zipzap wrote:I am appalled by these results. Is the SANFL just trying to curry favour with the bigwigs so they get more coverage next year? Won't work - the commercials and ABC will now pat themselves on the back and say "There you go, that's all we've got to do." Only C31, RPH, Life FM and the 2 major Footy Forums are getting off their bums to actively promote the SANFL. I'll bet 5AA and 7 are already running smug promos about how they support the 'local comp'. "Local, yeah we're local...that is when we're not taking our feed from 3AW or bleating about the AwFL."
It's a sad indictment of how the system works - I wouldn't even be surprised if $ changed hands. Stations love winning awards. 5AA entered Jon Blake into a national radio comedy competition, unbeknownst to him, and he won it. 5AA has been running self-gratifying promos all week. Blakey came on, to his credit, and said the award was deeply embarrassing given the complete lack of talent he was pitted against. He basically slammed everything about the award and has been taking the piss out of it ever since. 5AA still runs the promo.
Maybe SA Footy / Footy SA should run its own Media Award - it would be a lot more objective and meaningful. Personally, big kudos to all at RPH, C31, Life FM, the forum webmasters & contributors (and to some extent, the ABC and 'Tiser). Take some of these away and it might suddenly dawn on the SANFL what they are contributing to the 'local comp' as the Idiot Twins call it.
totally agree
