The AFL’s new seven-year deal from 2025 will mark a shakeup to some footy fans’ weekly schedule. Here’s how it could affect you.
There was a silent auction,big-name media companies,and lots of phone-jockeying with bidders,which culminated in a late-night mega deal – negotiating mastery worthy of its own Netflix series.
A locked-at-the-hip broadcast partner for most of the time football has been on television,the game will stay on Channel Seven screens until at least 2031.
The AFL has landed a $4.5 billion,seven-year broadcast deal – easily the largest in Australian history,after sticking with incumbents Seven and Foxtel to televise AFL and AFLW matches until 2031.
It’s Foxtel’s biggest premiere in history,but is it recapturing the real magic of Game of Thrones? Not quite.
Communications Minister Michelle Rowland asked the AFL Commission to keep matches freely available amid an ongoing review of laws designed to keep major sporting and cultural events free for the public.
Foxtel’s chief executive Patrick Delany made the comment at the Sydney premiere of Binge’s Game of Thrones prequel,House of the Dragon.
Foxtel has agreed to allow Channel Seven stream key AFL matches online in a move that could knock rival bidders out of the running for the code’s next rights deal.
House of the Dragon director says the team behind the long-awaited series is hoping to “give people what they want,but not in the way they’re expecting”.
Foxtel chief executive Patrick Delany has claimed Australia’s anti-siphoning laws fail to account for the fact that free-to-air television networks now own paywalled streaming services.
Foxtel wants to use its own commentary team for all nine AFL games per round and is seeking to have a “Super Saturday” in which it has the rights to the whole of Saturday in the home-and-away rounds,without any games broadcast via free to air on that day.