Bunce Hour 9/4

An announcement of the Williams v Wright broadcast?

 

i reckon Bradley Saunders might be turning pro??? I no Maloney is trying to bulter his stable with north east fighters.

 

keep asking buncey, annoy the **** out of them:happy

 

Buncey would you get behind my petition to have World Title fights involving British fighters on the protected sports list so that at the very least BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 can show replays of the fights???

 

I can understand both sides to the story...... Froch wants a good payday for taking risks (unlike lots of other fighters), the fans want to see it as well.

No doubt the TV companies actually want to show it also.... but with there only being so much money in the pot something has to miss out.

I suppose what frustrates boxing fans and those of other minority sports (rugby league for instance) is that so much money is spent on football, in which I only have a passing interest if truth be told.

 

the petition would be for delayed coverage. I get your point, but we need to consider the future of the sport.

Haye, Elcock and Jennings almost not being shown would have been disasters for Boxing in this country, its only a matter of time before a world title fight featuring a british fighter is not shown on tv. We are hoping Carl Froch is not it.

 

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[url]http://www.petitiononline.com/TVBox/petition.html[/url]


Professional Boxing promoters are failing to consider the future of the sports fan base by signing exclusive TV deals with Subscription channels. The petition is to make sure boxing remains a popular sport for generations by making sure any British fighter performing at a highest level is seen buy the biggest audience possible.

In the broadcasting act of 1996 many sporting event were put into two categories. Category A features events such as The FIFA World Cup Finals, The Olympics, Rugby World Cup and Wimbledon Tennis Final, and guarantees that they will receive a live terrestrial television broadcast.
Category B features events such as Test Cricket matches, The Ryder Cup and Six Nations rugby. It guarantees that Secondary Coverage (Highlights, Delayed coverage) is protected and must be shown by a terrestrial broadcaster.

This petition is to make any world title fight (sanctioned by the WBA, WBC, WBO, and IBF) involving a British boxer become a category B Protected event. This would ensure the lasting popularity of one of country’s oldest past times, and allow all of Britain the ability to view world class boxing involving a British fighter.

this is the full list of sports on the act;

[url]http://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv/ifi/codes...ted_events.pdf[/url]

Once i get a decent amount of signitures I will send it it the UK sports minister.

 

Good work Rob.... every credit

 

Steve could you tell me how much percentage wise boxing takes up of the amount of money Setanta pay for the sports shown? And out of that figure how much boxing costs the monthly subscriber which is £11.99 or something. Considering how much the Premiership matches (hundreds of millions), the Rugby matches, Scottish matches, UFC etc are reputed to have cost it must be a small percentage of that.


If there was a stand Alone boxing channel it could be easily justified to have it at say £4/5.99 a month which would surely generate more money than Setanta are taking from boxing at the moment? Put is available Worldwide on subscription on the website as well.

Whats the chances?

 

rumours- khan knocked out his shadow in sparring??

 

Any news on Khan's next fight?