That's the view of the local journalists' association president who says restrictions placed on local TV stations makes news coverage unfeasible.
Rudy Bartley said while local station TV3 re-broadcasts the games, it provides no added news coverage.
Mr Bartley said the host broadcaster, Singapore based MMG, is charging local stations $US750 for three minutes of daily content which cannot be used until two hours after the event.
He said there was no games footage being used in local news broadcasts.
