New Sky Deal slips under the radar : Thu Jan 30, 2014 8:07 am  

SUPER LEAGUE - A five-year deal from 2017, ensuring only on Sky Sports can viewers enjoy live Super League matches until at least 2021 I assume this doesn't mean much of an increase in revenue for SL? http://m.skysports.com/article/sports//9140875

SUPER LEAGUE - A five-year deal from 2017, ensuring only on Sky Sports can viewers enjoy live Super League matches until at least 2021 I assume this doesn't mean much of an increase in revenue for SL? http://m.skysports.com/article/sports//9140875

Re: New Sky Deal slips under the radar : Thu Jan 30, 2014 8:35 am  

How has this slipped under the radar? Unnecessary negativity.

Re: New Sky Deal slips under the radar : Thu Jan 30, 2014 9:12 am  

Yeah, why be negative?
Sky probably trying to fend off any potential offers from BT sport. To get the RFL to sign up years early they must dangled quite a carrot. Hopefully this will fund much greater investment in the championship

Re: New Sky Deal slips under the radar : Thu Jan 30, 2014 9:47 am  

Saint Simon wrote:

Yeah, why be negative?
Sky probably trying to fend off any potential offers from BT sport. To get the RFL to sign up years early they must dangled quite a carrot. Hopefully this will fund much greater investment in the championship

No mention of cash tho ?

Re: New Sky Deal slips under the radar : Thu Jan 30, 2014 10:08 am  

http://www.saintsrlfc.com/news/page/3757

http://www.saintsrlfc.com/news/page/3757

Re: New Sky Deal slips under the radar : Thu Jan 30, 2014 10:27 am  

Chris Irvine has suggested on Twitter that the deal is thought to be worth in excess of £200m, where the existing deal was worth around £125m. Obviously a massive improvement, but worth remembering that the money will now need to spread across two divisions.

Re: New Sky Deal slips under the radar : Thu Jan 30, 2014 10:32 am  

Dux wrote:

Chris Irvine has suggested on Twitter that the deal is thought to be worth in excess of £200m, where the existing deal was worth around £125m. Obviously a massive improvement, but worth remembering that the money will now need to spread across two divisions.

If that's true I'd be very happy indeed - the split doesn't bother me as much, given the details of how it will be split means at worst the top teams will be getting equal to what they do now, but that figure would see an increase for all.

Re: New Sky Deal slips under the radar : Thu Jan 30, 2014 11:13 am  

Dux wrote:

Chris Irvine has suggested on Twitter that the deal is thought to be worth in excess of £200m, where the existing deal was worth around £125m. Obviously a massive improvement, but worth remembering that the money will now need to spread across two divisions.

And that My friends is Why Twitter is a joke.........

1996-1998 (3 years) £52m (£17.3m a year)
1999-2003 (5 years) £57.8m (£11.56m a year)
2004 to 2008 (5 years) £45m (£9m a year)
2009 to 2011 (3 years) £53m (£17.6m a year)
2012 to 2016 (5 years) £90m+ (£18m+ a year)

and Chris Irvine thinks all of a sudden SKY are going to pay £40 million quid a year when So far their average spend has been £14 million.........

Re: New Sky Deal slips under the radar : Thu Jan 30, 2014 11:16 am  

the flying biscuit wrote:

And that My friends is Why Twitter is a joke.........

1996-1998 (3 years) £52m (£17.3m a year)
1999-2003 (5 years) £57.8m (£11.56m a year)
2004 to 2008 (5 years) £45m (£9m a year)
2009 to 2011 (3 years) £53m (£17.6m a year)
2012 to 2016 (5 years) £90m+ (£18m+ a year)

and Chris Irvine thinks all of a sudden SKY are going to pay £40 million quid a year when So far their average spend has been £14 million.........

Shocking what happens when

A) a major cost (the champions league) is taken away
B) a major rival threatens to take dominant status away

Re: New Sky Deal slips under the radar : Thu Jan 30, 2014 11:30 am  

Magic Superbeetle wrote:

Shocking what happens when

A) a major cost (the champions league) is taken away
B) a major rival threatens to take dominant status away

Do you know that a rival was allowed to bid for this?