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Here is a link to a few changes proposed for Australian Sport Broadcasting.

It Would Appear that the FATCAT paytv executives have there eyes on Charging Everyone to enjoy there sporting veiwing in the future.

I saw a campain on Channel Ten trying to promote awarness about theses change's and thought i Should flash this up for opinion's ?

I think it suck's as like it or not sport in this country has a uniting affect!

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sav man Grand Master

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We get shit coverage as it is. If pay tv will give us proper coverage, i'd get pay tv in a second.

It's a joke that 10 are putting those add's on, if they gave us proper motorsport coverage fair enough. But the F1's are never live (and the itv comentators are always interupted) and we never get qualifying. only 1 of the V8 races (out of 3) are live. Dad has Austar (i'm only there every 2nd weekend) and that has great WRC coverage, you get a 30min report for each day on the same weekend as an event is on. 10 only give you the 3 day report 2-3 weeks after the event. I'm not sure about the quality of Moto GP, CART, and IRL coverage.

Speedweek makes up for not being live with a good varity of catigorys, and a quality broadcast that isn't padded out with shit.

That's my rant for today.

Nate79 Enthusiast

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Sav man is right, we do get shit coverage. With Channel 10 you pay for the coverage in other ways, the amount of ads is rediculous. I've got foxtel and when they show live racing it is usually uninterrupted. If only foxtel had F1 also, Ch 10 dont give a shit about it.

Beer Baron Grand Master

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I hope more sport does go to cable. free to air have it all their own way. with current anti-siphoning laws they have the pick of the litter, and dont have to excercise their option until 30days from screening. so when they leave it to the last minute to say yay or nay it's usually too late for anyone else to pick it up as scheduling is already locked in. which means that lots of good stuff goes un broadcast.

I'll happily pay for decent coverage.

Snowman Grand Master

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If we could get F1 live etc I'd happily pay for it.

The last 2 F1 races being on at gods hours have been just crap.

AFL footy fans for the last few years have had to put up with the Prime Sunday game being delayed telecast - reduced highlights - and then 11ty Billion Ads between goals. Meanwhile the non-prime game was live on Foxtel with no ads.

Give me live sport anydays.

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Thinking more about it reading the comments here a i tend to Agree for a better option but Why dose it have to be so Black and white?

A lesser Quality service on FTA for the punters and cutting edge coverage if paid for. Why is that so hard?

It cuts back the other way to0 i spose ... look at the people that decided to get a better paid product For AFL Channel > locked into contracts only to be Axed because of a rights Auction...

Snowman Grand Master

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Fox-footy was basically a wasted chanel. There is more of that being made of than what there should be.

Now all the games and all the main "footy" shows (OnThe Counch, Fox Leauge Teams, etc) will be shown on the new sports chanel Fox Sports 3. It just means the pointless shows like the ones with their wives and stuff are gone and can be replaced with othersports like more Motorsports. Like Tuesday nights with the DTM, British Touring Cars, Masters Series etc. It's tops.

Beer Baron Grand Master

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Fox-footy was basically a wasted chanel. There is more of that being made of than what there should be.

Now all the games and all the main "footy" shows (OnThe Counch, Fox Leauge Teams, etc) will be shown on the new sports chanel Fox Sports 3. It just means the pointless shows like the ones with their wives and stuff are gone and can be replaced with othersports like more Motorsports. Like Tuesday nights with the DTM, British Touring Cars, Masters Series etc. It's tops.

yes, DTM rocks my jocks.

gtr660hp Experienced

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This whole campaign is Ch 10 Bullsht way of stirring up sht -and if they want free to air sport so bad then they have to pay for it--Im glad V8SC has gone to ch7-fk ch10 and fk this campaign-ill pay for cable if it gets to this

Sydneykid Grand Master

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This whole campaign is Ch 10 Bullsht way of stirring up sht -and if they want free to air sport so bad then they have to pay for it--Im glad V8SC has gone to ch7-fk ch10 and fk this campaign-ill pay for cable if it gets to this

Ch 7 and Ch 9 are also doing their own campaigns to keep the antisiphoning laws.

I have a full set of cable Foxtel channels including Foxsports 1, Foxsports 2, Foxsports 3, ESPN, Foxsports News, Eurosports and Fuel. Plenty of motorsport choices on there, so the Foxtel IQ (hard drive) recorder sure gets a workout.

So personally I don't a shit about FTA losing sporting events. Anyway it's just full of endless, mind numbing, repetition of the same advertisments for stuff that I don't want. How many times do I need to see the same flaming add? I GET IT, OK?

I am sure that's why we have those stupid Pace Car periods, so the FTA channels can go to an add break.

:laugh: cheers :mad:

Sydneykid Grand Master

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lol, I feel exactly the same. Plus I noticed Foxtel have now started their own campaign against the ads being run on FTA.

Good....where's the Foxtel petition, I'll sign it.

:P cheers :P

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Beer Baron Grand Master

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i'll have to pay more attention when the ads on I think they have a petition too. some info on here:

http://www.astra.org.au/article.asp?sectio...2&content=9

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wat about "us" poor people that cant afford pay-tv?

i think the F1 and WRC coverage is pretty good. i dont mind staying up till 11pm to watch the f1 most of the time im up at that hr's anyways.

on aside note does foxtel get coverage of the SUPER GT?

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