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the prowler wrote:

bayman wrote:this is an absolute disgrace, i'll be venting my thoughts via email, letters & phone calls on Monday

Who do we all vent our thoughts to bayman?

i'll be sending it to the sanfl, they can send it to whoever it needs it to go to, a letter or email should get a reply just out of courtesy if nothing else......anyway i won't be listening to either the abc or 5aa

this article below is out of todays paper


RADIO SILENCE (Ben Hook, Sun Aug 30)

After 25 years behind the microphone, SANFL radio broadcasters RPH Adelaide won't call the 2015 final following a dispute over funding with the league and may never cover the SANFL again.

Ten days ago RPH Adelaide and Life FM were advised by the SANFL that their weekly fee ($600) would not be paid for any of the finals series.

Both station were made aware by a generic group email.

Life FM opted to continue with their call to meet sponsorship commitments despite station boss Michael Chant describing the decision as "disapointing".

RPH Adelaide boss Hans Reimer told the SANFL last Friday his station wouldn't go to air without the funding. SANFL officials met with Reimer on Monday to broker a deal, but would only offer funding for the first two weeks of the finals.

Reimer reaffirmed on Wednesday RPH would not cover any finals and have confirmed their last game is today's Port v West clash.

SANFL General Manager of Football Adam Kelly said the hefty expenses associated with 7's coverage weren't a factor.

"We've had every game of the home and away season available for the first time through our app."
Kelly said.

"That comes at a cost and we have directed some funding."

All over a measly $600 a week.

What damage will be done if say the stations say bugger it and there is no coverage next year?

Is Donald Trump in charge of PR at the sanfl?

$600 per station over 4 weeks = $4800

We could've induced a melee at one of the games last weekend to cover the broadcast costs

Round 18 of West v Norwood and Round 19 of South v Centrals, both telecast on television, drew 13,000 viewers. This makes four of the last six games with 14,000 viewers or less, with a total fall of average viewers in 2015 of 22% from 2014.

I love listening to 5RPH, yet I would also back them in telling the SANFL where they can go and shove their football coverage for next season. As stated above they have stuck by the SANFL for 25 years - I recall Lindsay Backman being on the commentary team there. They are being treated like absolute s**t by the SANFL and they might as well go focus their scant resources on the Adelaide 36'ers.

One might think that if the f*&^wits that run the SANFL get the message that they get no coverage next year they may well wake up to themselves, but after the way we have seen the SANFL competition dragged into the ground this season I wont be holding my breath waiting...

I reckon both 5AA and ABC used to do the first two weeks of finals before, but because it clashes with Sunday AFL (last round and 1st week of finals) they won't. Had the season been in it's usual time frame...
Increased exposure eh...

And 5AA even used to call the odd minor round match too:

https://web.archive.org/web/20050626151631/http://footysa.com/article.php?sid=1168

Phil H on FootySA in 2005 wrote:SANFL In The Media This Week

Thursday
- Approx 7.30pm – SANFL Segment CoastFM Sportscap 88.7FM
- 8.00pm to 9.00pm – SANFL League Teams Show – 5RPH 1197am
Friday
- 5.45pm to 5.55pm – Life FM SANFL Preview 107.9
- 7.00pm to 8.00pm – Coast FM Football Show 88.7FM
- 7.00pm to 10.15pm – NORWOOD v EAGLES @ Norwood – fiveaa 1395am
Saturday
- 1.30pm – 5.00pm – GLENELG v CENTRAL @ Glenelg – 5RPH 1197am
- 1.30pm – 5.30pm – NORTH v SOUTH @ Prospect – SEN 1323am
- 2.00pm – 5.00pm – WEST v PORT @ Broadspectrum – LIFE FM 107.9
- 2.30pm to 5.00pm – NORTH v SOUTH @ Prospect – ABC TV
Monday
- 6.10am to 6.15am – SANFL review – Radio TAB 1539am
- 7.00am – 7.30am – SANFL Wrap – 5RPH 1197am
- 8.30am – 9.00am – Yesterday’s Heros – 5RPH 1197am
Wednesday
- 8.00am to 8.15am – SANFL Mid Week Update – 5RPH 1197am

only one radio station last week. plus tv. times have changed a lot from when four or five radio stations did finals.

Life FM's call was pretty dire in my opinion. Doug Oakley was at his usual tangential best talking about anything other than the game. Two minutes before the game starts and there's a discussion with Daniel Kirk about the U18s. Might be an idea to present some analysis of the 2nd Semi Final you're about to watch.
It was absolutely impossible to get an idea of how the ball was moving around the ground. It's insanely frustrating.  And generally I thought the calling was unenthusiastic. Chris Kendall was wasted on the boundary. Bizarre that Oakley would call a game ahead of him.

spell_check wrote:And 5AA even used to call the odd minor round match too:

The broadcast guide from 2005 Rd 5 to 8. A far cry from this season where there was generally two games without radio or tv coverage per round. Online radio is a waste - appeases only a very tiny audience.

Rd 5
- North v Port @ Prospect – Life FM
- West v Sturt @ Richmond – 5RPH, ABC TV
- Glenelg v South @ Glenelg – SEN
- Central v Eagles @ Adelaide – 5RPH, SEN, ABCTV

Rd 6
- Norwood v Port @ Norwood – fiveaa
- Central v North @ NAP Oval – SEN, ABC TV
- Eagles v South @ Woodville – 5RPH
- Glenelg v Sturt @ Adelaide – LifeFM

Rd 7
- Eagles v North @ Woodville – ABC TV
- Central v West @ NAP Oval – Life FM
- Glenelg v Norwood @ Glenelg – 5RPH
- Sturt v South @ Unley – SEN

Rd 8
- Port v Eagles @ Alberton – ABC TV
- South v West @ Noarlunga – 5RPH
- North v Glenelg @ Prospect – LifeFM
- Sturt v Norwood @ Unley – SEN

scott wrote:

spell_check wrote:And 5AA even used to call the odd minor round match too:

The broadcast guide from 2005 Rd 5 to 8. A far cry from this season where there was generally two games without radio or tv coverage per round. Online radio is a waste - appeases only a very tiny audience.

Rd 5
- North v Port @ Prospect – Life FM
- West v Sturt @ Richmond – 5RPH, ABC TV
- Glenelg v South @ Glenelg – SEN
- Central v Eagles @ Adelaide – 5RPH, SEN, ABCTV

Rd 6
- Norwood v Port @ Norwood – fiveaa
- Central v North @ NAP Oval – SEN, ABC TV
- Eagles v South @ Woodville – 5RPH
- Glenelg v Sturt @ Adelaide – LifeFM

Rd 7
- Eagles v North @ Woodville – ABC TV
- Central v West @ NAP Oval – Life FM
- Glenelg v Norwood @ Glenelg – 5RPH
- Sturt v South @ Unley – SEN

Rd 8
- Port v Eagles @ Alberton – ABC TV
- South v West @ Noarlunga – 5RPH
- North v Glenelg @ Prospect – LifeFM
- Sturt v Norwood @ Unley – SEN

the idea is a good one but will take a while to bed down plus wonder how many games it would be used for if there are two radio stations as well as online radio. also depends how many different callers there are that can do normal radio and online radio.

Much more enjoyable call by Life FM today, and a good balance of crowd atmosphere and commentary.

Flag No.9 wrote:Much more enjoyable call by Life FM today, and a good balance of crowd atmosphere and commentary.

was at the game & had the radio with me & the whole team did a great job

I see that Triple M is also doing the game next week

Thiele wrote:I see that Triple M is also doing the game next week

yeah, another token gesture, the sanfl have no idea what loyalty means (insert 5RPH as the prime example)


if 5RPH & Lifefm decide to say stuff you, we're not broadcasting from next year what will they be thinking then ?

Tuned into 5DribbleA after midday as they were the SANFL finals station,(although I intended to listen to the Life FM broadcast,) all we got was a rehash of yesterdays afl match and the crows woes, so I gave them the flick.

I vowed I would not tune into DribbleA's call as they couldnt give a stuff about SANFL footy, changed to Life's call, listened to some good music until they started their broadcast of the game, I thought they could have had a bit more indepth preview of the game, but thats community radio.

Let your footy friends know about 5RPH and Life FM call of the Grand Final and help send 5DribbleA and Dribble M back into obscurity where they have been all year.

Thanks for the feedback, LIFE FM did go to air 1.55pm yesterday.
That was 45 minutes before the game started.

Next Sunday for the Grand Final it should be a 1pm start giving time for a 70 min preview.

the prowler wrote:Let your footy friends know about 5RPH and Life FM call of the Grand Final and help send 5DribbleA and Dribble M back into obscurity where they have been all year.

5RPH wont be calling the Grand Final next week, mate...

After the SANFL decided to not offer RPH any financial incentive to call the finals, RPH called their last game of 2016 in Round 19...

Will be interesting to see what happens with the broadcast situation next year...

I can't stand John Casey.

"*Insert player name* goes to work"

"*Insert player name* gets a user friendly bounce"

He's a terribly repetitive caller. He's a terribly repetitive caller.

Booney wrote:I can't stand John Casey.

"*Insert player name* goes to work"

"*Insert player name* gets a user friendly bounce"

He's a terribly repetitive caller. He's a terribly repetitive caller.

That's his basketball calling background sneaking in, I would say...

Sneaking in? It dominates his calling. It's terrible.

I listened to Life FM in the Prelim Final for one reason and one reason only
They broadcast the SANFL all season , this sort of loyalty is commendable , and thats why I tuned in to their call

Keep up the good work 107.9

Don cooper doing a great job on the boundary for Life FM, knows the right time to give insight, John Nankivell also excellent today

The Hatchet wrote:Don cooper doing a great job on the boundary for Life FM, knows the right time to give insight, John Nankivell also excellent today

I thought Doug and David were good, as well The Hatchet...

Did you catch any of other stations' coverage? If so, how was it?