Just asked this of Mark Robinson of the Herald Sun on their live chat page.
"Is there any chance the Herald Sun or a major paper will give more than half a page to the VFL competition each weekend?"
His response was a simple
'no'
So, the major Vic papers don't give a crap about the VFL. That's positive...... not.
The ABC 7 pm news didnt have the VFL scores either.Piss poor considering that they are the
official VFL broadcaster!Even though
Im an ABC fan but it might be time to trim the fat.From my perpective they are more and more looking like a second rate commercial channel and we have enough of that drivel shoved down our throats.
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Very very poor on the ABC's behalf for not giving scores of the vfl matches.
How hard is it to read out the scores. Not if it is a foreign sport, the ABC has only has been covering VFA matches since 1987 so how hard is it to read out some vfl scores ???
Not good enough ABC !!!
Maybe ABC Sydney hierarchy has now banned tv from giving VFL scores like it has for many years with ABC radio.
Its funny that ABC don't bother stating the scores as it is in their interest to publicise the league they are covering. Years ago the tv would say all the VFA scores (including the major stations). With the paper only reporting half a page of information every week and ABC not even mentioning the scores - the reality is that this league is set to stay stagnant with strong growth being a unrealistic expectation.
In reply to Its funny that ABC don't by MegaA
Im going to cotact the ABC and I suggest the rest of the people on here do the same. I have complained before and they responded
The other way is to send them by twitter and facebook when they are telecasting a game!
In reply to Maybe ABC Sydney hierarchy by cobrascorer
As I have said before its time for the Taj Mahal in Sydney to to stripped down in size and more local decision making given to the State organisations.
BTW seeing the ABC is a national taxpyer funded organisation why isnt its HQ in Canberra?
ABC tv News Saturday 12 April again ignored VFL results. On Sunday, hypocritical Ch 7 News had a couple of seconds of Coburg v Richmond, but as with Ch 9, no VFL results. These stations as well as Ch 10, have so much AuFL bilge as "news" in weekday News programs, plus several minutes each bulletin on soccer (it is no wonder soccer is likely to kill football, as written by Kevin Bartlett in Wednesday 9 April Hun), but never mention VFL information.
Bugger, I thought tonight's ABC tv News was being recorded, but it wasn't. When I tuned in "live" they were on soccer and soccer and soccer. Does anyone know if VFL results were broadcast?
It's time to stop living in Disney Land. Be thankful that there's any coverage of the VFL at all, TV, radio or print. The Libs are in too... so maybe enjoy it while the TV lasts!
There's obviously an issue with the old vfa folk being less technologically savvy and wanting to rely on the old forms of 'media' for their coverage... But it's time to get into the real world. If the supporters along with the clubs and the league can create enough mass drive for content, news, scores etc. then that space will be filled.
Right now, it's being filled. Arguably, it's in surplus on 'mainstream' media. I know it's not the good old days - and it's not. The history is fantastic. And will always remain a corner-stone for the standalone clubs and competition supporters alike. But dealing with the facts is much more constructive than trying to get measly scores on the major networks who are only interested in the dollar.
The war can't be won. But the battles can. Fight the battles.
"There's obviously an issue with the old vfa folk being less technologically savvy and wanting to rely on the old forms of 'media' for their coverage."
Im not young and I find your comment very insulting and just plain wrong!
What I said is it too much to ask of our taxpayer funded "national" broadcaster to at least give the scores for the competition that they broadcast for 3 hours every Saturday?
And as for living in the past as Edmund Burke said "those who dont know their history are doomed to repeat it"
Yes the 90 = year "war" between the VFA and VFL is won but the VFA put up one hell of a fight for a very long time and brought many great innovations to our great game.
Without the original VFA from 1877 there would be NO present day Victorian AFL clubs and that is a historical FACT!
You might be surprised but I along with most people live in the present moment!
Interesting...how I believe things are, is that a news grab of scores for 2 seconds flashing on the news doesn't matter so much in this day and age.
As it is, VFA/VFL footy is competing against so many sports that are played at a national or international level, that for a 5 minute news segment, the VFA is always going to be down in the pecking order.
The quality of content however, produced by local news publications such as Leader, the Star, etc, along with club promoted news fills that void. Particularly with just how readily scores are available with Twitter, Facebook, club and competition websites.
While that may mean that you are really only preaching to the converted may be true. But I can't see what benefit VFL scores are going to be when flashed up on a screen so quickly you need to pause it to actually read it. If you were going to get a 30 second to 1 minute wrap, then would be some benefit.
That being said, don't stop promoting the comp to the major media, just be realistic that it's a niche market.
Community and Digital radio coverage along with online streams probably mean that the competition probably has as much game day coverage for decades.