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<blockquote data-quote="Umaga&#039;s Witness" data-source="post: 1107916" data-attributes="member: 65365"><p>Thanks for all that detail, it's interesting. Not the same story here.</p><p></p><p>All blacks games tend to be played delayed on free to air, but often finish after kids bedtimes. And they tend to play one delayed super rugby game per week on free to air</p><p></p><p>In the past (since 1996) only rich people could watch sport (live and more than just the minimum) because you had to have the full sky package which was very expensive. Now there are cheaper options for general tv - Netflix, Amazon prime etc, but they don't come with sport. But you can at least now get sport on its own, although most sport fans have to pay for two services as different things are offered from different services. So it's still a little bit expensive and divisive of society - you have to admit to being a sports fan, being in a subset of society rather than just casually watching what bits of sports you are interested in.</p><p></p><p>All this leads to not that many people watching sports.</p><p>It doesn't entirely mean people don't play rugby, but it does make a difference. People in the pacifika communities play but don't tend to watch rugby on tv. I'd bet There'd be current and recent all blacks that hardly saw any rugby on tv when growing up</p><p></p><p>The black ferns got a big following because the World Cup was in NZ and it was free to air.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Umaga's Witness, post: 1107916, member: 65365"] Thanks for all that detail, it's interesting. Not the same story here. All blacks games tend to be played delayed on free to air, but often finish after kids bedtimes. And they tend to play one delayed super rugby game per week on free to air In the past (since 1996) only rich people could watch sport (live and more than just the minimum) because you had to have the full sky package which was very expensive. Now there are cheaper options for general tv - Netflix, Amazon prime etc, but they don't come with sport. But you can at least now get sport on its own, although most sport fans have to pay for two services as different things are offered from different services. So it's still a little bit expensive and divisive of society - you have to admit to being a sports fan, being in a subset of society rather than just casually watching what bits of sports you are interested in. All this leads to not that many people watching sports. It doesn't entirely mean people don't play rugby, but it does make a difference. People in the pacifika communities play but don't tend to watch rugby on tv. I'd bet There'd be current and recent all blacks that hardly saw any rugby on tv when growing up The black ferns got a big following because the World Cup was in NZ and it was free to air. [/QUOTE]
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