CONFIRMED - A-League gets mainstream home on free-to-air TV as Ten Network signs deal to show...


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Nachoman - 1 Jun 2017 8:10 PM
Lets see if some of the channel 10 reporters respect the game now ... unlike some of their past efforts.

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







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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.
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Awesome news. 10 is the best-case scenario here IMO.
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RBBAnonymous - 1 Jun 2017 8:24 PM
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At this rate we running out of dance partners - ABC was a joke, Channel 7 likewise, SBS - lost their mojo.

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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.




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

agree
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Midfielder - 1 Jun 2017 8:47 PM
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.




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. 
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Socceroos friendlies FTA with hopefully a heap of promotion
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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. 

Very very very astute post
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There is a side debate to this issue- 

Should all clubs receive and equal share of tv moeny?

Almost every match for the last 3 seasons almost every Saturday prime slot has featured SFC, MV or WSW, with SFC and MV having most. Should they receive more or less tv money?

They will receive more sponsorship revenue because of it. They may suffer at the gate but I wouldnt imagine it would be by much and in fact it may help boost their numbers. Teams like CCM, NJ, PG will feature very little and WP probabaly not at all. Should they therefor receive more?

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


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Now if only there were friendlies to broadcast ...
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scott21 - 1 Jun 2017 9:00 PM
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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. 

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

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

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nomates - 1 Jun 2017 9:20 PM
Ok so Ten network is paying $250k for the A-League, $30k less then what SKY TV NZ pay. How do those metrics work.

How do your 6k crowds work
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nomates - 1 Jun 2017 9:20 PM

How do your 6k crowds work

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


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nomates - 1 Jun 2017 9:23 PM
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How does your "nobody bided for A-League FTA rights so it had to be sold back to FOX" work?

Whatever we do results in the aleague. Whatever you do results in the NZFC. Think about it Einstein
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Who gets it when  10 goes bust ?

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bohemia - 1 Jun 2017 9:24 PM
nomates - 1 Jun 2017 9:23 PM

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

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.


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always liked tens sport coverage 


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nomates - 1 Jun 2017 9:28 PM
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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.

You won't be considering much at all when your own club pulls the pin and joins the NZFC. And despite your jingoistic parochial bullshit it'll actually benefit the domestic competitions in both our countries. That 280k from Sky could pay for 2 pro players in the NZFC, which is about the same number of pro NZ players Wellington has in its starting 11
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nomates - 1 Jun 2017 9:20 PM
Ok so Ten network is paying $250k for the A-League, $30k less then what SKY TV NZ pay. How do those metrics work.

Because rejecting Ten is a huge opportunity cost in terms of potential future investment and growth.

There is no growth in NZ. $250k is pretty much the ceiling.

Time to cut you loose.


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nomates - 1 Jun 2017 9:28 PM

You won't be considering much at all when your own club pulls the pin and joins the NZFC. And despite your jingoistic parochial bullshit it'll actually benefit the domestic competitions in both our countries. That 280k from Sky could pay for 2 pro players in the NZFC, which is about the same number of pro NZ players Wellington has in its starting 11

With the new TV deal in place and more money coming our way cant see the owners pulling the plug in a hurry. Anyway enjoy your FTA coverage is only a good thing and a truth to how much its worth to other networks in Australia - big fat $0.


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I think in theory you would only need 2 stadiums that had acces to that, along with lighting quality FOXTEL would want to start things off.

I would be happy with 1 venue in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbant on rotation tbh.
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View from the fence - 1 Jun 2017 9:26 PM
Who gets it when  10 goes bust ?

I can't see 10 not broadcasting ... what I can see is Rupert will buy 10 ....with changes that look like going through the federal parliament being allowed to own both his newspapers and 10... and Fox.. he will be allowed to..he has already set up his invoicing system that both 10 and Fox can combine there advertising invoices.

Given much of the reason 10 is losing money is because it is over paying US corporations for content including Fox US   ... don't believe all the BS about 10 ....its being set up for a News take over and has been for a while now.

If anything when the take over happens it will be in News interest to promote the hell out of us ..

Watch the parliament over the next month or so and see the changes will be made... let 10 almost fail or totally fail... Rupert comes in and re negotiates the overseas contracts and 10 is in profit again and he brought Football for a song ... 

Remember last year 10 had a 685 million dollar revenue... take 5% to 10% of US programming costs and wam bam thank you mam profit agian ... and also 10 is low on Australian content and Australian content cost a bomb to make ... we are quite cheap... there was never a doubt 10 would not get us and cheap..

Its for all of us now to help 10 rate its head off so in two years its worth more.

But as someone said we now have a foot in the door ... I hope we don't waste it..
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This deal is about as good as it gets apart from the financials:

>Commercial FTA station (albeit the smallest one out of the three)
>High quality, consistent coverage courtesy of the Fox Sports team
>A consistent home on ONE every Saturday night
>National team on FTA (big plus)
>Opportunity for heavy cross-promotion, especially if TEN do lose the BBL rights as predicted

The only disappointing aspect of this whole circus has been the lies and spin that FFA HQ have been feeding us about the price they were going to fetch. They've paid enough fucking consultants who should've been able to see from day 1 that the FTA networks were not going to hand over a large sum of cash, yet they continued to flog a dead horse to the public and ended up looking like tits in the process.

The only variable left now is the streaming rights - one of the articles released earlier this week mentioned one of the telcos was heavily interested, but did not mention whom. Telstra would probably be the preferred digital partner, simply because of their existing enormous customer base. That said, I have been satisfied with Optus Sport this past 12 months, so I would not be displeased if they picked up the rights.
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A-League broadcast deal: Channel Ten, Fox Sports

NETWORK Ten will broadcast A-League and Socceroos matches in a deal agreed with Football Federation Australia and Fox Sports to deliver Australian football to more fans than ever before.

A Saturday night A-League match and all finals clashes will be shown on Network Ten from the start of the 2017-2018 season, as well as Socceroos games once this World Cup Qualifying cycle has ended.

Network Ten’s ‘One’ channel will take a live simulcast of Fox Sports’ 7.30pm Saturday night match next season, meaning the code’s best commentary team featuring the likes of Mark Bosnich, Robbie Slater, Simon Hill, Adam Peacock, Andy Harper and Tara Rushton will deliver their coverage to more fans than in the game’s history.

The deal comes after Fox Sports signed a six-year agreement with the FFA to continue live coverage of every A-League game, along with coverage of the Socceroos, Matildas, W-League and FFA Cup.

“This is a win for football fans and an opportunity for us to showcase our game on a commercial network with a recent history of successfully covering major sport,” said Football Federation Australia chief executive David Gallop.

“We will take the biggest matches of the Hyundai A League - such as the Saturday night derbies - into every household in Australia live for the first time,” he added.

“It is part of the overall broadcast deal with Fox Sports and means that we will be working with them to drive interest and subscriptions to their ‘all games live’ coverage of the Hyundai A-League.

Fox Sports CEO, Patrick Delaney, FFA CEO, David Gallop and Channel 10 CEO, Paul Anderson announce new FFA free to air TV deal. Picture. Phil Hillyard
Fox Sports CEO, Patrick Delaney, FFA CEO, David Gallop and Channel 10 CEO, Paul Anderson announce new FFA free to air TV deal. Picture. Phil HillyardSource: News Corp Australia
“It is terrific to have a new and enthusiastic partner in Network Ten to promote the game.”

Network Ten Chief Executive Officer, Paul Anderson, said: “We are very proud to partner with Football Federation Australia and Fox Sports to bring the Hyundai A-League to our viewers on One and tenplay every Saturday night.

“From October this year, 27 home and away Saturday night matches and five finals – plus Socceroos matches from next year – will have a new home on free-to-air television. We will provide a consistent timeslot on One for 30 weeks of the year, promoting the Hyundai A-League and its best game each week to all of Australia.

Fox Sports CEO, Patrick Delaney, FFA CEO, David Gallop and Channel 10 CEO, Paul Anderson announce new FFA free to air TV deal. Picture. Phil Hillyard
Fox Sports CEO, Patrick Delaney, FFA CEO, David Gallop and Channel 10 CEO, Paul Anderson announce new FFA free to air TV deal. Picture. Phil HillyardSource: News Corp Australia
“We are looking forward to working with Fox Sports and Football Federation Australia to broadcast the Hyundai A-League to our viewers live on One and live streamed on tenplay.”

Fox Sports CEO, Patrick Delany said: “This is a great result for football fans in Australia. The arrangement between Fox Sports and Network Ten will ensure more fans than ever before get to watch the best Australian footballers in action every week.

“A prime-time Saturday night A-League match on free-to-air, featuring Fox Sports’ expert commentators and world class production, will help grow the game and build football for long-term success.”

http://www.foxsports.com.au/football/a-league/aleague-broadcast-deal-channel-ten-fox-sports-to-take-australian-football-to-more-fans-than-ever/news-story/f7bab99f30a4657f18828ea6333a57d4

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agree

Disagree.  Worst market to target.  No loyalty.  Short attention span.  Fickle. Replica Euro club shirt wearers.

Why do you think 10 is going broke?
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Gallop is riding BBLs success.
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