Record broadcast deal predicted ..

[DUFFMAN]

Is Buzz ever sober????

There was that cold March day in 1993 it is believed he may of been.

 

[manlyfan76]

A sports broadcast deal without decent streaming in these times is backward.

 

[Chip and Chase]

PETER V’LANDYS COULD SOON BE LOST TO RUGBY LEAGUE


ARLC chair Peter V’landys could walk away from rugby league if he inks a record TV deal with broadcasters and restarts the competition on May 28.

Talks with Channel Nine and Foxtel are set to secure the game a $2.3 billion, seven-year TV deal and that could mean V’landys is content to leave the game on a high.

“If I can get the game in a good financial position and started again, that will be my reward,” V’landys told The Sydney Morning Herald.

“I owe rugby league because it saved me from getting bashed up when I was a young migrant kid.

“I didn’t want to be ARLC chair. Being CEO is not on the cards. I’ve got no agendas. I don’t need to be chair or chief executive.

“Rugby league saved me as a migrant kid in Wollongong and if I can get the game up and going and in a good financial position, I will have repaid the debt.”

So it seems like they just put him in to clean the place of the Dumb and Dumber pairing of Beattie and Greenburg. Mission accomplished, time to move on.

 

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NRL 2020: Peter V’landys confirms he will not quit ARLC anytime soon

Peter V’landys has revealed he will not walk away from rugby league as the ARL Commission boss prepares to deliver the $2 billion broadcasting deal that will save the NRL from bankruptcy.
V’landys is putting the finishing touches on the broadcast deal over the weekend with the ARL Commission expected to rubberstamp the lucrative arrangement at a board meeting on Tuesday.

V’landys has been buffeted by speculation he will announce his resignation as ARLC chairman when he completes the NRL’s crucial TV rights deal with broadcast partners Fox Sports and Channel 9.

But the NSW Racing chief executive insists he is committed to the NRL, outlining plans to remain in the sport until at least 2022 and oversee the code’s financial recovery from the COVID-19 crisis.

“I’m not walking away from the game,” V’landys told The Courier-Mail.

“What I have said is that I have an attitude that I owe the game a debt for what is has given me in my life. At some point in my time here, I will have repaid the debt, but that debt hasn’t been paid yet.

“The talk about me quitting is not accurate.

“I have no interest in being executive chairman or CEO of the NRL, I am happy in this role. There is a view that because I won’t become CEO of the NRL, that I don’t want to be in rugby league anymore because I am CEO of Racing NSW.

“But I have too much still to achieve in the game. It’s only natural when you go through a tumultuous period like this that you assess what you are doing.

“I certainly hope to never go through another period like this.

“There is a lot more for me to do. I want to get the game’s cost structure right, we need to stabilise the game. I’m not going anywhere, I am here for the next couple of years at least.”

V’landys confirmed the financial component of the NRL’s revised broadcast deal is expected to be finalised in the coming days.

Fox and Channel 9 are in the advanced stage of financial discussions with V’landys, with the pay TV giant keen to announce the code’s broadcasting deal.

It is understood Channel 9 will maintain their commitment until the end of 2022, while Fox will sign a four or five-year extension in a major coup for the NRL.

“The aim is for the broadcast deal to be largely sorted,” V’landys said.

“We won’t have all the final details done, but we will have the dollars in place, which is the most important thing for me to begin planning how much money we can distribute to the clubs and the players.

“We’re still dealing on the extension side of things, there will be an extension with Fox, definitely.

“I’ve taken Channel 9 from not wanting to be in the game to being committed for the next three years. It has been a hard slog to be honest with you.”

 

[40 years an eagle]

"P, the bringer of the light. all hail P, the bringer of the light"

"oh P can you see"


"all we are say-in'... is give Pete a chance."

The next immortal?

I'd vote for him. Anyone who got rid of the turd is number 1 in my book.

 

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NRL announces new broadcast deal with Nine, Foxtel

The ARLC has agreed to new broadcast deals with Channel Nine through to 2022 and Foxtel through to the 2027 season.

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The ARLC has agreed to new broadcast deals with Channel Nine through to 2022 and Foxtel through to the 2027 season.

The new deal extends Foxtel's for a further five years, with the previous rights agreement having covered the five-year period of 2018-2022.

“I want to thank Foxtel CEO Patrick Delany and Nine CEO Hugh Marks for reaching an outcome that puts the fans and the game’s future first,” ARLC Chairman Peter V’landys said.


“Our negotiations were tough but always in a spirit of goodwill and shared ambitions for the betterment of rugby league. We could not have reached our May 28 restart ambitions without the teamwork and collaboration of our partners.”

Foxtel will continue to broadcast all eight games a week this season, with Nine televising three matches per round plus exclusive coverage of the grand final on October 25 plus the State of Origin series in November.

 

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AFL’s TV rights numbers are “completely false”: Peter V’landys

"I think they have had a dose of reality.”

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ARL Commission chairman Peter V’landys has slammed the AFL after it reportedly told stakeholders that the NRL sacrificed up to $300 million in its revised TV rights deal.

Speaking to The Herald Sun, V’landys described the claim as “fictional” and accused the AFL of releasing “completely false” figures when announcing its new TV deal.

“It’s not correct. It’s laughable. I’m disappointed that they feel they need to make up figures,” V’landys said.

“Nobody knows our figures because we’ve kept them commercially in-confidence.

“But looking at their figures, if they have given up $150 million, we have done substantially better than them.

“For them to go out and say such fiction without knowing is a concern about them more so than us.

“I don’t know where they are getting their fictional figures from because they are not accurate. They are completely false.”

“And if they knew the real figures, they’d be stopping the comparisons very quickly, because it doesn’t help them. I think they have had a dose of reality.”