{"id":696856,"date":"2026-05-27T01:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T01:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/696856\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T01:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T01:34:12","slug":"report-nine-in-bid-for-all-nrl-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/696856\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Nine in bid for all NRL rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tNine CEO Matt Stanton and Amanda Laing presented their bid to the Australian Rugby League Commission on Tuesday.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Nine is pitching to buy all the NRL broadcast rights, according to media reports, in a deal that would encompass Nine and Stan Sport.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/companies\/media-and-marketing\/nine-ceo-pitches-v-landys-on-exclusive-nrl-deal-cutting-out-foxtel-20260526-p600tw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Australian Financial Review reports<\/a> Nine CEO Matt Stanton personally led the company\u2019s presentation alongside broadcast and streaming boss Amanda Laing to Australian Rugby League Commission chair Peter V\u2019landys and outgoing NRL chief executive Andrew Abdo on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Such a deal would shut Foxtel out of NRL rights, which may not be in NRL\u2019s interests. It is seeking a deal worth $4 billion covering the five years from 2028.<\/p>\n<p>V\u2019landys has threatened to \u201ctake the rights elsewhere\u201d if the two media companies put forward a joint bid to try and drive the price south.<\/p>\n<p>But there are also reports Seven and Amazon\u2019s Prime Video are planning a bid.<\/p>\n<p>V\u2019Landys this week stated he hopes to have the new NRL broadcast rights deal completed before July 15, before outgoing NRL CEO Andrew Abdo departs for Tennis Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nine CEO Matt Stanton and Amanda Laing presented their bid to the Australian Rugby League Commission on Tuesday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-696856","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\/696856","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=696856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}