It was $6b over 10 years and then the AFL went back to 7/fox and they got slightly more over the new 7 year $620m per season or something like that.
The AFL didn’t want a deal without Fox so went back to them to heat the 10 per year offer. So they did make a large bid and paramount were willing to back it. But 10s brand is bad and has been bagged by the opposition so people don’t go to them.
My main point is welder is flog and a known hack and was only reporting this to support nine. He was being dismissive of another network to make it sound better for 9.
Weidler is coming from a position of bias, no doubt. It’s beneficial for him personally and his employer to retain the rights - but I doubt anyone of note at the NRL is paying attention to his ‘analysis’.
Don’t forget, the NRL (along with their existing broadcast team) will have a committee working on this no doubt, who are in the know more than even Vlandys and Abdo, ranging from lawyers, media experts and those familiar with the commercial and broadcast rights negotiating world, more on a broadcast management’s perspective.
OnAir is bang on, they probably haven’t even been remotely interested in reading the headline on all these tabloid speculative articles, let alone from gossips like Annette Sharp or ‘inside sources’ or those on an incumbent broadcaster’s payroll.
In much the same way Adam O’Bruen is some how allowed to be Knights coach when he has all the tactical prowess of cattle being herded into a cattle crush.
