Re: Nine win AFL exclusive AFL broadcast rights

[Ext User(Andrew Bayley)]

"Seagull" <dav259@csiro.au> wrote in message
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> If the federal government was serious about digital television (as it's
> pretended to be for the last six years) why wouldn't it allow Channel
> Nine to telecast the footy in the rugby states on a second (digital)
> channel?
>
> It already allows the ABC and SBS a second channel. Why not the
> commercial stations?

because the commercial networks lobbied the Government to restrict
multi-channelling on the commercial stations.

[Ext User(matt cook)]

Andrew Bayley wrote:
> "Seagull" <dav259@csiro.au> wrote in message
> news:1135769155.225460.246340@g44g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com...
> > If the federal government was serious about digital television (as it's
> > pretended to be for the last six years) why wouldn't it allow Channel
> > Nine to telecast the footy in the rugby states on a second (digital)
> > channel?
> >
> > It already allows the ABC and SBS a second channel. Why not the
> > commercial stations?
>
> because the commercial networks lobbied the Government to restrict
> multi-channelling on the commercial stations.

Yes, and there's a lot of restrictions on what the ABC and SBS can put
on their additional channels as well.

[Ext User(Andrew Bayley)]

"matt cook" <matturn@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> Andrew Bayley wrote:
>> "Seagull" <dav259@csiro.au> wrote in message
>> news:1135769155.225460.246340@g44g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com...
>> > If the federal government was serious about digital television (as it's
>> > pretended to be for the last six years) why wouldn't it allow Channel
>> > Nine to telecast the footy in the rugby states on a second (digital)
>> > channel?
>> >
>> > It already allows the ABC and SBS a second channel. Why not the
>> > commercial stations?
>>
>> because the commercial networks lobbied the Government to restrict
>> multi-channelling on the commercial stations.
>
> Yes, and there's a lot of restrictions on what the ABC and SBS can put
> on their additional channels as well.

well the word "insane" comes to mind when i think of the restrictions on
ABC/SBS. SBS can't even run an english language news bulletin (either a
timeshift of their own news or from someone like BBC, DW, PBS etc.) on its
World News Channel, but ABC2 seem to be able to have ABC News updates and
Australia-Wide which is effectively a news bulletin anyway.

[Ext User(matt cook)]

Andrew Bayley wrote:

> well the word "insane" comes to mind when i think of the restrictions on
> ABC/SBS. SBS can't even run an english language news bulletin (either a
> timeshift of their own news or from someone like BBC, DW, PBS etc.) on its
> World News Channel, but ABC2 seem to be able to have ABC News updates and
> Australia-Wide which is effectively a news bulletin anyway.

That's just because the ABC is willing to stretch the rules further. It
used to have movies on Fly TV, which are even harder to justify under
the genre rules.