Keep Sport Free
The Australian Government has decided to review the anti-siphoning list established by the Federal Government to ensure the broadcast rights for major sporting events could not be bought exclusively by pay TV.
This could mean that your children will have to pay to watch Australian sport which should be free for all to view. Pay TV companies are lobbying for a review of the anti-siphoning list so they can charge you money to watch the likes of The Australian Open, National Rugby League, AFL and so much more.
FreeTV Australia is looking for your support, so sign their petition and help stop this from happening!
-Australian Government Website - Review of the ant-siphoning scheme
-Keep Sport Free - Sign the online petition
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I agree that sports telecasts should be free and available to free to air, however, along with this right I feel it is only fair that the free to air stations which aquire these rights should air them when they happen (ie live), not just when it suits them to achieve maximum ratings and sponsorship dollars. This has been a scorn to most viewers over the years as we are served up a barrage of delayed broadcasts advertised as live. At least the pay tv stations are broadcasting live. It is about time the major networks stop interfering with programs to suit themselves and their capitalistic ways. Sport and the public are the losers not the networks!!!
ok you know how many hours time would be on tv ok sport gose on for way too long that it's kicking off all the good shows we would have more tv shows and better shows i hate watching sport for 2 hrs of my life gone i would rather hangout and play real sport im sick of coming home around 3 in the after noon and see sport and nothing but sport makes me hate tv even more. there's only 7,9,2,10 and sbs thats it and all of them have sport and too much sport
I thought it was once government policy to keep sport free to air. It seems the pay guys have more clout than the voters.
I live in a remote unserviced zone that relies on a saterlite service through the Imparja network.
Thank God for that.
The pollies need to make wholesale changes that benefit all.
Where we are in country Victoria don't even get Victorian news, how does that make sense?
During Victorian Elections all we get is the New South Wales
version of events.
Wake up Canberra!
Howard Reddish, Swifts Creek, Victoria
What a farce. I had been looking forward to well-televised, minimal-advertisement sport. Now i have to live with 25% of every program i watch filled with adverts. Channel One, i will be watching all my sport on Foxtel from now on until you decide to give us a reasonable amount of adverts.
if australia wants to host the fifa world cup so much then why is the a leage only on paytv and the socceroos to are on paytv FOXTEL if we want a world cup let everyone watch it its hard for people who are soccer fan and cant even watch ther own country play beceaus they only show it on foxtel thats not fair
i completely agree with you. soccer is becoming more and more popular in aus but heaps of people cant even watch it! Parliment of Australia: put ALL soccer with aus on FREE TO AIR!!
I was just speaking to a friend of mine about this, I agree it should free and available to everyone. Sport plays a big part of our lifes and if it doesn't it should, great post, thank you.
The problem seams to be if it can be sold for money then we have no hope. It won't matter what the people say because we dont matter we'er not molty millioniares they run the world free sport is the same as electric cars it wont happen. the goverment just doesent want it to happen they want to just tax us with the carbon Tax. But with sport they still want the tax money .
I strongly agree that sport should be broadcast free onFree to Air TV Stations. Not everyone can afford Pay TV and many like myself and wife live in an apartment block, whereby the Body Corporate won't agree to have Pay T.V because of the exorbitant cost of installing the necessary disc.
I also strongly agree.
Veeeerryy strongly....
Please keep all sports on free to air tv. Not everyone can afford paid tv especially pensioners and low income families.With the cost of living jncreasing every day this is small pleasure should be retained for all Australians to share and enjoy.
Im sick to death of free to air sport. Im disabled so or and, want movies not sport which is on every station on the weekend , cricket/soccer/womens netball/golf/sanfl...Its time for normality!
To those who are sick of sport, could you just spare a thought for pensioners like me, who detest modern movies, and the Yank Junk shows that fill the programs , but love some sports.How do you think I can afford Pay TV, (and all the rubbish that's on it now) anyway.
SPORT SHOULD BE ON FREE TO AIR TV SO THAT IT IS AVAILABLE TO ALL OF SOCIETY NOT JUST THE RICH OR PRIVELIGED
sport should always be free why should we pay top dollar there are very few who could afford austar the vast majority of just cant afford to pay around $69 a month on top of rent and other on going expenses and i am one of those people who cant afford to lay out $69 a month free to air sport should always be free despite what the government says im just a pensioner
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