Fox Sports eyes Origin, grand final as Nine threatens to walk away from NRL

"It's not a given that NRL has to be part of our future," Marks said on the conference call. "It has to just pay its way like all of our content does, and if it doesn't, well ... again, we are less reliant on that as a revenue source.”

Foxtel is also struggling financially, although it may be in a position to invest more in a discounted rugby league product, given the uncertainty over its existing deals with Football Federation Australia and Rugby Australia, which are each worth $60m per annum. Fox Sports is understood to be interested in securing rights to State of Origin and the NRL grand final.The NRL remains at loggerheads with both broadcasters over the value of the sport – in a reduced 2020 season and going forward into future years – although sources with knowledge of the negotiations suggest Foxtel could be willing to ink a standalone deal for the 2020 season as early as this week.

"Now's the time when we need to make the changes necessary to make these sports rights more sustainable. The future of our businesses is in aggregated video consumption. We're a business that actually is now less reliant on live sport and the reason for a lot of sport and its being was its volume contribution to free-to-air advertising.

Let ‘em have it. It’s pay tv. No bugger will watch 😂😂😂

Terrestrial tv, fox and NRL...a slow train about to run out of track. Can’t someone just put them out of their misery already? None of them are relevant anymore

NRL & FOX are POX based organisations, they deserve one another ! Trust Ethics Accounability PlayerBehaviours LeadershipMatters 🤬💩🦕

The NRL needs to call Nine's bluff but Foxtel is the wrong way to go. Nine has already lost the cricket, losing the NRL would be a nail in the coffin.

Watch Murdoch try to get the anti-siphoning laws changed so he can have all rugby league exclusively on Fox Sports. No more free to air sport is Murdoch's end game and the only thing that will keep Foxtel alive. AFL is next.

One can only hope

Without RugbyLeague Ch9 is finished. The drift to Netflix would continue. Live sport is the only draw card. RL is the highest rating sport on TV in Australia. NRL

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