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Wow opening ten bid is $473mill a year? I thought people were saying ten werent realistic bidders and afl wouldt even get $416 they got before lol
Jon Slingshot has been pushing this this line since the last time he said $473m per year. He just parrots talking points 'others'? have given him. Like the organization he works for which owns The Australian and Foxtel, are paying a little over $220- per year- it never occurs to him who is paying the other $253 million dollars per year, which is a very large amount when on any given day Foxtel have always paid the MOST. Dill's trying to get out of dodge and sign a better deal to make up the $473m fantasy. Remember we have the Seven Tv inflation contract for $73 million per year. This year Seven pays $117m and in a couple of moths in 5mths they (Seven ) will pay $190m per year ( very believable Sar) thats a $73 million increase from this year to Jan 2023. So it's Seven Inflation and Tesltra 'sponsorship' which we have no details on , but have facts that Telstra 2017-2022 ( $50m) deal ends in 5 months. Making noway known to man to get to $473m mathematically beside the absurd figures supplied by Mr Red.
SMH ZOE- Finally coming clean on the fantasies.
You and baselinepanther have been brilliant in calling out the afl bs over the past few years.SMH ZOE- Finally coming clean on the fantasies.
The Australian boss of US entertainment giant Paramount has played down talk it offered the AFL $600 million for its broadcast rights, but said the company was chasing deals that were in its commercial interests.
Beverley McGarvey, co-executive vice president and chief content officer at Paramount, said sport was a bigger priority for the company, which owns Network Ten, since the launch of its streaming service, Paramount+, last August. However, she conceded the first year of Paramount’s major broadcast rights deal with the A-League and W-League had been challenging due to the rescheduling of matches.
‘Plucked from thin air’: Paramount plays down AFL bid, eyes future deals
Sports rights are now a big priority for the US entertainment giant, which owns Network Ten, as it beds down its streaming service Paramount+ in Australia.www.smh.com.au
Non binding bids in. If Seven want to stream, as well -that's a real deal breaker for Foxtel. If Foxtel get their super Saturday- that's a real deal breaker for Seven .
So multiply bids without this or that all of which will come under done.
Paramount is struggling in the US in the Ads Market- So HQ NY won't pay more than their measly ( probably bid)
The Dill is under the cosh- I see a all-up deal under $370m- The NRL wins with over $400 m
Oh I forgot on the Zoe story our old friends unnamed sources who WON"T put the names to it surface again.
Paramount hit the headlines recently because of its interest in the AFL broadcast rights, which expire in 2024. Multiple industry sources, who requested anonymity to speak freely, told this masthead it is one of a group of companies bidding for the rights to AFL and AFLW matches including Seven West Media, Nine Entertainment Co (the owner of this masthead) and Foxtel. SMH 8/8/22
These unnamed sources told us $600m was in the bag.
Gill wears really nice neckties and wants to be remembered fondly once he’s left for the golf course
competitive tension, first time in a long time. It upped the skynz deal for us by 62% just by having two bidders. I suspect they will also introduce tassie as club 19 to create more content, though as Dolphins showed that doesnt seem to add much if any value. They may also be bidding fox against seven for changes to the way the games are delivered and whilst it may lead to decline in one area the up swing by the other party may be greater than the down swing. As I said its just speculation at this point and by my opinion if they achieve anything over $450mill a year they will have done well.
All afl games are on fox. On Sunday we had 361k Fox viewers across 2 games and they had 342k across 3 games.
