Rob is reassuring in his public composure fronting Welnix; and what the club has built to date, on all fronts, is absolutely positively wellington is wonderful.
BUT...
...any thoughts of trying to create some sort of player pathway infrastructure 'monopoly' is downright dangerous talk, and fudgeing stoopid.
Also..
"Broadcasters plural". I can broadcast via periscope, livestream or any other number of platforms. Today's rights-owners simply sell to a company that distributes the content to an audience. It could be sold to Maori TV, Prime, SKY, Vodafone, Sparc, NZME and others.
Vodafone is in bed with Sky so I doubt they have plans to launch their own streaming service, the only options are the three free to air networks, Sky (including prime), Lightbox Sport, or someone else coming out of left field like coliseum did.
Maori TV is an interesting idea, one of the things is if your on a free to air channel you need to be on one that is also on the sky platform, the 60% of households that have sky probably have never bothered to plug in their aerial into their TV for freeview or bought a freeview box. So the TVNZ popup channel while good will miss all those sky subscribers.