TV rights thread part 4

[andrew057]

That's right. So all afternoon you have blabbering on about how much you hate the deal. We got that at 11:30am this morning. Move on... I don't love the deal, but the money is going to make a lot of difference.

$2.5m is a lot of money for any club. Especially in a tough economic climate.

As for the bid rights...

First and Last Rights
Nine and Fox Sports have first and last rights. This gave Nine and Fox Sports a three-month exclusive negotiating period. This period has ended with negotiations still open after Nine and Fox Sports lodged individual bids, both of which were believed to be well below what the NRL expects. Seven and Ten have now entered the bidding. Nine and Fox Sports have the right to match any final offer from Seven and Ten if it is within 20 per cent of Nine's and Fox Sports' final offer. This essentially means Seven and/or Ten have to blow Nine and/or Fox Sports out of the water with a huge offer.

http://www.backpagelead.com.au/league/6421-all-you-need-to-know-about-the-nrl-tv-deal

Can't you see we are never getting away from this... $200m is too much. We can make 9 and Fox pay less to match the $800m and still have the same issue next time where the bid has a cap as we can't ask each party to broker their own deal to suit the games needs.

Good post.

 

[El Diablo]

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[Raiders_Premiers]

Exactly. If Grant came out and said 10 had the rights and would show 4 games a week live for 800m twice as many would be pissing and moaning about it.

Just to clarify, there's no way Ten could offer $800 million alone. That would be together with the the fox deal.

That's simply isn't good enough. As a viewer and rugby league and I'm happy to forgo a little viewing luxury for the good of the game, as a whole.

 

[beads6]

It is 1 live free to air game a week. It isn't good enough.

 

[GAZF]

The deal could be 10 billion and free blowjobs from a supermodel for every game watched and people would still cry.

Well, if it was the same supermodel over and over again...

 

[Big Sam]

Can someone clarify the situation re Sunday afternoon FTA? 9 News said kickoff would be 4pm (i.e. live) and I thought Gyngell indicated something similar. But most on here have said it's delayed as usual. So what's doing?

 

[andrew057]

The only people that would complain are the people who put money above all else.

Ergh. Money. Money. Money. Thats all some of you f**king see.
Theres more to life, to this game we all support than dollar signs. f**king christ.

Bullshit. The same people would be complaing because only 4 games are on FTA and they dont want to pay for Foxtel. You think 1 extra game on FTA would change this? Those who are happy with this deal would be complaining becuase its not enough money for the game to flourish.

 

[M2D2]

Just to clarify, there's no way Ten could offer $800 million alone. That would be together with the the fox deal.

That's simply isn't good enough. As a viewer and rugby league and I'm happy to forgo a little viewing luxury for the good of the game, as a whole.

Bullshit. What f**king bullshit is this.
THE GOOD OF THE GAME? You just put money ahead of the game yet you speak like youre the champion of the game.
What fresh hell have i landed in?

Bullshit. The same people would be complaing because only 4 games are on FTA and they dont want to pay for Foxtel. You think 1 extra game on FTA would change this? Those who are happy with this deal would be complaining becuase its not enough money for the game to flourish.

Its not just one more FTA game.
Its THREE MORE LIVE FTA GAMES.
We only get one.

 

[I Bleed Maroon]

That's putting it lightly.

Some, honestly, what the hell more could we have asked for with our very first deal outside of News Ltds. influence; 9 have pledged to televise in HD by 2014, which I believe should be earlier but they've pledged it anyway, The Grand Final is in the evening now so more people can watch it....I mean honestly and truly there are some people who are showing themselves to be spoiled, entitled little shits.

Literally the only thing I am unhappy with is that Origin is stil on a Wednesday. A stand alone weekend surely should've been a given.

 

[Ray Mosters]

They are in a Billion of debt and just paid $500mill for a sport (the worth of all of our old TV rights).

They would be stupid to continue to treat the game poorly or they will be literally pissing money down the drain and ruining their only asset.

Mate your delusional. What today is all about is keeping things exactly as they are for the next 5 years, at the cost of the F+L bid rights in the future.

Just look at Gyngell during the press conference. "We have stumped up an amazing amount of money so we are going to do whatever we like with the game"

 

[ratsack2]

I would also like to see a clause stating that channel 9 can not run any story on any other show that is detremental to the game

 

[some11]

Just been listening to 2SM and virtually every caller sounds like M2D2! lol

Even the average punter knows 9 are shit.

Polls on the news website so far have 67% of people disagreeing the decision to stay with them.

 

[andrew057]

Just to clarify, there's no way Ten could offer $800 million alone. That would be together with the the fox deal.

That's simply isn't good enough. As a viewer and rugby league and I'm happy to forgo a little viewing luxury for the good of the game, as a whole.

Yep and whos to say 150m of that wasnt contra? No one here knows the details, but so many are quick to come out of the woodwork and stick the boot in.

 

[beads6]

The AFL get 4 FTA games live per week and the NRL gets 1. Gee I wonder which code will be better off.

 

[GAZF]

Bullshit. What f**king bullshit is this.
THE GOOD OF THE GAME? You just put money ahead of the game yet you speak like youre the champion of the game.
What fresh hell have i landed in?

As opposed to you putting TV habits ahead of potential funding to juniors with tattered jerseys? Shame on you.

 

[M2D2]

As opposed to you putting TV habits ahead of potential funding to juniors with tattered jerseys? Shame on you.

If you think that will change with whats happened today youre a moron.

9 have pledged to televise in HD by 2014

9 have pledged to televise SOO/Grand Final in HD. thats all.

 

[Perth Red]

M2D2 you better go and find a Bundy cup team to support. You clearly don't understand or like the fact the NRL is a professional sports business! How about if they had got $250mill less more FTA and the Sharks went bust because the reduced NRL grant didn't meet their current debts? Would that make you happier?

How about if the ARLC announce that due to having cash to splash every ticketed GA membership next year was going to be subsidised and only cost $50. Would you still be unhappy at not being able to sit at home and watch games on FTA?

It looks like this deal has fricked any chance of me having a team to support at all for 5 years, count yourself lucky mate!

 

[Sea_Eagles_Rock]

I have no idea? I have a very good idea.
I just dont put stock in getting f**ked over for money and being okay with that.
But hey, who am i to stop everybody becoming the whore of Babylon.


This is the problem with geniuss like you, you seem to unable to understand that not everybody is fixated on getting the most Money Money Money from every deal. What they want is the best deal, not the deal that cost people the most amount of money.

And you have no idea (Nor do I) about the cost structures in place for the game for the next 5 years.

The days of this game being only about the fans are long gone. You have 60-80 players and numerous admin and support staff at each club reliant on a decent grant from this TV agreement.

There isn't a sport left in the world that is televised that isn't to some degree about money. This is a business and the game needs as much money as it can get to rebuild after being raped by News and Nine for the last 25 years. Judge them on their performance at the end of the deal... If they waste the money and achieve nothing with it, then you can complain. In the meantime go to the game. At least you will know when it will be on now.

 

[Raiders_Premiers]

People, people, people.

An extra 1-2 FTA games would help grow our game for than an extra 200 odd million ever could!!!!!!!!111

The AFL are going to take over in the next 5 years with all their FTA coverage!!!1

They took our JERRBSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[NrlCoach]

I would also like to see a clause stating that channel 9 can not run any story on any other show that is detremental to the game

u wat m8 :lol: