Comments on: Pay TV v Seven: fight, fight, fight.

By: Kezza75

Kezza75 — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 10:01:27 +0000

It’s channel 10 as well as 7!!! I just don’t understand how here in Brisbane, we can have afl games live all year except the finals. An hour north they can watch the finals live on country channel 10. It’s Saturday night and I am stuck watching Stuart Little, which is also being played on Nickelodeon at the same time. If it’s because of a fear of a loss of ratings, then maybe they shouldn’t bid for exclusive rights if the ratings are so bad. With 1000 people moving into South East Queensland every week, you would have to assume some of them are AFL supporters.

Sure have the rights for the AFL channel 7 and 10, but if you won’t play it live, you should allow foxtel to play it live for those of us who pay for it, because free to air tv just isn’t good enough
Very selfish and disappointing.

By: Dixyland

Dixyland — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:27:00 +0000

Is it not going to be on Main Event like it normally is?

By: thesportsfreak

thesportsfreak — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:34:51 +0000

Jack, WA will be delayed by 60 minutes .
Coverage in the East would start at 7:30pm if it were live, which is 5:30 WA time.
Broadcast in WA starts at 6:30pm – and I dare say Channel 7 won’t cut the 20 minute preview

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 08:16:12 +0000

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ASTRA’s complaint at Seven not showing the AFL finals live into Sydney, Brisbane and Perth have merit but ignores one major factor: ratings.
1. Seven obviously wants to maximise its audience by showing Better Homes & Gardens in Sydney and Brisbane first. If it just shows the AFL live into the two cities it will go head to head with live NRL on Nine and NRL will certainly win.
2. The two WA teams (West Coast and Fremantle) miss out on this year’s finals, so what’s the deal with showing Friday’s qualiyfing final involving two Victorian teams into WA at 5.30pm local time? Does ASTRA have any suggestion for Seven on what to show at 8.30pm, when most people will be watching TV?(quote)

You’re obviously not a sports fan – the most passionate sports fans aren’t even interested in watching a game on delay – I never watch sport that isn’t shown live.

Of course Seven is just trying to maximize ratings, but that is not the point. The point is that Seven should be free to maximize ratings if they want, but in this situation the match should also be shown live on pay-tv for the hardcore fans who will pay for live coverage.

By: bongobid07

bongobid07 — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 08:08:53 +0000

we do not need MORE sport on TV.

By: jack

jack — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 08:08:40 +0000

actually perth will have the game on 20 min delayed

By: Johnson

Johnson — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:25:26 +0000

ASTRA’s complaint at Seven not showing the AFL finals live into Sydney, Brisbane and Perth have merit but ignores one major factor: ratings.
1. Seven obviously wants to maximise its audience by showing Better Homes & Gardens in Sydney and Brisbane first. If it just shows the AFL live into the two cities it will go head to head with live NRL on Nine and NRL will certainly win.
2. The two WA teams (West Coast and Fremantle) miss out on this year’s finals, so what’s the deal with showing Friday’s qualiyfing final involving two Victorian teams into WA at 5.30pm local time? Does ASTRA have any suggestion for Seven on what to show at 8.30pm, when most people will be watching TV?

By: Craig

Craig — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:04:48 +0000

But AFL is already on FoxSport, a number of games every week LIVE. All they want is the option of having all the finals live for every one no matter which state you’re in. Then ch7 can show them whenever they want to on FTA.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 06:31:32 +0000

All that needs to change is that no sports should be forced to be EXCLUSIVE to FTA – so that the AFL could negotiate with Fox and Seven seperately, and not rely on them working together.

I support the list, because the AFL should stay on FTA, but by stopping the AFL negotiating with Foxtel directly (and stopping Foxtel selling full coverage to Foxtel) it just hurts the most hardcore fans.

By: Fred

Fred — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 05:37:46 +0000

Why didn’t ASTRA blast 9?

They’ll only be showing the NRL finals at a reasonable time into Sydney and Brisbane.

By: knoxoverstreet

knoxoverstreet — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 05:17:59 +0000

Cameron i’m thinking Seven will show the granny delayed so they can put on some Elvis movies lol. They have been a disgrace with the AFL and there’s almost no doubt Nine will get the rights back in 2012.

By: Craig

Craig — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:41:48 +0000

Most people don’t choice not to have Pay TV they just can’t afford it, luckily I can and would like the option to watch the games LIVE on there or delayed on ch7 with the rest of the country.

By: JOHNTV

JOHNTV — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:25:07 +0000

Obviously still lots of bad blood hanging over from the C7 case and add into that mix now TIVO, which is in direct competition with FOXTEL IQ HD and I can see this one going on and on! What a great TV show it would make!.

This is a hard one as ASTAR have a valid point but so do Seven – most people still don’t have pay-TV. Now, if AUSTAR’s argument was being made by Nine or Ten, then there would be some validity in the statement – although both of them have also been guilty of shafting viewers on live sports.

By: Cameron

Cameron — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:10:13 +0000

Seven had lost so much credability and this just adds to it. The finals should be broadcast live. At least H&A is a double on Thursday but for footy fans having to wait especially in Perth is not good enough. Seven has sunk and Nine had beter take up the footy rights again in 2012. Seven is showing the match live in Adelaide and Melbourne so thats something. Adelaide viewers even had delayed Crows and Power matches this year which shows how lame Seven is. Wonder if the grand final will be live.

SEVEN DOES NOT DESERVE THE AFL ANYMORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!