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Thursday: Anti-siphoning day…

The long-awaited results of the Anti-Siphoning List review are due to be announced on Thursday.

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The long-awaited results of the Anti-Siphoning List review are due to be announced tomorrow, according to The Australian.

The government is expected to make a formal announcement on Thursday having been considered by Cabinet.

Senior AFL figures are believed to be travelling to Canberra today for last minute meetings with Senator Conroy.

The key changes that are expected include:

– Pay TV to be allowed to bid for the four AFL games it currently screensgames direct with the League.
– Free to Air commercial channels to be given more flexibility to air events on multichannels.*
– Major sporting events remain on Free to Air.
– Possibility of additional events protected on the list.

Yesterday both FOX Sports and Seven News announced complementary coverage of the Australian Open.

* Some changes will require legislation, whilst The Greens want a chance to debate any changes.

Source: The Australian

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  1. “Forget about sport going on multichannels,even if given the green light they won’t do it”. Seven and Nine don’t seem to want to, but ever heard of One HD? They currently have their hands tied in that if they want to show an event form the list in HD, then they have no choice but to tie-up 10 as well with a simulcast. They had to get special permission from Conroy to break away from the games to show the nightly news on 10 while still showing the games on One. Hopefully this will be addressed.

  3. Forget about sport going on multichannels,even if given the green light they won’t do it…….FTA and Foxtel need a even playing field the government need to but out.Sports may suffer in the long term,because of it

  4. Governments favour free-to-air stations over other broadcasters, always have and always will which means sports fans will always be screwed over one way or another.

  5. Not much of a change then, really just fiddling round the edges.

    Why do all these minor compromises seem to be there to benefit the broadcasters or sports – is anyone thinking about the viewers?

    I agree with @Craig – shouldn’t the premise from the government be to progress coverage and deliver viewers, sport live and in HD, rather than helping the newtorks and sports deliver to their shareholders?

  9. Those bloody greens. They think they know best but us TV people are over it already. We want the list to be changed asap but as usual they always want to debate this. Give us a break for once.

  13. Surely one of the main key changes should be that major events should be broadcast ‘Live’ in all timezones on FTA channels.
    The fact that people overseas can see the Australian Open Tennis live and we in Australia can’t is a disgrace.

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