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Two stories caught my interest in last week’s national papers, The Australian and The Australian Financial Review. The stories both concerned the ongoing negotiations for V8 Supercars’ new media rights deal, which will commence next year. The Australian’s article focused on Ten’s play for the rights, which if successful would see the network return to […]
Posted by Frost Global on Monday, March 12, 2012 at 5:41 pm
Filed under Latest News and Views, Sport, Television · Tagged 7mate, A-League, AFL, Bigpond, Cricket Australia, ESON, ESPN Star, F1, Fairfax, FFA, Fox Footy, Fox Sports, Foxtel, GEM, Google, Nine, NRL, One, Optus TV Now, SBS, Seven, Socceroos, Speed, State of Origin, Swimming, Telstra, Ten, the Australian, TV3, V8 Supercars
Foxtel’s proposed merger with Austar took another step in the right direction last week when the Australian Competition and Consumer Commissions (ACCC) commenced market consultations over Foxtel’s draft undertakings. Foxtel has provided the ACCC with undertakings in order to allay ACCC concerns that a merged company would hamper competition in the IPTV market. Foxtel and Austar, along […]
Posted by Frost Global on Thursday, March 8, 2012 at 5:37 pm
Filed under Austar, Foxtel, IPTV, Latest News and Views, Television · Tagged ACCC, AFL, Austar, Bruce Gordon, Disney, ESPN, Fox Sports, Fox Sports News, Foxtel, Hulu, iiNet, iOS, IPTV, Optus, Optus TV, Playstation, Rod Sims, Select TV, Sky News, XYZ Networks
Optus’ TV Now service was held earlier this month by the Federal Court not to infringe the AFL or NRL’s copyright in their match broadcasts. Following the Court’s decision the Australian Football League’s Chief Executive Andrew Demetriou, in a wide-ranging interview with the Herald Sun made a number of comments surrounding the case and Optus’ conduct. The comments […]
Posted by Frost Global on Tuesday, February 28, 2012 at 5:35 pm
Filed under Internet, Latest News and Views, Sport · Tagged AFL, Andrew Demetriou, Australian Consumer Law, Copyright Act, Federal Court, Herald Sun, Justice Edmonds, Justice Rares, NRL, Optus, Optus TV Now, Telstra
With the AFL’s NAB Cup preseason competition beginning this Friday it is an opportune time to look at how this competition and the home & away season will be covered following last year’s record A$1.2 billion media rights deal. To watch matches this year and beyond, AFL fans will be spoilt for choice across free-to-air, subscription-TV, […]
Posted by Frost Global on Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 8:37 am
Filed under Austar, Channel Seven, Fox Sports, Foxtel, Latest News and Views, Sport, Television · Tagged 4G, 7mate, AFL, AFL 360, AFL LIVE App, AFL TV, Android Market, Apple App Store, Austar, Basil Zempilas, Bigpond, Brett Kirk, Brian Taylor, Bruce McAvaney, Cameron Ling, Dennis Cometti, Eddie McGuire, Footy Play, Fox Footy, Fox Sports 1, Foxtel, Hamish McLachlan, Leigh Matthews, Luke Darcy, Matthew Richardson, Mick Malthouse, NAB Cup, Next G, Premier Media Group, Seven, T-Box, Telstra, Tim Watson, Tom Harley, Xbox
FOXTEL yesterday announced a jump of 5.1% in subscription revenues for the six months to 31 December 2011. This result was off the back of solid improvements in the take-up of FOXTEL products by FOXTEL customers including FOXTEL’s iQ, multiroom and high definition digital offerings. This is a good result for FOXTEL in a tough retail environment […]
Posted by Frost Global on Friday, February 10, 2012 at 5:01 pm
Filed under Foxtel, IPTV, Latest News and Views · Tagged A&E, ACCC, AFL, Austar, Fox Footy, Fox Sports, Foxtel, Freeview, FX, IOC, IPTV, iQ, London Olympics, NAB Cup, Nine, Richard Freudenstein, Seven
The Optus TV Now service has been given the stamp of approval by the Federal Court of Australia today. The service, according to Optus, allows a user to record and watch later free-to-air TV shows on a user’s mobile or PC. It allows an Optus customer the freedom to record TV shows anytime, anywhere to play […]
Posted by Frost Global on Wednesday, February 1, 2012 at 5:30 pm
Filed under IPTV, Latest News and Views, Sport · Tagged AFL, Copyright Act, Federal Court, Justice Rares, NRL, Optus, Optus TV Now, Seven, Telstra
A report in the Australian last year confirmed that High Definition (HD) broadcasting of Australian sport on free-to-air television looks dead and buried. For those who did not notice Saturday coverage of AFL matches by the Network Ten only featured on the network’s primary channel towards the end of last season, whilst viewers were able to watch […]
Posted by Frost Global on Sunday, January 29, 2012 at 3:55 pm
Filed under Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Channel Nine, Channel Seven, Channel Ten, Fox Sports, Foxtel, Latest News and Views, One, SBS, Sport, Television · Tagged 7mate, ABC News 24, AFL, Australian Open, BBC, Cricket, David Leckie, ESPN, Fox Footy, Fox Sports, Freeview, GEM, Go, Golf, Melbourne Cup, Moto GP, Network Ten, Nine, One, Rugby World Cup, SBS, Seven, Super Hi Vision, the Australian, Transformers, V8 Suerpcars, Wallabies
This week the Gillard Government announced that the Department of Foreign Affairs’ international television network, the Australia Network will now become a permanent feature of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s duties as the national broadcaster, rather than have the network put out to commercial tender. This announcement comes after the Government scrapped that tender process to run […]
Posted by Frost Global on Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 4:08 pm
Filed under Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Latest News and Views, Television · Tagged ABC, ABC News 24, AFL, AFP, Al-Jazeera, Angelos Frangopoulos, Australia Network, Australian News Channel, BBC World Service, BSkyB, Deutsche Welle, DFAT, Gillard Government, Julia Gillard, News Corporation, NHK World, Nine, NRL, Qantas, Radio Australia, Seven, Sky News, Stephen Conroy
The Santos Tour Down Under has a new Australian free-to-air broadcast partner, the Nine Network. There were murmurs a couple of weeks ago when SBS staffed tweeted that they were likely to lose the broadcast rights to the Tour Down Under (TDU) to Channel Nine from next year. Under the new broadcast agreement Nine will be […]
Posted by Frost Global on Monday, November 14, 2011 at 12:04 am
Filed under Channel Nine, Latest News and Views, SBS, Sport, Television · Tagged AFL, Andrew Voss, Cadel Evans, Cycling Central, GEM, Gold, Nine Network, NineMSN, Olympics, Paul Sherwen, Phil Liggett, Santos, SBS, Steve Crawley, Ten, Tour Down Under, V8 Supercars, Wild World of Sport
A couple of things happened on Saturday night: The QANTAS Wallabies won their first Tri Nations tournament since 2001, by overcoming the All Blacks at Brisbane’s Suncorp Stadium; and Over 1 million viewers tuned into see that win. Over the last few years it is arguable that there has been a decline in viewers for […]
Posted by Frost Global on Tuesday, August 30, 2011 at 3:56 pm
Filed under Channel Nine, Channel Seven, Fox Sports, Foxtel, Latest News and Views, Sport, Television · Tagged ABC News, AFL, All Blacks, Austar, FIFA World Cup, Fox Sports, GEM, Indiana Jones, Ken Sutcliffe, Nine, Patrick Delany, Paul Budde Communications, QANTAS Wallabies, Rugby World Cup, Seven, Sky Sports NZ, Super Rugby, Tim Sheridan