This could be interesting...
http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/football/7240600/Sports-body-planning-new-free-to-air-TV-channel
This would be great.
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Yes please
People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis. You can't trust people.
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And a great income stream for the Oceania Conf. if I read that right. Here's hoping it happens!!!
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Please please please let this happen
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Would suck a bit if it included rowing.
"Phoenix till they lose"
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Wouldn't it be hilariously ironic though? Alanis morissette would be loving it.
Excited by this.
Allegedly
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Wouldn't it be hilariously ironic though? Alanis morissette would be loving it.
"Phoenix till they lose"
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Some competition! Yes yes yes please Oceania. Does anyone still want the All Whites to join the Asian confederation now?
Kotahitanga. We are one.
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This is good timing since SBS from Australia which had heaps of football, stopped broadcasting to New Zealand in April when they cut their Optus satellite link to Tasmania (which you could pick up on many Freeview satellite boxes and dishes):
" New Zealand viewers have just lost access to another public service television broadcaster – and most of us didn’t know we had it. It’s SBS, the public service broadcaster established to meet the needs of Australia’s ethnic minorities. Freeview satellite service viewers could tune into SBS with a very minor modification to their rooftop dish, because the Australian channel was using the same satellite that serves New Zealand to reach its viewers in Tasmania.
SBS delivers a solid range of international and Australian news, current affairs, and documentary programmes, European films and drama, and top-flight sports events such as Giro d'Italia cycling, the World Superbike Championships and the UEFA Champions League soccer final."
You can still access "SBS On Demand" online for football news and highlights:
http://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/#Menu:News & Sport.children.16
All one hour highlights shows of Euro 2012 here:
http://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/#Menu:News & Sport.children.16.children.0
Full On Demand schedule here incl. movies, series etc:
http://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/#!
There has been talk of the possibility of SBS being officially reinstated on Freeview in NZ but there's no definite plan as yet - would be great for international and Aussie football, to complement Oceania's plans for a station for local and Oceania football.
Sky are introducing a new service called Igloo soon which will be on UHF digital and you get eleven channels (no sport or movies) for $25/ month with no long-term contract - but will be able to access single sports events on a pay-per-view basis.
See:
http://www.igloo.co.nz/pages/tell-me-more.php
Big Pete 65, Christchurch
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another story about it today: http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/other-sports/7280726/Proposed-OFC-TV-channel-courts-top-sports
sounds like its gathering momentum
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It will make up for losing TVNZ7.
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It will make up for losing TVNZ7.
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*boo hiss*
Only if there is rowing.
Or mythbusters with the redhead getting her kit off.
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Carrie - that was her name.
"Hello viewers. Today we are going to investigate the physics of a spherical football (made of leather or other suitable material) and investigate the myth that girls who try to transcend cultutral boundaries and stereotypes can really 'bend it like Beckham'. But first, isn't it rather hot in this big open air football stadium? I think I will need to remove my loose-fitting white lab coat...."
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I don't watch Mythbusters but it sounds like that episode may be worth a glance. I'm always looking to expand my... er... mind.
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As well as something else..
Allegedly
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I've been keeping a look out on Sky News New Zealand for this story over here but there's been nothing..
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Joint Statement from NSO Representative Working Group on free-to-air TV channel
A cross-sector working group has been established look at a collective of sports and its ability to produce and offer content to willing broadcasters.
July 20, 2012
AUCKLAND - A meeting was held on July 19 between Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) and a National Sporting Organisation (NSO) Representative Working Party to further understand the opportunities that surround the possibility of a free-to-air sports channel.
This working meeting followed an earlier meeting on July 5 between approximately 15 NSOs to begin discussions on the issue and subsequently elect the working group.
Currently, NSOs have relationships with various production houses and television networks, investing considerable money individually. This initiative is to look at a collective of sports and its ability to produce and offer content to willing broadcasters.
As a consequence of yesterday’s first working meeting, it was decided that each party (OFC and the NSO Working Party) needs to further evaluate its own short and long term requirements separately. The commercial landscape that surrounds the three key areas of the sports content supply chain – that being content owners, production units, and broadcasters – will be further analysed to understand the best way forward for all parties. It is proposed that the NSO working group will continue to meet with regards to the opportunities for better access to broadcast visibility for all national sports.
NSO Representative Working Group
Craig Waugh – Triathlon New Zealand
Kieran Turner – Bike New Zealand
Joe Sprangers – Touch New Zealand
Grant McKavanagh – New Zealand Football
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Linking up with the SBS Channel in Australia could be a way forward in order to insure enough quality broadcast product to complement the local content- they have heaps of football from around the world and other sports.
An OFC-backed channel could screen ASB Premiership, Chatham Cup, O-League, FIFA age-group tournaments and women's football. But that'd still leave several months from April- October when the ASB Premiership isn't active and there's not much domestic football worth broadcasting (apart from some of the more major Chatham Cup games).
That gap could be filled by content from SBS if it was affordable. It's been suggested they might be interested in the extra money from NZ to avoid having more than the minimal ads they currently have on their channels.
Informative blog on possibility of renewed SBS broadcasts to NZ here by media guru David Beatson (who is now investigating starting his own channel on Freeview):
http://pundit.co.nz/content/bang-goes-another-public-service-tv-channel
"Policy-makers need to think hard about the current vulnerability of Freeview, because its failure to gain and hold a lead in the contest for viewers after the digital switch will create a dangerous division between those able to afford access to a diverse range of broadcast media [i.e. Sky TV] and those who cannot. A growing information gap on top of a serious income gap could be a step too far for New Zealanders."
MattyT here from extra-channels.com.
David, I don't think the window of opportunity for New Zealand to adopt SBS has necessarily gone just because the signals have disappeared off the Optus D1 satellite. They could just as easily be put back. Perhaps with a change in government adopting SBS on Freeview is one option that could be explored for providing New Zealand with some quality public broadcasting, something we do badly need with the imminent demise of TVNZ7.
Thanks for the traffic and I invite other readers to my blog. Not only is NZ Freeview a poor relation to Australian Freeview because of the number of public broadcasting channels from both the ABC and SBS, but Sky is also not a shade on the Austar or Foxtel services. However there are other options for getting something on the box, and that is what extra-channels.com is about.
See his blog at www.extra-channels.com and scroll down (top of page is about internet streaming of TV).
Matty T came up with a bright suggestion: why not negotiate a formal swop deal between the Maori Television Service and SBS? That would enrich the public service broadcasting outputs of both countries.
Also he has the technical expertise on satellite TV and points out that foreign channels (many free) are available and can be relayed onto local muxes or onto Optus D1 transponders:
"What shitheads they are to take away our television. We’re going to do public broadcasting right next time and we are going to do it without them.
What are we going to watch now? Are we all going to watch TVNZ1 or TV3 ? Yeah right? Are we all going to sign up at $553.44 a year for Sky’s basic package? Who can afford that?
Hey our household has 150 channels and that is before counting the internet channels. We can stream live UK and Irish TV. In the average day we watch a total of zero New Zealand television commercials. It’s commercial TV that is going to be dead in a few years and public television is going to see a revival under a new government that will value its benefits.
There are a number of channels available on satellite TV (I’m ignoring Internet TV as streaming TV is still a bit flaky, and hence marginal, and the URLs seem to come and go). A selected few of these channels could be relayed onto Freeview services either on available empty spaces on the muxes in case of DVB-T, and empty spaces on the current transponders in the case of DVB-S. The plus one channels certainly could be shutdown to make room. There’s also the option of an extra mux (if the government hasn’t flogged off all the bandwidth) or an extra leased transponder.
Not everyone can afford to have satellite dishes, or have the space for the satellite dishes or have the skills to setup to get any of the channels, and even if they could setup for satellite TV the channels are over a large number of satellites, and they’d only get a handful of them themselves. Yet if we added these channels to Freeview then everyone could get them as bonus channels for a minimum of expense and effort (such as rescanning the channels on their existing box). The channels themselves would be non-commercial, often advertisement free, and they are already getting broadcast free to air into New Zealand anyway. They could be added to the Freeview services by negotiation with the channels themselves for very little cost, and I imagine that the companies and governments behind them would jump at the chance to expand their audience and cover those costs themselves.
These aren’t Free To Air, but aren’t generally available in NZ, on Sky for instance. They might to help up the sports deficit on Freeview. Eurosport is French-owned but broadcasts in English too, and Setanta is Irish.
[Many excellent live football streams on the internet come from EuroSport, probably illegally. I watched the Football Ferns two Olympic build-up games against Canada and Colombia on a feed from Eurosport earlier in the week.]- Big Pete 65
David, I asked the Minister of Broadcasting, Craig Foss, about the idea of a formal swap between the SBS channels and Maori channels. He expressed some interest which seemed to leave open the door if there was sufficient public demand. He then wrote "I am not aware of any demand for this in NZ or Australia. Such a proposal would need to be considered within the wider context of inter-governmental discussions around NZ's CER agreement with Australia, and would need to take into account the regulatory environment regarding the production and broadcst of local content." It could be achieved at little or no cost to the taxpayer and would be the form of public service TV not completely ruled out by the government.. I suggest emailing relevant MPs such as Craig Foss, John Key, David Shearer, Clare Curran, Peter Dunne, Russel Norman. SBS offers a superb range of international programming.
Big Pete 65, Christchurch
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Well if the OFC can't afford to broadcast round three of the WC Qualifiers I'd say this channel may prove to be still born.
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