Comments on: Next TV deal is the only chance for NRL http://www.theserve.com.au/next-tv-deal-is-the-only-chance-for-nrl-20080601001947 Sport's most provocative website, with opinions from the nations biggest names, as well as up to the minute news around the clock Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:37:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Dustin http://www.theserve.com.au/next-tv-deal-is-the-only-chance-for-nrl-20080601001947#comment-5887 Dustin Thu, 05 Jun 2008 04:37:52 +0000 http://www.theserve.com.au/?p=3242#comment-5887 If you do like we said the NRL could turn out to be like the MLS. ESPN has the exclusive rights to 1 Thursday night game. Fox Soccer Channel and HDnet has 1 Saturday game, and a TeleFutura (Spanish only station) has a exclusive Sunday game. An addition game can be access if you have a local team which will air on a local tv which could be either FTA or Pay tv station. Most of the channel you have to pay extra for and are not available by all operators. You can subscribe to a package called direct kick to access addition games fro $79 for a session but again is only available by selected operators, but all up how screwed is that, and you want to be like the American system. Look at the EPL we get better coverage here than they do in England maybe the sport will make more money but it is through screwing the fans out of pocket. The English Super League they only shows 2 or 3 games per week compared to the NRL all of them, look at the current position we are currently at and think who is this to benefit peoples pockets or the fans of the game If you do like we said the NRL could turn out to be like the MLS. ESPN has the exclusive rights to 1 Thursday night game. Fox Soccer Channel and HDnet has 1 Saturday game, and a TeleFutura (Spanish only station) has a exclusive Sunday game. An addition game can be access if you have a local team which will air on a local tv which could be either FTA or Pay tv station. Most of the channel you have to pay extra for and are not available by all operators. You can subscribe to a package called direct kick to access addition games fro $79 for a session but again is only available by selected operators, but all up how screwed is that, and you want to be like the American system.

Look at the EPL we get better coverage here than they do in England maybe the sport will make more money but it is through screwing the fans out of pocket.

The English Super League they only shows 2 or 3 games per week compared to the NRL all of them, look at the current position we are currently at and think who is this to benefit peoples pockets or the fans of the game

]]> By: DJ http://www.theserve.com.au/next-tv-deal-is-the-only-chance-for-nrl-20080601001947#comment-5883 DJ Sun, 01 Jun 2008 13:23:42 +0000 http://www.theserve.com.au/?p=3242#comment-5883 "Why would those organisations pay premium dollars for rights in which they had no serious competition?" Well they do! The NRL's deal with Nine and Fox Sports is worth $500 million, not to mention the cash Fox pays directly to each club. If you want to consider the financial situation of the NRL then the $10 million a year News Ltd draws from NRL coffers to repay its "investment" in the code - money spent on the Super League war should be looked into. “Why would those organisations pay premium dollars for rights in which they had no serious competition?”
Well they do! The NRL’s deal with Nine and Fox Sports is worth $500 million, not to mention the cash Fox pays directly to each club. If you want to consider the financial situation of the NRL then the $10 million a year News Ltd draws from NRL coffers to repay its “investment” in the code - money spent on the Super League war should be looked into.

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