Spin: watch Nein shift the blame

[Scooter]

I can feel a typical effort from Channel None. On Thursday they will decide to televise game live on Gem (against the gate), wont advertise it and then say the NRL in Melbourne doesn't rate.

[Bourbon Rat]

The Chnl NONE we love to hate Friday Night LATE Football in Melbourne

InSYDNEY InBrisbane Another Season of the same SHIT

[stormy]

I liked the pic Bourb.

[MENACING*STORM]

NRL to be shown on GEM?
According to this article. Could start up with our match this Friday
If it's true, we can go to before midnight on Fridays (actually Saturday) and Sundays (actually Monday)

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/nrl/m ... 6311729320

[Cherry_Poppins]

WCC only shown on GEM,Nine deserves to lose all sports forever for this alone
or atleast until they stop showing bullshit like 2 and a half boring douchebags
instead of LIVE FOOTBALL

[LESStar58]

@M*S: this was reported 3 weeks ago.

From all accounts it was a done deal with even Jeff Browne commiting to it but now Nine have to apply for it?

The incompetence of Nine is staggering.

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[absentee]

Rounds 11 and 12 were released today and we get another Friday night Nine game against the Broncos - which I figured would happen anyway since it's two days after Origin 1 at Etihad and the Broncos are always on Friday nights.

[absentee]

It's happening, people.

@TripleM_NRL

BREAKING: Federal gov't allows GEM to broadcast #nrl live into Victoria, SA, Tasmania and WA.

GEM will broadcast Friday Night #nrl into Vic and Tas at 7:30, SA at 7pm and WA at 4:30; Sunday football into all markets at 4pm

GEM will also broadcast the Sunday Footy Show in Vic, SA, WA and Tas at 2pm #nrl

https://twitter.com/#!/TripleM_NRL

[absentee]

Oh, and to further confirm it, here's the article from Nein themselves:

http://wwos.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=8442872

Government approves wider NRL broadcast
16:00 AEST Wed Mar 28 2012

The Federal Government today approved the Nine Network's request to broadcast specific 2012 NRL Telstra Premiership games on digital channel GEM in Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania and remote Central and Eastern Australia.

In a first for rugby league, the Federal Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Conroy, has removed these matches from the anti-siphoning list. This allows the Nine Network to broadcast 2012 NRL Telstra Premiership matches into the southern markets on digital channel GEM from this Friday, as well as the New Zealand-Australia rugby league test on April 20.

The decision has reinforced the Nine Network’s and Senator Conroy’s commitment to provide viewers access to sport nationally, giving Australians the chance to watch the action as it unfolds.

"This is a win-win situation for all the stakeholders – the viewers in these markets, the NRL, the Federal Government and of course Nine, whose joint mission is to bring the game to as many people as possible," Jeffrey Browne, Nine Network Managing Director, said.

"We are particularly grateful for Minister Conroy's positive and prompt consideration of the network’s application to make it a reality."

From round five of the NRL, the southern markets will broadcast two games in Friday Night Football, one live at 7.30pm AEST and the next one at 9.30pm AEST. Then on Sunday afternoon, a third match will go to air at 4.00pm nationally.

The two-hour NRL Sunday Footy Show hosted by Peter Sterling and a panel of rugby league experts, broadcast in Sydney and Brisbane live at 11.00am on Nine, will be shown at 2.00pm on GEM in Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania in the lead-up to Sunday Afternoon Football at 4.00pm.

I still hope they lose the rights, though.

[Bourbon Rat]

Don't tell anyone at GEM about the programming change.
It's a big secret Friday Night

[LESStar58]

It all seems a little too good to be true.

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[Scooter]

Is this so there isn't anything written into next agreement to make None show matches live or near live in non-traditional states and next year they stop showing them or has None finally arrived in the 21st century.

[stormy]

Woohoo.I turned on tv this morning at 6.30 and they were advertising that GEM will be showing live games into adelaide on Friday and Sunday. I CAN`T BELIEVE THAT I WILL BE ABLE TO WATCH STORM LIVE instead of listening to it on the computer.

[storming]

i think the NRL have woken up to the fact and will have it in the contract anyway, just depends on how big the punishment is for not complying with the agreement if they fall back into there old ways

[LESStar58]

Looks like the honeymoon is over as of April 30 (coincidentally the date the exclusive negotiation period for the rights end and the ARLC will accept bids from rivals)

Rugby League Football

5.1 Each match in the National Rugby League Premiership competition, including the Finals Series, except for:

(a) all matches to be played between 30 March 2012 and 30 April 2012 as part of the 2012 National Rugby League Premiership competition.

http://www.comlaw.gov.au/Details/F2012C00195

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