Sam Buckingham Jones

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239 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 29 Jun

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SEN Breakfast · Sam Buckingham Jones, Media Writer at the Financial Review (30.06.26) · 29 Jun 2026 podcast

Foxtel couldn't let that happen.

So they had to counter with their own massive amount.

So that sort of generated the competitive tension here that was really necessary.

Because if you've got the same two companies, they don't need to bid that much more to get it.

So you had that competitive tension.

You had Amazon sort of circling around, you know, maybe interested in one night a week or a couple of games.

The word that I heard was that they wanted to call it something like Prime Friday or something like that on Amazon Prime Video.

But to counter what Nine wanted to do, Foxtel had to go out and get its own free-to-air network because there have to be some games for free.

Under the laws that we currently have, there have to be some NRL games for free.

And so they found Channel 10 and Channel 7 both willing to take some games.

So divide it between them.

They can afford to pay it.

But then Nine would lose everything.

So in the end, last week, what we reported was that Foxtel and Nine basically came to some sort of agreement where it was like, okay, this is what we're actually willing to pay and willing to offer.

But you're right.

Basically, everything stays the same.

I think the things that are going to change, there's obviously a new team coming in next year.

There'll be another new team the year after.

There's a potential for a 20th team from maybe New Zealand a few years down the track.

So there are going to be more games.

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