NRL chief executive David Gallop yesterday declared the AFL's billion-dollar broadcasting agreement a win for his code - and he was backed by one of the country's foremost experts on media rights. Read the full article
Might break the $1 billion barrier? We deserve more if the AFL gets 1.25 Billion. On the stats alone we get a higher viewership so the ads they sell should be more expensive. Less ads is a good thing as well. Just make up for it during half time and full time.
And as long as News Ltd exits the game beforehand, and as long as News Ltd doesn't determine the makeup of the commission, and as long as the terms of the exit doesn't hamstring the commission, and ...
Only Gallop could see a rival code mopping up huge amounts of the available pot as a WIN. The only win will come when the RL rights are signed and we get to see the dollars accepted. Idiot.
