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NBL/Fox joint announcement tomorrow

Yes great news , live games on Fox.
Yes I know not evryone has Fox but how many watch a game on fee to air late at night well after game finished.

Fine for me, was already signed up anyway.

^Can confirm... i'm a hardcore fan. Will sign up just for NBL.

Yeah, I'll be signing up to fox but not happily. I would say not signing up for people on this site would be a minority, but we spend our free time writing about basketball with a relatively small group of people. I'm sure not many casual fans will be signing up just because the NBL is over there.

"Giant waste of time. If you have fox, lucky you, nobody is going to sign up just for the NBL. "

I don't have Foxtel and I'm certainly going to be signing up to Foxtel for this. I'm pretty sure you might be with the minority.

Agree. Looking forward to watching games of Foxtel when I can.

To those complaining, if not on Foxtel, provide the alternative .

For those who can't afford Foxtel, find a friend who has it and ask for their "Foxtel Go" (live streaming service) password ;)

So why isn't this announcement on the NBL website?

I thought that is where I could go for all things NBL!

I've had Foxtel for years and don't understand all of the criticism. I pay $60 a month for basics and sport, which gives me every AFL game, 3-4 NBA games a week (plus all the espn analysts like sportcentre and PTI), 3-4 NFL games a week, sports docos, the Olympics, all NRL games (if I ever feel the need to rip my eyes out), all the Tennis Grand slams, EPL, F1s...The list goes on. So why is it such a bad thing? 7,9,10,1,7mate etc are only good if you want to see people cook, build or find a wife.

I moved to NSW 2 years ago and only get to see the Wildcats play Live 4 times a year against the Hawks and Kings, though I still go to other games whenever I can. Its been frustrating as hell to only be able to watch cats home games either on a 2-3 hour delay or the worst streaming site in history NBLTV. I'm cheering about Fox taking over.

Well for me personally, as someone who has Foxtel anyway, this is awesome :D

"Kestelman also added that the NBL has made provision for a weekly live game to be simulcast on a free to air network and the NBL is in high-level discussions with the commercial networks."

http://www.perthnow.com.au/sport/basketball/fox-sports-national-basketball-league-announce-broadcast-partnership-every-game-live-in-hd/story-fnhq5xcn-1227510845488

Its out

IT'S HAPPENING!!!!!!

ALL GAMES LIVE AND IN HD ON FOX!

I like the argument that people with foxtel are more sport inclined than those browsing FTA.

So if the marketing and advertising and game production is on point then viewership should increase right?

Living 400km from my home team venue I loved NBL TV. I could watch it anywhere, at home, in the car, anywhere with internet. I could see all games!

Sure only NBL fans even knew about it, but it was supposed to also mean that since every game was being video recorded in TV quality then footage could easily be made avaialble for FTA TV new services etc.

2 games "live per week" on 10 was a pretty good deal - or could have been if 10 had promoted it. That was the NBL's chance to be discovered by casual channel surfer.

I'm keen to know exactly what its going to cost me now to see NBL on TV. I signed up for 6 months back when they last had it on Foxtel. I think they had some special 6 month deals available, but it showed me that I definitely don't need the rest of the stuf they show.

I didn't even bother with it last season. I only started using it again when the Wildcats offered it to me for free.

Not that all streaming services should be judged by NBL.tv!
I don't know how the WNBA manages to do it but their LiveAccess service is US$14.99 per season (34 regular season games per team, plus 3 rounds of playoffs) and is a brilliant product.

It is if you have a PS4/Xbox one or a tablet. No contract, setup or installation.

Apparently announcement is at 1pm

$12.50 a week to watch every game live is pretty good value. Its a lot cheaper than it used to be.

If you have xbox/PS4 you can use the foxtel go/play and there is no contracts or set up cost.

It's not perfect, but it's every game so that's pretty decent, especially with the quality of the league this year.

I just canned my Foxtel subscription a little while ago, so looks like I'll be signing up to Foxtel Play... Just wish it were possible to record games I can't catch live.

Anyone know when the announcement is supposed to be today?

Massive fingers crossed Sky Sport NZ buy the rights.

I'm not holding my breath thought.

Sky Sport NZ have really skimped out on just about anything and everything lately - don't broadcast PGA Golf, EPL Football, Blackcaps SA series.

Presume the rights wouldn't be too expensive so they should be able to make it work.

I always wondered why Australians complain when stuff gets shown on Pay TV - but then i realised that Pay TV isn't subscribed to the level it is in NZ.

Despite Foxtel being much better (Sky is rubbish) - about 30% of Australian homes have pay TV. About 55% of NZ households have Sky. Interesting.

Why would Fox mean 48 minute games? Want a two hour package

If it's every game live I'll be stoked !!! Being able to watch every away game of my team would be awesome.

This would open the way for 48 minute games.

If we got all games live, that would be incredible.

always thought fox would try to and get it back,
they need something else other soccer in the summer since they lost the cricket, and have five channels to program. it is easier for people to cancel the pay tv contract with no lock in contract, people can just have pay tv for the afl/nrl and cancel it for the summer. so need to give more options to keep people interested in the summer