Thread: Keep Sport Free on TV site petition

I'd like to see all sport gone from free to air TV so that the stations would show something worth watching, particularly in summer.

Presently, TV is a wasteland in summer as it is overloaded with sport.

The free to air channels have shown they can't be responsible with showing sporting events many times, cutting off a crutial last part of the cricket or football to go to the news and ACA type shows, or not playing events live, only to finally show them at a ridiculous time in the morning. And don't even get me started on the olympics (summer or winter). I mean really, who actually wants to see the 16th replay of the swimming when there are 72 other better things they could be showing!

Then they pepper every game/match/race with ads so you miss another crutial moment. If you watch motor racing, they will always come back from an ad break at some stage with half the cars mangled together in a pile of burning carnage, or with a new race leader after an awesome overtaking manoeuvre. Fox sports is well worth paying for if you want to see sports on TV.

Personally I'd like all sport on pay TV so the cost of my pay TV would drop and I can still not watch the sport channels.

Yeah i'm with Ron, sport ruins TV.
And the sooner its out of the tabloid newspapers the better too-sport isn't news, and neither are sports peoples' relationships.

Free To Air TV is a completely false name. We all pay for it every time we buy something, because we have to pay for the advertising. Add to this the hundreds of millions of dollars we give them for nothing through the largesse of the government and each person probably pays more for their "free" TV than subscribers do for their pay TV.
ScottW has also hit the nail on the head with the arrogant way "free" TV treats us with the sport they have. If they can't behave responsibly with these sports then make it open slather for whoever wants to pay the most for the rights. One word of caution, though. We can't expect pay TV to play fair if they do get some sports. Given their record of charging extra to watch the Winter Olympics, contracts would have to ensure that they could not charge extra for showing these sports.

Doesn't pay TV show ads during sporting events?

Originally Posted by JLo

Doesn't pay TV show ads during sporting events?

Dunno - I don't watch sport. But from all accounts, FTA TV is notorious for taking ad breaks at the wrong time. To make it worse, the ad breaks have beocme longer over recent years with the (apparent) change of limits on advertising.

My wife likes to see equestrian events but they rarely appear on FTA TV, they are mainly on pay TV.

Originally Posted by JLo

Doesn't pay TV show ads during sporting events?

Not during the game they don't. During 1/2 time they usually have 1 ad break.

Also they tend not to screw the game around by advertising other shows over the top and advertsing other products (sportsbet etc) during the game.

Channel 9 I'm looking at you here.