Netball scores a new TV deal after Ten setback Netball Australia chief executive Kate Palmer, right, with Australian Diamonds captain Natalie von Bertouch. NETBALL Australia is on the verge of announcing a television deal for this year's ANZ Championship. NA chief executive Kate Palmer said negotiations were being finalised and she expected to make an announcement this week. The sport has been forced to chase a new television partner after Channel 10 ended its four-year association at the end of last season in July. Fox Sport telecast the international series last year and is tipped to provide coverage of the ANZ Championship starting on March 24. The inaugural season of the trans-Tasman competition in 2008 was broadcast on FOX. There has been speculation Channel 9 would also be involved this season but this appears unlikely. Telstra has extended its agreement and the Big Pond coverage will be enhanced. "We have been in discussions since Ten let us know they would not be continuing," Palmer said. But all the major broadcast deals were being done and we are on the end of the line. The lesson for netball is not to do netball broadcast deals when the big sports are doing that. Our talks have been fantastic and we are really excited after the disappointment moving from Ten. The ratings were incredibly positive on Ten. But we believe we will come out of this with a better deal.