No? Why would they?
Sky will pay NEP. We secured a 10 year deal with NEP as part of the OSB sale. NEP provide a service to Sky TV, not FIFA (or any other sporting code).
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Today’s announcement is merely Sky getting the broadcast & streaming rights for the tournament in New Zealand (most games are played in Australia), sky is not producing the content AFAIK. FIFA owns the worldwide rights to the tournament and sell them off country by country.
As part of the broadcast rights, Sky will need to be able to produce the domestic matches. Just like they do with SANZAAR or any other code that has domestic matches.
The sporting codes negotiate a price to broadcast their matches with the Broadcasters around the world, but the it is up to whoever wins the rights to facilitate the production of any home games. The sporting codes do not have separate negotiations with companies like NEP - it's not their problem.
And right on cue after that great news, sky shares dip. As per usual.
that’s not the case with big tournaments like world cups. Usually for those events the organizer (IOC, FIFA etc) provide generic raw video product for everyone to layer their own commentary and visual effects/replays etc on. For instance a Swiss company HBS has produced all the FIFA men’s World Cup tournaments around the world since 2000, rather than the host country broadcaster, and that’s because fifa want consistent high quality, rather than just going with whichever network paid the most for the broadcast rights in the host country.
having said that I don’t know if they will do the same with the women’s World Cup yet.
At least NZ doesn’t need to qualify for this World Cup …..will see a few games with them in before the competition gets serious
so the property sale must be going well.....