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DAZN is backed by British-Ukrainian billionaire Len Blavatnik.

News Corp sells Foxtel to British sports streaming giant in $3.4b deal

The multibillion-dollar deal will dramatically alter the local media landscape and create a rich competitor for sports broadcast deals.

Jarrod Villani ran Network Ten until earlier this year.

Gillon McLachlan hires former Ten executive to run Tabcorp’s Sky Racing

Jarrod Villani was a KordaMentha partner who sold the ailing broadcaster to CBS, now Paramount, before running the business for several years.

The gaming floor at Crown Resorts’ Sydney casino. The company is now allowed to operate poker machines, however.

Crown Resorts wants to add pokies to the mix at its Sydney casino

The Blackstone-owned hospitality and gambling giant has been prohibited from installing gaming machines under terms struck when it secured its NSW licence.

NRL players could earn thousands of dollars in additional income under a new international deal.

NRL stars to make thousands under new global agreement

Players such as James Tedesco and Nathan Cleary could add to their earnings under a deal between the RLPA and athletes’ representation firm OneTeam.

Southern Cross chief executive John Kelly took the top job last year.

Paramount’s Network Ten snaps up three regional broadcast licences

The seller, Southern Cross Media, has been trying to offload them for several years. It said it was in talks to sell others in Tasmania, Darwin and Broken Hill.

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New ABC managing director Hugh Marks.

Former Nine boss Hugh Marks to lead ABC

The executive who pulled off the broadcaster’s merger with Fairfax and helped lobby for big tech to pay for Australian content starts his new job in March.

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Entain is the owner of Ladbrokes.

AUSTRAC sues Ladbrokes and Neds owner

Entain allegedly did not conduct appropriate checks on 17 high-risk customers and deliberately obscured the identity of some through use of pseudonyms.

Track and field athletes do not make as much money as other elite sportspeople such as golfers, tennis players, basketballers or baseball players.

The young sprint star on track to join Aussie sport’s big earners

The highest-earning Australian sports stars usually play tennis, golf or basketball. Teenage sprint sensation Gout Gout may be able to change all that.

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Chris O’Keefe took the helm of 2GB drive in early 2023.

Drive show host Chris O’Keefe leaves 2GB

Nine’s Sydney talkback radio station is searching for more talent after its drive show host called it quits.

The New Daily’s owner, Industry Super, wants to sell it.

Industry super funds sell The New Daily

The New Daily, brainchild of former Industry Super chairman Garry Weaven, has sold for an undisclosed sum.

Papua New Guinean Prime Minister James Marape (left) and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (right) with Peter V’Landys the Australian Rugby League Commission chairman (centre) announce a PNG rugby league team.

NRL team confirmed for PNG in $600m deal that comes with a catch

The deal, bankrolled by taxpayers, will collapse if the Pacific country signs a security agreement with China. Anthony Albanese argues it’s an investment in Australia’s security.

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CEO of the Central Coast Marriners, Alyssar Narey.

This woman made history when she took over her local A-League club

Alyssar Narey, one of just two women to run a football club in Australia, lays bare the reality of the family juggle, women in sport and the one thing she can’t survive without.

The Port Macquarie Hotel was bought by the NRL.

NRL buys another two hotels in property push

The NRL has spent more than $37 million on two properties – one in Port Macquarie and another in Brisbane.

Rugby Australia CEO Phil Waugh.

Bledisloe win every two years: Waugh’s lofty plan for Rugby Australia

The governing body wants to win the British and Irish Lions tour, Olympic medals and the Bledisloe Cup every two years under an ambitious new four-year strategy.

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The world’s next Usain Bolt could be this Queensland teen

Gout Gout is just 16 but runs in the 100-metre and 200-metre sprints against athletes who have years on him. He’s already faster than some of the world’s best.

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Plenary Group CEO David Lamming.

Plenary CEO avoids conviction after guilty plea

Two charges related to resisting and assaulting police were withdrawn after David Lamming’s guilty plea was accepted by the local court.

Plans to turn Rosehill Racecourse into a mini-city may never go ahead following a scathing report by a parliamentary committee.

Inquiry refers Rosehill housing plan to ICAC, seeks racing probe

Racing NSW chief executive Peter V’landys has slammed a committee in charge of the report, claiming it had become ‘personal’.

Tabcorp chief executive Gillon McLachlan has axed about 200 jobs in a bid to simplify the business.

Tabcorp slashes 10pc of workforce in cost cut drive

The move is the first major change made by the wagering group’s new chief executive Gillon McLachlan. Cost-cutting had been flagged with investors last month.

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Papua New Guinea is a leading contender to land the NRL’s 18th franchise licence.

PNG allocates $150m for NRL team by 2028

About $A37.5 million will be provided by the national government, half of which will be allocated to grassroots and community.

Annette Kimmitt is leaving the Victorian gaming regulator.

Victorian gaming regulator Annette Kimmitt quits

The former MinterEllison chief executive joined the Victorian gaming regulator when it was given more power to penalise misconduct.

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