I think their offer was around 1.5 but I guess they never gave a formal bid after disagreements
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Anyone can make something up for a story, plus it would be pretty bold of 10 to deny making a formal bid when CA could and likely would set the record straight there.
This whole deal, and the recent AFL extension nicely guarantees Foxtel’s future for the foreseeable future and the growth of Kayo.
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Way overpriced.
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At most, I would only pay $10 per month, not $25.
And so only 33 of 43 BBL matches are on FTA. That kills interest straight away in the whole competition. Either the BBL is fully on FTA or totally locked away behind a pay wall.
Continuation of the downfall of downfall of cricket in this country.
The arrogant spin is excruciating at the press conference, makes me want to vomit.
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Sky News taking the media conference.
Foxtel CEO was first seen. When Seven’s Lewis Martin came on, Sky cut the feed. Returned later for Cricket Australia. He was asked about the relationship with Seven “we’ve have moved on”. Then was asked “Is Seven going to stop trashing cricket” He then passed that off to Seven. LOTS of questions on that. The it was back to Foxtel “back to the cricket”.
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AFL does fine with a paywall. Ten would have put some BBL behind a paywall almost certainly. Cricket was lucky to survive solely FTA as long as it did.
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Sky News is a very serious news outlet clearly.
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Agree but in this deal it seems the Fox exclusives are on saturday. In the current deal it was sometimes random so people lost the flow.
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The entire press conference was also streamed live on 7News’ Twitter.
https://twitter.com/7NewsAustralia/status/1610052509204385792
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The BBL when last on TEN screened most if not all matches including the Saturday evening matches, which is why it was more of a success there. With next to no Saturday night matches on FTA it will die again. CA needs as wide as possible an audience, not one limited to whether people want to pay. Will be interesting to see if the Federal Govt circumvents what has occurred when it updates the Anti-Siphoning laws this year by closing loopholes that prevent listed sport events not screening on FTA?
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Couple of others things from the media conference - Foxtel would not confirm any of the amounts that have been published - “we are not a list company”.
Also CA said exclusive Saturday BBL for Fox. The deal “does not include legal costs” from the dealings with Seven.
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If 10 got the rights then they 1000% would of had some BBL & also some ODI & T20 only on Paramount+
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Maybe so. But CA should not be splitting interest in BBL like it has over it short run so as to keep interest. Either fans get to see the whole lot or not bother with FTA at all.
If there’s one good thing to come out of this deal, it’s that 7plus will have streaming rights as well.
It will mean that for the very first time, all programming on FTA terrestrial will also be available for free online via the networks streaming apps.
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It’s going to be interesting to see who CA takes for their highlights. Currently they take Fox for all because they have streaming.
With 7+ being used they might use Fox for Test highlights since they are the host broadcaster & might use 7 for BBL highlights since they are BBL host broadcaster
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Is that weird? 7 is host for BBL but misses out on broadcasting 10 of them?
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They are also the host in the current deal & don’t broadcast 16 matches.
Host broadcaster just means what is shown in the world feed, who does the toss, player of the match interview, what’s used for DRS etc
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They’re the host broadcaster for the matches they show. Meanwhile, Fox is the host broadcaster for their exclusive games.
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