NSW Swifts and Giants have pledged to turn down sports betting sponsorship for the next two years and commit to educating their fans, players, and staff about gambling harm in the community through messaging at their games and on their social media.
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FIFA Womenâs World Cup gambling crackdown results released
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) today revealed the outcome of a crackdown on illegal online gambling services operating around the time of the 2023 FIFA Womenâs World Cup.
The report published today shows 200 offshore services were reviewed in the lead-up to and during the event. Of those services, 21 were investigated as they appeared to be directly targeting Australians. As a result, 18 services were found to be operating in breach of the Interactive Gambling Act 2001.
Following notification of the ACMAâs findings, three of those services withdrew from the Australian market, while the remaining 15 services had their websites blocked by internet service providers at the request of the ACMA.
ACMA authority member and online gambling lead Carolyn Lidgerwood said the sites were unlicensed to provide wagering services in Australia and in some cases also offered interactive gambling services such as online casinos and slots or online in-play betting, which are all banned in Australia.
âIllegal gambling operations often take advantage of high-profile sporting events to push their services onto fans.
âThese sites also offer none of the consumer protections that apply to licensed wagering services in Australia. Using these sites is more than a gamble as you have no rights and even if you win, you may never see the money,â Ms Lidgerwood said.
Since 2019, the ACMA has been asking internet service providers to block gambling websites found to be operating in breach of Australian interactive gambling laws. Over that time, more than 900 illegal gambling and affiliate websites have been blocked.
More than 220 illegal services have also pulled out of the Australian market since the ACMA started enforcing illegal offshore gambling rules.
Minimising gambling harm is a current ACMA compliance priority and Australians can check on the ACMAâs online register to see if a wagering service is licensed to operate in Australia.
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Kayo in breach of rules.
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It is front page article on Sunday Age and The Sun-Herald today (taken from Olympic front pages posted by TVCynic in the Paris Olympics thread).
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Does this mean the on-line versions of 7,9,10 and SBS will not have gambling ads either? Same for Fox Sports and Optus Sport on-line streams? Or are they all exempted if a simulcast of the FTA/Satellite broadcast?
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My understanding is that theyâre required to comply to the online rules for streams. Kayo/Hubbl have been hit with breaches recently of the online rules
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Iâm sure that thereâll be a loophole you can fit a horse through no matter what.
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I occasionally listen to live streams of Wide World of Sports on 3AW on weekdays. While I can hear generic gambling advertisements during program breaks, the specific ads with odds for upcoming matches are covered up with a message saying something like âthis content cannot be shownâ.
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No doubt the networks will scream blue murder if gambling ads canât be screened on-line. They will campaign hard that it wonât be worth their while to obtain sports rights if gambling ads only restricted to FTA only. And as the Opposition have also stated they support bans on TV gambling advertising, the networks donât really have anywhere else to go?
And will the TAB get an exemption as always for horse, trots and dog racing?
Will be interesting to see how the legislation pans out.
Frankly, we shouldnât have them anywhere, but yet again our politicians are too weak-willed to do something drastic about it.
I have no sympathy for the networks whinging about it - its bad enough that theyâve made betting an integral part of their coverage
Totally agree. It turned me off watching sport a long time ago, including the inane practice of having commentators spruik upcoming TV shows they have never watched. The ultimate being when John McEnroe on Seven once being asked by his co-commentator about a US show Seven was screening after the Tennis, McEnroe replied, â,hasnât that show already been axed back home?â LOL!
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Weâre going back 20 years here, wouldâve been pre-2005, like 24 or Alias perhaps? Are you sure it wasnât Jim Courier, him and John Alexander used to do this all the time, recall one just like you said in fact, it was Desperate Housewives or Lost âoh yeah man, this is huge back in the States, everybody is watching!â
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Was McEnroe. Canât remember the show being spruiked.
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As reported in Australian Financial Review today.
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Should be a big no to that! How much more freeloading can these networks get? They get enough taxpayer and legislative free kicks as it is already. If they canât make their business work, give the licence to someone else.
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Oh wow:
When the concept of a total gambling ad ban was originally put forward, Bridget Fair , Free TV CEO, said it was âbased on a fundamentally flawed premise that the advertising market is some kind of magic pudding. But reductions in advertising revenue in the current economic and competitive environment can only result in less funding for Australian content.â
This is incredibly tone-deaf, the harm that gambling does in our community is well documented - itâs really concerning that this industry has become so endemic in our advertising market that restricting their ads would have such a financial impact.
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Iâm in favour of a full ban of sports gambling - realise that would send it overseas or underground but donât believe that would matter.
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Of course it has, why do you think there is so much of it? The industry is a rare example of growth in traditional advertising in the past 15-20 years.
Think about it, if Metaâs non-renewed deal forced cuts, what do you think the tens of millions from gambling advertising being cut will do?
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