Yeah, that 43 minutes that 9 put out on a Sunday night when they won the rights was complete and utter crap (and I think that it hasn't got much better since they stared showing most of the whole games) but I think that skull61 may have been referring to prior to when 9 got the rights and it's predecessor Ch10 and it's predecessor Ch7 had the rights.
Wasn't it ...Andrew Denton who undertook a 'movement' with the slogan "Free the 23!" or something similar as we were all getting ripped off?