Biggest AFL match of the year - Not being shown in the ACT

“Biggest AFL match of the year – Not being shown in the ACT”

Yes it is, as discussed above. Foxtel or go to a pub and watch it.

And I’m pretty sure the GF is the biggest AFL match of the year, and that gets shown live, free to air, every year

Great username bellsbeachbabe. GO CATS!

I have foxtel but might go out with a mate who is a saints fan and go watch it at some pub.

that’s the first sensible thing in this thread – go cats!! : ) [am very jealous, bells…]

It will now be shown live at 3.10 pm on the Main Event channel on Foxtel.

I emailed the AFL about 6 weeks ago asking why it wasn’t being shown. Apparently Prime has to show the Swans game live into the “local” market. Normally Main Event do not broadcast on Sunday but I think they are now as the game was moved back an hour.

I’m going down for the game. GO CATS!!!

OK, but that also includes live games from the SCG? I don’t think Perth or Adelaide get live home games. Also, people in Perth and Adelaide are interested in their teams

Anna, I agree, but it’s written in to the contract that they have to show the “local” game. Perth, Adelaide and Brisbane get similar treatment with their teams.

It’s incredibly annoying…hopefully the next contract won’t have such an awful clause.

Samuel Gordon-Stewart said :

Prime and Seven can’t do much about the situation as their hands are tied by the broadcast contract.

But surely they don’t need to subject us to the Swans all the time. No one in Sydney is interested in them now they are losing, why should we be.

Prime and Seven can’t do much about the situation as their hands are tied by the broadcast contract. And generally speaking, the only reason the match can be displayed live in Melbourne is if it’s a sell-out.

As for ONE HD, it’s a branch of Ten, and therefore tied to the same rules as Ten. The best you can hope for there is that ONE will occasionally not show a Sydney match, and show the main Ten match instead (although being subjected to Channel Ten’s commentary team is no what I would call “luck”).

For me, as usual, it will be 3AW Football via afl.com.au.

I just hope that the next television deal isn’t spread over three broadcasters.

bugmenot said :

Go over to http://www.yourtv.com.au and set your location as Sydney. Then go and see what the upcoming schedule is like for OneHD. Or go to http://www.onehd.com.au

It has two AFL timeslots for Saturday arvo/evening. But since I have virtually zero interest in AFL (I’m amazed I even opened this thread) I didn’t bother to look at the details of each slot.

And notice that the Saturday afternoon game is exactly the same one as is already showing on Southern Cross Ten.

As I’ve said before, don’t get too excited about ONEHD.

So nothing has changed since last year then:

http://the-riotact.com/?p=10700

We are still recieving same feed from Sydney and watching what Sydney watches.

At least this year we dont have any dipshit, moronic and uninformed politicians flapping their mouths about how an AFL team would be feasible without even being able to resolve an issue as rediculous and simple as getting the broadcasting corrected….

Seriously,,, this is an absolute joke & a discrace that they cant get this right….

AND GO THE SAINTS!!