Who does Athletics ?

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If they pull the pin on production of local phudbol content, who would pick up the scraps?

-PB

News Corporation chalks up $1.9bn loss as Foxtel's value written down by another billion

Updated 38 minutes ago

Global media giant News Corporation has suffered another nasty full year loss of $US1.4 billion ($1.9 billion) as it continues to write down the value of its Australian pay-TV subsidiary, Foxtel.

The big full year loss follows last year's $US643 million ($870 million) loss where the value of a range of newspapers and TV platforms were slashed.

Foxtel and Fox Sports saw their value cut by $US998 million ($1,354 million) as part of their consolidation into a single company, with News owning 65 per cent of the business and Telstra controlling the other 35 per cent.

The transaction also incurred further costs to the bottom line of almost $800 million, which included tax.

The previous year's result was also affected by a $1.4 billion write-down at Foxtel.

"News Corp is now a more substantial company after the Foxtel transaction, with a much higher percentage of recurring, subscription-based revenues, which should help offset a volatile advertising environment," News chief executive Robert Thomson said.

The better news was an overall rise in full year revenues across the company, up 11 per cent to $US9.02 billion ($12.2 billion).

A few things might happen

1. Fox invest more in a-league because they have no football now
2. They give up on even bothering with local football.
3. Business as usual.

Or they might not.

I hope you’ve enjoyed those gripping insights :)

Optus secures Champions League rights weeks 

The broadcaster said in a statement on Friday that it would screen all Champions League matches for the next three years, as well as the Uefa Europa League and the Uefa Super Cup.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/aug/03/optus-secures-champions-league-rights-weeks-after-world-cup-fiasco?CMP=share_btn_tw

My bad. 

The optus coverage seemed very detailed and interesting. Just the technology was a massive let down. 

@ WSF

I thought I’d made it clear the delivery of the content and the issues they had there were separate to what was on offer. Which imo was pretty good and, unlike Telstra and FoxSports, Optus at least act like Football is important to them.

No. Only plastic competitions have a finals series but award the most important title before the finals

I probably should have said that from the start, was only talking about the delivery of the content, not the content itself. 

Definitely, Schwarzer, Okon, Aloisi and co were much more likeable and informative than the morons that Fox trot every week. They gave an idiot like Archie as much air time as possible ffs. Bosnich is just a self interested jerk and threw a tantrum when the VAR wasn't the magic fix all he thought it would be. Only decent pundits they have are McBreen and Heffernan and they use them as sparingly as possible.

The fact it shat itself is different to the quality of content on there when it wasn't shitting itself though

So outstanding they gave the remaining coverage to sbs?

Disastrous is the word I would use. 

From their own mouths

"We’re not going to pretend our delivery of the 2018 FIFA World Cup was anything but a monumental stuff up."

apart from P&R for everyone else

 it's already been done at 1982 WC and was immediately dropped for 1986

The Nations League

The 55 member associations have been split into four Leagues according to their respective coefficients, with those rankings again used to subdivide them into pots. Here's the make-up:

League A
Pot 1: Germany, Portugal, Belgium, Spain.
Pot 2: France, England, Switzerland, Italy.
Pot 3: Poland, Iceland, Croatia, Netherlands.

League B
Pot 1: Austria, Wales, Russia, Slovakia.
Pot 2: Sweden, Ukraine, Republic of Ireland, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Pot 3: Northern Ireland, Denmark, Czech Republic, Turkey.

League C
Pot 1: Hungary, Romania, Scotland, Slovenia.
Pot 2: Greece, Serbia, Albania, Norway.
Pot 3: Montenegro, Israel, Bulgaria, Finland.
Pot 4: Cyprus, Estonia, Lithuania.

League D
Pot 1: Azerbaijan, Macedonia, Belarus, Georgia.
Pot 2: Armenia, Latvia, Faroe Islands, Luxembourg.
Pot 3: Kazakhstan, Moldova, Liechtenstein, Malta.
Pot 4: Andorra, Kosovo, San Marino, Gibraltar.

The Nations League will also utilise groups of three so a glimpse of future WCs

Apart from the finals are just for the 4 League A group winners

Don't mind it, shits all over typical streams. 

Wouldn't hurt to have SBS show a few games as well. They should merge. 

For my taste, the Optus coverage was superior to SBS.  It was certainly better than most of what Fox ran with last year. 
If Fox got rid of Slater and Bosnich, replaced them with any of the Optus pundits, it would help.

Mel has lost nothing.

Bah!
Only plastic competitions have finals to decide the winner, right?

280 games on demand. Though they expire after a few days. The have the highlights show. Gary Nevilles soccer box is great. Sits with past premier league players and talks about a game they played each other in.

What? You actually want to pay to pay to watch the a-league? As in, you'd prefer that 10 loses the rights so Optus can charge for it? It's a strange thing to wish you had to pay for something you currently get for free. Money to burn, eh?

Pipe dream from me but when the 10 contract ends I would love Optus to get it, if they charge a reasonable price.

OK OK OK its only a dream but say Optus paid 25 million for two A-League matches, charge a small amount for it.

you dont have to be 'with' optus in terms of using them for phone/broadband/whatever. just subscribe to the sports package with your current carrier. $15 a month everyone can afford. Whether it stays that cheap is probably debatable though.

@bluebird

They don’t have EPL mini matches off memory but they have pretty decent on demand. It’s not every game but I think it averages at about 7 or 8 of the 10 games each match day. I think they’re allowed on demand for about 30 of each clubs 38 matches each season. They let you know if it’s an on demand game in advance, and if not it’s still replayed on their ‘Optus sport 1’ channel during the week. The games do become unavailable at the start of each new match day (usually Saturday evening our time).

I was a sceptic when they first signed the rights, but IMO it’s far and away the best and most comprehensive coverage of any football league we’ve ever had here.

On demand and mini matches

Without them I wouldnt have been able to see the world cup due to work commitments

If they also have these features for the EPL I'm converting

I don't see anything special about Optus coverage. It's fine, but no better than either fox sports or sbs. I actually preferred watching premier league on Fox because I liked hearing the analysis by local pundits. I'd take Bozza over those English dinosaur coaches they trot out on optus any day. And I watched the whole world cup on sbs. Optus simply has no one as insightful as Foster and its lead-in shows were often embarrassing.

My read on that is if the Socceroos play a European team in Europe then Optus and fox will broadcast it, but if it’s outside Europe then only fox (and possibly FTA) have the rights

Yes it was very good - I much preferred the analysis by Optus over SBS, except for maybe Okon... dude never looks happy.

This announcement seems to be them committing to football though, which I can't help but support.