Hi team,
I'm going to do a wee write up on Wellingtonista.com encouraging people to get along to the game this Friday and better yet buy a membership. I just wanna double check details around this whole hot mess.
- In licence discussions FFA originally offered Welnix 3 year licence?
- Welnix counter with 10 years
- FFA: NOPE 4 years for you.
- Every other club has a 20 year licence
- FFA currently keeping Newcastle Jets afloat?
Anything else I'm missing? Anyone have dates of all of the above? Any must link to articles for Joe public?
Next TV deal will be in 2016/17 to be worth $80mil or more and $4 million to each club. Nix will be part of that next TV deal if they take up the four years on offer.
SKY TV or Lightbox sports to pay more for A-League TV rights come 2016/17.
How do you know the next TV deal will be that much? Ratings are down for all clubs and the current TV deal was part of an overall football package that Fox put together which included the EPL, Fox has lost the EPL now so it could be that the A-League is less attractive to them as the only football content.
Because $80 mil is next to nothing compared to the NRL $186 mil and ARL $418 mil per season. The A-League could do with two more teams but back onto the subject $80 mil is pocket change and should be easy to get via FTA bidding and FOXTEL.
Put Finals on FTA and the ratings would / should go up.