Basketball on Pay TV here in Australia

by **SkipToMy_Lou** on Fri Nov 12, 2004 6:55 am

I'll definetely sign.

by **Arcane** on Fri Nov 12, 2004 9:27 am

yay some support. Ok lets try and get this thing rolling by the end of the weekend.

by **dave w.** on Fri Nov 12, 2004 9:56 am

I have to say we're in the same boat here in NZ. I simply can't believe the scheduling so-far this year - especially considering that it's the start of the season & all...

Advertising games that aren't even being shown is a bad look too imo - unintentional or not...

Count me in for any petition... :wink:

by **Arcane** on Fri Nov 12, 2004 10:00 am

by **SkipToMy_Lou** on Fri Nov 12, 2004 8:05 pm

Finally, there programming was right. NBA Action was shown at 7:30.

by **Stevan** on Fri Nov 12, 2004 8:58 pm

it's all part of the master plan to destroy basketball in this country. scum bags!

by **Fresh8** on Fri Nov 12, 2004 9:11 pm

hey ppl.... do u reakon it would be more effective to write to a newspaper and then start a petition nationwide?

by **Arcane** on Fri Nov 12, 2004 9:29 pm

yeah could be if we wrote to pretty much every newspaper australia wide

by **Fresh8** on Fri Nov 12, 2004 10:12 pm

well.. if we want NBA... maybe we can do that! lol

by **Arcane** on Fri Nov 12, 2004 10:28 pm

we could also try and get NBL games or more tv exposure by bitching about that saying theres a lack of public knowledge of our league to a degree it is weird how the womens league has more free to air exposure even if it's more highlights on news and papers.

by **Carmo** on Sat Nov 13, 2004 4:29 pm

Larry Legend wrote:Sorry to bust the nuts of the Aussies on the board, but here in the Philippines, we get to watch 14 NBA games in a week! And that's not thru some special access, that's just through regular cable TV subscription.

What you talking about special access???????? It is just cable TV.

Bluesky · by **Andrew** on Sat Nov 13, 2004 5:25 pm

I was glad to see that NBA Action was shown as advertised, it should be on again tonight after the replay of the Miami/San Antonio game tonight. Next Friday they've scheduled surfing for 7:30 PM, hopefully it's just a little more shuffling and we'll continue to get at least one game plus NBA action every week.

I'm also in favour of some sort of campaign to try and get more NBA coverage here in Australia, such as a petition. It might even work, so long as we phrase it more eloquently than "Give us more NBA, you fucking morons!"

by **Arcane** on Sat Nov 13, 2004 5:35 pm

haha aight well there goes all my death threats in my letters

ohh well. Andrew what would be the best way in your opinion to get a petition started so we can get the ball rolling asap.

Bluesky · by **Andrew** on Sat Nov 13, 2004 5:58 pm

We could either use one of the petition sites to gain "signatures" and direct it to the attention of the appropriate people, or simply write up a petition and email it to the appropriate people with all of our email addresses included as the signatures.

by **Arcane** on Sat Nov 13, 2004 6:02 pm

2nd option sounds good

by **Choppies** on Sat Nov 13, 2004 9:39 pm

whats a petition site and ill start it up

by **Arcane** on Sat Nov 13, 2004 9:52 pm

here is 1 i found
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/create.html

Bluesky · by **Andrew** on Sun Nov 14, 2004 9:59 pm

Some news that everyone should find interesting. Matthew just told me about this site, though as it happens I found it earlier today trying to locate info on the ESPN International Schedule:

ESPN International Schedule (Pacific Rim)

Note that it suggests we'll be getting a couple of games per week and NBA Action in a couple of recurring timeslots. In regards to the Miami/Milwaukee game scheduled for this Thursday at 1 PM, note that the digital guide lists Streetball during that timeslot for the same time that an NBA game runs. The last time Foxtel did this, it turned out to be an NBA game. Hopefully we can expect the same thing to happen this Thursday.

by **Fresh8** on Mon Nov 15, 2004 4:23 pm

hey- if u guys are gonna start a petition give us a shout and i'll get some signatures at school!

by **Arcane** on Mon Nov 15, 2004 4:36 pm

everyone who signs this petition should get their friends in on it.

btw when scrolling down that list of the international guide all i pretty much saw was soccer, fishing, outdoors, scrabble & nfl and ohh yeah the k9's dog shows

Bluesky · by **Andrew** on Mon Nov 15, 2004 8:16 pm

Yeah, NBA basketball is still heavily outweighed, but it's there in a couple of consistent timeslots (save for a few exceptions).

by **Arcane** on Tue Nov 16, 2004 10:41 pm

I've started the petition thanks to Andrew for helping with checking on details. Here is the link to vote your say and spread the word to you friends at school or work or anyone you know who will be willing to sign i gave it a 2 month window to see if we can reach 2000 sigs if we hit more I think that will be a great target.
link: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/629189849

by **Nick** on Wed Nov 17, 2004 5:32 pm

Use commas and full stops Dragon! Sheesh!

How are the people that read this petition supposed to take you seriously?

(Atleast you started the sentence with a capital, that's a start, i guess.)

Edit: Also, 2000 is a pretty steep goal don't you think? :shock:

Even this petition to EA Sports only got 326 signitures.

Corssing my fingies though.

by **Arcane** on Wed Nov 17, 2004 5:48 pm

I'm hoping that people will spread the word with friends and family. The example petition I saw was a steep goal, they were hoping for 100,000 sigs but only got 438 from memory.

by **Nick** on Wed Nov 17, 2004 5:55 pm

*Note to Dragon: Nice grammer!

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