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I sometimes wonder if the ABC have commercial interest in cricket and AFL... Offsiders today followed on from the last weeks which was 100% cricket with honorable mentions to AFLW. Rugby internationals against leading nations, football friendlies, some surfing moments, F! car racing, many...

Kinda off topic but ch 10, put an Australian Basketball ball team v a not great USA Basketball team on an exhibition match, last night. I think they came in at number 16, in the overall rating, an as you went down it kept increasing and by the time you got to the under 35s they were in the top...

From the article.. ""'Per Seven’s most recent financial statements, the $170 million AFL deal represents over a quarter of the company’s entire operating expenses, while revenue has dropped 6.2% over the past financial year. More than one in every four dollars spent at Seven goes to the AFL...

This is an interesting article from Crickey... well worth the read... https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/26/nine-network-epl-afl-nrl-sports-broadcasting-rights/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1750904032-1

Over a few Hunter Reds on Sunday afternoon, had a long conversation with a mate and his son. The son owns and runs a sports retail outlet and they both are very close to sport in general way, and given the store / shop sells lots of things the son in particular is across many sports. The...

I think you are right I also can't see them holding on to there current position with lessor games. Having said that the current CEO of FA is a very clever and capable bloke. He has built up their nation sides in the market place and connected well with government. He plans to establish Soccer...

50 fta over four years thats 12 and a bit games per year. Thats not a bad deal. Also a number of sources aside from smh saying the NEWS reported 50 million is well short of what has been paid, no idea why the figure is a secret.

SMH reporting the 50 million per year is well short of what the actual is, the following is from the smh. https://www.smh.com.au/sport/soccer/matildas-socceroos-to-remain-on-network-10-for-next-five-years-20240827-p5k5n2.html Football Australia has clinched a rich new broadcast deal with...

No twas answering a question and wondering what might have been.

News are reporting Football Australia penned a 200 million four year deal for the Socceroo's and Matilda's, with ch 10 / Paramount...

Wow, who said to leave Fox, and who said to set up your own Kerry Packer circus. Just maybe the then powers could have developed a concept acceptable to Fox possibly better than what they had after all we did not always have 15 teams spread across 3 countries. Consider what could have been...

Or create a competition they can win regularly in. Football & Basketball are the best examples where in Football maybe 6 top class competitions and Basketball arguably two decent competitions, yet both have competitions in most countries of a local domestic kind .

Without again explaining in detail. How we allowed a US media company to design a made for cable product and then adopted the cable concept as our main competition still annoys me how incredibly inept our leadership was at the time

Not sure on AFL, but NRL crowds are up, Netball had a near sell out season, Basketball crowds exploding over 90% capacity, A-L crowds down on their best but grew by 8% last year. Seems to be a trend of more people going to live sports. If Super Rugby teams start winning crowds will improve IMO

TWAS a joke. Woolongong The Brave vid.