Do NSW and QLD get live telecasts of the VFL, WAFL or SANFL on FTA TV? Why would anyone outside of NSW/QLD want to watch the state based RL competitions?
Yeah cos we need another replay of some 30 year old show instead. I don’t know why live sport isn’t shown nationwide, thought that was part of why multichannels came About?
Showing coverage of the major national football leagues on multichannels in the minority states? Yeah, that’s fair enough.
But surely only about 12 people outside of the relevant markets (well I’m probably exaggerating, but you get the idea - extremely niche content) really care about the state football leagues?
But Nine should have made a special case for the season opener next week. Since Melbourne is hosting the opening game for the first time, it should be shown live on main channel in Melbourne as a one-off.
Yet the discussion wasn’t predominantly about NRL matches being on the Network’s main channel outside NSW/Qld (was a mention of Storm games being on 9 in Vic/Tas), it was about the State Leagues being on multichannels this year outside of NSW/Qld (which was the bit you quoted).
So I’m not entirely sure exactly what you’re on about had to do with the discussion myself and a few others were having? Or was that an attempt to get the discussion going “round and round in circles”?
I phoned Nine this morning And told that Perth viewers will not be seeing the Thursday and Friday post-match coverage. THis will also impact South Australia, Victorian and Tasmania. A programming man told me that after viewers will switch off or change channels after the game is finished on Gem. I worried that they’d might not put the post match analysis on 9Now.
