Next TV rights deal

[Burns]

No Monday night football from 2018. Brad Walter just tweeted.

 

[Chief_Chujo]

No Monday night football from 2018. Brad Walter just tweeted.

Great news. Stretching a round over five days would have been too much.

 

[Lockyer4President!]

No Monday night football from 2018. Brad Walter just tweeted.

Awesome news.

 

[Chief_Chujo]

Didn't the negotiations stall?
Wasn't Sunday Night Origin just a pipe dream?
Wasn't the deal for $1.7 billion even though they're still in negotiations?
Wasn't there only supposed to be 3 F2A matches?
Didn't the networks lose interest in Saturday Night on F2A?
Wasn't expansion never discussed - even though Gyngell subsequently came out and put a $ figure on it?
Weren't people saying the NRL would never get control of scheduling back?
And that the NRL would never be able to reduce the season?

:lol:

Saturday Night was a weakness for 9. This was a block out bid. And like I said before, the network that was flexible with Sunday Origin was always going to have a leg up.

Re: subscription/simulcasting rights, the NRL may make a deal this week, or it might be in two years time. They may wait until there's more competitors in the market.

My understanding is that 9's right are for the free games only - for example they may stream their 4 "free" games to boost Stan. But the other 5 exclusive games + subscription simulcast rights for the 4 free games could end up on any number of competitors to Fox.

The other benefit is this kicks out the legs of some of the competitive tension for the AFL rights.

Yep. Netflix is already over a million subscribers and growing. I think FOX is around 2.5? Securing the footy from 2018 would see FOX subs dive and push Netflix to number one.

 

[carlosthedwarf]

No Monday night football from 2018. Brad Walter just tweeted.

Fantastic news, probably worth putting up with Nine over this

 

[Kiwi]

Donkeys fans already worried about their free ride coming to an end :roll:

As much as I like watching my team play, I would much rather see great games on free to air no matter who is playing. There we Broncos games on free to air this year that should not have been, v Tigers for example.

 

[BuffaloRules]

the projected figures were in the paper,

Nine $600m
Fox $800m
Telstra $120m
NZ $150m

Total $1.67b

Telstra is light imo, digital should be the largest increase, unless online rights remain with foxtel, but if that's the case then foxtel is light.

I told you beetroot cheeks was full of BS with his $600 Million

 

[docbrown]

Don't necessarily expect the other rights to be done so quickly. It might be this week, it might be two years. The NRL are wanting competitors to Fox.

As for scrapping Monday Night footy, dropping the second Friday game, 4 games on F2A, Sunday Night Origin, reducing the season & split rounds, Saturday Night on F2A, Thursday Night on F2A, International End Of Season Window, NRL regaining scheduling control, Expansion Game Clause, End of Year Anzac Test.............

Who's ya daddy? :lol:

Seriously though. I dislike 9 but overall it's good for the game.

 

[Chief_Chujo]

As much as I like watching my team play, I would much rather see great games on free to air no matter who is playing. There we Broncos games on free to air this year that should not have been, v Tigers for example.

Well give them your magic crystal ball that predicts which games will be good 12 months ahead of time. Unless you're advocating going back to the horrible floating schedule with games picked 6 weeks ahead.

The big rivalry games and premiership rematches will still get the prime slots. But having the scheduling back in the games hands means we can give teams like the Raiders and Warriors their share of the FTA market.

 

[insert.pause]

impressive deal, will easily get over 2billion now

 

[carcharias]

haven't read all of this but isn't Phil Gould retiring soon?
Thought I read something about him pulling out of all his footy commitments .

 

[DiegoNT]

haven't read all of this but isn't Phil Gould retiring soon?
Thought I read something about him pulling out of all his footy commitments .

And its highly unlikely ray Warren will be there in 2018. As much as I like ray warren and still think he should be the voice of the big games, he has really lost it over the last couple of years and hopefully 9 will have some fresh blood coming through

 

[Diesel]

And its highly unlikely ray Warren will be there in 2018. As much as I like ray warren and still think he should be the voice of the big games, he has really lost it over the last couple of years and hopefully 9 will have some fresh blood coming through

I would'nt be surprised if the NRL has told 9 to pick up its act and cut the shitvlike they've been doing to a lot of print media

 

[Sleep]

I like the removal of Monday night games, don't like the addition of Thursday games. One on a Friday is good. Should be more games across timeslots on a Sunday.

I really hope the NRL overhauls the live app. If they could get it up to scratch to the point where the quality is watchable and not 640 by 480 on a 50 inch screen it would be a great investment. I'd imagine that Fox will do everything they can not to have that happen because their subscription numbers would drop like crazy.

 

[Raiderdave]

Wow
This deal is borderline astounding. .
Schedule control returns to the NRL
One Origin on a Sunday on a stand alone weekend
Id say foxtel will get all games simulcast too
& they might get a 9th game if we expand .. so retaining 5 exclusive telecasts

2 billion .. here we come baby

 

[Joker's Wild]

I would'nt be surprised if the NRL has told 9 to pick up its act and cut the shitvlike they've been doing to a lot of print media

lol have they?

I see no evidence of that

 

[Red Bear]

So if it's still eight games I imagine the breakdown will be
Thurs 7pm (Probably a big get for Ch. 9, running it into the footy show)
Friday 7:30 pm
Saturday 3 pm, 5:30, 7:30
Sunday 2 pm, 4 pm.

And an extra gme in there. Two 7:30 pm games (one live on nein, one live on fox) on Saturdays? Or a sunday evening timeslot (which I imagine Fox would love). Or another sunday day game?

 

[docbrown]

I told you beetroot cheeks was full of BS with his $600 Million

:lol: He is awful. Just awful.

 

[Sleep]

So if it's still eight games I imagine the breakdown will be
Thurs 7pm (Probably a big get for Ch. 9, running it into the footy show)
Friday 7:30 pm
Saturday 3 pm, 5:30, 7:30
Sunday 2 pm, 4 pm.

And an extra gme in there. Two 7:30 pm games (one live on nein, one live on fox) on Saturdays? Or a sunday evening timeslot (which I imagine Fox would love). Or another sunday day game?

I'd bet the Monday night game becomes Sunday night, not an earlier Saturday game.

 

[Jason Maher]

If they add a 9th game, I imagine it would be Sunday night.