Basically Channel Nine's sports contracts.

Perhaps it's looking at NRL (maybe not?), Rugby Union, Tennis, Netball

Because if there's anything that's suited to low-bitrate video, it's sports.

Really it depends on the kind of contracts Channel Nine holds/others don't hold.

Even NRL there may be exclusive streaming rights for Foxtel?

Obviously there will be Rugby Union as that rights deal was accompanied with this announcement - they do stream the tennis on NineNow so perhaps that will be streamed on Stan Sports instead.

Netball they have some rights to along with Telstra.

Oh look, yet another streaming service. Plus even more live sport that will now actually be delayed. Woohoo.

A lucky break for union however as they had nowhere left to go after the pirate lady (since sacked) burned Rugby Australia's bridges with Fox and no other existing broadcaster was seriously interested.

Sports on Kayo are inferior to sports on actual TV.

Yeah, just what we need, another overpriced poor quality streaming service, with maybe one thing of interest, and a pile of crap.
I'm not a huge Rugby fan, so it would be a miss for me anyway, but even Kayo is crap.
I subscribed to Kayo for AFL and NBL, and even for AFL (The biggest sport in the country) the service is rubbish.
Mostly what you get is simply a straight dump of the FTA telecast, complete with ads, and worse yet it's the Melbourne FTA broadcast with Melbourne Ads.
It's so poorly not-edited, that when you call up a replay of a game, it will start with 5 minutes of whatever crap they were broadcasting before the telecast started. Like somebody set the timer wrong on the VCR.

The bitrate is up and down like a yoyo, and even on a small screen the quality is rubbish.

As a rugby fan I'm glad to see them get a deal somewhere, and for the first time there will be some super rugby on FTA which is a win. The bulk of the money for super rugby tv deals was from South Africa and there's a chance that SA eventually move their club competitions into the European comps (better for timezones etc) which will really hurt super rugby and could result in a much small comp overall.

For other sports, Foxtel still owns most of the streaming rights to almost all of the other sports so I wouldnt expect a lot of announcements of deals for Stan any time soon, but it'll come eventually.

Australia is in a unique position where elimination is theoretically possible (assuming effective hotel quarantine)

I know we were looking good in June before Victoria became a second wave mega spike; but at the moment we have 28 local active cases in NSW and 4 in Victoria and that's it nationally.

In 3-4 weeks time I think we will have a decent idea as to whether we have a stubborn tail or whether the hammer has put us in a good position for bubble transit with NZ and close to full crowd allowance.

Third wave prediction is March (that’s what hospitals are preparing for) which would interfere with the NBL should it not be eliminated.

TV is almost all in the range of 2.5 - 4.2 kbps and Kayo averages 6 assuming you select HD.

There is plenty of charity given by others allowing you to post on here given the way you talk Kobe, glad to see you returning the favour.

TV is almost all in the range of 2.5 - 4.2 kbps and Kayo averages 6 assuming you select HD.

So now there will be:

Optus Sport
Kayo Sports
DAZN (launching December 2020)
Stan Sport (launching January 2021)

There is a ridiculous amount of fragmentation now with even more yet to come no doubt.

In theory at least the NBL will always be able to find a platform.

Congratulations on going hyper aggressive over an obvious typo. The poster clearly meant mbps.

And they would still be wrong, as Fox's sports channels operate at 6-12Mbps.