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Baloo said:
Toyota AFL Premiership Season - Rnd 4:
Richmond v Collingwood
Friday 15 Apr at 17:30 (Singapore time)

That's nearly live. 19:30 in Melbourne. When does the match start ?
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Live on ESPN UK tomorrow morning 10:30am - will not be taking the morning off for that one!

Despite knowing better I coughed up another £49.99 for www.liveafl.tv. Although previous 3 Tigers' games were live I have watched a few others and service has been ok.

For those considering coughing up the schedule is as follows. (Time is UK based)

05:10 - 16th April
Hawthorn v West Coast Eagles
Watch Live now Hawthorn v West Coast Eagles

05:10 - 16th April
Carlton v Essendon
Watch Live now Carlton v Essendon

10:40 - 16th April
Port Adelaide v Adelaide
Watch Live now Port Adelaide v Adelaide

07:40 - 17th April
Fremantle v North Melbourne
Watch Live now Fremantle v North Melbourne

07:40 - 24th April
North Melbourne v Richmond
Watch Live now North Melbourne v Richmond

11:40 - 25th April
Fremantle v Western Bulldogs
Watch Live now Fremantle v Western Bulldogs

05:40 - 26th April
Hawthorn v Geelong
 
Damn, I just realized I will miss the game because of a last minute flight. Maybe that is a sign we might win?
 
Toyota AFL Premiership Season - Rnd 5:
North Melbourne v Richmond
Sunday 24 Apr at 14:30 (Singapore Time)
 
Baloo said:
Don't blame Rupert Murdoch, blame gustiger.
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You have a looong memory Baloo.
I was saying to oldie the other day, I was around in early 2000 when Australia Network took over from ABC Asia Pacific TV and the old line was trotted out that Australia Network wasn't about Expat viewers, but all about the local audiences in the countries they were broadcasting too. This was all part of the party line as DFAT were a major backer of the channel and they had to keep them happy.

They substantially reduced there sports coverage for about a year, but the backlash was overwhelming and they finally realise that without the expat audience they had stuff all audience, so after a year of abuse they reintroduced the sport coverage like never before.

They need to forget the rhetoric and start worrying about reality. What they fail to understand is that a lot of their so called target audience actually love watching Australian sport, not to mention all the other countries expats living abroad who watch the Aussie sport. If they don't show it someone else will soon pick it up.

Funnily enough here in the Solomon Islands we get pretty good AFL coverage on other Australian channels we get here.
 
Don't know if this is common knowledge or not, but for those of us here on the European continent, Eurosport 2 do one game per round live, sometimes two. Mostly the Friday and/or Saturday night game, so that they can be watched at a reasonable hour here (11.00 am). Depending upon the country, there might even be local language commentary - we have that in Denmark.

This started last year. Richmond was not on once for the whole of 2010, but this year we have already been on three times (St. Kilda, Hawthorn and Collingwood games). Despite the losses, I've been like a pig-in-sh!t watching the Tiges live on full HD.
 
Very early days of course, but it'd be interesting to know whether anyone has any idea about how the new TV rights agreement will affect overseas broadcasts.

For mine, the Australia Network's AFL coverage has been great this season, with a minimum of four games each round, and every Tigers match so far, including this coming weekend.

Hopefully this continues under the new agreement.
 
Jexy said:
Very early days of course, but it'd be interesting to know whether anyone has any idea about how the new TV rights agreement will affect overseas broadcasts.

For mine, the Australia Network's AFL coverage has been great this season, with a minimum of four games each round, and every Tigers match so far, including this coming weekend.

Hopefully this continues under the new agreement.
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Not just for the Austarlia Network but also ESPN's involvement as far as online broadcasting goes here in the States.

Fingers crossed that more games will be available with any kinda luck.
 
Toyota AFL Premiership Season - Rnd 6:
Richmond v Brisbane
30 Apr at 17:00
Australia Network.
 
Toyota AFL Premiership Season - Rnd 7:
Richmond v Fremantle
Saturday 7 May at 18:00
Australia Network.
 
On the plus side, it looks like our Dreamtime Game is being shown Live.
 
Next couple of weeks pretty good for those with ESPN in the UK or with access to it in Europe:

Sunday 15th 5:00 AM BST

LIVE AFL
Western Bulldogs v Richmond
Western Bulldogs meet Richmond at Docklands Stadium in Melbourne.

Saturday 21st 10:30 AM BST

LIVE AFL
Richmond v Essendon
Aussie Rules action as Richmond meet Essendon at Melbourne Cricket Ground.
 
Singapore Tiger said:
Saturday 21st 10:30 AM BST

LIVE AFL
Richmond v Essendon
Aussie Rules action as Richmond meet Essendon at Melbourne Cricket Ground.
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Should be a big Marngrook Footy Show next Thursday in light of the Dream Time @ The G.
 
on june 10 i'm going on a 15 week overseas trip. 11 weeks in europe, 3 weeks in asia and a week in fiji. would love some advice as to where i could watch games in europe and asia. sounds like ESPN is the way to go in europe, yes?
 
Just typical ! The weekend the family are away so there would be no one bothering me during the game, Australia Network have decided that our game against the Swans is the only game not to show this weekend.

gustiger, you have a lot to answer for.
 
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