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Stan Sport eye smart televisions as solution to rugby’s pub blackout – Sydney Morning Herald
The deal with Tabcorp is at a stalemate and that has left Stan executives with little choice but to think outside the square.
Tabcorp officials were initially concerned Racing NSW chief executive Peter Vlandys – who is also the chairman of the ARL Commission – had not been consulted prior to the deal being done, and continue to see little upside to having rugby competing with racing for screens in pubs.
The other two providers of satellite feeds to pubs – Optus and Foxtel – are not viable partners for Stan as the former has limited coverage in venues across the country, and the latter not only lost the rugby rights to…
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