The Telegraph reported on May 17th that Nine was losing about 30 million a year on its NRL rights.

The AFL

Deals include

• Every game live and simulcast on Foxtel
• 8 games live and simulcast on Foxtel via IPTV (ie.Foxtel for Xbox)
• Dedicated Foxfooty Channel
• Coverage of the Foxtel Cup (second tier knockout comp)
• Coverage of the Under 18 state championships (junior knockout comp)
• 4 games a week live or near live and simulcast on Channel 7
• Live coverage for all non victorian teams on either Channel 7 or its digital channels (in several cases this has lead to 5 games on FTA in non victorian states)
• Live and silmulcast coverage on Telstras NextG and Tbox networks. (1 IPTV game is exclusive to Telstra.)
• Live coverage in every state and terriitory on analogue and digital radio networks.
• International Rules matches covered where applicable
• NAB Cup matches live and exclusive to Foxtel
• NAB Grand Final live on Channel 7
• Fixed schedule up to round 23, and floating for the final round
• ABC broadcasts 1 live state level match per week in every state (the AFL, as owner of at least 5 state leagues, assists with ABC costs)
• No channel 7 ads during Foxtel simulcast coverage.

References:

• May 17, 2013 – Nine to make early call on cricket rights – Telegraph
• Nov 19, 2011 – AFL announce radion rights deal – Mediaspy
• Apr 29, 2011 – Online spoils go to Telstra in AFL’s $1.2b broadcast rights deal – SMH
• Apr 29, 2011 – AFL smashes $1 billion barrier in TV rights deal – Heraldsun
• Apr 28, 2011 – AFL secures TV rights deal for next five years worth $1.253 billion – Heraldsun
• April 28, 2011 – What the new AFL TV deal means for you – Heraldsun
• April 28, 2011 – More live footy under billion dollar AFL rights deal – SMH

The NRL

• NZ deal was last 14 million a year, and is predicted to be around 100 million over 5 years. Sky have indicated that they do not wish toi bid higher and Free to air apparently cant bid much at all.
  
• Radio has been finalised, no idea for how much
• 5 Games live and exclusive to Foxtel, including IPTV and tablets
• 3 Games on Channel 9, 1 live on Friday
• Undetermined amount of mobile and internet coverage on Telstra (deal not yet finalised)
• Digital coverage of nines games on GEM across Australia
• All finals live on Nine
• Deals include State of Origin and Four Nations
• Nine will show 2 hours of rugby league content every night and mornings on weekends.
• Queensland Cup will be shown on Nine
• Toyota Cup, NSW Cup and NSW Schoolboys to be shown on Fox as part of 3 non NRL matches per week.
• Nine to broadcast three thursday matches, although its understood that Nine may have paid an extra 30 million for a bonus thursday game that is not mentioned in the heads of agreement.
• Origin will be live and on Nine on Wednesday nights.
• Stand alone test and city v country weekend will be broadcast on Nine
• Sunday game delayed to 4pm on Nine
• First 20 rounds fixed at the start of the season
• Grand Final will be held at night
• Thirteen sunday evening matches during the year
• The Roosters v Warriors Anzac Day match on Fox (except 2014)

References:

• Jan 26, 2013 – NRL season may kick off without NZ rights deal – NZ Herald
• Dec 12, 2012 – NRL secures $100m digital rights deal – Australian
• Dec 11, 2012 – Telstra to sign $100m NRL digital rights deal – Financial Review
• Nov 30, 2012 – Outfoxed by $30m Nine deal – Daily Telegraph
• Nov 26, 2012 – Maquarie, MMM battle it out for tv rights – Telegraph
• Nov 9, 2012 – Battle stations: Egos, intrigue complicate the bidding for NRL radio rights – SMH
• Sep 23, 2012 – Kiwi NRL TV deal is likely to be modest – SMH
• Aug 21, 2012 – League scores $ 1 billion TV deal – ABC Online
• Aug 21, 2012 – Nine, Foxtel seal $1.025 billion NRL deal – Crikey
• Aug 21, 2012 – Nine and Fox Sports retain NRL rights – Daily Telegraph
• Aug 21, 2012 – Nine and Fox Sports retain NRL broadcast rights – SMH