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The TV rights thread part II

Providing the price is right which is your preferred FTA broadcast option?

  • All games on Seven

    Votes: 11 4.2%

  • All games on Nine

    Votes: 17 6.5%

  • All games on Ten

    Votes: 59 22.6%

  • Seven/Nine split

    Votes: 10 3.8%

  • Seven/Ten split

    Votes: 109 41.8%

  • Nine/Ten split

    Votes: 55 21.1%
  • Total voters
    261
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Poupou Escobar

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El Diablo said:
well part of the 6 year deal included the current year
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Maybe Nine knew that if they could rort us over six years, not five, that when our deal was up one of the other networks would have spent up big on the AFL's rights, meaning there was less competition for Nine over our rights renewal?
 
East Coast Tiger

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I'm still confused. That articple is from 2005 talking about rights "which do not need to be renewed before 2007". So what year was the then deal's final year that was topped up and what year did the five-year deal begin?


But in any event I was talking about the previous deal that, if I remember correctly, was signed in 2000. I remember it being a six-year deal. Was that right? And if so why?
 
Quidgybo

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East Coast Tiger said:
Certainty I guess. What I want to know is why do we do our deal a year after the AFL? It can't be a good situation, especially when networks may have forked out a lot for their rights. I remember back in about 2000 the NRL did a six-year deal. Why was that? Why six years that time? If that deal had been for five years we wouldn't have been in this situation of following the AFL.
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Going after the AFL looks like working out for us very good this time. Everyone knows exactly what they got, meaning we can't be undersold and may even get significantly more. In contrast going a year ahead of the AFL worked out terribly for us last time. Everyone thought we'd got a good deal and then the AFL came up trumps leaving us looking like losers and stuck at a financial disadvantage for the next five years. As long as we keep our own house in good shape and don't do anything to hurt our value then going a year after the AFL should mean that we're never at a financial disadvantage for more than a year. And we have a base figure to try and beat to ensure we have a financial advantage for the next three years.

Leigh.
 
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East Coast Tiger said:
Certainty I guess. What I want to know is why do we do our deal a year after the AFL? It can't be a good situation, especially when networks may have forked out a lot for their rights. I remember back in about 2000 the NRL did a six-year deal. Why was that? Why six years that time? If that deal had been for five years we wouldn't have been in this situation of following the AFL.
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Poupou Escobar said:
Maybe Nine knew that if they could rort us over six years, not five, that when our deal was up one of the other networks would have spent up big on the AFL's rights, meaning there was less competition for Nine over our rights renewal?
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I was going to say because Nein and Fox told us to.

Quidgybo said:
Going after the AFL looks like working out for us very good this time. Everyone knows exactly what they got, meaning we can't be undersold and may even get significantly more. In contrast going a year ahead of the AFL worked out terribly for us last time. Everyone thought we'd got a good deal and then the AFL came up trumps leaving us looking like losers and stuck at a financial disadvantage for the next five years. As long as we keep our own house in good shape and don't do anything to hurt our value then going a year after the AFL should mean that we're never at a financial disadvantage for more than a year. And we have a base figure to try and beat to ensure we have a financial advantage for the next three years.
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Who thought that? It was trumpeted by Ummm, Nein and all their sycophantic knob-gobblers but we didn't even go to the market. I thought at the time we got ripped off royally.
 
East Coast Tiger

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I'm talking about the 2000 deal. When Moffet was CEO. Why have the NRL allowed our deals to expire a year after the AFL's so that we are always selling in a market that has had a huge amount of cash swallowed up by the AFL deal just a year earlier?
 
East Coast Tiger

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I don't know. That's not the point. The point is, why did the NRL ensure that they were always doing their next deal a year after the AFL?
 
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