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Speaker 1: Things hotting up in sports. Seemingly Sky TB and their

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Speaker 1: exclusive rugby rights are potentially facing a raid from the

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Speaker 1: English based streaming up fit The Zone and you Zeeland

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Speaker 1: Rugby is still sorting the deal at the moment. We

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Speaker 1: think Sky's got eighty five million on the table for that.

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Speaker 1: Do you go events founded? David Higgins as with us, David, morning,

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Speaker 1: good mo you're m'am. Well, thank you. Your experience with

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Speaker 1: Designe and the Saudi experience in boxing is what you

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Speaker 1: speak well of them?

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Speaker 2: Yes? Well, hey, the the quick they paid their bills

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Speaker 2: and the quality of productions good.

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Speaker 1: Would they be interested in rugby given it's not truly

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Speaker 1: global and boxing is well?

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Speaker 2: They're interested in spread so they bought Fox I think

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Speaker 2: in Australia, and if they did take an interest in

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Speaker 2: New Zealand rugby, they'd pick up past the country or

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Speaker 2: a third quickly, so you would think they'd be interested.

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Speaker 1: So do you think that's a good move in this?

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Speaker 1: I was going to ask you about that? Do I

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Speaker 1: buy the Zone as a single operator? I don't know

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Speaker 1: what else they offer, Maybe they offer nothing I want

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Speaker 1: to watch, But do I give them money just to

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Speaker 1: watch rugby? As opposed to Sky, which offers me a

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Speaker 1: whole bunch of stuff.

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Speaker 2: It's a very good question, Mike, would.

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Speaker 1: You well, yes, but I can afford to a lot

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Speaker 1: of people, can't.

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Speaker 2: I think the production? Yeah, I think a lot of

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Speaker 2: people would initially, but they'd have to get it right.

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Speaker 2: And it's the whole package around it, like the players

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Speaker 2: have to be interesting stars not robots, you know. And

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Speaker 2: there's a lot more to it. But I think it's

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Speaker 2: a genuine thing.

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Speaker 1: Would it sink Sky?

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Speaker 2: M Sky is listed on the New z Sox exchange,

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Speaker 2: so it's good for New Zealand in terms of employment

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Speaker 2: and tax. The Sky get it, So there's nothing gave Sky,

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Speaker 2: But hell yes, I think it will. It would massively

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Speaker 2: damaged Sky if that happened.

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Speaker 1: Exactly right, good catch it wasn't. Isn't Joe lovely? God,

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Speaker 1: he's lovely. I was watching him at the airport yesterday

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Speaker 1: and it's just he's such a nice guy, isn't he.

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Speaker 2: I agree, so's a difference between big humble and pretending

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Speaker 2: to be humble and he genuinely treated and equally and

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Speaker 2: as lovely.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly all right, Good to talk to you, m

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Speaker 1: I appreciate it.

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Speaker 3: Day.

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Speaker 1: But taking to Duco Events founder, I don't know how

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Speaker 1: nervous Sky is going to be. Would you pay? I

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Speaker 1: mean that is the question. As a punter, you now

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Speaker 1: have to buy yet another streaming service to watch the

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Speaker 1: All Blacks? Would you do it? And surely the ends

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Speaker 1: are you take that into account when they're like.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I know lots of people who cancel their

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Speaker 3: Sky Sports subscriptions every summer and then only get it

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Speaker 3: back on it. That's the same thing, isn't it. And

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Speaker 3: I'm going to do that, then they'll just go and

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Speaker 3: do this.

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Speaker 1: I guess it is.

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