NAB Challenge Web Blackout Angers Fans Of Teams In Non-Televised Games

The Australian Football League "left several of its clubs baffled and frustrated by an edict preventing them from broadcasting the six NAB Challenge matches that are not being televised over the next month," according to Warwick Green of the HERALD SUN. A record 21 (of 27) preseason matches "will be shown on Fox Footy over the next four weeks, but fans from 12 clubs will have no way of watching matches involving their team, despite those clubs requesting to either live stream or post replays on their websites." The four teams playing non-televised NAB Challenge openers this weekend -- Brisbane Lions, St. Kilda, North Melbourne and Adelaide -- had "sought to show quarter-by-quarter web broadcasts, but were blocked by the AFL on the basis that the coverage would not be of an acceptable quality" (HERALD SUN, 2/27).