Re: Attendance : Wed May 01, 2019 2:31 pm  

the thing I do not understand is how it was ever possible to con the Championship clubs into signing away all broadcast rights to Sky without either any guarantees as to actual broadcasting, and/or a slice of the pie.

It should be obvious that if Championship games were not to be weekly televised by Sky, then the Championship clubs should be free to make their own arrangements - or even negotiate their own deal, and divi any money arising.

For the RFL to makeweight the broadcasting rights into the deal, with no contractual agreement to broadcast, just to stop any other broadcaster showing live RL games and spoiling Sky's exclusivity, I see as absolutely shameful.

So we end up (for example) where the Bulls games are never going to be televised, but neither can we stream them like we did in League 1 - because Sky own the rights.

Re: Attendance : Wed May 01, 2019 7:56 pm  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

the thing I do not understand is how it was ever possible to con the Championship clubs into signing away all broadcast rights to Sky without either any guarantees as to actual broadcasting, and/or a slice of the pie..

I believe it was Nigel Wood's doing.

And we do get 'a slice of the pie' don't we? Where do we think the central funding comes from if it doesn't come from the Sky pie?

[Bulliac]

Re: Attendance : Thu May 02, 2019 7:47 am  

I think there a many different levels of finance, and ambition, within the Championship clubs. Given the 'austerity measures' which seem to apply around Odsal at times I guess that many of us think we're one of the poorer sides, but when you consider the level of staffing (players, coaches, back room etc) and of course the money we pay for season tickets, we're clearly in the higher levels of the division. Many clubs though stagger from one leccy bill to the next so they probably don't care over much about whether they will appear on TV or not. Mainly because they most likely won't.

Re: Attendance : Thu May 02, 2019 8:40 am  

paulwalker71 wrote:

I believe it was Nigel Wood's doing.

And we do get 'a slice of the pie' don't we? Where do we think the central funding comes from if it doesn't come from the Sky pie?

I honestly think his heart was in the right place with this. He wanted to make sure the lower leagues weren't cut adrift and left to fend for themselves....soon as they get rid of him his concerns is looking very concrete.

Re: Attendance : Thu May 02, 2019 9:18 am  

what was our central funding! £150,000K per team in the CC compared with 2 or 3mil in the SL hardly a great share. also if the Sky funding drops the CC gets less and the SL gets it all.

Re: Attendance : Thu May 02, 2019 2:50 pm  

Scarey71 wrote:

I honestly think his heart was in the right place with this. He wanted to make sure the lower leagues were cut adrift and left to fend for themselves....soon as they get rid of him his concerns is looking very concrete.

Totally agree with this. It seems he was right in doing so too because as you put, without him there the threat has become reality