Televised sport: Not free to air

Televised sport is a costly commercial product for sale to the highest bidder.

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30th June, 2012

The legendary Australian radio show This Sporting Life was based on the premise that “too much sport is barely enough”. But even the most voracious consumers of live televised sport must sometimes feel they can have too much of a good thing and, like Monty Python’s monstrous glutton Mr Creosote, they’d actually rather be spared further temptation. Lately we’ve had the All Blacks-Ireland tests and series between the Wallabies and Wales and the Springboks and England, the Junior Rugby World Cup, NRL round robin games plus State of Origin, World Cup rowing, soccer’s European ...

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