Mike C.

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Fox Sports World US and Footy

Saturday, 14 February 2004, at 12:42 p.m. US Eastern Time

After reading Rob's entry on US TV coverage in 2004, I headed over to Fox Sports World for clues. There is no mention of footy on the site at all-- entering various terms in their search engine turns up nothing. I reckon this doesn't look good for us this year. Of course, this assumes that they had some mention of footy on the web page last year when they broadcast the sport and they took whatever footy-related pages they had off of their main site.

It really is odd how Rob consistently has problems getting info for us from the AFL and Fox Sports World. You would think that the AFL powers would want to support footy in the US, and not alienate those of us who love the game.

Mike
Fremantle Dockers Supporter

Rob de Santos

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Mike C.

Re: Fox Sports World US and Footy Web Link

Saturday, 14 February 2004, at 1:30 p.m. US Eastern Time

Hi Mike,

> After reading Rob's entry on US TV coverage in 2004, I headed over to Fox Sports
> World for clues. There is no mention of footy on the site at all-- entering various
> terms in their search engine turns up nothing.
...
> Of course, this assumes that they had some mention of footy on the web
> page last year when they broadcast the sport and they took whatever footy-related
> pages they had off of their main site.

They've never had anything about footy on the site except for one or two post-GF articles (taken from Sky Sports in the UK) a few years ago.

> It really is odd how Rob consistently has problems getting info for us from the AFL
> and Fox Sports World. You would think that the AFL powers would want to support
> footy in the US, and not alienate those of us who love the game.

You might think that but it probably wouldn't be entirely true. FOX Sports simply doesn't like us because we are vocal and we pay attention to what they say and do. The AFL, on the other hand, is often so nervous about losing coverage here entirely they are unwilling to say or do anything FOX might not like. Also, when the AFL turned over international TV distribution to FOX Sports Int'l, they essentially washed their hands of the international TV "problem". Read my blog for my on-going commentary on all of this, if you haven't already.

Regards,

-Rob de Santos
AFANA Chairman

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