CEO Lachlan Murdoch said Fox has acquired right to two additional regular season NFL games.
The first is likely an international game from Munich in week 10, giving the broadcaster a triple header that Sunday. The second will be a Saturday game in Week 15, Murdoch announced on a conference call with analysts after quarterly earnings.
“I think the important note to take here is that here is no tension with the NFL. We have been partners for 30 years. We’re looking forward to being partners for the next 30 years,” he said.
Fox has four years left on its current deal. “We’ve read the speculation that the NFL would like to renegotiate and extend the current deals that are in the marketplace, but we’ve had no substantive discussions with the NFL about that. So, it’s hard, apart from what we’ve read in the press, around speculation, around that [and] I wouldn’t want to add it to that speculation,” he added when pressed by analysts about the relationship.
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“We’d like to broaden and deepen our relationship with the NFL, but we’ll only do so in a disciplined way [that] creates long term shareholder value.”
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