{"id":276964,"date":"2025-11-11T05:24:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T05:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/276964\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T05:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T05:24:11","slug":"paramount-owned-broadcaster-considers-nrl-bid-after-484-million-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/276964\/","title":{"rendered":"Paramount-owned broadcaster considers NRL bid after $484 million loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Network Ten has lost nearly half a billion dollars over the past two years, but is now considering whether to make a bid for the blockbuster NRL broadcasting rights after its owner, American entertainment and streaming giant Paramount, was acquired by one of the world\u2019s richest men.<\/p>\n<p>New filings with the corporate regulator show the network, which broadcasts shows like MasterChef and Survivor, lost $322 million in 2023 and $162 million last year. A separate entity that represents the local sales and marketing for the Paramount+ streaming business reported slim profits of $3.5 million and $3.4 million over the same period, its accounts show.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Network Ten has lost nearly half a billion dollars over the past two years, but is now considering&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-276964","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-national-rugby-league","11":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","12":"tag-nrl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}