ABC TV's coverage of the SANFL in doubt?

[The Sleeping Giant]

Channel 9 should really look into showing the SANFL. Have it done locally and make sure a game is live on the week ends. It will get people watching SANFL again whilst at their local game and might attract some people back to the SANFL

Why Channel 9? Most of us can get ABC TV, ad free.

[PhilH]

Queensland Rugby League just announced yesterday that had dropped the ABC TV coverage and taken up a deal for Channel Nine Qld to broadcast their game of the week.

Will be interesting to see what ABC in QLD shows on Saturday afternoon in its place.

http://www.qrl.com.au

[CUTTERMAN]

Has anyone heard if the telecasts for the VFL, WAFL, TFL and NTFL are going ahead for this year, if so, have they had to up their funding also?

[story of my life]

Queensland Rugby League just announced yesterday that had dropped the ABC TV coverage and taken up a deal for Channel Nine Qld to broadcast their game of the week.

Will be interesting to see what ABC in QLD shows on Saturday afternoon in its place.

http://www.qrl.com.au

The SANFL

[Brodlach]

SANFL reaches an agreement with the ABC

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/afl ... 6277846915

[darley16]

Great news.....at last! Now about next year and beyond, we won the battle but the war still wages on.

[MATT IN WA]

Has anyone heard if the telecasts for the VFL, WAFL, TFL and NTFL are going ahead for this year, if so, have they had to up their funding also?

WAFL yes, TFL no, rest NFI

[CUTTERMAN]

Cheers Matt, good news for the WAFL, has there been the same trouble over there as there has here in securing coverage?

[MagicKiwi]

Was sorted our last year Cutterman:

http://www.wafootball.com.au/wafl/2929-wafl-welcomes-abc-announcement-

[CUTTERMAN]

Was sorted our last year Cutterman:

http://www.wafootball.com.au/wafl/2929-wafl-welcomes-abc-announcement-

So I gather that the WAFL wacked in more money last year

[Gozu]

THE money spent establishing the ABC's News 24 channel has been blamed for the increase to its fee to televise SANFL games by almost 50 per cent.

A decision to dump the Anzac Day clash in a deal announced yesterday has also been criticised.

The ABC formally reversed its decision to dump SANFL coverage, signing a deal with football administrators but demanding $100,000 each year for the two-year deal instead of $70,000.

SA independent senator Nick Xenophon blamed the cost of establishing ABC News 24 in 2010 at a reported annual budget of $20 million.

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/abc-24-co ... 6278780925

[MightyEagles]

boo, no tv coverage on ANZAC Day. How about those who can't get to the game. What if Ernie is still unwell on that day.

[mighty_tiger_79]

i suspect that there will be increases for entry next season to help pay for the broadcasting on the ABC

[Squawk]

Just stumbled across this - interesting!

http://www.themercury.com.au/article/2012/05/26/331671_afl.html


Tassie eyes AFL media link



BRETT STUBBS | May 26, 2012 12.01am








AFL Tasmania is looking at tapping into the AFL's massive media department as a way of promoting the TSL and re-engaging with local footy fans.

The AFL's communications department, AFL Media, has recently been expanded significantly, with the sports governing body toying with the idea of possibly broadcasting its own games at the end of the current media rights deal.

AFL Tasmania chairman Dominic Baker and his chief executive Scott Wade were taken through AFL Media on Thursday before meeting AFL heavyweights chief executive Andrew Demetriou, broadcasting chief operation officer Gill McLachlan, game development manager Andrew Dillon and strategy and club support general manager Andrew Catterall.

The move comes after AFL Tasmania and last year's TSL broadcaster, the ABC, parted company at the start of this season, with no replacement.

"We want to do some work with them. It probably won't start to next year but maybe for the finals series," Baker said yesterday.

"They have got a great set-up there, it is fantastic studios, the whole works. It will still cost money, but ... do you pay the ABC $90,000 or do you spend half of that amount and keep it in the family?"

Baker said the TSL was not the only state league looking at AFL Media.

"Clearly the ABC are in discussions with every other state league as well and it would seem that they don't really want to be televising footy, so they are making it more and more difficult for every state league in every state," he said.

"As a group of state leagues we will be probably getting together and looking at the alternatives and whether we could use AFL Media as one of its own alternatives.

"It is pretty scant on detail at the moment but it is just getting an idea of what they are capable of at the moment, particularly website management and that kind of stuff."

Baker was predicting a solid showing today from the TSL against the VFL at Blundstone Arena.

"You can never underestimate the fact [that with] some of these young blokes it has been their dream that they will one day play for Tasmania," Baker said.