Australian Main Sport's May Be Pay Tv Only :(

[sav man]

I think you can get Super GT through Selectv, on Eurosport.

[gtr660hp]

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.

cheers

Im with ya there- if people love and want to watch their sport they will pay as do I now-fk FTA anyway

[Deluxe]

Yeh i think the whole point is WHY SHOULD YOU PAY???

[gtr660hp]

Yeh i think the whole point is WHY SHOULD YOU PAY???

I guess TV is like evrything else in life now- if you want the service you gotta pay. Its like going to the movies of making a phone call. sport on TV has been free from the day it was invented and it looks like that is going to change-what else is free????? nothing really. If I dont have to listen the sht head ch10 taem anymore to watch motorsport Ill pay very happily

EDIT - not seeing the top 50% final Qually on Friday cause of the delay and chanel 10 decided that a kids show was more important at 4pm well thats the last straw for me-FK em-Fk FTA...ill pay for a dedicated sport only service anyday

Edited October 12, 2006 by gtr660hp

[Beer Baron]

agree. Why should you pay? because we dont live in a comunist society. this is the real world. Free TV is not really free anyway. you still need to be able to afford a TV to watch it on, and a house to live in. if you can afford those things and want good TV then pay the couple of bux a day and get cable. if not, live with the 'choice' the 3 comercial networks offer you.

[Kinks]

I'm not supporting channel 10 because they promised to show F1 live, and they didn't.

I'm not supporting foxtel because the amount of ads on fox is f**king ridiculous.

they're both as bad as each other, and both have some valid points but all the bitching about decent F1 coverage is just for show. None of them really care about the F1 fans as their prime time audience is larger, so F1 will always play second fiddle.

[ze_flexy_1]

It's simple......For tightasses example--> my father

There shall be no pay T.V or even cable internet because well, we will get fat...

I get shitted off everytime i miss weekend V8's and F1's when im working

And well i cant affort to buy pay t.v can i?....oh yeah that means id have to buy my own house....*cries*

SIGNED btw

And to those who have pay T.V dont know hoe lucky you are when you start rambling "oh theres nothing on?"

[Duncan]

Well if the commercial channels weren't restricted to 1 channel each, maybe they would show more sport on their alternate channels.

With digital TV they all have 4 different channels available but the people at foxtel lobbied so that they can't actually use those channels to compete....only ABC and SBS run second channels.

The more we ignore foxtel's pay model, the sooner 90% of the good stuff will turn up back on free TV.....murdoch won't allow them to loose 10m (on 170mil revenue and god knows how big the balance sheet is) a year forever.

[Jamesyboi]

Is Crompton etc all moving from Ch. 10 to 7 ?

[J_Red33]

I guess TV is like evrything else in life now- if you want the service you gotta pay. Its like going to the movies of making a phone call. sport on TV has been free from the day it was invented and it looks like that is going to change-what else is free????? nothing really. If I dont have to listen the sht head ch10 taem anymore to watch motorsport Ill pay very happily

EDIT - not seeing the top 50% final Qually on Friday cause of the delay and chanel 10 decided that a kids show was more important at 4pm well thats the last straw for me-FK em-Fk FTA...ill pay for a dedicated sport only service anyday

agree. Why should you pay? because we dont live in a comunist society. this is the real world. Free TV is not really free anyway. you still need to be able to afford a TV to watch it on, and a house to live in. if you can afford those things and want good TV then pay the couple of bux a day and get cable. if not, live with the 'choice' the 3 comercial networks offer you.

So you just accept that you have to pay money now to watch T.V. too? No wonder this country is going down the tubes. People just keep bending over & taking the corporate shaft up the behind, it's pathetic & stupid.

I for 1 will refuse to go to pay T.V. & to me it isn't exactly small change either. Hasn't anyone noticed that even since pay T.V. poped up on the scene that commercial stuff started to take a massive slide in quality?

The reason this is happening is that corporations want to make more money (& lets face it Foxtel is far from the only 1 making money from this) & by making us pay for what we want to watch they make money from sponsors as well as us.

Commecial T.V is feeling the pinch & as a consequence is having to try a lot harder to make it's money due to fewer viewers, hence the masses of ads that they have now & dumb shows like Australian Idol where they can adverstise to young impressional types that companies can make a fortune off of, & are will to pay to advertise throughout those shows.

If the commercial channels were allowed multiple broadcasts & we all told foxtel to go get stuffed no one would have to pay a cent for T.V. that would have some ads but wouldn't be overloaded with them & I could live with that. The fact you guys all just willingly accept that foxtel is the way to go means you have all been sucked in & I think it's nothing short of disgraceful.

Edited December 22, 2006 by JazzaR33