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NINE GUARANTEES LIVE COVERAGE OF
ALL WAFL FINALS

Nine Perth announced today that the station will guarantee full live coverage of all 2015 WAFL finals series games featuring West Perth.

Nine Perth’s Managing Director, David Mott said Nine would broadcast the finals games if Seven elected not to do so.

“We’d be happy to broadcast the finals in the interest of supporting grass roots football, the WAFC, all clubs, supporters and the West Perth Football Club that Nine Perth sponsors.

“The ongoing controversy surrounding the broadcast of the WAFL finals due to a West Perth sponsorship featuring a Nine News logo on the jumpers, and Channel Seven’s decision not to broadcast any West Perth games is a major disappointment to all followers of this great game,” said Mr Mott.

“Nine made the decision to sponsor West Perth because we wanted to support local football. At the time, ABC was broadcasting the WAFL, and both Nine and Seven were sponsoring teams with logos on jumpers. There was no problem then.

“Sponsorship dollars are critical for the survival of sporting bodies such as the WAFL. Nine Perth will maintain its sponsorship of West Perth, as well as providing live coverage of all finals games if required. By Nine committing to the broadcast, everyone wins.

“Nine Perth will also ensure any games featuring East Perth, which is sponsored by Seven and The West Australian, will be broadcast, even though the Seven logo appears on the team’s jumpers.

“Principal sponsor McDonald’s who underwrite the broadcast on Seven, along with other sponsors, should not be disadvantaged and caught in the middle of this issue. They deserve the right under their sponsorship agreements to have all games broadcast.

"We are happy to discuss our proposal in more detail with the WAFC at their convenience.

Key Points:
· Nine Perth’s sponsorship with West Perth Football Club pre-dates the broadcast deal with Seven by more than 12 months
· Seven and WAFC were well aware of Nine Perth’s sponsorship deal at the time of signing the broadcast deal
· Competing sponsorships are not uncommon in sport
· The AFL’s principal sponsor is Toyota. Other AFL clubs have competing sponsorships with car manufacturers with logos on jumpers that appear on all broadcast games. Examples are:
o Sydney Swans – VW
o GWS – Fiat
o North Melbourne – Mazda
o Carlton – Hyundai


For further information please contact:
Wendy McKillop
Head of Marketing, Publicity and Communications
Nine Network Australia, Perth
M: 0412 211 011
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Wednesday, July 29, 2015

a very reasonable approach by nine Leedy..hopefully seven will see how ridiculous they've been and adopt a similar line...

I agree , full credit to Ch 9 a reasonable approach.

The ball is in your court TVW 7!

Very very clever marketing move by CH9, deliberately done to set a cat amongst the pigeons and finally get some truth and transparency from the WAFC & CH 7.

The notes at the bottom of the post clearly at odds with the dribble that's been forthcoming from the WAFC regarding sponsorship sign up dates. I'm sure CH 9 would not put themselves in a position of legal challenge regarding these dates, so one can only assume the WAFC have been less than generous with the facts.

Rest assured the WAFC and CH 7 will label this as a stunt and dismiss it out of hand. If they do so lets hope the 7 WAFL clubs and Peelmantle stand up and demand the WAFC take this generous offer, can't expect East eagles to say anything as they are CH 7 puppets.

The current broadcaster doesn't have any respect for the sponsors either! The principal sponsor who underwrites the broadcast on the current broadcaster, along with the other sponsors, should not be disadvantaged and caught in the middle of this issue. They deserve the right under their sponsorship agreements to have all the Wafl games broadcast.
Hopefully the current tv broadcaster can be given the flick with immediate effect and the nine network start televising the Wafl.

Good call, footy back on the box regardless of who is playing and thats the way it should be

That's great news.
But don't expect channel 9 to just rock up with equipment and televise. I bet somehow there will be a road block of sorts, or some fine print in some contract that will make the WAFC restrict access to WAFL grounds, especially Subiaco Oval.

Just thinking there may be some exclusive rights issues that ch 7 have signed up.

If 7 have its exclusively then they should be cover it. Not buy the rights and then deny the public.

astro wrote: If 7 have its exclusively then they should be cover it. Not buy the rights and then deny the public.

Generally there are inbuilt clauses that give the owner the exclusive rights, and also the right to not cover it and to sell a portion off or vae the option to not sell it off. The ball is well and truly with TVW 7.