Cricket Australia remains in discussions with the incumbent rights holders Foxtel and Seven,despite Seven launching court action over the quality of BBL games.
Foxtel may need to consider an alternate reality to working with the cricket’s incumbent free-to-air partner,Seven,if it wants to keep airing matches.
Should Cricket Australia walk away from Foxtel and Seven at the end of current broadcast negotiations,it will do so by gaining one thing the pay TV provider cannot offer.
The executives are coming to Australia to discuss the next broadcast rights deal,which includes the Brisbane 2032 Olympic Games.
The multimillion-dollar deal was confirmed by Nine and Tennis Australia in Melbourne on Friday morning.
The media company is about to lock in the rights to the Australian Open for another five years and is battling for the cricket against rival broadcasters.
Tennis Australia boss Craig Tiley could sign a new agreement before the end of the year.
The idea of playing happy families is nice but in reality a 50-50 split in TV money is a commercial stinker for the Kiwis,and no union in the world would sign up to it.
How and where Australians can watch major sporting events is being reviewed by the federal government.
Paramount is determined to secure a major sports right deal as talks begin with Cricket Australia.
Numbers were down for the two biggest games in Australian sport. But the picture is more complicated than that suggests.