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The New TV and Media Broadcast Deal

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Foxtel to have its own commentators and graphics for all games from 2025.

So you don't have to put up with the mistake riddled BT from that point onwards.

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    Interesting to see how this fits in with government anti siphoning laws, More so for the tier B events.

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    Imagine what could be done with that money…….full time umpires, grass roots investment, Tassie team, the list of ‘best for the game’ options likely to be ignored goes on. 

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    4 minutes ago, Mr Steve said:

    Interesting to see how this fits in with government anti siphoning laws, More so for the tier B events.

    Both major parties went very quiet on this before the election.

    I wouldn't be surprised if they've (anti siphoning laws) quietly disappeared to appease Murdoch and co...

    I'm interested to know, might contact my local member about it.

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    1 minute ago, rjay said:

    Both major parties went very quiet on this before the election.

    I wouldn't be surprised if they've (anti siphoning laws) quietly disappeared to appease Murdoch and co...

    I'm interested to know, might contact my local member about it.

    The anti siphoning laws are ridiculously out of date anyway, especially since streaming came onto the scene.

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    Surprise suprise it's Murdoch and Stokes again. It is interesting that the massive CH9 bid didn't get too far. 

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    5 minutes ago, Webber said:

    Imagine what could be done with that money…….full time umpires, grass roots investment, Tassie team, the list of ‘best for the game’ options likely to be ignored goes on. 

    America has 300m people and 32 nfl teams… that’s 1 team per 10m people. Australia has 1 team for every 1.5m… 

    please tell me how 19 teams is sustainable? 

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    14 minutes ago, Webber said:

    Imagine what could be done with that money…….full time umpires, grass roots investment, Tassie team, the list of ‘best for the game’ options likely to be ignored goes on. 

    Agree 100%!

    The number one priority should be investment in grassroots football.

    If we don't do this then Aussie Rules Football will begin to die.

    We also need full-time umpires and an AFL Team in Tasmania and eventually Northern Territory. The ACT shouldn't be forsaken too...but that's another story where we missed an opportunity in the early 1980's.

    Lastly, and this is wishful thinking, but we should ask the AFL for $100 million so we can build a home base. The Melbourne Football Club will be left behind if we don't have state of the art training facilities and and an administration centre built in the near future. Especially with Hawthorn building their new $120+ million home base in Dingley. 

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    The Good News is that the AFL, Channel 7, Fox (Kayo) and Telstra now have 9 years to get the product right and that should be good for our Code.!!

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    These broadcast prices simply do not stack up

    Foxtel has separated its sports product from its entertainment product Kayo and Binge so the traditional loss leader arguments no longer work.

    Unless the Kayo product is changed enormously.. increased monthly sub... occasional pay per view ($5 for Anzac day match for example) and of course ads.

    Hopefully the camera and streaming quality is improved

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    Love it how the opening question during Q&A time for the biggest TV deal of all time was:

    "What do you think the white powder was in Carey's bag?"

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    35 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

    Foxtel to have its own commentators and graphics for all games from 2025.

    So you don't have to put up with the mistake riddled BT from that point onwards.

    Boy oh boy wowee do I hope they use this time to invest in commentators that don’t want to be ‘personalities’.

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    BBP that is the quality of Reporters these days.!!!

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    so, an increase of 35% per year

    curious to see that translates to club afl-paid revenues and cap sizes

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    48 minutes ago, Webber said:

    Imagine what could be done with that money…….full time umpires, grass roots investment, Tassie team, the list of ‘best for the game’ options likely to be ignored goes on. 

    pfft, EXEC BONUSES ftw!

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    30 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

    Foxtel to have its own commentators and graphics for all games from 2025.

    So you don't have to put up with the mistake riddled BT from that point onwards.

    This is fantastic! no more BT in 2 years!! or Luke Darcy!  omg I could cry

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    22 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

    Love it how the opening question during Q&A time for the biggest TV deal of all time was:

    "What do you think the white powder was in Carey's bag?"

    what you doin there Wayne?  just snortin some anti-inflammatories

    nuthin suss!

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    12 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

    so, an increase of 35% per year

    curious to see that translates to club afl-paid revenues and cap sizes

    Surely that's the thinking.

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    Possibly more money than anticipated...meaning more available to be spent on players...meaning higher salary cap...meaning Luke Jackson can be accommodated within the MFC budget.

    Of course, the flaw in the argument is that the salary cap goes up for everyone, so Luke Jackson's contract could probably be accommodated within any club's budget, although any other club would have to offer more than he's likely to get from the MFC.

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    49 minutes ago, layzie said:

    The anti siphoning laws are ridiculously out of date anyway, especially since streaming came onto the scene.

    I'm not sure what you are meaning here, but my take was that you couldn't syphon off major sports to a pay service. Streaming is a pay service...I have a feeling that people who can't afford even Kayo are going to be further shafted by this deal.

    ...no one is looking after the man on the street.

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    Hopefully we don't cop too many of those 15 Thursday Night games.

     

    * from an attending POV, know it is good for the sponsors etc

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    4 minutes ago, rjay said:

    I'm not sure what you are meaning here, but my take was that you couldn't syphon off major sports to a pay service. Streaming is a pay service...I have a feeling that people who can't afford even Kayo are going to be further shafted by this deal.

    ...no one is looking after the man on the street.

    streaming was not included in the anti siphon legislation for the simple reason it wasn't thought of at the time.The rules relate only to cable networks.

    The catch is that Labour said and the LNP quietly warned that if the broadcasters took advantage of streaming to avoid the "spirit"of the anti siphoning rules the legislation might be amended to include streaming

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    1 hour ago, bandicoot said:

    America has 300m people and 32 nfl teams… that’s 1 team per 10m people. Australia has 1 team for every 1.5m… 

    please tell me how 19 teams is sustainable? 

    They also share that population of support with another 32 NHL teams, 30 NBA teams, 30 MLB and 28 MLS teams. And that's just the other major codes.

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