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MoorePark said:
I can't help laugh, I assume this is MVC v WSW?

The next deal needs to be with the EPL broadcaster, it's the only way it'll work in Australia.
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They count both games as one program, so that's 41k for the two matches overall. Pretty sad tbh.
 
TV ratings are irrelevant unless streaming numbers are included, so they mean nothing to me.

But it wouldn't hurt to reiterate what I have been saying for years... We should be having a summer break in January. We can't compete with other sports at this time of the year... plus its too hot anyway.

I've been a long time critic AL fixturing, but actually playing more games at a time where other sports are in their peak is lunacy. Forget the holiday period, many people would rather be at the beach anyway.

We should have a full round on boxing day, and not restart until Australia Day. Start the season a month earlier to compensate.
 
MoorePark said:
I can't help laugh, I assume this is MVC v WSW?

The next deal needs to be with the EPL broadcaster, it's the only way it'll work in Australia.
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We all love the way Optus Sports broadcast the Premier League but would they really want to become the A-League's domestic broadcaster?

I've worked in the broadcasting industry and have some insight into the costs involved.

For instance, to produce just one live sports production with a linear broadcast model, it can cost between $40,000 to $150,000 per game. This would be maybe slightly less for a streaming service OTT broadcast. OTT being the way to deliver television and film content to viewers over the internet, instead of through cable, satellite, or linear television.

Channel Nine, which pledged $575 million to the NRL for a five-year broadcast deal which expired in 2022, spent about $125m in production costs over the same period. During that broadcast deal Nine did just over 100 games.

The cost around $125,000 per game. Since then broadcast costs have increased exponentially in line with inflation.

The A-League men's competition plays 6 games per round. The A-League women's competition the same.

Some of these costs would be consolidated but a rough guestimate you would have to be looking at $1 million+ per round just in production costs.

Would Optus Sports be up for that on top of the costs of the actual broadcast rights??
 
Joparo said:
We all love the way Optus Sports broadcast the Premier League but would they really want to become the A-League's domestic broadcaster?

I've worked in the broadcasting industry and have some insight into the costs involved.

For instance, to produce just one live sports production with a linear broadcast model, it can cost between $40,000 to $150,000 per game. This would be maybe slightly less for a streaming service OTT broadcast. OTT being the way to deliver television and film content to viewers over the internet, instead of through cable, satellite, or linear television.

Channel Nine, which pledged $575 million to the NRL for a five-year broadcast deal which expired in 2022, spent about $125m in production costs over the same period. During that broadcast deal Nine did just over 100 games.

The cost around $125,000 per game. Since then broadcast costs have increased exponentially in line with inflation.

The A-League men's competition plays 6 games per round. The A-League women's competition the same.

Some of these costs would be consolidated but a rough guestimate you would have to be looking at $1 million+ per round just in production costs.

Would Optus Sports be up for that on top of the costs of the actual broadcast rights??
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the APL pay for all of (or most of) production costs. There is no excuse for Optus not to bid
 
MoorePark said:
I can't help laugh, I assume this is MVC v WSW?

The next deal needs to be with the EPL broadcaster, it's the only way it'll work in Australia.
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What if Optus bid for the A-league and then some other streaming service bid way overs for the EPL and they lose that? The EPL will just sell to the highest bidder each time surely.
 
FeedTheBrox said:
TV ratings are irrelevant unless streaming numbers are included, so they mean nothing to me.

But it wouldn't hurt to reiterate what I have been saying for years... We should be having a summer break in January. We can't compete with other sports at this time of the year... plus its too hot anyway.

I've been a long time critic AL fixturing, but actually playing more games at a time where other sports are in their peak is lunacy. Forget the holiday period, many people would rather be at the beach anyway.

We should have a full round on boxing day, and not restart until Australia Day. Start the season a month earlier to compensate.
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Then we're competing against afl/Nrl in September or August.
 
banzai said:
What if Optus bid for the A-league and then some other streaming service bid way overs for the EPL and they lose that? The EPL will just sell to the highest bidder each time surely.
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I would suppose the A-League would have to try and run any broadcast deal with Optus Sports concurrently with the Premier League deal. That would somewhat difficult as the current Premier League deal with Optus Sport is finishing in 27/28.

Because as you say the Premier League will just sell to the highest bidder. That could be somebody like DAZN or Stan Sports or they could easily develop their own platform for this region. I'd suggest that if Optus lost the Premier League they would probably shut down Optus Sports.
 
FeedTheBrox said:
the APL pay for all of (or most of) production costs. There is no excuse for Optus not to bid
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Yes. That's more or less what the Premier League do for their international broadcast clients. The domestic broadcasters cover the costs of the 5 or 6 games per round they will show and the others which are shown internationally would be produced by the Premier League's in house production company.

Optus Sports, NBC, BEiN etc just tale the feed and sometimes like in the case of Optus the Premier League's own studio shows and highlights packages.

As I attested too in the previous post there's a big cost to producing this content.
 
melbcityguy said:
Then we're competing against afl/Nrl in September or August.
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We would start after the September international break. Most AFL/NRL team's will have finished by that time. Stadiums are not in use and will be in mint condition.
 
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