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The Back Page team, Christmas drinks, circa 1998. Back row: Peter Frilingos, Keeley Devery, Billy Birmingham. Front row: Mike Gibson, Saul Shtein, Peter FitzSimons.

Vale The Back Page, a rare and beautiful exception to Hunter S Thompson’s TV dictum

The sports panel show struck gold in the early days, and was still working 29 years on when it was inexplicably axed this week.

  • Peter FitzSimons

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The likes of Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah and other English Premier League stars could end up on Stan Sport.

Nine’s goal to become home of soccer with English Premier League dream

The media giant will consider a bid for the A-League broadcast rights as it closes in on a deal to acquire the rights to televising the top competitions in England.

  • Calum Jaspan
Casey Nunn shares the couch with young footy fans. (L-R) Charlotte 7, Chloe 6, Molly 6, Andre 4, Lachlan 9, and Levi 8.

‘I’m watching more rugby league’: What happened in the suburbs when the AFL sold Saturday footy

The decision to scrap free-to-air football on Saturdays has upset AFL fans who feel their Saturday rituals have been lost. But the AFL says access and affordability were at the heart of its decision.

  • Brittany Busch, Gemma Grant, Hannah Hammoud and Hannah Kennelly
Footy’s commentary wars are heating up between Seven and Foxtel, with commentator Brian Taylor a focus in them.

‘Disrespectful’: Footy commentary war between Seven, Foxtel gets personal

Seven has backed commentator Brian Taylor after he had a crack at Fox Footy for not sending commentators to the MCG.

  • Danny Russell
An advertisement for Kayo Sports promoting their exclusive Fox Footy AFL coverage on Saturdays.

Kayo’s Super Saturday footy is about to get more expensive

Less than two months into its ownership by British streamer DAZN, Foxtel is raising the entry-level price of its sports streaming app, Kayo.

  • Calum Jaspan
Foxtel’s headquarters in Sydney. The company is being sold by News Corp.

Job cuts hit Foxtel, four weeks into new ownership

The pay TV and streaming operator has made 100 staff redundant after being acquired by British firm DAZN. 

  • Calum Jaspan
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Australian Rugby League Commission chairman Peter V’Landys.

Foxtel owner’s French crisis on NRL’s radar as it kicks off broadcast bidding war

UK-based sports streamer DAZN, which took control of Foxtel this month, is locked in a dispute with France’s top-flight football league, and the NRL is watching.

  • Calum Jaspan
Did you say subscription or prescription? Parker Posey as Victoria Ratliff in The White Lotus.

And just like that … some of your favourite TV shows are moving house

Warner Bros is launching its new streaming platform in Australia in two weeks’ time. So who will air the final episodes of The White Lotus?

  • Michael Idato
Saudi Arabia may have had a hand in News Corp’s Foxtel sale. Rupert Murdoch [left]; Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman [right]

Foxtel’s sale backed by Saudi dollars close to the finish line

With the foreign investment watchdog spending the past three months scrutinising the deal, broadcast rights for AFL, NRL, cricket and Formula 1 could soon be in the hands of a global sports-streaming giant.

  • Calum Jaspan
How the AFL stole Saturday nights.

How the AFL stole Saturday night

Forget the tradition of firing up the barbie and warming the telly on Saturday. No one in Victoria can watch live AFL footy on that day unless they pay, but lucky us, we get more football – on Thursday nights.

  • Tony Wright

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