{"id":211151,"date":"2025-05-05T15:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T05:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=211151"},"modified":"2025-05-05T15:56:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T05:56:49","slug":"crying-shame-tony-jones-slams-afls-move-to-put-saturday-footy-behind-a-paywall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=211151","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Crying shame\u2019: Tony Jones slams AFL\u2019s move to put Saturday footy behind a paywall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On&nbsp;<em>3AW Mornings<\/em>&nbsp;while discussing the Collingwood vs Geelong Saturday night clash with Tom Elliott, Tony Jones took aim at the AFL for locking Saturday games behind a paywall, making them exclusive to Foxtel and Kayo subscribers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Jones acknowledged that Foxtel offers a \u201csuperior\u201d product, he emphasised the broader issue of accessibility, noting not everyone can afford the subscription services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a crying shame that people are denied the opportunity to watch football on a Saturday,\u201d Jones said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Press PLAY to hear him talk about Saturday night\u2019s game (including his criticism of the AFL)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-omny-studio wp-block-embed-omny-studio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"&#039;Crying shame&#039;: Tony Jones slams AFL&#039;s move to put Saturday footy behind a paywall\" src=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/3aw-mornings\/crying-shame-tony-jones-slams-afls-move-to-put-saturday-footy-behind-a-paywall\/embed#?secret=WSy87Oh7fa\" data-secret=\"WSy87Oh7fa\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Images: Supplied \u2013 Michael Willson\/Getty&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Jones acknowledged that Foxtel offers a \u201csuperior\u201d product, he emphasised the broader issue of accessibility, noting not everyone can afford the subscription services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":211152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10578,35],"tags":[16574,993,8],"class_list":["post-211151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afl","category-breaking-news","tag-collingwood-football-club","tag-melbourne","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211153,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211151\/revisions\/211153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/211152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}