The TV rights thread

[Brutus]

2SM is about to talk to Roy Masters about the NRL TV deal.

 

[El Diablo]

2SM is about to talk to Roy Masters about the NRL TV deal.

after 5:30pm they said

 

[CC_Roosters]

My god league fans sound so insecure at times, on 2SM there now the guy starts saying, afl does this, afl does that, why don't we copy them.......blah blah blah. He even said battle of the codes! Massive face palm. There is no war its media BS.

If they get continued coverage into NSW/QLD so be it, who cares. We should push for the same in the rest of the country and stop worrying about the bloody afl as their is bugger all anyone can do about it.

Rant over

 

[seanoff]

Does she bring the baby with her or does she drown it first? Remember the kid might be a ticket for you to get your hands on Orlando's millions.

i'm hoping she brings the new and improved rack.

looks very decent now.

 

[juro]

Maybe. I wonder how the figures would stake up if we kept the remaining five games, made them available exclusively online, and charged $20 per month like we already do for international viewers. Regardless of how the numbers add up this time, internet based distribution is going to become a significant factor over the coming years - increasingly marginalising all other television distribution platforms, both subscription and advertiser supported free to air.

Leigh.

What if you had a fixed cost per game downloaded instead of an amount per month.

Just throwing some rough numbers together...
5 games per week x 5 year contract x 26 rounds x $4 per game... If you averaged 400,000 downloads per game (higher than the current foxtel ratings, granted), that would come to $1.04 billion, not counting the 3 games on FTA.

If there was advertising similar to foxtel, would that cover the cost of production and distribution?

 

[El Diablo]

i expected Roy to be more doom and gloom although he rightly does not trust Foxtel

 

[El Diablo]

i would prefer the NRL give rights away to FTA and see Fox go down the gurgler if they don't wanto pay up

 

[CC_Roosters]

If i heard roy right on the foxtel component, he is worried the conflicts of interest between foxtel/telstra/news in RL may result in it being undervalued again. If that turns out to be the case and the total rights get say $600m it would be a massive disgrace. hopefully roy is off the mark but now this has me worried

 

[flippikat]

Just wondering, how much does the NRL make fom overseas TV rights?

I realise that it's probably small-fry compared to the Australian rights, but surely not insignificant?

This is one thing that NRL has over AFL.

 

[andrew057]

Roy brought up the same concerns I've mentioned in this thread a few times about Channel 7 being willing to bid for say SOO and Channel 9 simply saying they cant under their first and last rights deal.

 

[CC_Roosters]

Roy brought up the same concerns I've mentioned in this thread a few times about Channel 7 being willing to bid for say SOO and Channel 9 simply saying they cant under their first and last rights deal.

Surely it is an NRL decision on how to package the sport, so if they decide to split it into say NRL and rep footy packages then 7 has every right to bid for each package?

 

[El Diablo]

Roy brought up the same concerns I've mentioned in this thread a few times about Channel 7 being willing to bid for say SOO and Channel 9 simply saying they cant under their first and last rights deal.

he didn't say that 9 have said that

in all his articles and today he has neever had a quote from 9 stating they have said any such thing

it's him speculating

 

[andrew057]

he didn't say that 9 have said that

in all his articles and today he has neever had a quote from 9 stating they have said any such thing

it's him speculating

Yeah which the majority of his stuff is.

What would you speculate ElD? Do you think Channel 9 would be happy to let the NRL split the rights up and allow all the other networks to bid for portions of the game?

No chance in hell imo.

 

[beave]

how can 9 dictate to the NRL in how they can split up the rights to the game???

Especially if the IC comes in and origin comes under the banner of the NRL.

 

[andrew057]

how can 9 dictate to the NRL in how they can split up the rights to the game???

Especially if the IC comes in and origin comes under the banner of the NRL.

Because the contract that Channel 9 has first and last rights of refusal?

 

[El Diablo]

Yeah which the majority of his stuff is.

What would you speculate ElD? Do you think Channel 9 would be happy to let the NRL split the rights up and allow all the other networks to bid for portions of the game?

No chance in hell imo.

i would think that 9 would have first and last rights options on Origin if the NRL chose to seperate them from the actual comp

they can't force the NRL to sell it all as one

 

[beave]

Because the contract that Channel 9 has first and last rights of refusal?

does that contract stipulate all forms of Rugby League in this country??

 

[Phil McGrawhan]

stay off the drugs!!!

there are four possible bidders for the NRL rights. 9 7 10 and Fox.

10 are pulling back from sport, 7 have 4 AFL games already. so they are probably a bit limited in their interest.

that leaves Fox and 9. 9 are not going to show wall to wall NRL every weekend.

so whether you like it or not Fox will HAVE to take games. what they pay will depend on what games they get.. with the AFL they are getting all the games so they'll pay full price for those. if the NRL offer them games 4 - 9. not going to pay so much.

this is the real world, not some sort of fantasy world where the NRL is everything to everybody

10 are pulling back from "Filler Sports" on One HD that have very few viewers,& are sick of losing $$$$ on Having to show prime time AFL in NOrthern states that rate like the SBS test pattern.
They will still show "premium Sports" & i think in this country RL is definately a Premium Sport.
How much they bid & for what games remain to be seen,but if they had an open Chequebook(word is they dont) i could see them having a massive tilt at all the rights.
I suspect they will want the Mon night game,& possibly one of the Sat night games.

 

[andrew057]

does that contract stipulate all forms of Rugby League in this country??

Only those privy to the actual contract would know that.

From what I understand Fox and Channel 9 both have first and last refusal on their current games.

Does that mean they have to be in the same package as they are now? No idea, but im sure both Fox and Channel 9 would want to keep them as a package to limit competition for the rights.

 

[andrew057]

i would think that 9 would have first and last rights options on Origin if the NRL chose to seperate them from the actual comp

they can't force the NRL to sell it all as one

Depends on whats in the contract. The whole situation is still pretty murky.