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CEO Lachlan Murdoch said Fox has acquired correct to 2 further regular play NFL games.
The first is apt an world crippled from Munich successful week 10, giving nan broadcaster a triple header that Sunday. The 2nd will beryllium a Saturday crippled successful Week 15, Murdoch announced connected a convention telephone pinch analysts aft quarterly earnings.
“I deliberation nan important statement to return present is that present is nary hostility pinch nan NFL. We person been partners for 30 years. We’re looking guardant to being partners for nan adjacent 30 years,” he said.
Fox has 4 years near connected its existent deal. “We’ve publication nan speculation that nan NFL would for illustration to renegotiate and widen nan existent deals that are successful nan marketplace, but we’ve had nary substantive discussions pinch nan NFL astir that. So, it’s hard, isolated from what we’ve publication successful nan press, astir speculation, astir that [and] I wouldn’t want to adhd it to that speculation,” he added erstwhile pressed by analysts astir nan relationship.
“We’d for illustration to broaden and deepen our narration pinch nan NFL, but we’ll only do truthful successful a disciplined measurement [that] creates agelong word shareholder value.”
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