D'Arcy Waldegrave: Sportstalk host on NRL potentially making the jump to international streaming

NRL bosses will put their Australian broadcast rights up for grabs this year in a move that could spark interest from foreign streaming services.

The sport's current deal with Fox Sports and Channel Nine across the ditch ends after the 2026 season.

Reports from the Daily Telegraph claim the likes of Netflix and Prime Video could be interested.

Sportstalk host D'Arcy Waldegrave explains further.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Darcy's here was sport, Darcy, good.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Afternoon and afternoon to U t Ran.

Speaker 1 (00:04):
We've just been talking about the temperature of the studio.
So the boys in the afternoon have it at about
nineteen degrees and I've put it up by a degree
to twenty, which I think is sort of doable. But
you're walking in here like you've got something wrong.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
I'm really skinny.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
What do you say.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
I have no body fat, so I feel cold. I'm
sitting at about seventy five kg at the moment, and
I think I feel way too much. So I'm going
to go on line in the sun like a lizard
and recharge after this cross not sport, though, is it? No?

Speaker 1 (00:38):
At Netflix and Amazon Prime reportedly looking to go after
the NFL broadcasting rights in Australia.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
I'm not sure if they're going after it, and was
the point the landis is go? I think you guys
should buy it. I want a million billion dollars. So
I think though, that these massive streaming companies, and you
know that the likes of Netflix and does Zone and
Amazon have already more than did to toe into the
sports broadcast market. They've almost dived into it. This is

(01:05):
a massive area of growth for these major international streaming monsters,
and they look to attract the eyeballs of sport globally.
They're willing to pour a lot of money into it.
And you look at DA and z or Dezone and
where they came from. Now the Saudi Arabians have invested

(01:26):
a billion dollars, buying ten percent of the market off
ten percent of their company. So they're super super ken
and they've climbed into everything, the Saudi Arabians. So you
might have some moral objections to that, but at the
end of the day, it's only a matter of time
before they own everything. But of course you got Netflix
on the other side, going no, we want a bit
of that. Netflix had the disastrous Might Tyson fight on

(01:46):
but they want to climb. And you look at the
money in Formula one globally, and you look at the
money in NASCAR for example, and how long before Amazon
Prime and other major streamers think, actually, we want a
bit of that as well. Well.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
It's worked for them. I mean you mentioned the Tyson fight,
but it's worked for them. Their numbers have gone up.
They'm now able to put their monthly subscription fees up
in the US and they're about to do it into
the UK they reckon as well, So clearly they're doing
something right on that front.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
People want sport, but whether they're willing to pay for
it and what that does to the price.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
They see, this is the advantage of Sky's Sport right
because you pay one price and you get all sport. Basically,
don't you.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
Well, you're used to but not anymore. That's kind of
spread around. We've got Colin Smith on the show up
after seven o'clock's a regular contributors, A sports broadcast negotiator,
writes a expert, and he'll talk to us about that
and what that will mean the bottom line, because really,
do we care about the globe?

Speaker 1 (02:43):
No?

Speaker 2 (02:43):
What about us? Is this going to cost us more?

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Exactly?

Speaker 2 (02:46):
Do I get to see?

Speaker 1 (02:47):
If you're having to spend one hundred dollars a month
on different lots of different subscriptions, then it becomes very
expensive and annoying, doesn't it?

Speaker 2 (02:54):
Right?

Speaker 1 (02:54):
The one of the hecklers from the Aussie open as
speaking out what she's saying, Nina.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
Nina was the one that stood up and screamed that
Australia believes Olga and Brenda. Now they're the two ladies
with the Alexander's varie of case that accused him of
domestic abuse. Now, eventually that story went away through German
courts as they he paid a set sum of money,
so it didn't go through the court. So he pushed

(03:21):
it to one side. He said around Nina and her explosion,
there are no more accusations. There haven't been for the
last nine months. I'm not going to deal with that
subject again. He's not interested in doing it. Nina's saying,
we believe you. Whether Australia believes or it's just her
who knows, but she was real premeditated where she sat,

(03:44):
the timing of what she said, so it got full
coverage by the media. But she's talked now about why
she did it. We believe you.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
We think, yeah, it's annoying. I think it's hard for
them because she doesn't know these people personally, She's got
nothing to do with it, and here she is yelling
across at the enjoyment of other people's sports.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
She has an issue around previous with domestic abuse herself,
so it's very personal to her. So that's what she's
came through.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
But it's a matter of it's a new picure issue
though it's pecure issue, isn't it was sport these days,
whether it's climate change or whether it's stop oil or whatever.
Any old Joe blogs feels that they're entitled to come
to your Yesterday, we're talking about a theater production in
London and people are jumping up and having a go
halfway through.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
I mean, just what theater production is that?

Speaker 1 (04:31):
I forget what it was called our UK Chorus, but
was the Tempest and you had this big actress from
America coming over to perform in it, Sigourney Weaver, and
off the Brits go pay there ten pounds or whatever
it is to go and see. And someone stands up
and starts protesting halfway through about something completely underlay.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
They can buy a ticket, they can go into the game,
whether you think she's right or wrong. And they've got
this massive platform because the world is looking at them, so.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
You can't screen them at security, can you? For what
they're going to say?

Speaker 2 (05:00):
Little difficult, I'd say, but they dragged out, they frog
marched thro out the door anio it's come public with
and said this is why I did it.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
Interesting, Darcy, thank you. We look forward to seeing tonight
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