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man i'm pumped if this means they will show even a couple more games a week.
http://business.smh.com.au/business/...1027-59qu.html24-HOUR sports channel to be launched next year on free-to-air television will revolutionise the Australian broadcasting landscape.
Network Ten is set to lay down the gauntlet to Fox Sports and its free-to-air rivals next month when it unveils plans for its high-definition channel, which will run local and international sport around the clock.
While Ten executives remained tight-lipped last night, it is understood their subtle but systematic buying campaign of big sporting events continued last week in Monaco at Sportel, the global trade show of sporting rights.
Not only has Ten just outbid Channel Nine to win the Australian swimming rights; the network's new trump cards include the US NBA basketball, the US Major League baseball, the US Open golf and tennis championships and the US Masters golf.
The 2009 AFL grand final will also be simulcast on Ten's high-definition channel and it will extend its AFL coverage to include a Monday night review program to be hosted by Stephen Quartermain and featuring Robert Walls.
The network also recently bought the rights to televise the Trans-Tasman Netball League.
It has been devising its high-definition sporting strategy for at least 12 months but has refused to divulge the extent of its sporting assault. In a further blow to pay television, later this week the free-to-air body Free TV is scheduled to announce Free View, an electronic program guide showing all schedules on all five channels, including high-definition, in the manner of the Foxtel guide which operates from a box on top of screens for pay-TV subscribers.
The HD channels, with the exception of ABC1, mostly mirror what is being shown on the main channels but with a superior picture quality. Occasionally they break away to show other content, but from January 1 each of the three free-to-air commercial networks will have permission to - but are not compelled to - launch a new standard-definition channel. An estimated 15 per cent of Australian televisions can show HD while standard-definition sets make up an estimated third.
Ten's national sport supremo, David White, has driven the coup.
Ten is expected to announce its new channel in mid-November.
It has also bought the rights to IPL cricket and the Nascar series highlighted by the Daytona 500, and owns rights to all Formula One Grand Prix events.
man i'm pumped if this means they will show even a couple more games a week.
it probably be like last time, show game of the week probably 1 week behind schedule and nba action...better than nothing i suppose....
Awesome news - it will probably only be a 'game of the week' with an East Coast Bias, but thats better than nothing...
Now, to get that HD tuner...
Do the Aussie satellite/cable companies offer League Pass?
My HD tv will come to good use. HD better be running on all channels where I live by then and hopefully we get nightly replays of games, like austar.
April next year apparantly
Nah they don't. I would pay upwards of $1000AUS a year for it if it was though...
Anyway, I knew I bought that HDTV for a reason. Even if it's only one game a week, it's better than nothing, plus all that other sport. s yeah.
Don't you guys get 2 games a week on Aussie ESPN? We get NBA Wednesday and Friday from your ESPN feed here in New Zealand.
Spurs V Suns on ESPN this thursday, can't wait!
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