Real Footy On Melbourne Television :-)

[Carl Unger]

Does Melbourne show real football on Television aka Rugby League football?

AFL is shown in NSW not at a better timeslot than Rugby League though.

I'm assuming League is shown at like midnight in Melbourne...I certainly hope that's not the case.



Melbourne posted a large crowd for the international test match league series last year.

[glen]

aussie rules takes all the good time slots. you basically need to get pay tv like foxtel to have good rugby coverage! i don't understand why they just don't make a few more free to air TV stations!



actually now that i think of it, maybe if you have a digital set top box you might get a few more free channels that provide sport. but i never got a set top box because our local community TV station is not available in the digital format yet (ie channel 31).



glen

[Carl Unger]

Channel 31? Is that like a community station like TVS? clueless



I don't expect league to get the same coverage as AFL. ahwell :-(

If I were to move to Melbourne that could be a deciding factor. So make sure you get Rugby League on Television down there, otherwise I can't come down...and we don't want that, do we? :-) :-) :-)

[glen]

hahaha. well i will write to foxtel and tell them to make their services free! i can be pretty convincing! LOL



cheers, glen

[Carl Unger]

Excellent work, I should expect to see Rugby League on WIN Television at 7:30 tommorrow in Melbourne then, aye?

[Debbie]

I picked up on a point during your discussion here that I hope you can help with. Are the times reasonable across Australia for sporting events? For example events on the West coast are they recieved at a reasonable time by those on the East coast? I guess it is a time difference issue?

[glen]

[quote name='Carl Unger' post='2841' date='Apr 19 2007, 08:52 PM']Excellent work, I should expect to see Rugby League on WIN Television at 7:30 tommorrow in Melbourne then, aye?[/quote]



Hi Carl, Yep I hope you enjoyed the Rugby on WIN TV. I also requested they deliver potato chips and cold beer to all households in australia! I hope they found enough supplies! <img src='http://www.melbournechat.org/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />





[quote name='Debbie' post='2850' date='Apr 21 2007, 02:39 AM']I picked up on a point during your discussion here that I hope you can help with. Are the times reasonable across Australia for sporting events? For example events on the West coast are they recieved at a reasonable time by those on the East coast? I guess it is a time difference issue?[/quote]





Hi Debbie, the timezone difference between the east coast and west coast is 2 hours so it does not have too much impact on sport on TV. <img src='http://www.melbournechat.org/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />



Cheers, Glen