Adam White
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7,728 appearances
54 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 9 Jul
Adam White’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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John Stenzelt is joining us, editor and business journalist for The Australian.
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So John, what does it mean now for the AFL?
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They're a few years away from a new TV rights deal, but seeing that number there, does that give them confidence that they will go bigger again?
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every single time these rights comes around, we sort of say, oh, look, the landscape's going to look different in five years' time.
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But, you know, there comes a time where these, you know, some of these companies are pretty close to a,
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you know, to making losses every year.
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I mean, DAZN, the Foxhills parent, makes big losses.
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They've got a very deep pocketed owners.
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But, you know, Channel 9's a $1.5 billion company now on the ASX.
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Its share price has halved in the last year.
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So, I mean, how much capacity has Channel 7 got to keep paying?
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It's only a sort of $200 or $300 million company at best now.
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I would say that, yeah, the tier one sports rights probably will never hit a ceiling.
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But I don't think you're going to see something like the A-League or other so-called secondary sports ever on major commercial networks or big-time broadcasters again either.
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And the reality is those sports need TV money when we're talking about, I think particularly sports like golf and tennis, you alluded to tennis before, but those that have been on free-to-air television so much in the past, they kind of need free-to-air exposure.
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And the money.
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So, really, you just get back to what you know, and that's NRL and AFL, and that's just that consistent package of rights that, you know, that do very, very well week in, week out, and obviously peak with the big games like State of Origin and Grand Finals.
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Was there some nervousness around, you mentioned before about DAZN as the new parent company of Foxtel, that they wouldn't invest that sort of money again into a domestic product here in Australia?
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And I say that in relation to, well, you know, Fox Footy has been such a staple now in AFL for such a long period of time.
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There was an element of nervousness that, well, will they keep doing it?
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