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Speaker 1: Darcy water Groves. Here was sport, Hey Darcy, and good

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Speaker 1: day to you Ryan. Great story today about well, lots

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Speaker 1: to chat about. With the Zone potentially going to go

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Speaker 1: after the rugby rights. Are they what do we know?

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Speaker 2: Well at the moment, i'd say rumored, but apparently they

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Speaker 2: have knocked on a door. Whether they were approached first

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Speaker 2: or was the other way around, don't entirely know, but

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Speaker 2: I'm sure that will roll out when I read all

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Speaker 2: about it. You can. Gregor Paul's written a piece for

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Speaker 2: NZ Herald. I've got John Fillette, former CITEO of Sky,

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Speaker 2: joining us tonight up after seven o'clock to talk about this.

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Speaker 2: And when you look at the situation, would they be

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Speaker 2: better off to Zone rolling in over the top and

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Speaker 2: just buying Sky outright?

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Speaker 1: Well, they might do both, because how are they going

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Speaker 1: to broadcast the games? You know, it's very well having

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Speaker 1: the rights to them, but Sky's got the infrastructure right that.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if that would be particularly hard to

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Speaker 2: the outside broadcasting crew, whether they can be picked up

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Speaker 2: and bought with a insed our Sky. Sky aren't overly

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Speaker 2: keen on things like the NPC. It's not a big

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Speaker 2: seller for them. It's part of that package deal. So

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Speaker 2: whether Dezione wants to do that or it's only about

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Speaker 2: all Blacks or Super Rugby, the length of the deal,

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Speaker 2: the size that we don't know. But what we've got

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Speaker 2: here is after I hesitate to use the term lobull

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Speaker 2: because of the nature of the economic situation we find ourselves.

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Speaker 2: And they haven't got a lot of subscribers, they haven't

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Speaker 2: got a lot of money. But there's no competition. Spark's gone,

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Speaker 2: so suddenly they're going wow, in this is going off.

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Speaker 2: You want to take it or not. So if there's

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Speaker 2: another team rolling in and saying, well how about this,

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Speaker 2: skuy will be very interested. Their antenna will be pricked. Well,

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Speaker 2: it is their biggest it's their biggest property. It's not

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Speaker 2: you look at everything else that's guy dealing. Most of

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Speaker 2: that now is on entertainment, stanging services, isn't it comity?

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Speaker 1: So the thing is it is their bread and butter.

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Speaker 1: It's there, you know, it's their core business really sport

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Speaker 1: and the core business of New Zealand sport is Rugby.

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Speaker 2: If you want to be the home of New Zealand

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Speaker 2: Sport as the zone, said Elliot Smith on the station

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Speaker 2: A couple of weeks ago. If you want to be

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Speaker 2: in New Zealand's home of sport, which is what they

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Speaker 2: want to be, you have to have rugby. If you

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Speaker 2: don't have rugby, you're not the home of New Zealand sport.

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Speaker 1: Who is designed? They're backed by Saudi's.

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Speaker 2: I actually don't know, as Sthority where they come from.

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Speaker 2: I think they came out of Britain inatially and they

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Speaker 2: started off in boxing, and then they moved from boxing

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Speaker 2: and now they're moving into other sports. But they want

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Speaker 2: to enlarge. I think it's a British entity right now.

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Speaker 2: I stand to be.

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Speaker 1: Pockets because they're taking foxtawling them in Australia and all.

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Speaker 2: I've made no money yet, but they're investing a lot

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Speaker 2: of money in it. So they're looking for a long

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Speaker 2: game as opposed to a short game now where a

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Speaker 2: bulk of their income comes from who knows might take

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Speaker 2: something away from Saudi. Well, we'll see. Is that really

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Speaker 2: a global enough sport? How much is it going to

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Speaker 2: cost them? Will it be a splash in the ocean?

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Speaker 2: Is it worth that? There's all these questions.

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Speaker 1: Now, and well I guess that the question is what

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Speaker 1: is their company's strategy. You know, why are they buying

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Speaker 1: up lots of little different stations all around the world.

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Speaker 1: Is there a wider strategy that this would play into.

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Speaker 2: What if they want to be the home of sport globally,

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Speaker 2: They're going to buy as much as they can. So

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Speaker 2: do you buy the station or do you buy the

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Speaker 2: various contracts that they've got. Now Sky Sport have just

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Speaker 2: picked up cricket again for six more years. So does

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Speaker 2: it make it easy begause, you will take the rugby,

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Speaker 2: will take Sky and we are the home of sport.

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Speaker 1: Here in New Zealand. The Saudias, I've just been told

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Speaker 1: the Saudias on ten percent of this thing.

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Speaker 2: Ten percent. Okay, thank you very much. The production team

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Speaker 2: in there, thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: Impressive win for the black Caps at the Champions Trophy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, did it buy five wickets? Bit of a wobble

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Speaker 2: at the start, a couple of quick wickets, but they

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Speaker 2: turned it around. Ratten Avenger again showing the world how

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Speaker 2: good he is. HiT's a ten one hundred and twelve,

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Speaker 2: one hundred and five balls off the top of my

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Speaker 2: head in partnership with Tom Latham. Three consecutive ducks, then

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Speaker 2: he's come back, scored a fifty, one hundred and another fifty,

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Speaker 2: so he's in good form. So now straight through you've

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Speaker 2: got a game against India coming up that will determine

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Speaker 2: their seedings. But then it's semi final action in the

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Speaker 2: Champions Trophy. And look, let's face it, it's home cricket for us.

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Speaker 2: We spend more time playing in the subcontin than we

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Speaker 2: do here and so we've got a hometown advantage, so

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Speaker 2: that's great news for them, really really pleased, brogant and

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Speaker 2: tonight on the program, John Filett will also catch up

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Speaker 2: with Scott Dixon ahead.

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Speaker 1: Of the start of the Indie Castle lookod board to

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Speaker 1: Darcy Darcy Watergrave here with you tonight on News Talks EDB.

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