TELEVISION BROADCASTING OF SPORTS – NEW ZEALAND

NRL’s V’landys nears record NZ broadcast deal

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Original article by Sam Buckingham-Jones, Zoe Samios
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 13 : 24-Jun-26

Sky Network Television has held the New Zealand broadcasting rights to National Rugby League matches for the last three decades. The Australian Rugby League Commission’s chairman Peter V’landys and NRL CEO Andrew Abdo recently held talks with Sky executives, and sources have indicated that the pay-TV group is close to securing a new five-year deal. However, free-to-air rival TVNZ is also believed to have submitted a bid for the NRL rights. Meanwhile, V’landys met with Nine Entertainment chairman Peter Tonagh yesterday, as the ARLC seeks to finalise the new NRL rights deal in Australia; Nine and Foxtel are the current NRL broadcasters.

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Rugby viewership more than double Rugby League in NZ

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Original article by Roy Morgan
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 6-Aug-18

A Roy Morgan Single Source survey has found that 43.6% of New Zealanders aged 14+ (almost 1.7 million people) watched Rugby on TV in the year to June. Viewership of Rugby Union far outstrips the other major football codes, and is more than double the viewership of either Rugby League or Soccer. A total of 837,000 New Zealanders (21.5%) watch Rugby League on TV, including the NRL and other Rugby League matches, and 587,000 (15.1%) watch Soccer including the FIFA World Cup, the A-League and other Soccer matches including the English Premier League and local leagues. Rugby Union Internationals, which feature the New Zealand national team the All Blacks, are the most popular form of Rugby watched by nearly 1.34 million New Zealanders (34.3%), slightly ahead of the Rugby World Cup, watched by 1.26 million New Zealanders (32.4%). Super Rugby is watched by nearly 1.2 million New Zealanders (30.6%), while a further 880,000 New Zealanders (22.6%) watch the local Mitre 10 Cup in New Zealand.

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