Next TV rights deal

[Game_Breaker]

So a Murdoch owned network will surrender a game to a Murdoch owned network

 

[Red Bear]

Don't really like spreading 8 games over 5 days, don't really like only one day game a week (particularly if it's a 4pm start before 6pm news followed by a 6:30 game. Barely a day game).

Unless they go fulltime with 3pm saturday games.

Either way, We've seen problems in this contract with having the schedule too heavily dictated by TV. I'm not sure some of the concerns are adressed by this.

Thursday is a stinker of a timeslot. Two crowd black holes each week isn't ideal.

 

[applesauce]

No talk about a 9th game...

 

[BuffaloRules]

So the Broncos every Friday night still with no other game to watch first?

 

[eozsmiles]

And the players have also said they won't play Origin games played only 7 days apart.

It's not enough time to back up and play at that intensity (apparently)...

Like Grant is saying ... Change it at your peril...

Imagine if every game was played that intensely. The NRL could have kick off at 10am tuesday's it would still draw a crowd.

 

[Captain Apollo]

Game on 5 days of the week? How stupid is that. You guarantee some games will have very crap crowds. Also how do you schedule teams to give them a decent turn around time week in week out? How do you factor Origin into that equation?

Also if that story's reports about Friday nights is true, I can see the drop in ratings for Nine's Friday Night Football. People outside of Qld (and possibly Victoria) will not want to have the Broncos, Cowboys, Titans and Storm every Friday night on their screens. Also can you imagine how upset many clubs will be if those 4 teams named get Friday games just about every week whilst they are shunted weekdays dependent on the round? How does that not give those teams an on field advantage in training and recovery alone?

To me the basis of this story sound like they were written by the FTA Networks.

 

[eozsmiles]

Roy Masters is writing that channel 10 will be picking up a game in the next deal .....assuming their merger with fox goes ahead. The way he spins it is that 9 will want to show a qld/storm game on Friday, and 10 will want a blockbuster for Thursday. This means that the usual suspects (raiders,sharks, warriors) will still struggle for prime time FTA coverage. Unless the NRL take full control of the draw, which might mean 10 lose some interest, knowing they might get stiffed with dud games for their very expensive time slot. I'm not sure too many fans would want too many members of the channel 10 board getting involved in the game haha

 

[LESStar58]

Great. Give the rights to a network that will treat the game worse than the current broadcaster.

 

[carlosthedwarf]

Thursday and Mondays is going to kill some crowds that would have been good on the weekend

 

[Perth Red]

No consideration of a ninth game or the devaluing of that model to fox sports. They would haemorrhage subscribers if they only had games on a Saturday and Monday and there was 4 fta games on Thursday, Friday and sun

 

[alien]

The NRL's next TV deal, to begin in 2018, will be the last contract under which viewers will be able to see all games on free-to-air and pay TV, before some games are streamed exclusively on the internet, via mega-rich overseas interests, such as Netflix.

that sucks

 

[Perth Red]

Not if its cheaper than fox!

 

[kbw]

Great. Give the rights to a network that will treat the game worse than the current broadcaster.

That is not possible.
No one could treat the game with more disrespect than Ch9

 

[Captain Apollo]

The only thing by saying organisations like Netflix will get exclusive rights to some games, the anti-siphoning legislation will hamstring that approach just as much as it does Fox Sports.

 

[steggz]

Pleased to see people against the 5-day week. Killing the golden goose is not smart

 

[carlosthedwarf]

Pleased to see people against the 5-day week. Killing the golden goose is not smart

Classic TV thinking disregarding overexposure. How will you look forward to something when it's on every night? Once you put someone in a position where they can miss something it becomes a habit.

 

[insert.pause]

it already happens for 4 rounds every year.

Sunday night won't happen, already demonstrated poor ratings for the slot on foxsports, the only way we get another game on FTA is Saturday night, which means it has to be simulcast, which means it has to be on Ten.

 

[I Bleed Maroon]

A big factor in the NRL's negotiating has to be HD. Fox Sports has had a mortgage on that for long enough.

Everything else sounds like it's shaping up nicely. Take the television networks to the cleaners because their time is running out.

 

[Captain Apollo]

A big factor in the NRL's negotiating has to be HD. Fox Sports has had a mortgage on that for long enough.

Everything else sounds like it's shaping up nicely. Take the television networks to the cleaners because their time is running out.

As I have posted a number of times of late, part of the problem is legislative. The legislation that covers free to air broadcasting mandates that the network's "primary" channel be broadcast in Standard Definition.

As such none of the free to air networks will simulcast games on their primary networks and on another in HD as it will split their ratings, and ratings drives what they can charge for advertising. That is their financial model and as I said not even Channel 10 would do that.

The quickest way to get it change is to get the legislation changed. Otherwise the NRL won't be able to get the networks to broadcast in HD.

 

[Perth Red]

be nice to get the networks to broadcast in anything at the moment. No NRL in WA again as Ashes on GEM.