Monday matches for next AFL deal
The AFL's next broadcast rights package will include a weekly Monday night match and shift the Saturday afternoon 2.10pm start.
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The AFL‘s next broadcast rights package will include a weekly Monday night match and the Saturday afternoon 2.10pm start will be pushed out by an hour to allow the TV broadcast to run straight into the evening news bulletin.
The Herald Sun reports new multi-channels will allow the Monday night game to go live around Australia, but neglects to note the anti-siphoning list changes haven’t yet been revealed.
The Monday addition is needed to accommodate night the addition of the league’s 18th team, Greater Western Sydney, from 2012.
The AFL is hoping to reach a new broadcast deal by the end of the year in readiness for the five years from 2012, but is also frustrated by the government’s delayed outcome of the anti-siphoning list review.
The AFL is hoping for $1billion in television rights.
Source: Herald Sun
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Brock Samson. they should tell them how to run the way they cover the game. if they don’t we will get anoth 5 years of non stop midget wrestling and non stop cutting to pointless replays and cutting to the coaches box too see if the coach does pick his nose. 7 thats you who i am talking about
Timmuh . They did. There was 3 Thursday night games in Brisbane and they were live on 9. 7 haven’t shown 1 of those games live at all.
Dear AFL,
You are not the be all and end all of sport in Australia stop telling the networks how to run their broadcasts.
it won’t be all on one FTA network because the AFL won’t get $1B if that’s the case.
A spread of broadcasters get the AFL the overall best financial outcome only problem being 7’s lacklustre coverage i.e no HD.
Mr Chandler, there is no way known Nine would have played a live game into Brisbane on Friday night – even with the Lions playing. Both NRL games would be on first, and then the Lions at 11:30 (or 2am, or 5am, or not at all going by Nine’s history). Unfortunately even two low drawing NRL sides outdraws the Lions in Brisbane, and Nine don’t allow low drawing sides to play on Friday nights in the NRL.
As for Monday nights, it will hurt the clubs involved terribly in terms of attendance – andpossibly membership. At least it would ensure FTA TV coverage, so it might not be as bad as Sunday twilight is, where fans can’t go and only the 35% with Fox can watch the sides. Sunday twilight is killing football clubs.
$1 billion…dream on.
can we talk about real sport.
goffy. brisbane have ahd 3 friday night games in brisbane the last 3 years and none of them have been live on 7 in brisbane, they would have been live on 9 into brisbane and that’s an absolute fact
AFL – 4 nights a week? Noooooooooo! Spare us all.
Should have kept the 2:10 Saturday start and have a triple header on Pay TV (our own Super Saturday). MNF is a failure for the fans of the NRL (not the PayTV networks, The Fans) and in the long term will be even more of a failure for the AFL.
I would rather 2 Friday night games as well, also would love for the anti siphoning rules to change so 7/7TWO and 10/ONE can get the rights to themselves!
Two Friday night games is a good idea. Commit to having one WA team guaranteed a live Friday game a week (which would air live/short delay in the east) as well as a east coast game live in the states it airs/SD in NSW/QLD (delayed after the local game in WA), and you may have a winner.
i hate people going on about channel 7 and their non live coverage on friday Nights. its No different to what Channel 9 did when they had friday nights. and same with sunday. its No different to what channel 9 did, and at least with 7 we get the full 2:10 game, not highlights, and then massive padding….
asking for $1 billion, the networks might have more say on how they want their games to be played on tv (live or delayed) to suit their own needs
Thursday night football is far better than a monday night. More crowds & abit more people would go & watch it as it’s close to the weekend.
Monday is crap even if it was a live game
To Far2busy: When the AFL askes for big money for tv rights the channels need to show more ad’s to pay for their tv rights. I don’t agree Channel 7 has destroyed friday night footy. Channel 9 was worse when they showed AFL.
Channel 9’s last AFL broadcast deal was ordinary & i hope Nine don’t get the next tv rights deal, but please remember channel 7 wanted to show the sunday 1pm game “live” & highlights at 4pm of the sunday 2pm afternoon game but foxtel wouldn’t sign that deal. Foxtel in the end got the sunday 1pm & sunday twilight so channel 7 got shafted
The 3.10pm start for Saturday afternoon games probably mean they will be shown live across Victoria. But I don’t like the idea of Monday night football, because (apart from late nights for families and old people) if the matches involved teams from SA or WA they will have to be shown on the main free-to-air channel in those states as well, disrupting their primetime schedules.
Interesting that a story about AFL has a photo of a cricket match…lol
ONE HD and channel nine for the afl rights!!!!
Plus if the anti siphoning list allows afl on secondary digital channels ONE could cut out foxtel completely!
How will they get $1 billion when it gets outrated by 20 year old movies in Sydney and Brisbane?
Now they’ll be forced to show even more games in those cities that will only average 50,000 viewers at best,
Whoever pays that much for them will lose a bundle. That is a Fact.
It will rate well, don’t know about attendances. Give all Monday games to Victorians, those idiots will attend anything. Not good for Adelaide, just as bad as Sunday twilight games, and no one wants to travel to Footy Park as it is, a Monday night would be even worse.
Shoulda just scheduled 2 Friday night games. Win win on attendances and ratings numbers.
$1 billion seems like an awful lot of money for the rights to the AFL.
Channel 7 have destroyed footy over the past 5 years. Delayed Friday night games that end at midnight are just the tip of the iceberg. Sunday games that are delayed and padded out with ads to stretch the coverage to lead into the news. They paid too much $ for the rights and it’s the viewer that is paying for it by having to endure commercial heavy coverage. Production values are fine but Please give it to us live! It’s 2010 ! Breathe…. And I don’t care what Collingwood captain Nick Maxwell has to say at half time on a Friday night about a game between two teams he has nothing to do with. Rant over.
Well, I wouldn’t believe everything I read in the Hun.
As long as the deal includes a “live or not at all” clause for the FTA broadcasters.
i bet nti won’t be live across australia if 7 get it