piesman2011 wrote:If I had to make a guess. That is about were I would see the rights being at. The NRL will get between 1 billion and 1.05 billion with FTA+PTV+digital+ NZ (sky). You also have to remember that the NRL will have to pay a lot less overall for salaries because they have a lot less players to pay. They would also be 16 teams compared to the AFL's 18 teams.
Once the TV deal is done it will be time for them to concentrate on getting more sponserships and members. The NRL have a lot of ground to catch up if they want to generate the revenue that the AFL do, even with a good TV deal.
Exactly the NRL could get 1b and be happy with this, its a 16 team comp with 13players in each team as opposed to paying 1.2b for 18 players 18 teams.
The cap goes up to 5million next year divide that by 13 players = 384,000 per player. Not bad for a first raise in the cap, 2nd raise in the cap is 6m btw. AFL cap 7m or there a bouts, divide this by 18 = 388,000 per player.
126 Million each year granted to AFL teams if i am not mistaken. 630m over 5 years granted to the AFL clubs.
65.6m granted to NRL clubs every year. 328m granted to NRL clubs over the last 5 years currently. Next year 80m granted to NRL clubs and its just goes up slightly from there.
So you see the NRL is going along quite fine and with another 2 teams to add to the comp this is going to be a great 5 years for the code.
The NRL will never have the crowds that AFL have due to some factors.
1 AFL games have 36 players on the field at any given moment the NRL have 26, that is 36 players family's watching the game as opposed to 26. 36 family's advertising your game for free, as opposed to 26.
2 AFL is great live at the game NRL is a great TV sport.
These 2 points IMO are the main reasons we can never match crowd attendances of the AFL.
But the NRL can make more then enough money through TV rights in AUS, NZ, ENG, PNG in years to come.