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[Canard]

Gordon doesn’t just benefit if nine gets the nrl rights as a shareholder

He also owns win tv

Just the fact he’s buying nine shares shows he’s bullish on the networks prospects or might even want to take it over

Both Fox and nine have deep pockets now for rugby league despite what a few people were saying here about them not being in a strong position financially

Bro, do you read?

He is selling off his NSW WIN TV licence.

And that deal allows him to buy a bigger stake in 9. He hasn't actually done that yet though.

 

[Canard]

Gordon doesn’t just benefit if nine gets the nrl rights as a shareholder

He also owns win tv

Just the fact he’s buying nine shares shows he’s bullish on the networks prospects or might even want to take it over

Both Fox and nine have deep pockets now for rugby league despite what a few people were saying here about them not being in a strong position financially

None of what is posted above suggests that 9 are going to bid more for RL.

 

[Wb1234]

None of what is posted above suggests that 9 are going to bid more for RL.

Gordon’s a billionaire

You know he owns the dragons yeh lol

 

[Iamback]

Could they offer to buy the rights off them? I would assume that's a big wad of cash, without the liability of the rest of the operation.

The have World Cup qualifies and stuff too, If you are after sports with a high reach then getting all of Optus is better

 

[Trifili13]

Gordon’s a billionaire

You know he owns the dragons yeh lol

And us Dragon's supporters have hated the Gordon's since they bought out the Steelers. Team has been shit under the Gordon's.

 

[Mother Nature's Son]

Gordon’s a billionaire

You know he owns the dragons yeh lol

Yeah and Andrew Lancaster St. George`s RLFC `s Chairman and Gordon`s man on the Nine board is being tipped as the next CEO of Nine.

 

[Wb1234]

Yeah and Andrew Lancaster St. George`s RLFC `s Chairman and Gordon`s man on the Nine board is being tipped as the next CEO of Nine.

Amanda Laing is handling the nrl tv negotiations

Ex arlc commissioner

But yeh with Gordon owning shares and Laing doing the bidding they won’t be making a huge play for all of the nrl rights

That’s what I love about this forum is how people can be just about 100 percent wrong every time

 

[Wb1234]

“In a wide ranging interview on the monday night footy show on channel 9 Vlandys and “Adbo made two things very clear about the PNG expansion strategy

1. It is based around the players having tax free status in order to allow them to earn mega millions over the period of a contract and essentially set them up for life.

2. The underlying economics is based on large numbers of the 18 million population buying TV subscriptions meaning that the future TV contracts will be much bigger.”

@perthred got this from an English forum

Remind me who was the person who said the future nrl png deal would be worth squat ?

 

[Mother Nature's Son]

None of what is posted above suggests that 9 are going to bid more for RL.

The bloke half owns St. George, his man Lancaster (St. George Illawarra Club chairman) is on the board of Nine, the talk is he is only interested in the FTA and streaming side of Nine, you will only make that work if you have a Tier One sport, otherwise you end up like Channel 10.
Now how much he pays will depend upon the competition, hard to believe DAZN will let their half go, and Paramount 10 are pretty desperate themselves.

 

[Iamback]

Yeah and Andrew Lancaster St. George`s RLFC `s Chairman and Gordon`s man on the Nine board is being tipped as the next CEO of Nine.

Which he has follow the Board's directions, who care only about the shareholders.

So all of that is helpful BUT doesn't mean they have an endless stream of money

 

[Mother Nature's Son]

Which he has follow the Board's directions, who care only about the shareholders.

So all of that is helpful BUT doesn't mean they have an endless stream of money

They put in a $600m bid for the fumbles, they`ve got the money.

 

[Iamback]

They put in a $600m bid for the fumbles, they`ve got the money.

Yet AFL took less with 7 and Fox?

So that doesn't add up

 

[Mother Nature's Son]

Which he has follow the Board's directions, who care only about the shareholders

If it goes ahead as expected he will own 25% of Nine`s shares, that is usually plenty enough to control the board.

 

[Iamback]

If it goes ahead as expected he will own 25% of Nine`s shares, that is usually plenty enough to control the board.

The article said 2 seats of the 7.
It is helpful to the game for sure but they aren't going to send the company broke to pay an inflated amount.

 

[Mother Nature's Son]

Yet AFL took less with 7 and Fox?

So that doesn't add up

We don`t know the details of Nine`s bid, but why would the fumbles risk it given the amount of effort Seven puts in, I wish bloody Nine would do the same for us, but why would they risk Nine putting the fumbles on the secondary channels in the non-fumble states etc. etc.

It does show however Nine does have money and the importance of Tier One sports, christ they wanted both of them.

 

[Wb1234]

Nine offered 500 million for all the afl rights
Paramount and ten 600 million
Afl settled on 578 million from seven and Fox if you believe their figures

 

[Trifili13]

If it goes ahead as expected he will own 25% of Nine`s shares, that is usually plenty enough to control the board.

Nine has 7 directors of which 1 represents WIN. If they move to 25% ownership they are looking at getting a second seat on the board as per media talk. WIN will obviously have a big say at Nine, but control, well that is up for discussion.

 

[Iamback]

We don`t know the details of Nine`s bid, but why would the fumbles risk it given the amount of effort Seven puts in, I wish bloody Nine would do the same for us, but why would they risk Nine putting the fumbles on the secondary channels in the non-fumble states etc. etc.

It does show however Nine does have money and the importance of Tier One sports, christ they wanted both of them.

We don't know Telstra's share but lets assume it still would apply with other TV.

Add that $60m to the $600m and they are mean't to of taken 30% less?

Seems unlikely

 

[Mother Nature's Son]

Nine has 7 directors of which 1 represents WIN. If they move to 25% ownership they are looking at getting a second seat on the board as per media talk. WIN will obviously have a big say at Nine, but control, well that is up for discussion.

A big whack like that often means control, you`ve only got a couple of other large shareholders on side to have a majority, equally a lot of the smaller shareholders will fall in behind the majority shareholder.

 

[Trifili13]

A big whack like that often means control, you`ve only got a couple of other large shareholders on side to have a majority, equally a lot of the smaller shareholders will fall in behind the majority shareholder.

Agree. Also depends how strong the other board members are and how active the other large shareholders are. While it can be seen as a positive that the NRL will be negotiating with a friendly party, the negotiators at Nine will still have to answer to the rest of the board and shareholders and can't be just seen as throwing money at the NRL, even though the rights are very important for ratings at Nine and losing them will likely have a large impact on the company.