Hoops

OneHD v FoxSports = No Brainer

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

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.

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.

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.

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).

One HD by 4 points in OT

The Boomers beat Puerto Rico last night, 106-78, and posted the biggest score of the tournament to date. It was a fair turnaround from Australia's thrashing by Argentina in the previous game where they managed only 57.

Helliwell was strong with 17 points and 11 rebounds, Saville recovered from previously bad form to post 20 points (7/13 FG), Bruton and Worthington had 15 (Bruton adding 7 assists) and Loughton had 12 points and 7 boards. Jacob Holmes played 27 minutes for 6 points (2/5 FG, 2/2 FT), 5 rebounds and 2 assists. Oscar Forman got under 8 minutes (0/3 FG) for a rebound and an assist.

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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!

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.