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More on Television coverage and re branding NBL

"The most important next step will be playing in Asia where the real money is. Do you wonder why MU are in China at the moment?"

The Tigers toured China for years and this started a long time ago. What is your point?

"LK will be far more interested in the billions watching from China than any of this. domestic stuff".

Almost all of the Chinese pro teams except Bayi which is an army team (ie backed by the Government) are supported by wealthy corporations as far as I know. Games (the ones I have been to anyway)are poorly attended and while the TV audience is probably quite large compared to Australia in total numbers due to the population base it is not that popular relative to the other crap on TV there.

I really doubt that many of the teams make money.

In fact I have never seen a local watching basketball on TV unless they give me the remote and I channel surf to find it.

I think we need to find a way for our league to stand on it's own and the only way to get a little foot hold in Asia would be some kind of Asian Champions cup but to do so would be difficult due to variations in seasons.

I thought NBL TV was ok. There were a few quality issues but I certainly be happy to pay for it again. I would rather watch all games on NBL TV with average quality then nothing.

I'm with those that are getting worried that if there are mid-week games but no tv deal in place to air them, that will be a significant knock, as that's the main purpose in doing them as teams will be taking a big hit in attendance...

If you think TV wants a particular product, you don't only create it when they want it, you create it regardless and keep working towards that.

"LK Era" reminds me too much of that dark period of the Wildcats when Luke Kendall played for us.
Too soon. I was just starting to put that behind me. It's still too raw for me. :p

I like how we are now referring to this as the "LK era". As a WWE fan it's just kinda cool.

NBL.TV was horrible - but it had a low subscriber base of diehards. The product was crap, but at very least we saw every game.

I don't know how I will go from watching all my teams away games to maybe none at all.

I'd hate to see Perth vs Melbourne games every week, when NBL TV is gone.

Proud: Damn! Forgot all about daylight savings. Well thats a pain. Will have to set the recorder up to record the games.

@ Matthew your forgetting mate that W.A. Doesn't have day light savings so a 6:30pm tip off is still 9:30pm AEST

I think regardless of who is showing games that Australians should be able to get coverage of NZ games even if it is just the state of the team they are playing but I think Sky NZ is a commodity that needs to be utilised and shown to us all.

I don't Shit on NBL.tv, it's allowed me to watch every game of the past 2 seasons and even watching Wildcats home games after I attended them so I would be devastated to see it go but I hope NBL.tv could be available in areas that have the set standard and once other venues get to that standard then all games can be shown and if that happened say start of 2016 then I wouldn't mind too much but we have so much talent so let us watch them

I still think 7mate is the way to go

'The LK era is off to a very shaky start.
The mood seems to have gone from optimistic to pessimistic in quite a hurry. Did this guy really do any homework before plunging into this or was it just a "She'll be right mate. I'm a successful business man you know!" leap of faith?'

Unfortunately this great sport has dickheads like this who do a lot of saying but do no doing!

Go LK - at least your not sitting back back whining & doing nothing!!! Be part of the solution & not part of the problem...

If we are having the same topics next year, then LK would have delivered.

If we arnt and are instead talking about the dodgy commentators we are listening to, then LK has delivered.

"I would be very surprised if we don’t have a national broadcast rights deal, if not on free-to-air, then definitely on pay TV, and I would expect every game on TV," he said.

THat does seem pretty clear but to me it sounds a bit wish fufillment. He obviously thought whoever was involved in the negotiation after him would be able to close up the deal. Its possible the people on the other side backed off when they heard Kestleman was involved.

We really dont know. To me it seems like the NBL has been on the edge of a deal for years.

Id love some Live games during the week. Generally I get home from work at 6, so id miss any game starting before 8pm EST.

I have a feeling that we wont see a lot of Cairns/Townsville games on tv. Maybe limited Hawks ones too.

Wildcats games will be seen a lot simply for the fact they will be schedules around 6:30 in Perth and then that makes it perfect viewing time at 8:30 EST.

I actually agree with what he says. He says he wants to show a high quality product and if he cannot make all of it high quality, then he wants to concentrate on the product that is high quality.

"It's a very big commitment on anyone's part to broadcast all of the games and that doesn't matter whether it's streamed or on television. With live streaming you can probably produce something for $20,000 a game but in my opinion that would produce something that was below par. We haven't made a decision on this yet and we have a board in place now so it's not just going to be myself making those calls and I don't know the right answer. My preference is to, if need be, produce less games but have a high standard for the ones we produce, rather than potentially broadcast every game in a lower quality. We need to start behaving as a non-compromising sport and produce only top quality products."

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/sport/basketball/nbl-boss-larry-kestelman-says-rebranding-is-key-for-new-tv-commercial-deals-20150727-gifpet.html#ixzz3hA1tkIcK

As a fan this puts me in a hard place. I want to watch all games - and don't care about production (to an extant e.g Wollongong are terrible with their cutting to baseline cameras during live play) - However I understand the need for the league to put out a polished product.

What will happen?