Next TV rights deal part 2

[BuffaloRules]

International rights is not NZ , NZ seperate.

Oh?

Which countries?

 

[Johnny88]

Classic rugby league wrist slitting going on I see.

It's a pretty decent deal aside from the Friday 6pm.

1.8b + NZ and the NRL is pretty much on par with the AFL per game.


Doubled money
NRL channel on fox
Simulcast
3 live FTA games in this deal vs 1 in the last (2 later on)

There's positives there in my view.

I agree Henry its a great deal for fans with pay tv. Plus being a regional viewer if you have ever seen the quality of WIN TV feed its terrible and we didn't get the new 9HD channel either so this means for the many that have pay tv in regional areas crisp HD picture on all games.

 

[El Diablo]

i wonder if we'll get all lower grade games live as well?

would make good use of a 24x7 channel

 

[Rosetta]

News have updated their headline to "Could break $2 billion dollars" http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/

There is no way John Grant's ego was going to announce anything under $2 billion, just not going to happen.

 

[Johnny88]

Josh Massoud ‏@josh_massoud 3m3 minutes ago Hearing the new TV deal is actually a renegotiated seven year contract 2016 - 2022 worth $2.1B. Extra $ for Thursday night footy 16 & 17.

 

[Brutus]

Losing Sat night FTA is a shocker.

Fri 6pm is a shocker.

This deal better be well over 2 billion.

C'mon Granty, bring home the bacon!!!

 

[Johnny88]

i wonder if we'll get all lower grade games live as well?

would make good use of a 24x7 channel

Fox News Channel said they will cover QLD and NSW cup matches as well. Not sure how many would be live.

 

[Brutus]

Josh Massoud ‏@josh_massoud 3m3 minutes ago Hearing the new TV deal is actually a renegotiated seven year contract 2016 - 2022 worth $2.1B. Extra $ for Thursday night footy 16 & 17.

7 years wtf????

 

[Quidgybo]

7 years wtf????

5 years plus additional cash on top of existing contract for next 2 years.

Leigh.

 

[Rosetta]

Josh Massoud ‏@josh_massoud 3m3 minutes ago Hearing the new TV deal is actually a renegotiated seven year contract 2016 - 2022 worth $2.1B. Extra $ for Thursday night footy 16 & 17.

That's the kind of number that would appease Grant's ego.

 

[carlosthedwarf]

So it's less money per year with more years? Makes no sense

 

[Perth Red]

Clear that some of the changes will be brought in during 16&17 so effectively it is a 7 year deal but how that pans out in terms of $ changes will be very very murky I suspect. As long as the ARLC get to announce $2bill to placate the plebians all will be well, just don't look at the detail!

 

[Edwahu]

7 years wtf????

It's all in the delivery. 5 years @ 2 billion + 50m P/A for Thursday night in 16/17 sounds decent, 2.1 billion over 7 years sounds bad.

 

[BuffaloRules]

Clear that some of the changes will be brought in during 16&17 so effectively it is a 7 year deal but how that pans out in terms of $ changes will be very very murky I suspect. As long as the ARLC get to announce $2bill to placate the plebians all will be well, just don't look at the detail!

At lest wait for a better source than Josh freakin Massoud before pontificating....

 

[Quidgybo]

So it's less money per year with more years? Makes no sense

$1.8b for 2018-2022.
Extra $300m on top of existing contract for 2016-2017.

Makes sense to me.

Leigh.

 

[Chief_Chujo]

It's all in the delivery. 5 years @ 2 billion + 50m P/A for Thursday night in 16/17 sounds decent, 2.1 billion over 7 years sounds bad.

That assuming it's 2.1bil on top of the current two year deal

 

[herbert henry1908]

Oh?

Which countries?

Not sure specifically , but everywhere else I guess.

UK would be the main market though.

 

[insert.pause]

As long as it doesn't cover seven years, because we are already getting 200m pa for the next two years from nine, fox and Telstra. Subtract the 400m we are already getting from 2.1bn and its suddenly only a 1.7bn deal over 5 years. Hopefully it's like a 5 year deal + an increase in the last two years of the current deal.

 

[BuffaloRules]

Not sure specifically , but everywhere else I guess.

UK would be the main market though.

I disagree mate..

The International money is primarily NZ...

They pay about $20 Mil a year currently...

UK pays about as much as we pay over here for Super League... SFA...

 

[Rosetta]

Fox Sports article doesn't mention the $1.8 billion figure PERIOD now.

These f**kers have been told to pull the figure down, LMAO.