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New Oz Pay-TV operator (owned by billionaire) looking for sports

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bender

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This could be huge for Rugby league. In an ideal world, the new network would buy the rights to AFL, and then Foxtel would buy the rights to Rugby league at an increased amount due to money left from the defection of AFL. Then, with the new company having little viewership, the AFL would then get obliterated by the NRL in the ratings and it would then sit well on top of the pile as no 1 sport in Australian TV.
 
Lego_Man

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Copa said:
Looking at AFL first ..
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Got to be a tosser then.

Should name themselves "Snatch TV"...actually i hope they get AFL, so they can faaaark up the coverage bigtime (they are Asian blow-ins who will make a meal of it).
 
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I heard them talking about this on 2UE this morning. All I can say is stay tuned. It could get very interesting in the lead up to the renweing the NRL rights.
 
Danish

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About time someone decided to start offering pay TV over a DSL connection.

Can't say I'd want our code to get snatched up by these blokes because I can't see how the coverage would work. For a start they'd want to have a LOT of start up capital to be able to start producing sports broadcasts.

Would be great to see AFL go to this though and us remain on fox.
 
Different kind of Rabbit

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Amazing how whenever this argument is brought up, it always revolves around AFL rights. The Pay TV viewing figures for AFL are garbage compared to NRL yet everyone always talks up the AFL rights like its the be all and end all on Aus TV
 
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Different kind of Rabbit said:
Amazing how whenever this argument is brought up, it always revolves around AFL rights. The Pay TV viewing figures for AFL are garbage compared to NRL yet everyone always talks up the AFL rights like its the be all and end all on Aus TV
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It certainly doesn't help when our own CEO also talks up fumbeball's Tv value.
 
TheRam

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Dream on people, AFL ain't going over to this mob, their mob ain't that stupid. But what this will do for them is they will use them to push up their price even further.

It is fu*ked for RL because there will be even less money for us then, and like someone else said, it is ridiculous how AFL has so much attention and demand from pay television considering how sh*t its ratings are compared to Leagues.

How ironic though that having more competition in the market place seems to have created a negative for Rugby League.
 
Perth Red

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Different kind of Rabbit said:
Amazing how whenever this argument is brought up, it always revolves around AFL rights. The Pay TV viewing figures for AFL are garbage compared to NRL yet everyone always talks up the AFL rights like its the be all and end all on Aus TV
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yeh why would you go after AFL wehn it would cost you more and bring in alot less subscribers than the NRL? We really have an image problem!
 
Danish

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TheRam said:
Dream on people, AFL ain't going over to this mob, their mob ain't that stupid. But what this will do for them is they will use them to push up their price even further.

It is fu*ked for RL because there will be even less money for us then, and like someone else said, it is ridiculous how AFL has so much attention and demand from pay television considering how sh*t its ratings are compared to Leagues.

How ironic though that having more competition in the market place seems to have created a negative for Rugby League.
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Our rights come up before AFLs.


So if we have a fair dinkum negotiation then we should be taking money out of the AFL kitty, not the other way around.
 
TheRam

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Danish said:
Our rights come up before AFLs.


So if we have a fair dinkum negotiation then we should be taking money out of the AFL kitty, not the other way around.
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Even if that were true, which it's not, league would still get less.
 
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Doug2234

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Fetch's emergence is part of a trend to media convergence. Around the world, sporting bodies are selling rights to agencies such as IMG and MP & Silva, which then carve them up to sell to broadcasters, pay TV operators or even mobile phone companies, as was the case recently in Singapore, when it was left to two telcos to slug it out for the rights to English football.
The Indian Premier Cricket League recently signed a two-year deal with YouTube for the video-sharing site to screen its matches live, a deal that TV executives say would have been unheard of a year ago, let alone five years ago.
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What the f**k. So they pay for the rights then carve it up and have media companies pay double!!! The sport gets f**ked over and the middle man gets a huge $$$$$$

I think that is against the anti-syphoning rules...
 
m0nty

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Doug2234 said:
What the f**k. So they pay for the rights then carve it up and have media companies pay double!!! The sport gets f**ked over and the middle man gets a huge $$$$$$

I think that is against the anti-syphoning rules...
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The history of such efforts is filled with middleman rights arbitrageurs paying the sport too much and not getting enough back from the TV networks, and thus going under. It's happened a couple of times that way in India with cricket rights. I would be skeptical of Fetch having a real impact until I see them launching a serious pay TV service in Australia.
 
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