financial analysis into RL's true value from some reliable independent bodies.

Citigroup (including Digital rights):

$807m to $1.057bn. Sounds about right.


Maxus (excluding digital rights):

$750m.

Also great to see a proper financial breakdown of ad revenue and sponsorship from broadcasting. Based on what we've seen with 9 with the rights, is there really much of a halo effect? I don't think Nine even beat Seven on Origin night in the 6pm News.

 

[Canucks]

So we now have proper financial analysis into RL's true value from some reliable independent bodies.

Citigroup (including Digital rights):

$807m to $1.057bn. Sounds about right.


Maxus (excluding digital rights):

$750m.

Also great to see a proper financial breakdown of ad revenue and sponsorship from broadcasting. Based on what we've seen with 9 with the rights, is there really much of a halo effect? I don't think Nine even beat Seven on Origin night in the 6pm News.

Well nine news is shit, I watch it but not if they lose the rights... It's just awkward watching Ken throw back to Overton, Overton wouldn't watch sport at all, ''I'll be on the couch for that one ken"... Plus that cnt Widler, pushing himself into every shot, cnt looks like a lizard...

What are the estimates for the NZ deal?

 

[BuffaloRules]

Even Harold is starting to talk it up...

Harold Mitchell, Australian head of media buying company Aegis, rejected the possibility the winning network would struggle to increase revenue.

"The TV networks have the capacity to turn the attention of Australia's massive advertising industry to these events -- the winner will make it work," Mr Mitchell said.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/med...to-score-the-nrl/story-e6frg996-1226368687199

 

[bobmar28]

Yep, 3 tall buildings that are considerably taller than anything in Sydney. Hell, here in Brisbane we have taller buildings than Sydney. Should probably use a better argument to why Sydney is so superior (for the record I prefer it to Melbourne, until you venture out into NRL heartland to see the absolute shithole that is Western Sydney).

Why is western Sydney a shithole?

 

[bobmar28]

Interesting article in the Australian which echoes some of Docs comments

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/med...to-score-the-nrl/story-e6frg996-1226368687199

Its behind a pay wall but if you search for NRL TV rights in google, the full version should be accessible.

There's a paywall there too.

 

[bobmar28]

Well nine news is shit, I watch it but not if they lose the rights... It's just awkward watching Ken throw back to Overton, Overton wouldn't watch sport at all, ''I'll be on the couch for that one ken"... Plus that cnt Widler, pushing himself into every shot, cnt looks like a lizard...

What are the estimates for the NZ deal?

Overton was the one who predicted AFL would take over Sydney.

 

[Panther_Daz]

http://blogs.news.com.au/dailyteleg..._been_a_super_disappointment_for_the_knights/

THE LOWLIGHT
The standard of football was so poor in games I watched over the weekend that TV executives would be mad to pay anything near $1.2 billion for the rights.







Buzz is an idiot...There has been plenty of sub-standard games and blowouts in the AFL and they got 1.2 Billion.