[W. Knight]

Staying around Oceania, New Zealand telco Spark, like BT in Britain, is exiting from sports broadcasting, handing the remaining rights (specirically cricket) to TVNZ:

Spark said this morning it has reached a deal with TVNZ, which “will become the home of the majority of Spark Sport content, subject to rights holder agreement, from July 1, 2023.”

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NZ Cricket public affairs manager Richard Boock told the Herald that domestic cricket will be free-to-air on TVNZ and free-to-stream on TVNZ+. The public broadcaster will not paywall any content.

TVNZ will take over the production of domestic cricket, but that Spark will continue to pay NZ Cricket the rights fee over the remaining three years of its contract, which has been put at between $26m and $36m per year.

(NZ Herald)