Australian Network axed in Budget

[catters05]

http://watchafl.afl.com.au

Don't people use it overseas. I think it is great even with my crappy internet speed. I have seen the Boomarang in Singapore has both Australia TV Network and the stream for when two different games are on.

 

[Tulip]

Always good to watch a game when overseas in Bali/Thailand or other popular tourist destination in Asia. Not to mention catch up with the news.

If it was 10 years 223mil then that's 23 mil a year or a dollar per Australian per year. Doesn't seem too excessive to me in a multi billion dollar economy.

There's only so many individual dollars that people can pay before they stack up.

Not that I particularly support this.

 

[pokerspiv]

Someone will pick it up.

This. The AFL will find another broadcast partner, likely Setanta Sports in South East Asia.

 

[pokerspiv]

try living overseas, away from family and friends, this is the self ish factor,,,as another poster has said the netowrk does great things for australians overseas and helping educate in areas and bridge the gap in host countries......

If you live overseas you don't pay any tax to Australia, so why should Australian taxpayers pay for your TV programs?

Australia Network has always been considered a form of "soft diplomacy". Its purpose is to introduce foreigners to Australian culture. But in practice, the only people who watch it are expats.

Nobody will really miss it. All the programs bar the sport are available for download, and the sport will end up on another broadcaster.

 

[Monkey King]

You want those things, you pay for them. Not with my tax money, peanut.

Why do assume it's your tax dollar paying for these things and not his?


Sad to see the service go. It was great for footy, Aussie news, maybe the odd program of interest. I sure hope they've got a replacement of some kind lined up for the footy broadcast. With the AFL spending money to attract interest internationally, it would seem strange to take this out of the cable package loop and over to online subscriptions and the like.

 

[TradeDraft]

http://www.theage.com.au/federal-po...-australia-network-report-20140508-zr6yz.html

Looks like the footy for International viewers in Asia is going, thanks bit Joe.

Afl website and pay the cash I guess.

On a personal level this is shattering, on a business level, well you could argue both ways.

Shows what an A-Hole J Hockey is

 

[TradeDraft]

Sadly our great country is going down the drain at a million miles an hour under the mad Monk

When Im OS in Asia the Footy on the Australia Network is a God send but we all know Abbott and Hockey are RL followers and not interested in our own National game.

Why did people vote for this Idiot and his Goons?

 

[Mr_Moogle]

Why did people vote for this Idiot and his Goons?

They believed what they read in the Murdoch-owned media. All they needed to do was just kept slinging the same anti-Labor message again and again until some of it stuck. It just amazes me that people still think if something is in the paper or on television, it's automatically fair, unbiased and legitimate. As a society, we really need to get better at scrutinizing the information we receive. No excuses for ignorance these days.

 

[TradeDraft]

They believed what they read in the Murdoch-owned media. All they needed to do was just kept slinging the same anti-Labor message again and again until some of it stuck. It just amazes me that people still think if something is in the paper or on television, it's automatically fair, unbiased and legitimate. As a society, we really need to get better at scrutinizing the information we receive. No excuses for ignorance these days.

Like Laurie Oakes is a Liberal Man

 

[Mr_Moogle]

Like Laurie Oakes is a Liberal Man

Well I can't argue with this.

Who am I kidding talking politics anyway? I'll vote for whoever vows to fix this countries shitty internet.

 

[Monkey King]

If you live overseas you don't pay any tax to Australia, so why should Australian taxpayers pay for your TV programs?

Not a well thought out comment.

I've paid withholding tax to the Australian government while living overseas. I've also been involved in business that's contributed to the Australian economy, various tax inputs included. So it's a very simple accusation you've made there regarding tax contribution.

In fact, I'd say that even while living overseas, I've contributed more to government coffers than most people drawing government benefits. So why are they entitled to cash and medical services, while I'm being begrudged a little TV broadcast to stay feeling connected to my country?

Then you need to look at tax contributions made by ex-pats while they were living in Australia. Who's to say their contributions while living in Oz haven't outweighed your own? So if you're looking at this fairly at the level of total tax contribution, why would you be more entitled to any government service than they are, regardless of where you're both currently living? This is what being a citizen is all about.

 

[parsons nose]

If you live overseas you don't pay any tax to Australia, so why should Australian taxpayers pay for your TV programs?

Australia Network has always been considered a form of "soft diplomacy". Its purpose is to introduce foreigners to Australian culture. But in practice, the only people who watch it are expats.

Nobody will really miss it. All the programs bar the sport are available for download, and the sport will end up on another broadcaster.

Speak for yourself. I'll miss it as will many other expats and ESLs who use oz network programs to learn and practice English. And the downloads you speak of are unavailable to those living outside of Australia and New Zealand. At least those programs on the ABC and SBS.

 

[Dont be a lemon]

Abbott Government sending Australia down the shitter for its fictional budget emergency.

 

[ThatsjustDappa]

Just for those interested http://www.theguardian.com/media/20...act-axing-will-incur-costs-as-well-as-savings

Explains that its more complicated and has been an ongoing political balls-up for awhile. Essentially went to tender under Labor, they didn't like that it came back recommending Sky so they scrapped that and gave it to the ABC. This was followed by putting through legislation to make it hard to revoke the ABC having the ongoing purview to provide the network.

This articles better:
http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/04/03...ne-cast-in-a-poor-light/?wpmp_switcher=mobile

 

[Smeg Head]

This articles better:
http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/04/03...ne-cast-in-a-poor-light/?wpmp_switcher=mobile

Yeah must admit the 'They also wanted the service to open up large tranches of air time for re-broadcasts of official Chinese TV material.' was a salient point that I was up on. Simple version of the whole sage was that every one from every side was playing politics with it, turned it into one big fat dogs breakfast with pike.

 

[Dont be a lemon]

Axed = give it to News Corp

 

[melbournemartin]

http://watchafl.afl.com.au

Done.

 

[1970crow]

Look, you can have an extra fighter jet or two on top of the two dozen we've already ordered, or you can have the Australia Network, a thriving public broadcaster, affordable education available for the disadvantaged, legal services for minorities and the poor, world class broadband, humane refugee treatment, and possibly forty-seven other things I haven't time to type out. Your choice buddy.

2 fighter jets please

 

[melbournemartin]

http://watchafl.afl.com.au

Don't people use it overseas. I think it is great even with my crappy internet speed. I have seen the Boomarang in Singapore has both Australia TV Network and the stream for when two different games are on.

This service keeps me sane.

Also I have a "Melbourne Demons International Membership" which has it included.

 

[Bosun]

Sadly our great country is going down the drain at a million miles an hour under the mad Monk

When Im OS in Asia the Footy on the Australia Network is a God send but we all know Abbott and Hockey are RL followers and not interested in our own National game.

Eerrr what ****ing channel do you think RL is shown on overseas?

What a seriously stupid comment.

 

[nineteen eighty]

Why did people vote for this Idiot and his Goons?

They believed what they read in the Murdoch-owned media. All they needed to do was just kept slinging the same anti-Labor message again and again until some of it stuck. It just amazes me that people still think if something is in the paper or on television, it's automatically fair, unbiased and legitimate. As a society, we really need to get better at scrutinizing the information we receive. No excuses for ignorance these days.

Not to turn this into a political thread but other than ideological differences between Murdoch and the Labor Party, News has an agenda in having Abbott and his sycophants in power.

Media ownership laws ladies and gents.

I guarantee you that News will be buying Channel 10 in the not to distant future. There is no way it would happen under a Labor Party. Abbott on the other hand knows which way his bread is buttered and understands what he needs to do to keep Murdoch happy.

 

[theasian]

Very sad, but probably expected given that the conservatives are in power.

The days of leisurely viewing from my couch is going to be over and watching online from a scrappy stream isn't quite a satisfying alternative.

Certainly footy viewers in Asia are going to be affected and hope the AFL do something about it.

 

[theasian]

Eerrr what ******* channel do you think RL is shown on overseas?

What a seriously stupid comment.

Setanta Sports.

 

[ep2018]

Look, you can have an extra fighter jet or two on top of the two dozen we've already ordered, or you can have the Australia Network, a thriving public broadcaster, affordable education available for the disadvantaged, legal services for minorities and the poor, world class broadband, humane refugee treatment, and possibly forty-seven other things I haven't time to type out. Your choice buddy.

You mean those fighter jets ordered by Kevin Rudd when he was in office? Abbott's a nut but the blame solely lies at Labor's feet with this one.

 

[ep2018]

So we're cracking down on illegal downloads, providing shitter internet, and allowing Murdoch to pick up the successful aspects of a former publically funded international broadcaster.

Someone wins out of all this, but I'm pretty sure it isn't me.

You remind me of those drongos who have a problem with speed cameras.