When viewed from that perspective, 2 mega US media conglomerates slugging it out over the HAL, things don't look to bad.
Problem is, if they simultaneously knock each other out, we're still left without an FTA partner!

HHHHHHMmmmmmm OK .... HHHHHHmmmmm .... were is the statement wrong ...

10 have publicly stated they want two Hal matches and have identified the timeslots... 10 are controlled by CBS America.

Fox's major shareholder is News Limited which is an American company... Fox have said what 10 offered was not enough for sole broadcasting rights.

We may still cope it in the neck but facts are facts and the above is true... 

don't bother with no mates. he's just posting garbage at a 0/10 level of trolling.  

Lol these last two pages read like panic merchants. There is still plenty of time for it to happen. 

yeh, sort of, maybe, first Friday night game is exactly 28 days away

Thats means the new ad campaign is exactly 27 days away from starting, and 27 1/2 days away from finishing

They've gotta save budget for photoshopping ice cream into players' hands for a week come midseason.

Makes a mockery of the owners hysterics that another season not under their control would be a disaster. Exposes it all for what it really was, a grubby cash grab.

While the HAL sits on its hands.....

     

SBS to Live Stream Victorian Football’s Biggest Day on The World Game Digital Platform

                      

      

        10 hrs ago          

In a first for Victorian football, Australia’s most popular football platform, SBS icon The World Game, will live stream the entire 2019 NPL Victoria Senol Triple Header, exposing Victorian football’s finest to thousands more people.

 https://www.footballvictoria.com.au/news/sbs-live-stream-victorian-footballs-biggest-day-world-game-digital-platform

The HAL isn’t “sitting on its hands” .... Gallop and Lowys contract is in place - the FTA negotiations are between Fox and C10 

I mean it's probably more accessible on FFV's own Facebook and YouTube broadcasts, but good on them for the signal boost.

one may imagine that the newly independent HAL would be concerned about the lack of FTA coverage this close to season start but despite all the bluster the new overlords have done even less than those they usurped. Can’t wait for the new advertising campaign.....

Looks like you’ve taken over paulc’s mantle as resident HAL/FFA apologist.

lol, you may need to grow up a bit. 

The potential FTA deal is between Fox and C10 and no one else. 

As for any improvement in HAL advertising etc .... yup, not seeing it 

Funny how both the Socceroos and hal were on FTA under Lowy. Then the new regime takes over and both seem to disappear...

the current broadcast deal was signed by the old regime, not the new one, so if the HAL is missing from FTA then Lowy/Gallop are to blame (I know it’s inconvenient when facts get in the way of a good troll though ...). 

The only inconvenient facts so far seem to be that Lowy got it done, and this new mob can't.

It’s a real slap in the face that Lowy couldn’t sign a tv contract that included FTA .... and now Indy-HAL are having to sort his mess out. 

Oh, oh, the irony 😂

Seems more to me that the new regime are the ones messing up a tv deal they know is a hell of a lot better than they could ever do. 

all I know is that we are about to experience another drop in overall ratings, almost guaranteed, and that must affect sponsorship revenue

How can they mess up a tv deal that is subject to a 6 year contract signed by Lowy? 

If Lowy didn’t sign an FTA deal and gave everything to Fox to onsell then that the deal. 

Yes we probably are. But there is nothing that can be done to correct five years of neglect when independence only occurred on August 1st this year (and technically still hasn’t happened due to the complexity of the structure created under lowy). 

It will take at least a year to figure things out and everyone needs to step back and let the new owners get on with it - and if they want 6 visa players let them go for it, their job is to create a successful league with the biggest tv component possible, not create a development league for lazy Australians guaranteed a starting position. 

Because so far the new mob seem to be lightweights with no influence. Again, Lowy got it done.

Lowy got the tv done without an FTA component which is now at the mercy of Fox Sports and their negotiating team. 

Lowy takes credit for a record value tv deal over a record six year length. 

The criticism at the time though was there was no FTA component or separate streaming rights. It was basically all eggs in the Fox Sports basket who are now calling the tune over FTA. 

And yet Lowy got FTA done under the same tv deal.

Does HAL really need FTA? Super Rugby doesn't have/need it?

You have no clue ...you just utter anything that suits your agenda .
You have publicly pinned your flag to the Lowy's and now defend everything they did without even considering what you are saying.

The Lowys were lucky .
That TV deal happened when Fox was spending like a drunken sailor on sports. I could have brokered that deal .
However I would have included a FTA component .
Now times have changed and Fox realizes it is has overspent on the big sports and is in trouble with competition from other media platforms .
If the Lowy's were still there the exact same problem with Fox would remain.

The difference is we now have the clubs in charge and the league can run like a normal league and in a normal commercial way .
There is no doubt they will make mistakes and you will no doubt revel in those as some sort of vindication you are right .....but...they at least will now have the ability, an incentive ,and the commercial nous, to fix those mistakes as they affect each of their bottom lines directly .
The League may have some rough waters ahead but I think the new A-league with incentivized owners are best placed to address the issues
Frank Lowy was a good thing in the early years but times change and so has the League and how it needs to be run .
Get over it and move on .

So far as getting FTA done, the Lowy's record demonstrates otherwise.

Once again you cherry pick one thing from a post (and make a nonsensical comment ) and ignore anything that you can't answer ......why do you even bother  ?
Simple fact .....if the Lowy's were still there we would still be in an uncertain state as to what will happen when the current Fox deal finishes .
It has nothing to do with who is running the league and everything to do with outside forces at play within the media spectrum.
We would also still have a league going nowhere because of an old outdated franchise model that clearly does not work and a leader (Lowy) who could not work with the club owners .

and super rugby sucks balls. so what's your point?

If I didn't respond on issues you raised, its because I didn't see how they were relevant to the point in question. And based on your comment above, it appears to me that none of it was actually relevant.