ARU set to announce $275 million TV deal

Taranaki applied for the licence that went to the Rebels. Would be good to see them try again.

Hopefully Adelaide will join in the Super Rugby as well as Napier.

No, soccer and rugby league aren't played over there at all. I think you'll find the NRL is shown on Bein sports and Premiersports plus the ESL on Sky TV let alone what soccer gets just from their own comp. Naaa, no other sport gets a look in over in Europe, it's all Union. Btw, even afl has a deal where games are shown overseas, what a silly comment. HA

I would like to see just one more Super Rugby team in Australia and New Zealand to make 6 each in the core SANZAR nations and any growth of teams in the new regions of Asia, South America and other African states. A New Zealand team could also be a joint Pacific Islands team. Growing rugby locally should focus on second tier competitions NRC and Currie Cup/ITM Cup which can include more cities and engage more fans. Super Rugby players and Wallabies should be getting million dollar salaries in future if the competition is successful. Private investors in Asia and South America and throughout Australalasia will be interested in successful Super Franchises.

Before comparing to other codes, what is the total dough - 10 other broadcasting deals. This is the important metric even if Oz only contributes 30%

A League gets: $33m/year from Fox $7m/year from SBS $2m/year from Overseas rights Interestingly the FFA are hoping to turn that $2m from overseas rights into $20m/year which suggests Australian sport has growth off shore for content looking at the increase here with SuperRugby

Newcastle? Why? If the Knights struggle with corporate support and the jets on and off the field wouldn't a super 15 franchise just become a money pit.

Yep, seems like local broadcasters didn't pay much more, most if not all the increase is from foreign markets.

Europe is pie in the Sky. As for the other markets Sanzar have to address Japan and the Kings.

He has to negotiate local coverage particularly with Ten.

The Sanzar games fit around the Not the Heineken Cup Sponsored by Heineken, Top 14 and Pro 12 coverage which guarantees wall to wall Rugby. The games from Argentina will now take the Rugby coverage from 8am to well past 10pm.

This seems like a great result. It will be interesting to see what each province can do in terms of sponsorship too, considering there will now be exposure into Japan and Singapore. I have no doubt HSBC will be delighted, to identify just one.

A brilliant first step.... A good income stream and a free to air foothold. I just hope Ten put it on at a decent hour, instead of burying it at 6am. Channel 7 had a habit of running the Wallabies games on delay after the late movie around Midnight here in Melbourne.

I think under current conditions the ARU are outlaying $40M to Super Franchises. That was previously based on a $25M TV Deal. So essentially the money made from the Wallabies revenue streams was paying for Super Rugby. Now if they were to increase that to $50M ($10M per team) that would still leave $5M+ per year left over. The Wallabies revenue stream appears to sustain the Wallabies so hopefully for the immediate future this goes in the bank. Even under the current state of affairs the ARU has been losing around $2.5M per year. The increase of TV Revenue by $30M should change that to a $27.5M surplus. Let's hope it's used wisely.

This is a fantastic deal for the ARU and the five Australian super clubs - it's worth over double the current deal. I was hearing only this morning that the brumbies are budgeting on a profit next year after five years of consecutive losses, including $1.6 million this year. Also exposure on FTA. So all round, pretty hard to fault it.

Add NRC teams to Adelaide and New Castle, just my two cents worth. Well done to the ARU and SANZAR. Already there is talk of expanding Super Rugby in 2021, with more teams in places like South America, Asia, North America and even Europe imagine what the next TV deal will be worth.

The players out of this are the real winners, 16 matches plus maybe a final for a super rugby player earning a very nice wage. -- Comment from The Roar's iPhone app.

Get NRC teams into Adelaide and New Castle, just my two cents worth. Well done to the ARU and SANZAR. Already there's talk of more expansion of Super Rugby in 2021, with more teams from South America, Asia, North America and even Europe, if that happens imagine what the next deal will be worth.

It's nice that we have a product that people in the NH actually care about. None of the other codes do.

You have to remember that this deal cant be compared directly with other codes deals based on the Australian component only. This covers wallabies, super rugby and NRC, however, in terms of the super rugby, it is less than one third of the total rights for that component. Apparently the super rugby component is around $45m/year. This leaves $10m attributable to the other matches. If it was a clean 3-way split of the Super rugby money which it is not, the deal would actually work out to $145m/year for around 133 matches or $1m game. IF you look at the Aus team component it works out around a similar figure per match . The NRL get $360m for around 207 matches or $1.7m game, AFL get $416m/year for 206 matches, or $2m game. FFA get $40m for around 150 games or around $260k game, although they are looking to renegotiate. I have ignored all the lower level leagues like NSW cup, NRC, FFA cup, etc in the total games. The rugby deal stacks amazingly well compared to the other codes given it is a niche sport.