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Footy Classified returns to Sydney & Brissy

AFL fans in Sydney and Brissy may have felt left out this week, after Footy Classified didn't air on 9HD. But here's some news.

footyclass09AFL fans in Sydney and Brissy may have felt left out this week, Footy Classified didn’t air on 9HD. With GO! coming on Sunday the channel is now simulcasting Nine. That left ‘northern’ fans of Aussie rules out of the loop.

From next Monday the show is back on Nine in those cities at 12 am (Tuesday).

As for the AFL Footy Show on Thursdays, it will remain in its later slot in Sydney and Brisbane, just as the NRL version plays late in Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth.

38 Responses

  1. Why Why Why have you taken the AFL footy show off the earlier 9 HD time slot. Honestly it worked really well that the afl fans could get a HD settop box and watch “their” show on HD. Why change it????? Now we get to see the NRL show on both??? Please explain?!!!!

  2. It’s really a conspiracy. The Ch9 NRL (Numbnuts Retards & Lunatics) brigade are upset with the AFL for poaching Carmichael Hunt, so they are refusing to promote AFL in NSW & QLD.

  3. David, can you find out why 9 have no NRL Footy Classifieds?

    League fans would love a serious show on footy.

    9 have more AFL dedicated shows than NRL ones and they have the NRL TV rights!

    They also never showed the NRL Footy Show on 9HD in AFL states.

    9 are a sick joke!!!

  4. i just checked the win website as i live in Cairns, and it has win news at 12am, and ellen at 1230am on tuesday 11 august. I hope they havent updated yet and will show footy classified instead of ellen. I will ring tomorrow to find out. Do you have any answers, please david.
    Thanks

  5. I don’t understand them, Nine actually have a good thing going and they decide to ditch it.
    I don’t think the AFL would be too happy either, they would be all for generating as much interest as possible. Perhaps we should also let Demetriou and the AFL know whats happening, they could be quite influential…

  6. I am also one of the AFL fans in Sydney who loved the fact the AFL Footy Show was on 9HD – it was great to be able to watch it at a decent hour (and not have to put up with the NRL show). 9 you have made plenty of mistakes – why ruin one good decision you made?

  7. General Programming & Content Complaints
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  8. I agree with comments along the line of “You suck 9…leave it on”, as in Live to air. Watching these shows aired Live, just like the actual football games, is what it’s all about. Late night scheduling for night owls, the odd, the unemployed or the diehard enthusiast program recorders? Bah. It’s like dancing with your sister. It just doesn’t feel right and is barely worth the effort. Does anyone get the feeling they’ve been cheated?

  9. This from the GO_TV twitter feed:

    With #GO! launching for technical reasons we can’t do the HD breakaway programming until early next year.

    That most likely means they do not have the technical ability at this stage to show 3 programs at once and explains the reason why the 9HD AFL break aways for NRL states have disappeared.

  10. It seems a lot of people want the AFL Footy Show on 9HD, but no one wants the NRL one. Hopefully 9 listen to the people. Do the Sydney ratings for the AFL Footy Show on 9HD get added to the Sydney viewership of The NRL Footy Show on 9?

  11. David

    Is there some restriction whereby Nine can only have 2 different shows playing at once? Is this why Nine HD is now the same as Nine, and Go! will have different programming.

  12. Well what about WIN HD? Here on the Sunshine Coast (QLD) where we get both Nine and WIN, we got the AFL Footy Show live at 9.30pm on 9HD and WIN HD. Is this change only for 9HD or for WIN HD as well?

  13. I’ve looked forward every Thursday for the AFL Footy Show here in Brisbane ever since it’s been played at a reasonable hour. I agree with Terrence, it was one of the best programming decisions ever made for 9hd.
    What do you think will happen when all the keen footy viewers tune in next week and get the hills or something. No one will be interested 9!

    Please don’t do this!

  14. An absolute joke. I’ve been watching The AFL Footy Show up here in regional Queensland all year. Probably the only programming decision any network has got right all year was showing different shows across networks like this.

    Then they pull it? Especially shows like this that rate poorly, that could’ve benefited from ratings coming in from around the country.
    Do they wonder why people are watching less TV?!

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