I would l like to know who owns the netball teams?
Private or association?

That is a very good question. My guess would be the Association.

The other thing that impressed me was the amount of advertising featuring players that appeared during the telecast.

Sure, you don't see these adds in any other timeslot, but you don't need to. As an advertiser you're reaching your target market, plus the players get paid for the endorsement.

One HD's coverage of a number of sports so far has been outstanding.

The netball is a prime example, and the promotion of it is first class.

The NBA and the college games is obviously packaged by the US broadcaster, but it is also first rate.

The F1 coverage was fantastic and I'm not even a follower of motor sport!

If you have not already seen it, make sure you try and catch "Thursday Night Live" this week. Whilst ti was their first effort last week and it lacked a little polish, the concept was outstanding and it showed heaps of promise. They covered a huge range of sports in such little time and it was done quite well. Well worth the effort IMO.

I hope they pick up the NBL as it would b in my eyes the icing on the cake.

I already love my One HD. I watched live NBA basketball this morning whilst I was eating my breakfast - it certainly makes Monday morning's a whole lot better!

One HD by 4 points in OT

Was thinking over the weekend that OneHD should add a results ticker to their broadcast, but would spoilers be an issue for some people?

It's just that the promos advertise it as being the place to get the latest news and results but you're hardly getting any of that when you're tuned into a multi-hour block of motor racing.

LC, I thought the Thursday night show was pretty average. Would need to improve a fair bit for me to watch it regularly.

The NBA is great, watching basketball in HD is awesome. GP was good last night, except for the rain.

Hopefully I can catch the new footy show on at 7pm tonight.

It is great that a FTA channel is changing the face of TV in Oz.

Hopefully the other channels catch up. I noted 7 last night had the news on at half time of the footy, why not show it on one of the other digital channels and please everybody (everybody with HD TV that is).

Completely agree with Starks.

The NBL would be better off with even just one game on OneHD than it would be with all games shown live on Fox.

How many people have Fox?

Of that, what percentage of that would be casual viewers of NBL?

My Dad gets it for NRL and the Crime Channel
His buddy has it for Golf.
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My Neighbor has all the Sport channels, but barely watches Basketball. Cricket and Rugby are pretty much his staples (being South African)

People on this message board would argue otherwise, and as a long time NBL follower i think 4 games per week would be great, but being stuck on Fox with a minute audience is not going to grow the sport.


Being on OneHD will also probably lead to more primetime news coverage, as is the case with F1, Netball and now even Drag Racing on Ten News. I'd forgotten the F1 was on at 6pm yesterday on OneHD until it was mentioned during the Ten news / sports tonight early edition thing.

It's all hypothetical until an approach is made by between OneHD and the NBL or Vice Versa.

In response to ExWhyZee's question, according to my missus, the netball teams are owned by their respective state organisations.
Its a licence system (similar to the AFL) and at the moment, each state can have only 1 team
The state orgs are responsible for the admin of the teams (incl sponsorship acquisition) but if they can't get sponsors they must financially support the team.

Just an observation,

My mother and father wanted to make their old TV receive the new sports channel one HD. I said they should look at upgrading to an LCD that has a tuner in it. This was met with "We do not need a new TV".

I went to source a HD set top box and found that 5 shops in Southern area had sold out. I wonder if people are buying these just for the sports channel.

I'm a massive fan of channel one HD

Loving OneHD.

The F1 coverage was the best to date by any FTA network.

They didn't butcher qualifying and somewhat paused it when they went to ads. The race itself is always going to be interrupted by ads so can't complain too much about that, maybe integrated ads like the Nascar do is something we can look forward to? Where they make the action smaller and run a big basic ad but u can still see whats going on in race.

A results ticker is a great idea, BUT would only hurt their replay viewing audience I would believe. People are less likely to watch a replay if they know the results.

Kelvination- fully agree with you on the whole NBL should be on FTA thing. I believe that's how netball has gone to a seemingly successful start this season. the marketing from OneHD seems to have really filled some seats for them.

NBL needs to be smart, so what NBL will televise more games, FTA is much more important.

one is great and its free go one

Firstly let me say One is great because it keeps Fox Sports honest. I've got Foxtel but they won't let you see One yet unless you upgrade to the IQ2. Anyway I went around to my brother's place today to watch Nash and the Suns disgrace themselves against the Mavs and I have to say it does look good on a big LCD TV.

I'm not keen on One getting exclusive rights for the NBL as FTA have a poor track record when it comes to second-tier sports. The worst possible thing for the NBL would be to be signed up with Channel Ten exclusively and for them to possibly do what Channel 7 did to the NSL (sit on it, refuse to show any games except the Grand Final). Fox Sports need to fill three channels (rumoured a fourth one is on the way) and don't "sit" on sports.

The best possible outcome would be to sign up exclusively with Fox Sports to that big five year deal and then do the proposed "leasing" of a couple of games a week to One. Everyone wins.

If you have a set top box or in built HD tuner.
Perhaps he has a older TV and fox sports.