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Best case NBL Television broadcast deal

I'm an LK fan but I'm wondering if he jumped the gun by saying a TV deal was coming in the next 1-2 months and also saying that a new franchise would be announced this off season.

Demitriou would have the best high level business contacts of any sporting code CEO in Australia.

Perhaps he could bring along some ex AFL marketing types, ie the ones who stitched up the deals with corporate partners. There’s bound to be some who would be interested in a sport with a lower spending commitment, and whose season is in summer rather than winter.

So what if some of the sponsors are his mates? $$$ still coming in. That happens in all sports.

LK is the first time the NBL has had someone in charge who is part of the top end of town hence the amount of sponsorship by headline companies. To criticse that is shocking.

Yeah but what have the Romans ever done for us?

Other than Lks mates sponsoring what other commercial sponsorships have jumped on board?

No the Nbl paying for everything.
Other than Lks mates sponsoring what other commercial sponsorships have jumped on board?

$3 million?

The new $400k?

Maybe that’s the production costs, so would be NBL’s “in kind” contribution.

Yes, main channels have greater exposure and viewership. It goes without saying.

But most tv remotes seem to have guides these days. If you’re checking what crap they’ve put on using the guide, you’ll most likely see secondaries grouped with their main sister stations.

More TV viewers = more corporate $ into the league and franchises.

Gotta start somewhere.

Like I said, those channels aren't in HD.

Why would a deal on “secondary channel” be so terrible?

The secondary channels (7 mate, go, One etc get broadcast everywhere the main channels do, I’m pretty sure. IMHO any deal would be best to include promotion spots in high rating shows.

In my neck of the woods almost all AFL is on 73 or 63 7 mate channels. It actually surprises me when it’s on the main 7 channel.

The NRL only has about 3 live slots per week in regular season (I think it’s Fox siphoning so many games) so 1-2 live games and a couple more delayed games broadcast late at night would be good. A mix of afternoon and prime time evening games would be good. Test the ratings in a variety of slots. The league and franchises both need growing ratings to sell to sponsors.

In spite of 10’s poor NBL broadcasting history, longer term 7 and 9 will be too full of AFL, NRL, AFLW and netball in a few years. That could crowd out the NBL within the broadcast network.

Bottom line: the NBL needs free to air commercial tv deal and viewers watching in larger numbers.

Please no to free to air.

NBL will be relegated to a secondary digital channel which aren't even HD yet.

WTF @ free to air television in this country, why are the secondary digital channels not HD? Is this due to government legislation or cheapskate networks? Either way it's pathetic.

Well aware thanks anon.

A bit of a concern too is the NBL told us a commercial FTA channel TV deal was imminent shortly after the Bogut but nothing has been announced since. If the FTA channels are getting cold feet now would be a good time to remind Nine the NBL is an option at least for this summer.

That's all true but if there is only one channel competing for your services (Ten) as we know they can low ball you and screw you over as that channel has done to the NBL in the past.

I expect Nine and Seven will probably come to some agreement on the Aus Open as the tennis contractually has to be shown on Seven's main channel you can't really dump the test cricket on to a secondary channel when it would likely out rate the tennis anyway.

But hopefully the NBL are on the phone to Nine as we speak and trying to lock in a deal that is either superior to what Ten are offering or even able to leverage Ten into a better offer. Even if that means once Nine do have the tennis and the NBL gets bumped to a secondary channel it's likely where the NBL would end up on Ten anyway despite the fact they haven't got much sport to show in summer anymore.

Might be a bit of an opening here for the NBL on Nine after Seven refused to sell the rights for the tennis to them a year early.

https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/nine-walks-away-from-2019-australian-open-after-talks-with-seven-break-down-20180615-p4zltd.html

It's simpleton thinking to just assume the NBL's value now will be the same as in a few years

The league existing in a few years will be impressive, let alone getting a paid tv deal

So ten showed the Adelaide Supercars race and then nothing since, are we of the belief that they won't show any more races on ten if they have the NBL?

We have Bathurst and Newcastle races during the NBL season and you'd have to factor that into any Sunday afternoon games that ten could be showing during the season.

I think I'd prefer nine but I'll accept anything

LOL Optus Sports, such a horrible broadcaster it's criminal.

“Hi NBL, thanks for giving us your games to broadcast for free for the last few years, guess we’ll flick you some coin now”

Just over a month ago Kestleman said he expected to announce a deal within the "next 30 to 60 days". It's interesting to note that no such announcement has come.

Since his saying that, Seven and Nine have been back in negotiations for exactly who will be taking over the tennis this coming year, with the possibility that Nine actually could pick it up a year earlier than expected.

It is probably best to temper any expectations with that in mind. Summer tennis could make Channel Nine unsuitable and cause us to have nowhere else to look but on Ten. And maybe Ten aren't offering all the NBL would like, or we'd probably be hearing whispers from somewhere by now.

They will never have a boxing day game in the afternoon. It's always at night... Gives time for people to come over from criket and family events

Either 2x live games double header on Friday night, or Saturday night. Doesn't matter which one. Basically the coverage should be similar to, or better than the netball league's coverage.

NBL > Super Netball by a fair way, so the coverage should be as good as their coverage at minimum, if it was to go on Channel 9.

Yes agree with the above. Channel 9 would be the preference. I could realistically see this as a possible schedule:

Friday night double header - 5.30pm and 7.30pm wst on Go or Gem (7.30 and 9.30 eastern)

Saturday 2.30pm wst 5.30pm est "Kmart Match" on 9's main channel

Sunday 12pm on 9.

Don't need a weekly show just yet on fta but def one on fox.

Fox to show all games live, at the NBLs expence. However now including a special Monday night fixture shown sporadically throughout the season. 8 monday night games. Each team gets one monday night home fixture. Fox pays for this.

Sky to keep showing Breakers games and feeding them to Fox.