Yep they paid just enough to cover the cost of the dolphins entry plus a small profit for the arlc
tight asses
but future tv deals will truly reflect their value
if stan or paramount bid then we get way more
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Yep they paid just enough to cover the cost of the dolphins entry plus a small profit for the arlc
Hopefully stan or paramount bid against foxtel
Like spark in nz just the fact they want to bid will make news corp pay more
Depends on how Fox subs go as price rises. Having paid out so much for AFL can they (and FTA partner) match a $600mill plus bid from Paramount/Ch10 again? What would KAYO price be if they had to do that? How would the relationship with Ch9 go if Nine/Stan try and buy the lot? More of a flu than a cold coming possibly lol!
Paramount+ has 46mill subscribers globally, doubt its going anywhere. Though I wouldn't be surprised to see some mergers/partnerships between streaming services in years to come. As price point invariably goes up people will become more limited in how many services they subscribe to.
Stan is well overpriced without a major sport on it. I suspect they will struggle over time unless they can get something that makes them more competitive with the big streamers. NRL would certainly do it for them.
It wasnt so much a lie as a distortion of the truth. ie Vlandys signs an extension deal in May 2020 with Fox for $220mill. He then announces in Oct 2021 there will be a 17th club and Fox is paying $20mill for it. He then announces a $400mill tv deal in Dec 2021.
There has NEVER been a TV deal announcement as just cash in the history of sports tv deals. No one wants to undersell the tv deal amount at the announcement, makes them look better to include it all. The chances of it being $400mill cash are very slim. You dont announce a $2.25bill deal as a $2bill deal! Given we know $115mill is nine cash and Sky is likely to be around $25mill cash that would leave Fox paying $260mill cash, up from around $225mill cash last deal. Why would Vlandys take to the media to try and justify the deal and explain why he gave Fox such a sweet agreement if we were getting a 15% increase from them?Except PVL said it was $400m cash.
Which fits with this reporting. $50m contra
Still, industry sources claim the AFL will receive $100m a year more than the NRL’s $450m, a significant gap considering the broadcasting incomes for the two codes were similar a decade ago, allowing for the AFL providing one more game per week.
The current NRL deal, believed to be $2.3 billion over five years, ends in 2027. It’s the closing year of this contract which accounts for some of the strained optimism at Rugby League Central when the AFL announcement was made Tuesday.
Rubbery figures, but AFL has 100 million reasons to gloat over TV deal
On face value, the AFL’s eye-watering broadcast deal could have Peter V’landys reaching for something stronger than coffee, but there remains strained optimism at Rugby League Central.www.smh.com.au
Which if True puts Fox at $290m. Up from the $235m of the last deal even with the $20m taken away. All will be revealed in months
www.nrl.com
3-5% fair enough. KAYO just went up 20% and we havent hit the big AFL pay date yet!
At $120 per month they're opening the door for other sports to get a shoe in the door. If kids only get to see what's on the BBC then they might take a fancy to it.
You two make a lovely couple!
