Fact is we pay more $$$$ then TEN network for A-league coverage. FFA needs every cent it can get and this deal confirms it - Never will I have to consider what people say about SKY TV paying Fk all for A-League rights again.

Who gets it when  10 goes bust ?

Whatever we do results in the aleague. Whatever you do results in the NZFC. Think about it Einstein

How does your "nobody bided for A-League FTA rights so it had to be sold back to FOX" work?

How do your 6k crowds work

Ok so Ten network is paying $250k for the A-League, $30k less then what SKY TV NZ pay. How do those metrics work.

Was always going to happen, especially with the industry pushing for a relaxation of media ownership laws.

-PB

Need to be a bit cautious with this. The technology is limited to the listed venues - large stadia with infrastructure. I don't see regional grounds being any better off unless they have fiber optic running straight to the ground.

Now if only there were friendlies to broadcast ...

As long as the Phoenix get none, I'll be happy.

Very very very astute post

Socceroos friendlies FTA with hopefully a heap of promotion

This technology is what I believe can deliver a good 2nd division (pro rel or not). A dream scenario is to get Foxtel on board and have them broadcast a match of the week on Monday nights. Matches could then be commentated by Cockerill and Zelic and streamed on Foxtel Football Facebook page and even on one of their tv channels remotely . Time to evolve. 

FFA Cup is not the missing link, 2nd division is. We need to get access to a proper 2nd division to compliment the A-League and FFA Cup. 

agree

This is great for the game. Channel  Tens more youthfull audience is just the market for the game.

Interesting as an aside to this a new partnership between Fox & Telstra ... could point to Telstra being the digital partner ... 
https://amp.afr.com/business/media-and-marketing/tv/telstra-inks-production-deal-with-fox-sports-across-29-stadiums-20170528-gwer0x

Telstra has signed a multimillion-dollar deal with Fox Sports to help centralise production of live sports television coverage across 29 Australian stadiums to bases in Sydney and Melbourne.

The new partnership, to be announced on Monday, will see the lion's share of production work shift to two new remote production hubs in Sydney and Melbourne, owned by Fox Sports' production partner NEP, rather than being done on site in large production trucks, which are typically expensive assets, roughly $10 million to $15 million each.

Raw camera feeds, audio and equipment control signals will be sent to those new production hubs via Telstra's Distributed Production Network, which will have a standard capacity of 100 gigabits per second in each venue.

The agreement includes all major rectangular and oval stadiums across Australia, including the SCG, MCG, WACA Oval, GABBA, Etihad, Adelaide Oval, Suncorp Stadium, Allianz, ANZ Stadium and AAMI Park.

Trials will begin later this year, with expectations the DPN will be fully operational for the 2018 NRL and AFL seasons.

Head of Telstra Broadcast Services, Trevor Boal, said the new production system had cost benefits as well as employee benefits

."It's a very tough industry to work in because of the hours, travel form venue to venue, it's very taxing ... they'll be a direct beneficiary of this model, they'll be in a centralised facility," Mr Boal told The Australian Financial Review."

What we expect to see in the industry, because the cost of production is less, we'll actually see more money being pumped into other forms of production, other tiers of sport, where it has historically be too expensive to produce, can be considered with this new model.

"Telstra brought together its media broadcast services business and Globecast, which it acquired in March 2015 to for Telstra Broadcast Services, which sits in the telecommunications giant's global enterprise and services business and is not part of the Telstra Media business.

Mr Boal's business is a key part of Telstra expanding its portfolio outside of its traditional consumer and business telco offering, but leveraging its core network

."Media and mining were the first priority growth industries that were identified for this sort of growth, it's very much growth from the core, we're not becoming a broadcaster in our own right," he said.

"We're looking forward to having other conversations with industry participants about how they can leverage these networks."It's also a business Telstra is taking globally. Earlier this year, Telstra signed a multimillion dollar deal to transmit women's tennis tour video and audio around the world with Perform Group

Fox Sports director of operations and digital Les Wigan said Telstra, Fox Sports and NEP Australia – another production partner – were leading the way for the broadcast production model of the future.

"These new hubs will allow us to cover multiple sports from a centralised, revolutionary facility that will deliver the highest-quality broadcast to sports fans around the country," he said.

Awesome news. 10 is the best-case scenario here IMO.

Not on the HAL website yet. Dave can't figure out how to spin a 7.6 million FTA deal in to a 2 million deal with Fox to palm off to 10 as a success story.

No doubt we won't be able to criticise him though. Because, like, it's all to do with the need to do fuck all while we find a new operating model.

At this rate we running out of dance partners - ABC was a joke, Channel 7 likewise, SBS - lost their mojo.

Lets see if some of the channel 10 reporters respect the game now ... unlike some of their past efforts.

@ Bundoora Brah.

Well said. No fancy press conference. No ffa press release. Not even a story on the official A league web site.

Lowy/Gallop have messed this up right royally and need to go.

But the outcome, on TEN, as you say is a good one. No complaints on that.

Sorry Wadie the journey is starting to speed up

so they couldnt sell it.  and foxtel got it.  fail.  gallop and lowy need to go. they have cost the game a fortune over the next 6 years.

cant complain about the broadcasting of it though.  but the extra money they were banging on about when they shit sold the whole thing to foxtel was complete bullshit.

Ok on free to air ....time for some more Del Piero's  

Strange.... not a single mention of this on the SBS World game site...big news... you would think it would have a banner headline ?

O'Rouke mentioned a 2nd FTA game would most likely occur with a 2 team expansion. The length of this deal may coincide with that, although I hope not. 

Great news.

Ten is perfect fit.

Shit money but foot in the door.

Ratings to be spiking to 300k hopefully over 2 years or were cooked.

What is Ones viewing like though? Disappointed its not for the main channel

Best games on FTA with decent promotion, this is what we wanted. No more bitching about coverage. Time to shine.

The good thing is that if this goes as hoped and viewer numbers are high, then it's only two years until renegotiation.