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[Wb1234]

It would make sense for them to do so. Though $30mill isnt going to make much difference to the overall size of the bid you'd think they need to make to prise the game away from News ltd. (probably 5-6% difference).

Can you imagine how much News ltd would sht on the game and pump up AFL's tyres if they lost the rights??

It would never happen

But if it did it would be the end for foxtel

They didn’t fight a super league war over the afl tv rights

It would automatically make Stan a major player and one which they can build their network on

Having all games on one platform is seamless and I’m sure has other advantages

 

[Billythekid]

I don’t know how RA convinces anyone to pay that much money let alone more. Even Bledisloe games ratings are absolutely f**king pathetic. If you’re not getting the World Cup you’re getting some badly rating Wallabies games and super rugby matches that rate about as well as test patterns.

I guess these companies need to have a certain amount of content but I can’t see how they’d be keen to pay too much. Doesn’t help that rugby on this country is rapidly going backwards in terms of so crowds, ratings and even number of teams. How confident are the TV networks that super rugby will even be able to commit to all their teams surviving considering their massive debt and their Melbourne team being culled?

 

[Wb1234]

I don’t know how RA convinces anyone to pay that much money let alone more. Even Bledisloe games ratings are absolutely f**king pathetic. If you’re not getting the World Cup you’re getting some badly rating Wallabies games and super rugby matches that rate about as well as test patterns.

I guess these companies need to have a certain amount of content but I can’t see how they’d be keen to pay too much. Doesn’t help that rugby on this country is rapidly going backwards in terms of so crowds, ratings and even number of teams. How confident are the TV networks that super rugby will even be able to commit to all their teams surviving considering their massive debt and their Melbourne team being culled?

Their tv deal is poor

Like 30 million pa for super rugby and tests including bledisloe

Not sure how high it was before but maybe 50 to 80 million so a huge drop

 

[taste2taste]

I don’t know how RA convinces anyone to pay that much money let alone more. Even Bledisloe games ratings are absolutely f**king pathetic. If you’re not getting the World Cup you’re getting some badly rating Wallabies games and super rugby matches that rate about as well as test patterns.

I guess these companies need to have a certain amount of content but I can’t see how they’d be keen to pay too much. Doesn’t help that rugby on this country is rapidly going backwards in terms of so crowds, ratings and even number of teams. How confident are the TV networks that super rugby will even be able to commit to all their teams surviving considering their massive debt and their Melbourne team being culled?

It was explained by STAN when they originally got the rights that the Rugby audience tend to be high income earners, therefore they are happy to pay the $25 for Stan Sport and they set and forget, paying the $25 forever more. Thier advertisers are also higher spenders, Rolex, Lexus …etc

Its in Stan’s best interest to make sure Super Rugby is as strong as possible, if that means throwing them an extra 10m to resign their top players and keep them in Australia then Stan will do it.

It will be interesting to see if Fox are interested to regain the rights, it’ll come down to how many subscribers they lost when they lost the rights and if they thinks it worth trying to get them back.

 

[Mother Nature's Son]

Wonder how much inflation only increases from 2021 to 2027 would yield for the nrl ?

Got to be over 15 to 20 percent

More like 30 % over that period, could be more.

 

[Mother Nature's Son]

News Corp wants to get rid of Foxtel. There’s just one problem

Almost 30 years after it set up the pay TV business, News Corp wants to cut the cord. However, finding a willing buyer for Foxtel could be a challenge.

www.smh.com.au

They can`t find a buyer.

"The other big asset, and perhaps the most valuable one for any potential buyer, is the suite of sports broadcast and streaming rights, which News Corp Chief executive Robert Thomson last week described as the “cornerstone to Foxtel’s success”.

"But looming negotiations for the next NRL rights deal, as rugby league is the biggest sport in both NSW and Queensland, leave the overall value on a knife edge."

"The NRL is currently chasing a significant bump up on its current deal and NRL rights could be an important consideration when it comes to Foxtel sale.

"A new owner at the helm raises the risk of Foxtel either overpaying or losing the NRL rights completely."

Seems to me the NRL have Foxtel over a barrel this time.

 

[Perth Red]

24 million digital huh

We need to include that now in the tv figure since the fumblers are doing the same thing

if talking media revenue sure along with radio, if talking tv value no, same way as telstra isn’t tv value for afl. Problem is everything on both sides is now hidden, afl in media, nrl hiding it in licensing with other revenue areas.

basically we have
tv vlaue
but reporting of
afl media - tv, digital and radio
and randomly in nrl ‘licensing’ - tv, radio, gambling, digital and merch.

 

[Perth Red]

It would never happen

But if it did it would be the end for foxtel

They didn’t fight a super league war over the afl tv rights

It would automatically make Stan a major player and one which they can build their network on

Having all games on one platform is seamless and I’m sure has other advantages

Except ch9 is shthouse and could be very detrimental to the game given their very poor presentation of it.

 

[titoelcolombiano]

Their tv deal is almost half ours and their salary cap is 50 percent higher

That’s why French union is living in dream land and taking England with it

The whole RU economy is unsustainable