Tyson Statovci

Yeah, so the broadcast deals usually are five-year deals.

The hope is this one will be a seven-year deal, as mentioned before.

And yeah, Channel 7 is a major player and open to more content with Fox, which obviously owned by DAZN.

And so if they secure the entire deal, they will sell off rights to the free-to-air broadcasters.

Monday night football is unlikely.

It's going to be a three-game, so a Super Sunday and a Super Saturday.

But what I will say about the deal with Nine, Code Sports revealed last week

that Nine, who just acquired the rights to the EPL, so they got that off Optus Sport, have paid a ridiculous amount of money for that.

And as a result, they might struggle to match the bids of other broadcasters.

They were chipping in from next year.

Yeah, so there's a $600 million deal, which will be required for nine.

Well, they believe, nine and Stan Sporter believe to be securing a six-year extension for EPL rights from 2028.

And the rate's $100 million per year.

Oh, sorry, sorry.

The deal is $600 million, but $100 million per year.

Yeah, $100 million per year, which is still a lot of money, but it's the length that's going to be the killer.

Well, I've had other conversations.

I was having, this goes all the way back to November last year.

I was having conversations with people at Seven about kind of what their plans were for Rugby League.

And they said, you know, Agenda Setters, which is their new Monday night show, was the start.