Here is the full video coverage of Saturday’s Sunshine Coast Rugby Union game between University and Noosa.
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Where are we going this weekend
This weekend we’ll be heading south from the Coast again. We’ll be covering the QSRU/SCRU game between Goodna and Noosa at Goodna.
We’ll post the full A grade game to our YouTube channel on Monday.
Well then be at the Super Rugby game between the Queensland Reds and the Chiefs – just to watch.
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Network Ten, Win left without sporting coverage over 2018/19 summer
Network Ten has lost the broadcast rights to the Big Bah League for at least the next five summers.
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Meeniyan Dumbalk United v Wonthaggi Workmen at Meeniyan
What we’re covering in the coming months
Here’s what we’re planning to cover until September
February 10
Leongatha and District CA B Grade Div 1: MDU v Wonthaggi Workmens
February 17
Leongatha and District CA A Grade Div 2: MDU v Foster
February 25
Queensland Premier Grade Div 1: Sunshine Coast v Ipswich Logan
Sunshine Coast CA Div 2B: Maroochydore v Tewantin Noosa
Other grades might be done as well.
March 3
Sunshine Coast CA Div 2B: Maroochydore v Tewantin Noosa
Other grades might be done as well.
March 10 and 11
Sunshine Coast CA semi finals
March 17, 18 and 24
Sunshine Coast CA Grand Finals
April through September
Sunshine Coast Rugby Union A and Reserve grades. Dates to be confirmed.
We may also cover any of the AFL Gippsland leagues as well. We’ll confirm closer to the dates.
2018/19 Sunshine Coast CA Twenty20 to be confirmed.
Network Ten in voluntary administration, what of the regional affiliations?
Hi all
As you may have seen reported in the news Network Ten has gone into voluntary administration. The Network has a $200 million loan that will no longer be garenteed by two of it’s share holders.
What does this mean for it’s regional affiliates?
There are reports that Ten plans to operate as normally as possible. If this occurs, not much will change for the affiliates – Win and TDT Tasmania. If not, Win will have to find another source of programming. TDT is also affiliated with Seven so it may ditch the Ten affiliation altogether.
Win currently broadcasts a local news bulletins into each of it’s coverage areas. It also produces a national news bulletin with stories from the local bulletins.
As you can imagine I’m in two minds on this. It’s clearly a bad thing as people may lose their jobs. But it also put’s me in a position where I may be supplying content to Win. If I had it my way, the employees of Ten would keep their jobs and I would be supplying programming to Win.
If you’ve read the last paragraph and gone ‘what the?’ I produce sports coverage over on the PattmanSport Youtube channel. This includes the above video.
Ten says it’s well on it’s way to raising the money through reduced broadcast licence fees and cheaper content deals. It may survive this, it may not.
Australian Football League on Youtube?
Hi all
An interesting article came across my twitter feed this afternoon. Apparently the Australian Football League has approached Google to broadcast matches live on YouTube. If this is true it would not be anything new in the sporting world. It wouldn’t even be new for Australian rules football.
The North East Australian Football League broadcast games through their YouTube channel each week. Even the representative game gets broadcast.
If the AFL follows the NEAFLs model, the audience will be able to watch replays of the match without said replay being otherwise uploaded.
There are, however, a couple of issues with Google getting the rights. First is Australia’s anti-syphoning laws. In short these laws require curtain events to be offered for broadcast to Free to Air television networks. The list of events includes all AFL matches. Channel Seven have, in recent years, waived outright five matches each week. The other four matches they’ve only waived in part.
The other issue the Australian Football League would face is internet bandwidth. The AFL would be looking at about nine or ten gigabytes per match. There being nine matches each week, this works out to be about ninety gigabytes a week. An audience member watching even a three or four games would chew through there home data allowance fairly quickly, their mobile data definitely.
It will be interesting if this amounts to something.
Online vs Television
Hi all
As you can probably understand, content that previously was the domain of television, cinema and home video is increasingly reformatted to sought an online audience. One could look at the advent of YouTube and BitTorrent as examples here.
A half hour television programme lasts about twenty two minutes once the ad breaks are taken out. An hour programme lasts 44-45 mnutes. This is standard industry practice.
The internet doesn’t need these deliverables. Shows can last from about four to five minutes for a comedy show up to a proper half hour for a review show.
Even sport, which normally takes up about two to three hours is slowly going online. Though it must be said that the sporting broadcasts that I’ve seen purpose made for online vary greatly in the style of production from those purpose made for television.
The above video is of the North East Australian Football League match between Sydney University and Eastlake. It was produced for and presented live on YouTube. Yes YouTube does have that feature. As you can tell watching it, the production crew filmed it with a single camera.
Television broadcasters like Fox Sports have about eight cameras – with corresponding number of operators – for the same type of content. The multicamera setup used here provides a sort of safety net in the event the main camera is obstructed from viewing the action. Trust me, I’ve been operating a main (only) camera the kept getting obstructed and it’s annoying as buggery.
Oh well, things happen. We will probably see more content purposely made for online. Television won’t be completely gone for quite a while yet.
Patrick Gillett
(The image of the cameraman in licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license and attributable to me)