Nine and Foxtel play hardball with NRL over season reboot | SMHsport
There are hopes that if that gets off the ground a grand final could still be played by its scheduled date of October 4 following a truncated regular season as well as a mid-year State of Origin series.
Sources say that Foxtel has not raised a problem with the absence of crowds in its talks with League Central. But the subscription television provider is still expected to bargain for a reduced fee, particularly if plans to restart the season next month don’t come off and it ends up having to run deep into spring and even summer.
Broadcasters will already pay discounted amounts if there are less rounds played than under the terms of the contracts they signed in 2015 and which became active for the 2018 season. Contacted on Wednesday, ARLC chairman Peter V’landys said discussions with the broadcasters were commercially sensitive.
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