{"id":504990,"date":"2026-02-26T09:08:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T09:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/504990\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T09:08:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T09:08:18","slug":"unpacking-aussie-motorsports-most-unorthodox-tv-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/504990\/","title":{"rendered":"Unpacking Aussie motorsport\u2019s most unorthodox TV deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE Australian Rally Championship heads into the 2026 season with perhaps the most unusual TV broadcast package in domestic motorsport.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the championship revealed a new deal for its rounds to be live streamed on Kayo Sports, which will also show them on-demand after events as part of a suite of motorsport content that includes Supercars, F1, MotoGP and NASCAR.<\/p>\n<p>However, those live streams will also be available to watch for free on the ARC\u2019s Facebook and YouTube channels.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/v8-sleuth-magazine-issue-2?utm_source=SRBuyButton&amp;utm_medium=website\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/v8-sleuth-magazine-issue-2_1024x1024.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For a deeper dive into how it wrangled a deal that features the best of both worlds, Luke Whitten sat down with ARC managing director Adrian Coppin for this week\u2019s edition of from <a href=\"https:\/\/rallysportmag.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RallySport Magazine\u2019s<\/a> Special Stage podcast.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the full episode below!<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE Australian Rally Championship heads into the 2026 season with perhaps the most unusual TV broadcast package in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-504990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504990","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=504990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}