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Nine chief’s last-minute pitch for NRL broadcast rights · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Christinamio with the
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  Speaker 1: Front's afternoon headlines. Channel nine chief executive Matt Stanton wants
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  Speaker 1: the full broadcast rights for the National Rugby League and
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  Speaker 1: he'll make an eleventh hour bid to NRL boss Peter
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  Speaker 1: Landers to get them. The NRL is on the cusp
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  Speaker 1: of signing an historic five billion dollar deal with Dazone,
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  Speaker 1: which owns Foxtel. The Australian revealed on Wednesday that could
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  Speaker 1: see league fans paying an additional fifteen dollars per month
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  Speaker 1: for their Foxtail subscription, according to projections that haven't been
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  Speaker 1: independently verified. Stanton is expected to tell Lands broadcasting games
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  Speaker 1: across Foxtel will stymy the NRL's growth. Instead, he wants
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  Speaker 1: to secure the rights for nine and its streaming service STAN.
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  Speaker 1: The NROL Commission is expected to meet to discuss its
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  Speaker 1: options on Wednesday. The Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social
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  Speaker 1: Cohesion has hed tech trillionaire Elon Musk fueled antisemitism online.
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  Speaker 1: The Royal Commission has entered its third block of public hearings,
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  Speaker 1: which will focus on the role social media played in
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  Speaker 1: Australia's antisemitism crisis. A digital antisemitism expert told the Royal
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  Speaker 1: Commission Musk set fire to the issue through his own
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  Speaker 1: social media posts and his management of x formerly known
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  Speaker 1: as Twitter. Building approvals have dropped for a third month
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  Speaker 1: in a row, falling by just over one percent in May.
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  Speaker 1: The biggest declines happened in Queensland, Victoria and Western Australia.
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  Speaker 1: It's the first glimpse of the impact of housing tax
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  Speaker 1: reforms announced by the Albanese Labour government in the federal budget.
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  Speaker 1: Banks are also reporting a lower demand for mortgages, with
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  Speaker 1: some economists suggesting applications could continue to fall beyond the
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  Speaker 1: double digit drops recorded since the May budget. Twenty three
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  Speaker 1: time Grand Slam winner Serena Williams was knocked out in
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  Speaker 1: the first round of the Wimbledon Women's singles competition by
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  Speaker 1: Australian Maya Joint on Tuesday UK Time. It was William's
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  Speaker 1: first time back on center court in a singles competition
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  Speaker 1: since twenty twenty two. She competed in a doubles match
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  Speaker 1: at Queen's Club in June and will compete in the
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  Speaker 1: Wimbledon Women's doubles tournament with her sister Venus in the
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  Speaker 1: coming days. Twenty year old Maya Joint said playing Williams
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  Speaker 1: is a dream come true, even if her preparation left
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  Speaker 1: a bit to be desired.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't get much sleep last night. I was up
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  Speaker 2: till like two a. I'm just thinking about it. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: she has such an aura, she's such a legend, and
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  Speaker 2: this quote has so many huge names that have played
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  Speaker 2: on it. I just yeah, I've been dreaming about this
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  Speaker 2: moment since I was a little kid, so this is
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  Speaker 2: pretty crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Check out those stories live right now at the Australian
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  Speaker 1: first thing in the morning for our look at the
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six FIFA World Cup and the Soccer Roos prospect.
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  Speaker 1: It's in the knockout round that's right here, Thursday morning.