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In Focus: Australian Football League
Ahead of tomorrow's Grand Final, we delve deeper into the numbers which put the Australian Football League at the apex of the country's sporting landscape.
AFL revels in fierce competition to score hefty Foxtel, Seven renewals
Foxtel, Seven and Telstra will pay a sizeable increase to renew their domestic media rights to the Australian Football League in the face of intense competition from Paramount and Nine.
Foxtel, Seven, Telstra renew AFL rights in record A$4.5bn, seven-year deal
Pay-television broadcaster Foxtel, commercial broadcaster Seven and telco Telstra have renewed their domestic media rights for the Australian Football League in a seven-year deal covering 2025 to 2031
Telstra agrees A$50m deal for majority ownership of IPTV provider Fetch TV
Australian telecoms operator Telstra has reached an agreement to acquire a 51-per-cent stake in IPTV provider Fetch TV for A$50m ($35.4m/€33.8m) as part of plans to improve its underlying technology.
Telstra ‘in advanced talks’ for majority stake in Fetch TV
Australian telco Telstra is close to acquiring a 51-per-cent stake in Australian IPTV service Fetch TV, as it seeks to build a bigger presence in video entertainment, according to local media reports
NHL, Telstra strike five-year international distribution deal
The National Hockey League and Australian telco Telstra have signed a five-year agreement to distribute up to 1,400 games per year to viewers around the world using Telstra’s Global Media Network (GMN).
NRL secures positive renewals following pandemic reductions
The National Rugby League and its commercial rights-holder, the Australian Rugby League Commission, will achieve a satisfactory return for the league’s global media rights from 2023 to 2027.
Streaming success prompts Foxtel to ‘explore’ IPO
The owners of Australian pay-television platform Foxtel are exploring an IPO for the business, prompted by the country's booming OTT streaming market, the Australian Financial Review has reported
AFL recovers renegotiation losses in Foxtel, Telstra extensions
The Australian Football League has clawed back losses it is suffering due to Covid-19-related renegotiations of its domestic media-rights deals in a two-year extension of its biggest deal, with pay-television operator Foxtel.
Foxtel’s five-year netball rights deal prompts fiery response from incumbent Nine
Netball Australia has signed a new five-year domestic rights deal with pay-television broadcaster Foxtel
AFL retains rights value in extensions with Foxtel and Telstra
The Australian Football League has announced new agreements with domestic broadcasters Foxtel and Telstra which will extend their rights by two years across the 2023 and 2024 seasons
Telstra to lose NRL mobile rights
Australian telco Telstra is set to lose its National Rugby League mobile rights after the current cycle ends in 2022, as the league looks to preserve greater exclusivity for its television partners
Telstra to aid Perform’s WTA output through new partnership
Australian telecommunications company Telstra has entered into a six-year partnership with Perform through which it will aid the digital sports media company’s delivery of its media-rights and production contract with the Women’s Tennis Association.
AFL chief warns of FTA coverage decline in 2017
Gillon McLachlan, chief executive of the AFL, has said that free-to-air coverage of the Aussie rules football competition is likely to drop in 2017 after revealing that Australian commercial broadcaster Channel 10 is unlikely to acquire a rights package.
Telstra enhances NBL partnership
The Australian National Basketball League club competition has extended and expanded its partnership with telecommunications company Telstra.
New format broadens reach and revenue for Netball Australia
Deals for Australia’s new top-tier netball competition signify a strong commitment from broadcasters to women’s sport and could signal a step-change in revenue earned by Netball Australia.