The ARL Commission has secured a landmark seven-year $5.3 billion TV rights deal, meaning the NRL has seized the AFL’s title as the most valuable television product in Australian sport.<\/p>\n
The AFL is currently under a seven-year, $4.5 billion deal with Seven Network and Foxtel.<\/p>\n
The new NRL broadcast rights agreement is worth $5.3 billion over seven years, replacing the current five-year $2 billion contract that expires in 2027, reports The Australian.<\/p>\n
It will additionally include a new dedicated New Zealand broadcasting partner.<\/p>\n
The deal will see existing TV rights partners, Foxtel and the Nine Network, retain coverage, with Foxtel securing the rights to every NRL game.<\/p>\n
Foxtel will sell off nominated matches to Nine, and the State of Origin will remain on Nine Network, according to The Australian.<\/p>\n
The record deal is still being finalised and is expected to be agreed in principle over the next 48 hours, following the ARL Commission board meeting on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The deal is worth around $750 million annually.<\/p>\n
Streaming giant Amazon reportedly showed keen interest in the deal, as did the Seven and Ten networks, which were quickly sidelined by the ARL Commission.<\/p>\n
The historic deal forecasts a bold new era for the sport, with the deal possibly leading to the first $2 million NRL players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ARL Commission has secured a landmark seven-year $5.3 billion TV rights deal, meaning the NRL has seized…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":772360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[638,64,63,761,762,158,85,242244,343809],"class_list":["post-772359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports","tag-sports-broadcast","tag-tv-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772359","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=772359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}