Strewthcobber
Nick Farr-Jones (63)
More rugby games in the top 10 right now than there ever will be again!
Broadcast options for Australian Rugby
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Ignoto
Geoff Shaw (53)
Not really.
For decades those that follow the EPL have gotten into the habit of going to pubs etc in the early hours to watch these games together.
Rugby fans haven't had the need to do this as it's only an odd game that is on at the middle of the night not 20+ that a European team will play in a season.
Sword of Justice
Dick Tooth (41)
Hopefully it means more pubs will have Stan.
PhilClinton
Mark Ella (57)
The pubs already showing rugby are likely ones who also have a strong group of EPL fans wanting to attend at weird hours e.g. the Pig and Whistles
Not really a fair comparison.
The Ghost of Raelene
John Eales (66)
I was responding to the statement you made about if people that got into the EPL went to the A-League there wouldn't be issues. People more often than not follow the top Leagues in their sports.
Rob42
Alan Cameron (40)
From the SMH today:
Nine’s new English Premier League broadcast deal has helped add more than 200,000 subscribers to Stan, building on a record result for the streaming service as investors cheered the full-year results from the media company.
Earnings at Stan grew by 31 per cent to $60.3 million, with revenue up 10 per cent to $492 million. Financial results, as well as subscriber growth on Stan sparked by the Premier League acquisition, is not reflected in this year’s results.
Nine’s new English Premier League broadcast deal has helped add more than 200,000 subscribers to Stan, building on a record result for the streaming service as investors cheered the full-year results from the media company.
Earnings at Stan grew by 31 per cent to $60.3 million, with revenue up 10 per cent to $492 million. Financial results, as well as subscriber growth on Stan sparked by the Premier League acquisition, is not reflected in this year’s results.
Highlander35
Steve Williams (59)
It will probably make having Stan a much more attractive prospect for any Pubs/Sports Bars that don't already have it on their books too, gets more casual eyes on the game hopefully (if we presume they're not running dodgy firesticks)
The Ghost of Raelene
John Eales (66)
A lot of die hard Soccer fans are on broken fire sticks. Mad if you dont. I'm sure heaps of ex pats and fringe fans though have signed up.
Pubs may get it but Rugby has to make it an attractive product. Walk into most and their content to have ESPN highlights or Fox League, Fox Footy going with replays.
Pubs may get it but Rugby has to make it an attractive product. Walk into most and their content to have ESPN highlights or Fox League, Fox Footy going with replays.
Rob42
Alan Cameron (40)
Stan needs an autoplay option for pubs - it's easy for them to simply dial up ESPN or Fox Footy and leave it there 24 hr a day, whereas you need to dial up a particular game on Stan. Stan's got enough content to just roll out one thing after another in a single stream.
Jimmy_Crouch
Peter Johnson (47)
This annoys me for back to back rugby games.
Adam84
John Eales (66)
Yeah annoys me also, often on Kayo i just put the NRL Live channel on so i get back-to-back NRL games.
technically it's not hard to run a live channel for someone like Stan/Kayo given the infrastructure they already have..
But in terms of cost efficiency, it does change quite a bit. Fixed costs would jump quite a lot.. And not entirely sure, but I think running a 'live channel' in Australia comes with different regulatory and legal requirements
technically it's not hard to run a live channel for someone like Stan/Kayo given the infrastructure they already have..
But in terms of cost efficiency, it does change quite a bit. Fixed costs would jump quite a lot.. And not entirely sure, but I think running a 'live channel' in Australia comes with different regulatory and legal requirements
Rob42
Alan Cameron (40)
How would it raise fixed costs? I don't think you need studio hosting or anything like that, just a stream that plays game replays, existing other content like Between Two Posts, and then prioritises live games when they're on. I'd have thought it would take an intern about an hour to set up a queue of content for a week.
I've no idea about the legalities, but Stan already has live games, and would be showing content they already own...
Giving one's time and money to watch players who aren't good enough to get a contract in thirty better leagues isn't for everybody.
Adam84
John Eales (66)
Cloud hosting services and requirements change, a 24/7 live channel increases fixed costs versus an on demand model. Bandwidth and supporting services go from an on-demand model to constantly pushing regardless of number of viewers. Shortening the ‘live stream’ and ‘live playback’ availability of matches to 2-3 hours whilst the match is live reduces storage/computer requirements as well.
When I mentioned legalities. it’s not about owning the content, i was referring to regulatory requirements that can come with a ‘live channel’ by Australian broadcast standards. live channels can meet thresholds that require extra regulatory overheads relating to content quotas, advertising caps and rules on gambling change, live captioning on streams etc. it was introduced to protect actual FTA channels, unsure how Kayo navigate this or just cop the cost