Can someone remind me where the TV rights issue is at? Someone told me today that Channel 10 had bought the rights for 2014, but I can’t remember reading about this anywhere. Is this just rumour? And is the WAFL still with the ABC for 2013? There’s been nothing in the paper about it since about August…
Yes that’s right. If you can still call it the wafl, can confirm ABC TV will be broadcasting for the 2013 season. And that is the last year it will be shown on the national broadcaster. From 2014 one of the commercial tv stations will.
Really? I don’t get it!! Why would a commercial network be interested in a product that by all reports isn’t rating that well anymore and is relatively expensive to produce. (So the ABC says)?
Oh but guys those 2 great spin doctors Nisbett & Rosich promised us all that the media interest in the WAFL would increase dramatically if the WCE & Fr got there reserves team wish …and as it stands we now have 1 less radio station covering the games next year & no TV coverage guarenteed after 2013 with the ABC pulling out!
Where are the clowns like anchorman etc who thought this concept was going to be the great white knight/saviour of our great 127 year old competition now I wonder??? 
All understood La Hincha. It was last year ABC TV said they were pulling the pin after the conclusion to the 2013 season. Apparently it’s costing the abc tv thirty thousand dollars per week to broadcast a match is the figure I’ve heard. Apparently television production staff at the ABC’s Perth office will be cut by over half, which is one of the reasons live football coverage is unlikely to continue next year on the national broadcaster. The wafl has been shown on the abc tv ever since I can remember. We used to sit in front of the old black and white tv when I was a young’un on a saturday afternoon for the live wafl match all the way from Perth and we thought it Christmas again if our favourite team was being shown too.
The broadcasts are popular and I can only assume abc are looking at the bottom line here. It won’t only happen with the wafl. State leagues in Victoria and South Australia fear the loss of the ABC coverage would slash their audiences and deny them a platform to promote football. The abc do recognize the importance of the broadcasts and maybe, just maybe if more finances and logistical support happens, the broadcaasts may continue on abc?
I did hear on the grapevine one of the commercial stations were interested. I’m sure they could jazz the broadcasts up a bit, making money from the advertising etc. But the commercial broadcast would not be as high quality. Up to this point, haven’t heard any recent announcements.
Mate, I just don’t see that the commercials would be up for it…but damn, I hope I’m wrong. It seems to me it was just a “concept” when the 2 AFL clubs were pushing their host club barrow in “The West”
After all, it’s so much cheaper to show a re-run. I’ll believe it when I see it.
And also, the abc broadcasts go beyond the black stump and can be received state -wide. Whereas the commercial broadcasts probably show in the main populated areas?
I’m not being paid to advertise for said commercial tv company but it was 9 that is said to be interested in the broadcasts. For everyones sake, hoping it stays as is.
ABC have previously and still do an excellent coverage.
Surely if 7 or 9 took it up they could deliver it to the regionals via GWN ir Win.
Absolutely Smokester.
I don’t know whether GWN or WIN have multiple digital channels or not. If they do then there would be no reason why.
I would imagine that the regionals would get Go & Gem as Win owns 9 Perth.
Oh but guys those 2 great spin doctors Nisbett & Rosich promised us all that the media interest in the WAFL would increase dramatically if the WCE & Fr got there reserves team wish …and as it stands we now have 1 less radio station covering the games next year & no TV coverage guarenteed after 2013 with the ABC pulling out!
Where are the clowns like anchorman etc who thought this concept was going to be the great white knight/saviour of our great 127 year old competition now I wonder???
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Which radio station has pulled out?
Sport FM has apparently ..due to the WAFC pulling funding to these community stations expect others to follow!
Although abc radio has not officially pulled out. Much of their ‘Westuffed’ broadcasts are a thing of the past too. If last season is any indication to go by! Which probably doesn’t affect people living in/ close to the metro area. If abc radio does not cover a game, the statewide audience is lost.
I was li[color=#ff0000]stening to Sports FM Saturday around midday and they were broadcasting the WACA first grade game from Fletcher Park and had a chat to Chris Mitsopolous who seemed to be talking as if he was ready and fired up to go about the WAFL season. had a chat about Perth and signings of Reimers and Bateman. Didn’t mention anything about not doing the WAFL put it that way.
I have the right station don’t I? Colin Minson etc? 91.3FM
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On the back of todays The Weekend West
WAFL TV JACKPOT
The WAFL match of the round would be played at the WACA ground next year under proposal to broadcast the league on commercial television.
What the??? Did i read this correctly?? WAFC to PAY channel 9 for the production costs!!! You have GOT to be kidding right! Does the AFL pay 7, 9, 10, fox to produce their telecasts?!! $800,000 per year. will this mean channel 9 will have to pay companies to advertise during the telecasts? What a crock. Bash the telecasts where they fit i say. Most games of the round will end up being wce and freo res teams anyway. guarantee it!!!
The WAFL will pay $120,000 to the ABC for production costs this season.
Nothing surprises me with WA footy anymore but the headline on the back of yesterdays west still made me look twice.
Why the **** would channel 9 want to broadcast a game of the week to be played at the waca? The idea is so unbelievably stupid that I can only presume Trevor Nesbitt is behind it in his attempts to finally kill the wafl. There would be nobody at the game! It is the wafl for god’s sake. People aren’t going to travel to the city to watch a game of wafl. The whole concept is so moronic it doesn’t bear thinking about. Say, for example, Swans played West Perth at Basso on a nice sunny day and got 4000. What are the odds of that same game being played at the waca getting the same crowd? None at all. There’s be lucky if there’s 500.
Is it just me or is there something in the water making people more stupid.
If anyone has any doubts that the level of journalism in the West Australian could not get any lower, rest assured it can. The headline and the actual article would be acceptable for a grade 3 student. How anyone could think that what was suggested would be beneficial to the WAFL clubs is, at best, delusional. Someone should also suggest to those august journalists to go to the WACA and measure the ground.
Should we expect anything better from the West? SADLY NO.
If anyone has any doubts that the level of journalism in the West Australian could not get any lower, rest assured it can. The headline and the actual article would be acceptable for a grade 3 student. How anyone could think that what was suggested would be beneficial to the WAFL clubs is, at best, delusional. Someone should also suggest to those august journalists to go to the WACA and measure the ground.
Should we expect anything better from the West? SADLY NO.
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At least they are talking about the WAFL, should appreciate that!
Channel 9 may not be keen on east perth games as they will be showing the sponsor 7west on the back of the jumpers.