FTA Tele and sports anti siphoning laws

[Jesus]

SBS did a far better job with the last world cup than fox do.

Follow your argument through a bit further.

When things get tougher, the first thing that slows is consumer spending, then companies make lower profits and their advertising spend reduces. Then TV companies profit falls (Ch10 anyone??).

Then FTA has less cash to spunk on sport.

Pay Tv however has people locked into contracts. Cashflow continues (for a while).

But does not make much sense. Morfe people watch FTA as less have fox. People are still going to watch in large numbers, probably more as people have less money to do other things.

There are a tonne of shit shows on fox. Alot on FTA too. As a result tv audiences in both are being affected, especially in the us. Cable will be dea due to internet coverage long before they get a stranglehold on the market.

 

[dibo]

how many of the people saying 'pay tv is the future' don't currently have pay tv?

 

[adz]

I'll use a television show example......... take a show that is commissioned for free to air television, say Two and a Half Men.  Piss poor scripting, lame predictable laughs, and big name stars purely to get people to watch.  Now look at a comedy show on cable/pay - say, Entourage.  Top notch scripts, actual acting, good plot, strong structure, etc. and so forth.  Same with drama.  Something like Battlestar Galactica, The Sopranos, and The Wire are infinitely superior to the various CSI's running around.

oi what's wrong with Two and a half Men, that's a great show ;D... All these shows are on FTA too anyway....

The only reason for me to get pay tv (which is currently still not available where I live) is for live sport. If FTA got all the sport I wanted to watch live there would be no reason for me to get pay tv. All the other stuff is either old or shit anyway, the difference is the good shows are not as old as what they show on FTA (e.g. only 1 season behind the US instead of 3).

 

[dibo]

I'll use a television show example......... take a show that is commissioned for free to air television, say Two and a Half Men.   Piss poor scripting, lame predictable laughs, and big name stars purely to get people to watch.   Now look at a comedy show on cable/pay - say, Entourage.  Top notch scripts, actual acting, good plot, strong structure, etc. and so forth.   Same with drama.  Something like Battlestar Galactica, The Sopranos, and The Wire are infinitely superior to the various CSI's running around.

oi what's wrong with Two and a half Men, that's a great show ;D... All these shows are on FTA too anyway....

The only reason for me to get pay tv (which is currently still not available where I live) is for live sport. If FTA got all the sport I wanted to watch live there would be no reason for me to get pay tv. All the other stuff is either old or shit anyway, the difference is the good shows are not as old as what they show on FTA (e.g. only 1 season behind the US instead of 3).

live sport, and the a-league in particular, is the *only* reason i got fox.

if the a-league had matches on FTA, i'd probably have just watched whatever non-FTA matches were on at the pub.

most households out there (i.e. the 70% out there who don't have fox) would be in a position to actually see a game or two if the a-league had *some* fta coverage.

you don't have to make a budgetary choice or be a 'discerning consumer' (as was put, with just a hint of condescension, in a previous version of this recurring conversation) to see fta sport. i don't want people to have to make budgetary choices or be discerning consumers to follow the a-league, and especially not to follow the socceroos.

our exposure would be greater, our value to sponsors would be greater, and the simple fact remains that FTA broadcasters *want* to show our sport *and want to give us money for the right to do so*.

the benefits of having no matches on FTA vs maybe one live match plus a highlights package with the rest on fox (as with the other major codes) has never been adequately outlined on here.

 

[FFC Mariner]

ps Adz, I dont mind 2.5 men either.

 

[clarence]

Stuck at home this weekend crook, and was very surprised to see NO sport on FTA on Saturday - at all! Gone are the days one could nurse a sore back or a flu with a blanket on the couch, some soup & get puzzled by watching AFL.

I don;t like Foxtel's content other than its sports - and in that area, they are making inroads on the FTA content.

 

[priorpeter]

The down-side is that I can't justify going down to the Kincumber Resort Hotel on Friday nights now, (topless and lingerie waitresses!).

no.. certainly can't justify it at all

 

[Bex]

Thats easy......just comparing the reception ;D

 

[serious14]

The down-side is that I can't justify going down to the Kincumber Resort Hotel on Friday nights now, (topless and lingerie waitresses!).

I think that's the gayest thing I've ever read on here dude.    Come on!!!!  THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU'RE SAYING!!!! 

 

[dru]

The down-side is that I can't justify going down to the Kincumber Resort Hotel on Friday nights now, (topless and lingerie waitresses!).

I think that's the gayest thing I've ever read on here dude.     Come on!!!!  THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU'RE SAYING!!!!  

I think I just found a new watering hole on Friday nights!

Losing cred with serious14: 1 minute of internet time
potentially embarrassing ones kids on an internet forum: priceless!