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Football => View from the Outer => Topic started by: one-eyed on May 29, 2010, 06:43:31 AM
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Fake fans in footy's deadest game
CAROLINE WILSON
May 29, 2010
CHANNEL Nine has revealed a bold plan to repackage its Monday night programming with live AFL matches complete with virtual crowds.
Nine's executive director Jeff Browne said Monday night football was likely to underpin its push for a slice of the next AFL broadcast rights deal from 2012, but he regarded it as primarily a television game in which he would compensate for half-full stadiums with virtual crowds.
For example, if Etihad Stadium had a crowd of less than 20,000, thousands of spectators could be inserted into empty seats using digital technology.
''I think Monday night is the new franchise for the AFL, and we want it,'' Browne told The Age. ''It's a traditional timeslot in sports all around the world.
''Obviously, being a Monday night, you'd attract less people to the match. But there are some great technological innovations we can put around it to make it a fantastic game for television, and we'd show it live.
''People are being diabolically conservative about this. The fact is people are home on Monday nights and they are out on Friday nights.''
Seven, which televised the Monday night round-seven St Kilda-Carlton match, was moderately satisfied with the ratings but indicated the timeslot would not be a part of its plans. The AFL also remains lukewarm, concerned at fixture problems in spreading each round over four days.
The AFL, which hopes to sell its next five-year broadcast package complete with nine weekly home-and-away games for $1 billion, said the virtual audience would solve the TV problem but not the prospect of relatively empty Monday night stadiums.
http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/fake-fans-in-footys-deadest-game-20100528-wllh.html
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That's just bizarre given one of the strengths of the AFL is it's crowd numbers (4th highest average crowds in the world professional sport). They might as well show a video game.
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Maybe Eddie can schedule Collingwood to play on Monday nights.
After all the stadiums will be full with Collingwood fans anyway as for the most part Collingwood fans are unemployed so they don't have to get up early to go to work on the Tuesday and their kids don't go to school anyway so the digital technology will be a stark contrast to the actual bona fide toothless Collingwood fan. :lol
Furthermore as they all file out of the ground after the game the coppers can wait for them on the outside and make the necessary arrests to make the streets safer. :lol :rollin :lol
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Maybe Eddie can schedule Collingwood to play on Monday nights.
After all the stadiums will be full with Collingwood fans anyway as for the most part Collingwood fans are unemployed so they don't have to get up early to go to work on the Tuesday and their kids don't go to school anyway so the digital technology will be a stark contrast to the actual bona fide toothless Collingwood fan. :lol
Furthermore as they all file out of the ground after the game the coppers can wait for them on the outside and make the necessary arrests to make the streets safer. :lol :rollin :lol
That's pure gold Tucky :rollin :thatsgold
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This is just plain wrong. Channel nine has become a disgrace of a broadcaster. Any sport they delevise you get bombarded with adds for betting agencies and their own shows being flashed on the screen during play, as well as the commentators continually plugging their own crap shows. :chuck
Kerry Packer would be turning in his grave.
Now they want to play a spectator sport in a time slot they know will be poor for crowd figures and make it look like there are large crowds there??
Just wrong, in so many ways.
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Maybe they could introduce virtual commentators so we wouldn't have to put up with the likes of Garry whining Lyon and Dwayne Idiot.
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They'd need a super computer with some serious processing power to make a Kangaroos game look full! :lol
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A real Dwayne Russell and Garry Lyon is bad enough than inventing virtual ones FF ;D
They'd need a super computer with some serious processing power to make a Kangaroos game look full! :lol
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The same man and his dog in every seat eh wayne lol.