whufc wrote:on the rails wrote:RB wrote: (2) The already scarce coverage of the SANFL may make way for coverage of the SANFL Reserves (i.e. just the Crows and Power Reserves teams) in the paper and on the TV news etc. What's more, the broader public knowledge of the SANFL (which obviously is already much diminished on what it was twenty years ago) will now relate solely to the Reserves. The Crows may win the Reserves competition and most of the general sporting public will think they've won the league. Media like Channel 7 will be happy to let coverage of the SANFL League competition disappear.
But if we allow them to play in the League Comp there might be some "renewed" interest in the SANFL via the main stream media (MMM, 5AA, Tiser, Channels 7, 9 and 10) you can bet all the focus will be on the PAFC and Crows teams to the point it will appear to be a 2 team comp. At least with them in the Reserves Comp how much real interest will the main stream media have in reporting their games against other Reserves teams at 11.30 on a Saturday once the novelty wears off?
Personally i dont think main stream media is no where near as important as it once was.
With modern technology the SANFL and the 8 clubs are able to hit their demorgraphic directly via websites/forums/emails/bulk sms/facebook/youtube/twitter etc etc. This also relates to the modern generation alot better as well.
I was speaking to my 13 year old brother the other day about this and he was saying he has never watched any of the 5-6 o'clock tv news. If he wants to find out any news he will go to direct news websites like adelaidenow, heraldsun, ninesmn etc etc.
while it's great to hit that younger generation with the social media side of things, sponsor exposure isn't going to do too well that way. The youtube stream of games is good but they need to up the quality if it's going to happen more often. I can't believe with how far our TV technology has progressed over the last couple of years, that our local sports are is such bad state of tv coverage. Look at the SANFL, NBL, Cricket and Netball. We now have more channels and our sports hardly get seen or it's 1 match a week. You telling me that one of the stations couldn't afford to put the SANFL on one of the back channels for 2 hours on a friday saturday and sunday or whenever the games are played. Even though I didn't use but the NBL did a thing with iinet (could be wrong). The NBA does it where you can stream all live games or download them later to watch them. I'd prefer the sanfl to go along this line so at least the games can be watched later on instead of only streaming, like youtube. But they do need to look at doing something because it will play part with sponsor not having a great exposure, same thing happened in the NBL when their media exposure was cut some years ago.