mudoch is only a small player in australian TV, a part owner of foxtel

hed have to sell his newspapers to get a TV station and that isnt happening in the next 6 months

jamie packer could easily launch a massive bid with channel 10 and foxtel get nothing

Packer also owns shres in Foxsports, it is in his best interests to have the code on both stations, no way Fox isn't getting at least 4 games a week.

5 games on ONEHD nationally, 4 games on Fox and SOO/Tests to be fought over by 7 and 9 would please me. $800mill TV + $75mill internet/mobile rights would be a success imo

I don't think Packer has any Fox shares now, I think it's the ch7 bloke.

....yeah.....and spiderman will marry batman, but superman is stronger
3rd in the WORLD...........not some ant island....the WORLD and he owns the NRL (50% OPENLY.....THE OTHER BITS THROUGH EALSicon_smile.gif
Jesus guys....stop dreaming about super heroes.......

DM and gutterfax show continues....

Packer owns 52% of Consolidated Media, which in turn, holds 25% of Foxtel and 50% of Fox Sports. The Ten networks’ first digital channel ONE competes directly with Fox Sports. ONE’s own figures suggest more viewers are tuning into ONE than all Pay TV sports channels combined.

Ahh cool, so it hasn't changed.

Cheers JB.

yeh he owns 15% of Ch10 and, personally, 25% of Fox sports

Interestingly first thing he muted was closing down OneHD or stoping it being a sports channel, no conflict of interest there!

Wouldn't worry too much, we're Aussies so we're all s hehe.

small point...but we have never met.

...we've noticed
....but the rest of the world applauds your ability to type with one hand

In England the media treat our game like 5h1t.
Yes we get better ratings for the SL than the Premiership but at times Sky treat us like we are always playing second fiddle to union.

This is down the the RFL being run by and employing people from a certain area of the UK that enforces the media's belief that RL is a regional pastime. The RFL Media team needs to be rebuilt from top to toe with a new, hungry breed of employee who will badger the press, radio, TV etc until the game gets better coverage.


CORRECT......and this is not the result of some secret IRB agenda either......it is down purely to the "demographic" of the audiences for both codes....which is a big issue.
Twickenham sells out in minutes or a 6 nations game, with prices from 75 to 500 for a ticket...the RFL can't fill Leigh at 15 notes a ticket......and this is what makes SKY get a hard on for Union. The Landrover ads generate more cash than the hair replacement ones......it's simple commerce...nothing more, nothing less

yes gutters, the government is going to scarp the cross media laws

why didnt they do this in the past when murdoch wanted a Free to air station

australian politicians are very worried about conentration of ownership of the media, thats why theyve got these laws in place

you can think of any scenario you want but in the real world they arent happening.

mixing ownership of newspapers and TV is a big worry for the government