What FUCKING arrogance I ran into 2 Foxtel installers having lunch at the local shopping centre boasting that in years to come ALL SPECIAL SPORTS EVENTS YES THIS MEANS THE BATHURST 1000 + NRL + ALL THE FUCKING CRICKET will be on Pay TV only,,,,,,,,WELL I saw RED I Intervened in the conversation and got stuck into these pair of brainwashed pricks this IS THE REASON YOU ALL MUST COMPLAIN TO THE ACCC GET OFF YOUR FUCKING ARSES BECAUSE THIS WILL HAPPEN<<<<ALL YOU WILL BE WATCHING ON FREE TO AIR TV WILL BE REPEATS of Home and Away.<br /><br />This was found on a news artical !!!!!!!<br />Phil <img border="0" title="" alt="[Mad]" src="images/icons/default/mad.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Mad]" src="images/icons/default/mad.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Mad]" src="images/icons/default/mad.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Mad]" src="images/icons/default/mad.gif" /> <br /><br />Drop pay-TV restrictions: Murdoch<br /><br /><br />From http://foxsports.news.com.au/story/0,8659,6053899-23210,00.html <br /><br />THE deputy chief operating officer of The News Corporation Ltd, Lachlan Murdoch, has urged the Federal Government to abandon the television industry's anti-siphoning laws.<br /><br />Mr Murdoch said the laws were restricting what could be shown on pay television. <br /><br />He said in the United States and New Zealand, sports programs were not subject to any anti-siphoning rules. <br /><br />"In Australia, I believe anti-siphoning is the next battlefield of reform for our industry," he told the Australian Subscription Television and Radio Association conference in Sydney. <br /><br />Mr Murdoch said that by abandoning the anti-siphoning laws, immediate benefits would flow to sports fans across Australia. <br /><br />Mr Murdoch said the existing system for allowing for anti-siphoning rules had been in place since 1994 and was recently extended to 2005. <br /><br />"It should now be brought to a close," he said. <br /><br />Anti-siphoning rules are designed to prevent popular events migrating only to pay TV. <br /><br />They give free-to-air channels the first chance to buy broadcast rights for a range of selected sports.<br /> <br /> <small>[ 28. February 2003, 08:18 PM: Message edited by: P Debono ]</small>