{"id":711053,"date":"2026-06-02T20:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T20:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/711053\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T20:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T20:11:10","slug":"report-more-broadcasters-in-nrl-rights-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/711053\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: More broadcasters in NRL rights race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tAmazon, Seven and Paramount in the mix in addition to rights holders Nine and Foxtel.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Speculation around the future of NRL rights continues to heat up with reports around Amazon, Seven and Paramount in the mix in addition to rights holders Nine and Foxtel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/companies\/sport\/foxtel-plans-rival-bid-to-exclude-nine-from-nrl-coverage-20260529-p6020y\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Australian Financial Review reports<\/a> Foxtel has pitched for all the NRL rights and spoken to both the Seven and 10 about broadcasting some of the games on Free to Air. Such a move would shut Nine out entirely of any NRL rights.<\/p>\n<p>Foxtel may bid for the rights, but due to Australia\u2019s anti-siphoning laws, requires a Free to Air partner to broadcast some games.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/business\/media\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Australian<\/a> meanwhile reports Seven\u2019s pitch, as Southern Cross Media, is likely to include a proposal to broadcast Monday Night Football \u2013 should the sporting body seek to revive that timeslot in 2028 \u2013 and at least one other club game, possibly a Sunday afternoon fixture.<\/p>\n<p>Seven has previously expressed an interest in broadcasting the State of Origin series.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Prime Video wanted to own one night a week \u2013 Friday, for example.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s expected that the NRL broadcast deal will be finalised by mid-July, with Peter V\u2019landys, chairman of the Australian Rugby League Commission, hoping to secure a deal worth more than $4bn over five years, commencing in 2028.<\/p>\n<p>Seven and 10 declined to comment. Foxtel also declined to comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amazon, Seven and Paramount in the mix in addition to rights holders Nine and Foxtel. Speculation around the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":711054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-711053","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\/711053","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=711053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}