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Foxtel wants the sports free-to-airs reject
14th November 2008, 10:30 WST
Pay TV provider Foxtel wants the right to transmit sports events that free-to-air TV broadcasters are failing to bring to the public.
Chief executive Kim Williams again lashed out at free-to-air TV broadcasters at a breakfast briefing in Perth today in the long running battle over sports rights regulation, or the so-called anti-siphoning rules.
Free-to-air TV broadcasters were given privileged access to sports rights in 1994, using the argument that they provide sports free as a community service.
But Mr Williams said free-to-air broadcasters did not transmit enough sport.
They should therefore be subject to a “use it or lose it” principle, whereby they lose the right to privileged access to sports events that they have so far failed to broadcast.
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