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Online streaming poses ‘existential threat’ to free sport on Australian TV, broadcasters say | Australia sport
The rise of online streaming services is a “real and existential threat” to free sport on television, claims the peak body representing Australia’s commercial broadcasters, which argues new entrants to the entertainment market should face tougher restrictions when bidding for rights to show important sporting fixtures. Free TV Australia has also called for more women’s sports to be shown on free-to-air broadcasts, including matches from the Matildas football team and all games in the women’s Fifa World Cup next year, in a review of the federal anti-siphoning list. “The real and existential threat to the anti-siphoning scheme is the one posed by the non-inclusion of online content service providers,” Free…