Probably means that clubs have the ability to go out and get television deals of their own, especially in the regional areas.

FTA, FFS. It needs to happen. One, ABC, SBS, Channel 31, do what you must, but get basketball back on FTA television.

One HD is they key, everyone is talking about it and very soon everyone will have it.

one hd is basically providing cheap, marginalised content. That will have an impact on its viewership, and in turn on its capacity to sell advertising, and in turn on its ability to pay even semi-reasonable bucks for a couple of big properties.

Ten itself will not release too much content to One HD if it is prime value, because ten needs that content on its main station. If Ten had to make the decision about which of its properties (Ten or One HD) bid for a major sporting event (lets say 2010 world cup), then my guess is Ten will win. The end result of that is that One HD remains a second tier sports TV channel, showing lots of re-runs of games or marginalised content as we have already seen. Foxtel has already learned its lesson with marginalised content - hence Fox Footy channel got shut down at the first chance it could gracefully do so.

You guys might be happy that One HD is showing NBA, but that is largely because no one else wants it or needs it. The NBL would be considered marginalised content, but you still have to pay production costs. From what I have seen at this point One HD is not chasing its own live events, so it is purchasing rather than producing content, which means it will always be a second tier provider.

In much the same way SBS is seen as a second tier provider.

How about the netball? Doesn't OneHD produce those brodcasts? Surely the NBL could osition itself in a similar way?

oden08, channel 10 produces the netball broadcast. Its secondary content for one hd. And the netball product is in its infancy in terms of ratings ande viewership. I suspect viewership is stronger in NZ, so 10 is recovering costs by onselling at a bigger margin to what it buys coverage of NZ based games...

btw, the anz championship holds ALL of its numbers very close. Crowd numbers for example are never reported openly..... do not appear on austadiums and is not released by the organisers. They spruik heavily their "big games" and "sell outs" based on those, but give little else up. Try getting an average!

Can't see Internet streams happening - bandwidth is just too expensive here. Which Australian sports have it? Does the AFL? A-League? NRL? Start with things we can afford and improve live scores and provide live radio instead. Actually, I'd like to see radio and stats combined into a single player.

Netball has less coverage on 1 ten than Fox did last year as they did every game last year.
The advantage they are getting is that 10 are taking the big games espec. Thunderbirds games here in SA. Netball has Mon. games to get on TV.

Isaac, article in todays West makes mention of the Wildcats being able to broadcast all home games live in the internet.

#237527 - there's internet streaming and there's internet streaming. The seabl are apparently offering a pay per view service which is low risk in terms of bandwidth cause every buyer covers their own cost.

During the NBA finals we have seen free to web streaming - a very different proposition and almost totally unworkable here.

TC2, being able to, or actually doing it? Video, webcam or audio?

Anon, SEABL, full video?

The NBL for years has been unable to provide consistent live scores or radio, which is why I'm reluctant to build up expectations of live video feeds. Buffering audio streams is one thing, but video is going to be on another level.

This is a video demo of what SEABL is doing: video of Tasmanian game. Has potential, but for me that is unwatchable (might just be my browser and/or connection) - stops to buffer every second and that is a SEABL game replay from a stored file that might be accessed right now by a couple of people, not live NBL with hundreds of people tuning in.

Would love to see live video streams, but I think it'd be expensive, imperfect and criticised, and would potentially reduce paying crowds without having the benefits of TV that spreads awareness to channel-flickers.

HO, further to that, that (NBA stuff) is often done by either big-budget enterprises or (I'm guessing) hackers streaming from TV tuner cards via cable connections. The production and broadcast stuff is already therefore handled by TV companies.

I'd rather see the NBL do fewer things really well (like I said, integrated radio and stats feed), than jump into everything and do a half-arsed job of it.

No point having internet video of games if it is terrible quality, lets hope that the new league is a big hit and therefore the greatest possible amount of coverage is given through a range of avenues and networks.