Nine secures new grand slam deal locking in Wimbledon till 2029, exits regional TV

Australia’s Nine network has renewed its exclusive broadcast rights to the Wimbledon championship, extending its agreement with The All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC) to 2029.

Amanda Laing

The expanded deal includes live coverage across the free-to-air platforms 9Network, 9Now and streaming platform Stan Sport which has 4k UHD capacity.

Nine’s MD of streaming and broadcast, Amanda Laing, said the expanded cross-platform deal enables Wimbledon to be accessible and immersive across whichever platform audiences choose to engage with. “This agreement underscores the way we think about major sport at Nine, not as a single moment, but as an experience built across platforms,” she said.

In the competitive Australian sports rights arena, Nine currently holds all four major international tennis tournaments: the Australian Open, The French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open. Daily highlight content packages produced by the AELTC will also be available across the 9Network, 9Now and Stan Sport.

Additionally, the network confirmed that following its A$56m (US$39m) deal to divest its national broadcast radio assets to pub baron dynasty the Laundy family announced on Friday, Nine has also finalised an agreement to sell its last remaining regional asset, NBN Television, to regional broadcaster WIN.

The A$14.8m sale to WIN, owned by billionaire Bruce Gordon, converts NBN into an affiliate station, owned and operated by WIN. The CEO of WIN, Andrew Lancaster, also sits on the Nine board and is additionally the CEO of Birketu, which is Nine’s largest individual shareholder at nearly 20% and is the Gordon family’s private investment firm.

Under the deal, NBN will continue to broadcast Nine’s signal in the northern NSW licence area, including Newcastle, under an affiliate agreement for a term of at least five years. Completion of this transaction is subject to Nine shareholder approval and other conditions, including Australian Competition and Consumer Commission approval.