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Just an aside: can there be a madder, more ill-considered idea (seemingly arising from 'the new global calendar' think tanks within WR (World Rugby)) than that we would have Bled and TRC Tests in late January/February! When the Super 10s proved conclusively that, the very least, the heat in Brisbane...

Just a fyi: NZRU have already said they have had recent conversations with PE re taking some form of strategic stake in the ABs as a global business/brand. Nothing announced as yet.

We'll see - but there's no way in hell a tough, results-obsessed firm like KKR will just buy for serious money into some version of Super Rugby and say to RA and the local Aust RUs "hey guys, you just run things wrt to (eg) sourcing and developing players, training and coaching, RU leadership...

OK, OK, but Derpus: but we are on our arses financially and commercially. Some form of radical change and change agent with the right, or right enough, direction and resources is critical or we are dead in 2-3 years. And having said that: we will NEVER find the perfect, sanitised...

A very interesting development, foreshadowed in some of our speculations and discussions. Prima facie, and it's very early days, but this could = the salvation financially and strategically as well as, if it happens, it is highly likely to break the introversion, inbrededness and strategic...

Rather amusing post from the Foxtel thread re NZ Super Rugby broadcasting on Foxtel and thus a rugby-loving (Kiwi) customer's frustrations (like many there) re trying to get them to even understand what he's talking about........maybe the chickens know

Derpus, as someone touched on above, it's a real possibility that Fox Sports are tying in the broadcasting of post COVID NZ Super Rugby with their negotiations with RA re post COVID Aust Super Rugby. Partly as Sky TV NZ may well want to also broadcast this latter Aust comp and thus the two overlapping post...

Guys: I'll not go into detail, but if you want spend not many $s it's a piece of cake to get the latest Super Rugby NZ live on your devices.

One great indirect attribute of DIY media production, DIY digital product marketing etc is that it necessitates that the product rights owner and media producer _constantly thinks about its actual sports consumer market and how to attract and hold it_. I say this particularly as one of the...

Yep, one of the many smart media and marketing mechanisms these codes have used to massively grow global audience reach and, related, gross media income.

I reckon many others would too. I estimated elsewhere that, conservatively, the credible target market for this type of 'all-in' rugby streaming product (assuming produced and presented well technically) here would be at the very least 100,0000 subs and at credible charge range of c. $360-$400...

Yep. No reason why not. Just needs the billing system to deal with single, discrete purchases vs subs (these are readily available now and not the custom pieces of old) and its interface to the media file server that holds 'the event'. Every game (or series) can be a discrete purchase if ever...

Or, if not yet paid for given the delays in delivery, then somehow contracted to provide in that Foxtel is contracted to deliver 'Super Rugby' in 2020. Nonetheless it may be that Foxtel lawyers had this game format deviant scenario covered in the 2015 contracts and given that there will of...

^^ Re 2020 NZ Super Rugby on TV here: This link may shed some light on it all: https://community.foxtel.com.au/t5/Sport/Rugby-Union-New-Zealand-Aotearoa-CUP/td-p/288947/page/4

dru, get your point but I honestly think the 2021 media rights picture for rugby is more complex than that and that the 2021 'rugby media rights $ pie size' heavily depends upon the pro comp model design for 2021 (assuming we all get there) that any candidate broadcasters insist upon. (And btw...

Correct. Unless, for example, the Rebels are culled this year (a real possibility), on every data point we have today it's inconceivable that RA will provide anything like its typical media-rights-derived annual $ grant to the QRU for 2021. Further, key 2021 QRU income lines for gate and...

Well Pfitzy get your point but the latest NBN data is quite encouraging in this regard - it's been widely reported that 68% of existing NBN customers and 80% of new ones are taking up the NBN 50 mbps plans or higher. (eg see...

1. I won't deal with the personal tone except to note that you and I are in intellectually different and competing camps on these core issues. Always were, always will be. I think Aust rugby requires massive, deep, all-levels reform. You consistently fend off critique of the code's leadership...

With the latest generation of pro broadcast video cameras, smaller, better, cheaper, there's no reason why everything streamed live from 2021 could not be in 4k and downsized for 1080p for those not able or interested in 4k. 4k costs more in transmittal bandwidth and distribution servers, but...

And btw, as a business model, how Spotify got going