NRL to reap $1.2b from TV rights

[Stewie]

Former Canberra Raiders captain Simon Woolford has called on the ARL Commission to end the club's "ridiculous" exile from free-to-air television coverage.
In a familiar and unwanted trend, the Raiders are set to remain on the Channel Nine blacklist for the next season despite the NRL landing a $1 billion television-rights deal.
Reports emerged yesterday of the draft draw for the first 20 rounds of next year, in which the Raiders are expected to have just one match broadcast on free-to-air.
If the draw is approved, it will continue an unwanted trend of the Raiders being snubbed from the high-rating timeslots and coverage.
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Just four of the Green Machine's games were televised on Channel Nine in the past two regular seasons and teams that finished well below the Raiders on the ladder are set to get more coverage next year.
The Raiders lit up the competition with a charge to the finals this season and finished sixth on the ladder before playing a home final.
They had hoped the independent commission would change their free-to-air fortunes when it took over rugby league operations earlier this year.
"People thought a lot of things would happen for the better when the independent commission was formed, but it seems it's just continued stalling," Woolford said.
"It's ridiculous if the boys only get one free-to-air game in 20 rounds.
"I know it's all about ratings and money, but I think our boys showed the type of footy they're capable of playing and it would be nice to get more appearances [on Channel Nine]."
Channel Nine opts against showing live Raiders games to gain higher ratings in Brisbane and Sydney.
After being shunned from the traditional Friday night and Sunday afternoon timeslots, the Raiders had proposed to host a Thursday night fixture in round three.
However, it is unclear whether their wish will be granted, after reports suggested the NRL was planning a grand-final rematch between the Melbourne Storm and Canterbury Bulldogs in round three.
The Roosters and Rabbitohs will open the season on a Thursday night, while the Eels and Bulldogs will play in the new timeslot in round two.
The Raiders will return to pre-season training in the coming weeks. It's believed assistant coach Justin Morgan is unlikely to return to his role, while playmaker Terry Campese and Brett White, who both had knee reconstructions, will start training today.
Raiders prop White wanted a "fair system" for free-to-air coverage to help Canberra gain greater exposure.
"It's surprising, I realise [Channel Nine] wants the two best teams on free-to-air, but how did you pick who the best teams are this far out?" White said.
"I know the AFL share their television coverage around, you'd expect everyone to have at least two free-to-air games.
"The competition is so even ... I think we did play well at the end of the year, so I expected it would have been a fair system with everyone almost equal."
Raiders chairman John McIntyre said he had not seen the draft draw, but remained hopeful the commission would end Canberra's struggles to break into Channel Nine's programming.
"I was hoping, with the commission coming in, that the city-centric decision-making would disappear," McIntyre said.
"But we don't know what's happening yet; we'll wait to see when the draw comes out."
Woolford feared little could be done to change the schedule.
"Even the Melbourne Storm don't get their fair share of games," Woolford said.
"It's out of the Raiders' control now, they could come out and win 10 games straight and even then they're not going to get free-to-air games because they're [the NRL] locked in for the first 20 games.
"It's unfortunate ... when I was playing it was something we looked forward to and it was like a reward getting a free-to-air game. It's disappointing not to get them."

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just like we all said, the NRL sold their soul to Ch9. Their deal provided cash but essentially gave ch9 the right to do what they like. Now their lesser teams will suffer with horrible FTA coverage and teams like the broncos will get a free ride to far better exposure.

nice one losers

I wonder what Raiderdave has to say about this? His club is getting screwed over by Channel 9 (who schedules nRL games STILL) even though they finished in the top 8?

[piesman2011]

So 1 FTA game for a top 8 team. AFL clubs would never put up with that sort of deal. With almost half of your games televised on FTA TV you should expect that you get at least 6 games televised out of 24 (one quarter) For a top 8 team they should be getting about half of their games televised. Out of the 72 games in regular season they have 1 televised. This means that the Raiders feature in less then 1.5% of FTA games.

[Xman]

So 1 FTA game for a top 8 team. AFL clubs would never put up with that sort of deal. With almost half of your games televised on FTA TV you should expect that you get at least 6 games televised out of 24 (one quarter) For a top 8 team they should be getting about half of their games televised. Out of the 72 games in regular season they have 1 televised. This means that the Raiders feature in less then 1.5% of FTA games.

and guys like pussycat think the NRL states have far higher subscription rates because the NRL is more interesting!

Its because FTA coverage of the NRL for all clubs except the Broncos is atrocious, forcing fans to take up foxtel.

[pussycat]

So 1 FTA game for a top 8 team. AFL clubs would never put up with that sort of deal. With almost half of your games televised on FTA TV you should expect that you get at least 6 games televised out of 24 (one quarter) For a top 8 team they should be getting about half of their games televised. Out of the 72 games in regular season they have 1 televised. This means that the Raiders feature in less then 1.5% of FTA games.

Correct me if i'm wrong , but arent GWS and Gold coast barred from Friday nights? I also can recall showing some figures showing that12months ago showing how near half the AFL clubs had got fewer than 10 matches of a Friday night over the previous 4 years. Melbourne and Nth Melbourne didn't get much more than one.

[Xman]

So 1 FTA game for a top 8 team. AFL clubs would never put up with that sort of deal. With almost half of your games televised on FTA TV you should expect that you get at least 6 games televised out of 24 (one quarter) For a top 8 team they should be getting about half of their games televised. Out of the 72 games in regular season they have 1 televised. This means that the Raiders feature in less then 1.5% of FTA games.

Correct me if i'm wrong , but arent GWS and Gold coast barred from Friday nights? I also can recall showing some figures showing that12months ago showing how near half the AFL clubs had got fewer than 10 matches of a Friday night over the previous 4 years. Melbourne and Nth Melbourne didn't get much more than one.

The AFL reward the clubs who make the 8 the previous year with more Friday night games. Plus we have Saturday night live too. It's therefore evenly shared amongst clubs over a number of years. The NrL show the Broncos almost exclusively no matter where they finish, to the detriment of many other NRL teams.

All for ratings, nothing for the smaller clubs struggling for exposure. Any wonder why the raiders struggled for sponsors

[Stewie]

So 1 FTA game for a top 8 team. AFL clubs would never put up with that sort of deal. With almost half of your games televised on FTA TV you should expect that you get at least 6 games televised out of 24 (one quarter) For a top 8 team they should be getting about half of their games televised. Out of the 72 games in regular season they have 1 televised. This means that the Raiders feature in less then 1.5% of FTA games.

Correct me if i'm wrong , but arent GWS and Gold coast barred from Friday nights? I also can recall showing some figures showing that12months ago showing how near half the AFL clubs had got fewer than 10 matches of a Friday night over the previous 4 years. Melbourne and Nth Melbourne didn't get much more than one.

Yep, as Xman said the AFL only reward the best teams with Friday Night Football. The bottom 5 all miss out this year. Sydney have 3, correct me if I'm wrong but that's the most they've ever had. Cue the nRL do schedule some big NSW clashes on these nights.

[Raiderdave]

Former Canberra Raiders captain Simon Woolford has called on the ARL Commission to end the club's "ridiculous" exile from free-to-air television coverage.
In a familiar and unwanted trend, the Raiders are set to remain on the Channel Nine blacklist for the next season despite the NRL landing a $1 billion television-rights deal.
Reports emerged yesterday of the draft draw for the first 20 rounds of next year, in which the Raiders are expected to have just one match broadcast on free-to-air.
If the draw is approved, it will continue an unwanted trend of the Raiders being snubbed from the high-rating timeslots and coverage.
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Just four of the Green Machine's games were televised on Channel Nine in the past two regular seasons and teams that finished well below the Raiders on the ladder are set to get more coverage next year.
The Raiders lit up the competition with a charge to the finals this season and finished sixth on the ladder before playing a home final.
They had hoped the independent commission would change their free-to-air fortunes when it took over rugby league operations earlier this year.
"People thought a lot of things would happen for the better when the independent commission was formed, but it seems it's just continued stalling," Woolford said.
"It's ridiculous if the boys only get one free-to-air game in 20 rounds.
"I know it's all about ratings and money, but I think our boys showed the type of footy they're capable of playing and it would be nice to get more appearances [on Channel Nine]."
Channel Nine opts against showing live Raiders games to gain higher ratings in Brisbane and Sydney.
After being shunned from the traditional Friday night and Sunday afternoon timeslots, the Raiders had proposed to host a Thursday night fixture in round three.
However, it is unclear whether their wish will be granted, after reports suggested the NRL was planning a grand-final rematch between the Melbourne Storm and Canterbury Bulldogs in round three.
The Roosters and Rabbitohs will open the season on a Thursday night, while the Eels and Bulldogs will play in the new timeslot in round two.
The Raiders will return to pre-season training in the coming weeks. It's believed assistant coach Justin Morgan is unlikely to return to his role, while playmaker Terry Campese and Brett White, who both had knee reconstructions, will start training today.
Raiders prop White wanted a "fair system" for free-to-air coverage to help Canberra gain greater exposure.
"It's surprising, I realise [Channel Nine] wants the two best teams on free-to-air, but how did you pick who the best teams are this far out?" White said.
"I know the AFL share their television coverage around, you'd expect everyone to have at least two free-to-air games.
"The competition is so even ... I think we did play well at the end of the year, so I expected it would have been a fair system with everyone almost equal."
Raiders chairman John McIntyre said he had not seen the draft draw, but remained hopeful the commission would end Canberra's struggles to break into Channel Nine's programming.
"I was hoping, with the commission coming in, that the city-centric decision-making would disappear," McIntyre said.
"But we don't know what's happening yet; we'll wait to see when the draw comes out."
Woolford feared little could be done to change the schedule.
"Even the Melbourne Storm don't get their fair share of games," Woolford said.
"It's out of the Raiders' control now, they could come out and win 10 games straight and even then they're not going to get free-to-air games because they're [the NRL] locked in for the first 20 games.
"It's unfortunate ... when I was playing it was something we looked forward to and it was like a reward getting a free-to-air game. It's disappointing not to get them."

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/canb ... z2Airl8ywN

just like we all said, the NRL sold their soul to Ch9. Their deal provided cash but essentially gave ch9 the right to do what they like. Now their lesser teams will suffer with horrible FTA coverage and teams like the broncos will get a free ride to far better exposure.

nice one losers

I wonder what Raiderdave has to say about this? His club is getting screwed over by Channel 9 (who schedules nRL games STILL) even though they finished in the top 8?

makes no discernable difference really
the Raiders have great sponsors who were aware our side doesn't see much FTA coverage when they signed
plus the Raiders are in a very solid financial position off field .. doing very well actually


Port Tankelaide have double our crowds .... 4 times our members & are shown on FTA in Mongelaide every game & plenty in the rest of the country too
yet they're still broke
stoney .. motherless ... broke

Raiders >>>>>>>> Port Tankelaide

[Raiderdave]

. AFL clubs would never put up with that sort of deal. .

yes ....instead they put up with

all the draft picks going to the new NSW & QLD Sides
NSW & QLD sides getting bigger salary caps to use against heartland clubs
a CEO who lives in fairy land where tanking is concerned

just to name a few things

these are much worse

[Xman]

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/canb ... z2Airl8ywN

just like we all said, the NRL sold their soul to Ch9. Their deal provided cash but essentially gave ch9 the right to do what they like. Now their lesser teams will suffer with horrible FTA coverage and teams like the broncos will get a free ride to far better exposure.

nice one losers

I wonder what Raiderdave has to say about this? His club is getting screwed over by Channel 9 (who schedules nRL games STILL) even though they finished in the top 8?

makes no discernable difference really
the Raiders have great sponsors who were aware our side doesn't see much FTA coverage when they signed
plus the Raiders are in a very solid financial position off field .. doing very well actually


Port Tankelaide have double our crowds .... 4 times our members & are shown on FTA in Mongelaide every game & plenty in the rest of the country too
yet they're still broke
stoney .. motherless ... broke

Raiders >>>>>>>> Port Tankelaide

yeah, except that Raiders fans are forced to pay for Fox to see their team. They sure dont go to their games!

[Xman]

. AFL clubs would never put up with that sort of deal. .

yes ....instead they put up with

all the draft picks going to NSW & QLD Sides
NSW & QLD sides getting bigger salary caps to use against them
a CEO who lives in fairy land where tanking is concerned

just to name a few things

NSW/QLD sides get concessions to develop a team which only lasts a few years.
NSW get bigger salary cap not QLD, and only to offset the difference in costs of living
AD wasnt alone. Despite this they changed the priority pick so its irrelevant.

[justanotherleaguefan]

AFL's black Friday

NRL clubs get a much better and fairer deal than their AFL counterparts in the season scheduling for Friday night prime-time television games.

Five AFL clubs, including emerging clubs GWS and the Gold Coast Suns, have been brushed for Friday night football.

While the Broncos dominate Friday nights in the NRL, Channel 9 will ensure every club will get a go on Thursday or Friday night


http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/nrl/c ... 6509774745

[Raiderdave]

. AFL clubs would never put up with that sort of deal. .

yes ....instead they put up with

all the draft picks going to NSW & QLD Sides
NSW & QLD sides getting bigger salary caps to use against them
a CEO who lives in fairy land where tanking is concerned

just to name a few things

NSW/QLD sides get concessions to develop a team which only lasts a few years.
NSW get bigger salary cap not QLD, and only to offset the difference in costs of living
AD wasnt alone. Despite this they changed the priority pick so its irrelevant.

but but but

[Xman]

AFL's black Friday

NRL clubs get a much better and fairer deal than their AFL counterparts in the season scheduling for Friday night prime-time television games.

Five AFL clubs, including emerging clubs GWS and the Gold Coast Suns, have been brushed for Friday night football.

While the Broncos dominate Friday nights in the NRL, Channel 9 will ensure every club will get a go on Thursday or Friday night


http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/nrl/c ... 6509774745

Why would the AFL play the Suns on FN against the Broncos?

Why would they play the Suns and Giants on the biggest stage when at the moment they are uncompetitive?

The AFL have always had a FN schedule that favours the clubs that perform well the year before, therefore resulting in better matches. Meanwhile the NRL show the Broncos and ignore clubs like the Radiers no matter what their respective ladder positions.

Add to that every Suns, Giants, Lions and Swans game is on FTA. Not even the Broncos get that deal.

[Raiderdave]

I wonder what Raiderdave has to say about this? His club is getting screwed over by Channel 9 (who schedules nRL games STILL) even though they finished in the top 8?

makes no discernable difference really
the Raiders have great sponsors who were aware our side doesn't see much FTA coverage when they signed
plus the Raiders are in a very solid financial position off field .. doing very well actually


Port Tankelaide have double our crowds .... 4 times our members & are shown on FTA in Mongelaide every game & plenty in the rest of the country too
yet they're still broke
stoney .. motherless ... broke

Raiders >>>>>>>> Port Tankelaide

yeah, except that Raiders fans are forced to pay for Fox to see their team. They sure dont go to their games!

Canberrans are the wealthiest people in the commonwealth
paying for stuff isn't an issue for them

it would appear the Raiders are doing a lot better then poor old Port Tankelaide .. & the pennyless slum dwelling bogans .... who follow them

[Xman]

Is that why they spent so long without a major sponsor?

So if NRL fans are so happy to pay for fox why was there an epic reaction of anger over the latest rights?