{"id":497891,"date":"2026-02-23T01:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T01:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/497891\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T01:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T01:53:08","slug":"record-845-million-revenue-haul-comes-ahead-of-new-broadcast-deal-and-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/497891\/","title":{"rendered":"Record $845 million revenue haul comes ahead of new broadcast deal and expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe strategies of the Australian Rugby League Commission and strong financial management has enabled funding for players, clubs, states and grassroots to continually grow, while also increasing our capacity to invest further into new revenue generating assets.<\/p>\n<p>Loading<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFinancially, the game has never been stronger \u2026 And the future is even brighter, with the Perth Bears to join the NRL Premiership in 2027 and the Papua New Guinea Chiefs to enter from 2028.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese new market expansions will build lasting connections with communities, growing the grassroots and giving kids the best start in life through the transformative power of rugby league.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The NRL\u2019s 2026 season will kick off on Sunday with its now annual Las Vegas opener, a venture the game will explore <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/link\/follow-20170101-p5n55w\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">replicating further around the globe in new markets<\/a>, as first revealed by this masthead late last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe strategies of the Australian Rugby League Commission and strong financial management has enabled funding for players, clubs,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-497891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497891","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=497891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}