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Thursday 9 October 2008

Fox Sport TV Deal to be re-negotiated

This is a blog, full of the blarney and here's the latest.

FFA are to renegotiate the Fox TV deal at Christmas. That's it no more no less. That's what I heard from those who know or think they do.

A new deal, including FTA, maybe with the league expanding a new deal is possible.

That said would any FTA station touch the A-League?

They won't show NRL or AFL live across the country and these codes are pumped across all media all the time, so why would they take A-League games which would not get big ratings on a Friday night across Australia in my opinion.

We need FTA, we also need better match commentators because in my view only Simon Hill fits the bit as a commentator of the required standard. Andy Harper and Paul Trimboli are great as the offsiders but we need quality commentators...or else FTA or not it's hard to stomach.

So come on you young Aussies get commentating on the games and entertain us. We football fans deserve the best, and we ain't getting it yet are we?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

hehe, should channel 7 ever be trusted with football coverage ever again?

a full game on sbs or abc could be a winner,

or a highlights pack on the commercial stations is another possibility.

clayton

ps. did i ever mention the internet feed you can purchase from the afc website? another option for ex-pats. i can watch streamed a-league matches, but not j-league matches (geoblocking).

Unknown said...

Channel Ten is the one with the 24/7 sports channel on HD...
If SBS gets it, part of the contract should be they must do Mariner's games :)