{"id":509148,"date":"2026-02-28T06:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T06:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/509148\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T06:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T06:24:13","slug":"the-major-cities-nrl-boss-is-eyeing-for-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/509148\/","title":{"rendered":"The major cities NRL boss is eyeing for expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NRL CEO Andrew Abdo has revealed plans for a global takeover in the coming years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Following the breakout success of the first Las Vegas season opener in 2024, NRL viewership surged, shattering records year after year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the FULL INTERVIEW with Andrew Abdo on The Continuous Call Team<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The NRL has locked in a five-year Vegas residency, but Abdo\u2019s sights are set on other cities around the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTalking about London and the Middle East, that\u2019s going to be in addition to [the US]\u201d Abdo told the Continuous Call Team.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Image: Mark Metcalfe\/Getty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NRL CEO Andrew Abdo has revealed plans for a global takeover in the coming years.\u00a0 Following the breakout&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-509148","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\/509148","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=509148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}