I think this could be a ploy by one to politely to tell the NBL to f*ck off!!! We are honouring our contract but we would prefer to just f*ck off!!!

They should be showing this sixers and the cat

ONE set the schedule with the NBL.

OneHD has to be the worst TV station out of all of them. To go from a dedicated sports channel to a channel which is embarrassing with it's lineup of cheap TV shows, I honestly couldn't care less if the station folded. Channel 10 doesn't seem to want to do anything to help,and I can't see the station lasting long enough to see out the 5 year contract.

Can anyone tell me one decent show that is on One? Apart from the NBL, which they have already screwed. I'm a huge NBL fan, but vie lost interest in the coverage a long time ago for these reasons:

1. Sick to death of Carfino and his amateur commentary
2. Late night slots and too many match ups that don't interest me
3. Pathetic skits before the game make the NBL look like a league out of Semi-Pro the movie
4. Way too much coverage of the cheerleaders
5. No highlights as the season progresses, only clips of what happened last season
6. No adverts promoting the games, and finally no information on the TV guide apart from telling us that the league started in 1979.... Bloody hell !!

anon #580 TV Networks aren't set up as a community service. They're set up to make money.

Considering the sports based ONE was averaging roughly 0.7% share and now they're around 3.0% share I'd say Channel 10 would be comfortable with their decision.

Your beef is with the morons that watch repeats of shows from th 70s and 80s on channels like GO, 7mate and ONE. They're the ones driving the networks away from new content (which is expensive to produce) and Sport (again which is expensive to produce).

ONE is closer to 2 than 3, but I see your point. Still struggling to attract advertising apparently.

The last Hawks/Blaze game on One in Round 18 got just 9,000 viewers too.

dan i dont think ten just dont like the contract they signed with the nbl, i think they have learnt what the nbl are like to deal with, they have noticed their incompetence and also the fact that the nbl have zero interest in changing for the better. so ten provide the bare minimum to the nbl in the hope they get the hint and take their so called business somewhere else. yes the fans lose out but in part hey lose out because of the nbl and partly because of their eternally dickless ways. the nbl are far from saints here which is what they would have you imagine.

Getting to the pointy end of the season. 2 games- both show only one finals contender.
What a fuck up..

No complaints then about One showing the Tigers/36ers game on Saturday night? Both teams are crap and not finals contenders.

ten will also milk the nbls failure to get a team in bris to claw back $ as per the contract, if the nbl are lucky enough to still even have a contract next season. nbl didnt exactly do themselves any favours there, but they knew the deal with ten and what was expected of their contractual obligations ! ;/

No complaints coming from me about the Adel v Melb game saturday night because its the only game on Saturday, not sure what else they could show.

Word is the NBL and Ten are seriously looking at a compromise deal next year featuring fewer games but more live ones, perhaps two a week with another replayed? The key point is finding a time that suits clubs and Ten.

If a good balance is reached expect Ten to once again start trying to get return for their investment rather than trying to piss the NBL off to the point of walking from the deal.

still stunned that any entering club would take that punt to coome in off the back of a crumbling deal. am sure that to some degree that instability also had a negative effect on the bris bid particularly towards the end with the well off guy who was keen. ofcourse they couldnt get any clarification or comms from flanagan & co, so decided it was all too risky and unstable in the end. but then knox as mentioned the other week is now being headed up by carroll so who knows, that could just be personal confidence in his old timer mate sengstock. next year certainly doesnt look steady until theres some {overdue} disclosure from nbl.

How can you disclose something you dont know yet?

like disclosing to interested parties what they do know, and being honest about what they are still working on so that interested parties can make an educated decision and have all the facts they are entitled to know, before making decisions, thats how.

And where's your proof that they aren't doing that?

And why would they speculate about what might happen? At the moment they have a specific contract and until something else is agreed upon that is where it stands.

look up some recent past threads. nobody asked them to speculate, thats what theyre doing, instead of disclosing fact. they state they are confident of this and that and it doesnt eventuate. interested parties arent interested in vague generalisations of how the nbl want things to go, they are interested in knowing what is fact and what is still being worked on, and if the nbl wants expansion, then its a no brainer that interested parties are entitled to know where they stand. end of story.