
NBL Article in Financial Review
The NBL needs to continue to develop its product and make sure it has a presence in as many major population area's as it can so that it can have appeal to TV stations looking to fill programming. It needs to be good enough that TV stations will pay big enough dollars for the rights to show it that those same stations will then sell the product to their advertisers and will spend their own money on promoting it. (At least if they promote it and it still doesn't rate they can then work with the league to make it more attractive. Right now only NBL tragics and channel surfers know its on).
BUT everyone will need to accept that if TV station pays for the NBL then it will want to control / influence the programming more and more. Like GF game 3 played at some rediculous time in Perth to suit TV timeslots on east coast.

I'm not sure if they will need any new content since they will most likely be transferring content over from the two channels they are getting rid of, Speed and Fuel TV.

"Fox Sports are launching Fox Sports 4 & 5 from November 3."
Where'd you hear this? I got a letter from Foxtel about changes coming in November a couple of weeks back and no mention was made of this.
