Online streaming poses ‘existential threat’ to free sport on Australian TV, broadcasters say
by Josh Butler from World news | The Guardian on (#66HAQ)
In submission to anti-siphoning review, Free TV Australia calls for tougher restrictions for new entrants when bidding for broadcast rights
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The rise of online streaming services is a real and existential threat" to free sport on television, claims the peak body representing Australia's commercial broadcasters, which argues new entrants to the entertainment market should face tougher restrictions when bidding for rights to show important sporting fixtures.
Free TV Australia has also called for more women's sports to be shown on free-to-air broadcasts, including matches from the Matildas football team and all games in the women's Fifa World Cup next year, in a review of the federal anti-siphoning list.
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