Antisiphoning list

Television Sports Broadcasting Rights
143

Abd shifted kids shows to multi-channels at 7am.

144

Nine Entertainment acting CEO Matt Stanton commented on anti-siphoning list during this morning’s half-year results presentation (via Mumbrella)

“We urge the government to … close the gap in the anti-siphoning scheme to ensure that large global platforms cannot snap up streaming rights to iconic Australian sport events before broadcasters have the opportunity to acquire those rights for our free BVOD platforms, such as Nine Now,” he said.

The anti-siphoning laws currently only protect sporting rights on linear TV, opening up a loophole that allows subscription services to bid for the streaming rights for a sporting competition – in essence, side stepping the laws.

“With an ever-increasing number of Australians choosing to stream live sporting events on Nine Now, it shouldn’t matter whether you have an aerial on your roof as to whether you can access free live Australian sport or not,” Stanton argued.

1 Like
145

yet they’ll happily paywall stuff behind Stan?

It’s either one or the other.

1 Like
146

Foxtel’s Patrick Delany rails against broadcasting law

Another matter currently hampering Delany is the anti-siphoning legislation designed to to protect important sporting events from being locked behind paywalls.

“They are very, very outdated,” Delany says. “I think Australians get a lot of their entertainment through digital means. I think Australians are very used to paying for sport.

“And frankly, I don’t see why, if the Australian people and the Australian government think we should have some anti-siphoning, why it is contained to broadcast.

“It should be that if you are willing to provide those items that the Australian government, the Australian people think should be free, then I don’t see why you can’t fulfill that obligation by providing it free digitally.”

“The world’s changed,” Delany notes. “I think Australian laws and Australia needs to keep up with that. If people in Canberra think that the world’s only about watching broadcast TV, they need to watch their children watching YouTube and Netflix and TikTok.

“I think, at the very, very least, anti-siphoning should reflect that. And it should be that if something has to be free — and if it’s on the internet or streamed for free — then that qualifies.”

1 Like
147

Nothing more than Fox working their self-interest. Nothing to see here.

1 Like
148

Just like the FTA networks

1 Like