The nation’s free-to-air broadcast body Free TV Australia has shared it’s displeasure with the current state of anti-siphoning laws, saying Netflix, Youtube and other international corporations are undercutting Australian broadcasting.

The Federal Government has been accuses of missing a major opportunity in safeguarding Australian sports content, and Deakin University sport management lecturer Hunter Fujak told Sean Cowan on 6PR Mornings the issue is only getting worse.

“Big corporations, like Netflix and even YouTube are basically buying the right to feature on the home screen,” Dr Fujak said.

“Whereas increasingly the free-to-air providers like SBS and ABC iView don’t pay, and are therefore getting buried.”

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