You'll have to excuse me if this has been covered in another thread.

Let's say the 9 Network get the new contract and there's only 4 free-to-air games a round. Will this have an impact on the (ours and the other) clubs' sponsorship deals? For instance, do the contacts we have with sponsors have a clause that says we have to give back some money if we aren't in a minumum number of FTA games a season?

Anyone know?

Don’t know the exact answer to that Bort but I wouldn’t mind betting that a lot of sponsorship contracts would be up for review/renewell at the end of next season
co-inciding with the end of the current TV broadcasting rights.

It does raise an interesting question though regarding fixturing/exposure.
Packer controls CH9 AND Foxtel so it will be interesting to see whether the current agreement (if successful) between PBL and the AFL allows Packer to schedule the 4 “best/highest ratingâ€

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There's so much I could say...

Packer doesnt control Foxtel- thats Murdoch.

PBL own 25% of Foxtel.

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And so while others miserably pledge themselves to the pursuit of ambition and brief power, I will be stretched out in the shade, singing.

Telstra own 50% of Foxtel.

I own the other 30% of foxtel

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Inspired by the One-Minute Sculptures of Erwin Wurm

"All in all is all we are..."

Which I guess, in a way that the Australian public own 25.5% of Foxtel?

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And so while others miserably pledge themselves to the pursuit of ambition and brief power, I will be stretched out in the shade, singing.

and I own 17% of The Shag

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Richard Pratt - A Carlton legend.

This is getting messy - little help Jarusa?

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Richard Pratt - A Carlton legend.

It always does when The Shag's involved. There should be a standard "Tissue Clause"

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And so while others miserably pledge themselves to the pursuit of ambition and brief power, I will be stretched out in the shade, singing.

hmmm, you must be referring to the rest of my body deano, the other 83% of my total body mass is my penis, and that is officially property of fullmont101...

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Inspired by the One-Minute Sculptures of Erwin Wurm

"All in all is all we are..."

you little bastard shag. i thought i owned that little crumpet.

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Back like a raging case of pubic lice

What was this thread about again?

Was it about spotting for someone at the Gym?

ahhh bnz, thats where you are wrong, fullmont rented it to you on a 6 month contract.....

rent money is dead money

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Inspired by the One-Minute Sculptures of Erwin Wurm

"All in all is all we are..."

BUT NOBODY CAN OWN THE SKIES!!!!!!!!!

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*extracting the CRAP* ----->>> *shovelling it back to TalkingSheeeet-i-mean-TalkingStuff*

Who is our main sponsor these days? It's hard to imagine a sponsor dealing with the Club and insisting on so may "free-to-air" games per season to meet their requirements.

I suspect our sponsors are well aware as to where we are in the food chain.