The T.V Rights Thread Part III

[Special K]

That sucks. I'm f**king sick of delayed games and the Broncos every f**king friday night

 

[Rosetta]

NRL press conference this morning according to DT.

 

[BunniesMan]

Bwaahahahahaa
As if Channel 9 would pay 1 billion plus and allow fox to show the same game at the same time.
Magic Mushrooms - lay off them

Firstly, the "1 billion plus" is how much 9 and Fox are paying combined. Secondly, 7 did basically that for AFL.

4 live FTA games. Every game live on Fox. The AFL got that, it meant more coverage on both FTA and pay tv, and there is no reason the NRL can't get that.

That and a combined deal of 1.15 - 1.25B would be the absolute minimum that would make sticking with Nein bearable. As well as 5 years, not 6. Cant see it happening though.

It won't be that much, but they don't have to pay a premium. With first and last rights they don't need to offer 20% more than everyone else to keep the rights.

 

[Ronnie Dobbs]

Well, the money is there. That's a start.

I want to see what else they squeezed out of the merkins in regards to promotion.

Lets see if the fixed schedule is in place.

 

[El Diablo]

Andrew Voss ‏@AndrewVoss9
League rights official announcement maybe by lunchtime today.

 

[Panther_Daz]

Weidler and Voss both reporting announcement this morning.

 

[Mr Saab]

Poor Voss....another 5 yrs in the wilderness

 

[BunniesMan]

NRL press conference this morning according to DT.

Quicker than I expected.

I don't care about the $ figure they announce. Whatever it is it'll be a big increase on the current deal. I don't care that channel 9 won, I was realistic enough to expect that unlike many on here. What I do care about is what that $ figure has bought.

We must get:
4 FTA live games. 8 pay tv live games. End of story.

 

[Jason Maher]

Probably had to accept everything Nein wanted in order to get the headline figure of $1 billion...

 

[Perth Red]

Not sure what this means for expansion, never got the sense that Ch9 cared for a ninth game.

 

[El Diablo]

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sp...etain-nrl-rights/story-e6frexnr-1226454690915

Nine and Fox Sports to retain NRL rights

Dean Ritchie and Phil Rothfield
The Daily Telegraph
August 21, 2012 9:28AM

EXCLUSIVE: Rival networks Ten and Seven have been told this morning that Nine and Fox Sports have retained the NRL broadcasting rights for the next five years.

The NRL will hold a press conference this morning to announce the deal worth $1 billion.

Under the new agreement, Nine will retain all representative games and three free-to-air matches.

Fox Sports will continue with five games, including Monday Night Football.

Ten and Seven were buoyant about their chances of pinching the rights but the ARL Commission has decided to continue using the incumbent broadcasters.

A Fox Sports source this morning confirmed they would remain as joint official broadcaster of the NRL.

 

[m0nty]

$1 billion is a bloody good result.

Devil is in the detail with these things sometimes, so it will be interesting to see how much is contra, and whether it includes the Internet rights. Big number nonetheless.

 

[Canucks]

Not sure what this means for expansion, never got the sense that Ch9 cared for a ninth game.

Nine want Brisbane 2, Fox want Perth, hang in there mate

 

[Panther_Daz]

When do we find out about Internet,Radio and NZ?

 

[Perth Red]

1/4 billion less than our main competitor, but still enough money to sort the game out hopefully. Will see if it includes Telstra deal and NZ.

 

[parra-matters]

1/4 billion less than our main competitor, but still enough money to sort the game out hopefully. Will see if it includes Telstra deal and NZ.

Were never going to get the same money, seven/10 and fox paid overs for the AFL they know that now as they are struggling to get the money back in advertising and fox isn't getting the expected new subscribers it hoped for.

 

[BunniesMan]

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sp...etain-nrl-rights/story-e6frexnr-1226454690915

OH FFS.

Someone living in Yagoona or Caboolture will still f**king get more AFL games on FTA than NRL. And more live AFL than live NRL. That's f**king ridiculous.

Personally I didn't care if it was 900 or 950 or 1050 million. I cared about coverage and it sounds like we'll get no improvements on the current pathetically small amount.

 

[DJShaksta]

The Home, of Rugby League.

 

[parra-matters]

Shame 10 didn;t get it and show 5 or 6 games a week, i'd drop Foxtel like a cheating girlfriend.

 

[Mr Saab]

Pretty bad if the tv games stay the same. There needs to be three LIVE free to air games...not living in the 80s with delayed games.
Overseas sports would LOL x 100000000 at the ancient way we broadcast our great game