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Networks face sporting penalties

TV Networks that that misuse or shelve the rights to major sporting events face harsh penalties under planned changes to the anti-siphoning list.

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TV Networks that that misuse or shelve the rights to major sporting events face harsh penalties under planned changes to the anti-siphoning list.

The claim is published in an article on Senator Conroy’s plans for the list in today’s Sun-Herald.

Punishment for mistreating sporting fans would be welcome news to viewers. The last furore to cause a blow up was Seven’s delayed airing of the Bathurst 1000. This week Nine denies Cricket fans high definition broadcasts.

But there are no details published about what kind of penalties are being considered, nor what constitutes misuse.

Cabinet is expected to approve the changes this week.

Meanwhile the Greens will this week introduce legislation that would effectively delay the introduction of a new deal until Parliament has considered it next year. If the opposition supports the Greens’ bill, any new list would then need to be considered by Parliament for six days until it comes into effect.

The Coalition will consider the Greens’ bill tomorrow morning.

Source: Sun Herald, The Age

22 Responses

  1. @Craig, well, it is not a sport then if it is beholden to the wants and needs of a television network, as it is treated more as a filler between the commercial and promo breaks. When a sport has stooped to the level of being pure product by selling its soul, then it is really sad. International V8 viewers have a better deal then local viewers. The worst part is the shortening of races thereby ripping off spectators and competitors alike. The contract that Seven has is so tight, even the BigPond TV internet channel cant show the races live, only the qualifying, how useless is that? The V8’s should go live to pay tv and be taken off anti-siphoning..

  2. ’m puzzled as to why wimbledon and a few other international events are on the anti-siphoning list when they are hardly in the national australian interest. I don’t think seven, nine and ten have treated their audience well enough to be given such a leg up by the government and this amount of protection.

  3. I’m puzzled as to why wimbledon and a few other international events are on the anti-siphoning list when they are hardly in the national australian interest. I don’t think seven, nine and ten have treated their audience well enough to be given such a leg up by the government and this amount of protection.

  4. It’s been well known for years those apart from Bathurst and Maybe the 500 most other V8 races are delayed for TV programing. That was clear today with the 2nd race put on hold after the crash, but one ad break later and they were racing again. In reality there was about a 30 minutes hold up where the cars where stationary on the grid.

    Now personally for a race like this I prefer what they did today and not sit around watching nothing for half an hour or more.

  5. @MHA, couldnt agree more, the whole V8 Supercar/Seven thing is a joke. Both races were shortened to fit into Sevens schedule because there so far delayed. You’d think it wouldn’t be a problem with the footy season finished. Meanwhile that patrons who payed $60 to get in see less. And this is the premier motorsport category in the country!

  6. Seven again did not endear themselves again with today’s V8’s, running 20 minutes on delay on the east coast with the race shortened to fit in with Seven’s schedule.

  7. Another thought – I agree that live should be enforced, in the context of what happened with Bathurst, but this also needs some common sense. e.g. there was a clash this week between golf and NFL on One, so an NFL game was delayed in order to finish showing the golf (though unfotunately they didn’t update the EPG with this info! Another issue which needs addressing). So I’m ok with delays if there’s a clash like there was on One, but I’m not ok with a delay like there was with Bathurst, which was done solely because the race was going faster than usual (no rain and not many safety cars) and 7 wanted to stretch it out to benefit the advertisers who were potentially going to lose audience with a relatively early finish to the race – not happy Jan.

  8. Rob, I agree that in a perfect world everything would be HD, but unfortunately that’s not the case. I have seen drama fans have tanties over One – i.e. Ten’s HD channel – being all sport, so they don’t get to see their dramas in HD (like the other HD channels carrying HD drama isn’t enough – all drama has to be in HD!). I’m just saying in a rational argument there are very good reasons to give the HD to sport rather than studio-based shows (though many drama fans choose to ignore this logic). I’m not that big of a sports fan myself – I only follow NFL and F1 – but if push comes to shove, the NFL is the last thing I want to lose HD from. I’ll put up with poor quality on other shows as long as my sport is still HD, for the reasons I mentioned. I’m not a cricket fan, but I’ll stand up for their right to see cricket in HD, for those same reasons.

  9. I hope this is true for the Seven Network and there distruction of Friday night AFL broadcast in Sydney. Waiting for some lame program to finish at 11.30pm is rediculous, what is even more so is that they make you wait 4 hours to watch the game and then show all the pre-game bull before the game finally starts after midnight. Just a little heads up for Seven, it’s not just adults who watch and the children who want to watch their heores usually have their own game to play for their junior club 9am the next morning. I hope the powers to be stop this blatant disregard to the AFL faithfull. With basically four channels on their band-width there is no reason Seven should be able to get away with this!!!

  10. Donald, I think studio based shots are not pannign and moving anywhere to the extent sport does and it is also more predictable following a script. SPort needs it more but both would be better in HD

  11. Yeah, start showing the night matches of Australian Open live at places other than just Melbourne and Sydney. Not implementing daylight saving should not be a barrier keeping fans from enjoying these matches live.

  12. I find it amazing that people turn on sport and say ‘who cares about sport. Sport is one of the great equalizers in this country, like Australian beaches they should be available to everyone and for free.

  13. @Nicky Santoro and Not Happy Sam, sport for the most part is shot from far away with wide angles, to get as much of the action in as possible, as opposed to studio shows which are shot close-up, and therefore need to be in HD just to capture all the same detail as a close-up studio show, especially for moments like seeing if a player/ball was in-bounds or not, etc..

  14. Hopefully all this goes trhough and we can have multi-channel coverage of all the events and who cares about foxtel?

    When they have the options of showing these events on multi-channels the live issue shouldn’t be a problem and the result will be more sport on FTA which can only be a good thing.

    Just hope the coaltion don’t back the greens.

  15. What an absolute joke….
    Why should sports be singled out?
    Why do people believe that sports are more imprtant then anything else?

    They should be fined for mis-treating all shows and their viewers.

  17. Quite funny seeing the British Open Golf (has been shown only on Foxtel the last 2 years) and Tennis grand slams (Both the French and US Opens broadcast almost exclusively on Fox Sports)

    Perhaps the market is best equipped to work out what people want to watch?

  19. Good, there needs to be some common sence enforced when a channel owns the rights to 2 major sporting events that clash and want to play the 6pm news in the middle. They should be forced to use their other clannels. For goodness sake SBS can do it with the World Cup, and that was the same event and they only have 2 channels!

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