News Limited should and will eventually get told if you want to bid for the TV rights, you can't own any teams and you can't own 50% of the competition.
Let's hope for the sake of RL that that doesn't happen anytime soon. At least not until the ARL (read:NSWRL) has a plan for how the entire competition is going to survive as a leading professional sport in our country.
RL fans can blame News Limited all they want (and it's the fashionable thing to do, kind of like a school kid rebelling against perceived bias from school teachers and authority), but the truth is that News Limited have given a tremendous amount to Rugby league in Australia.
When the day comes that the ARL half of the NRL board is ready to positively discuss real strategies to grow the game, then News Limited will be able to walk away without the NRL suffering a major financial set back.
All RL fans are still suffering the "cold war" which is still ongoing between ARL traditionalists and News Limited businessmen.