Fran Mocerino, Coorabell
Response to Sue McLeod (Letters, 29 July) re ‘Coalition gives another $10m to Foxtel to boost women’s sport on TV and slashes ABC funding’.
I love women’s sport, including netball, and heard about this from someone on the inside.
The ABC charter does not allow advertising, but this is a requirement of sponsors and provides the money needed to pay the athletes. So sports have had to move to commercial TV to attract money.
The other commercial networks don’t have a women’s sport space. Nor do they do charity. Fox has many platforms that have to be filled with content. There is method in the madness.
I don’t have Fox Sport and will not connect it. So, like many other Australians, I will miss out.
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
