I'm not too sure, it seems on most other nights other than Thursday which NL1 games seem to feature on.



No different to a Thursday slot surely and the more nights we can get with no competition the better wouldn't you agree.



As it is I don't mind what day it is as most of our games of late mean a day booked off work so it wouldn't be out of the norm.

bring back Scrumdown !!

There you go. the BBC, a well respected and very professional organisation have continually made a pig's ear of rugby league, in particular The Super League Show. Although it's done in a small studio, the coverage Five give to NFL and Baseball is good. They have a presenter who not only has a passion for the sport, but he also knows what he's talking about. The 'pundit' is someone who knows how to work in front of the cameras whilst not boring the viewer or over complicating the game in question.





To be honest quite a few clubs don't take that many supporters anywa. However I'm not keen on Monday night games at all.

Depend if you like CSI i suppose icon_lol.gif

ideally the EU would tell us to split the TV rights into 'packages' with no single broadcaster able to buy all of them like they did with the premiership football



something like this



package 1 - friday nights (inc easter schedule ie thursday night,good friday,easter monday)



package 2 - saturday evenings



package 3 - sunday afternoons



package 4 - magic weekend



package 5 - highlights show





so then sky could by packages 1,2 & 4...which is pretty much what they show anyway...and the BBC could have package 3 & 5, this could form a 'full' super league show including a full game plus highlights of every SL game that weekend

Five appear to be cutting down on sports coverage outside of football, as are ITV it seems.



A national TV ad campaign would, I imagine, be far, far too expensive.



Why would the EU ask us to split our rights up when no other sport outside of Premier League football is forced to? And, such a move would cut down the amount paid by BSkyB to the RFL with losing the exclusive rights.

ITV can't get live football right. What on earth makes people think that they can get live RL right?



RL, unfortunately doesn't have a big enough appeal to be commercially viable to a terrestrial, commercial broadcaster. ITV, C4 or C5 aren't interested.

well the reality is the EU would'nt...but theres nothing stopping the RFL splitting the tv rights into 'packages'..



though i don't see how it's any different to what the EU did to football, they concluded that to watch EPL you had to have sky, the EU deemed that a monoply......to watch super league you have to have sky...why is it any different?









half full,half empty question....



do we lose money cos of a loss of exclusivity or make money cos we have more people watching our game (charge more for sponsors,advertising etc cos ,roughly, 3 times as many people watch RL games when on the bbc than on sky)

do BSKYB still own a major shareholding in Channel 5? That would be the ideal fit for a proper highlights programme, they dont have much else on either so should get a proper primetime slot for it - and as they are a commercial broadcaster they couldnt get away with the bilge that the BBC serve up.

IIRC, it was mainly down to the actual amount of money involved in football broadcasting which, by and large, excluded any other broadcaster from realistically being able to screen Premier League football. That isn't necessarily the case with RL (or any other sport).

they did have a stake in C5....not sure of they still do?











however...............sky do have a 18% stake in ITV..

ITV are a mess, and this means they have even pulled out CH4's horse racing funding, so i doubt League would even get a look in there. Channel 5 should make league its number one sport and advertise it widely, just as CH4 did to guge success with American Football a few years ago.

Im writing a letter.

Can it? Of course – it can split the TV rights anyway it wants, if it can find a buyer.



Hoever, in 14 years, exactly two companies have shown any interest in bidding for those rights:



Sky – who are only interested in exclusive live rights to SL, and internationals, and CC highlights

BBC – who are only interested in highlights rights to SL, live rights to the CC and internationals.



The only competition there's been at all is for internationals – where both Sky and BBC would like the live rights.



I'd love to think we could get into a state where other terrestrial TV channels are interested in league games. Unfortunately, there's no evidence at all of it.



The only time's 'other channels' have been interested in Setanta outbidding Sky for NRL rights and Eurosport showing an interest in broadcasting NL games (as were) as long as the RFL paid them to do it. On the back of that, Sky suddenly got interested again in NL/Championship games – without demanding a fee from us.

in america, ESPN show some of it's content on ABC, called ESPNonABC..this works because both ESPN & ABC are owned by disney...could something similar not happen here seeing as BskyB own part of ITV? so we'd have SKYSPORTS on ITV?..











can i just say i'm relatively happy with sky's coverage of our sport....i just want a sunday game broadcast so we have a game on friday,saturday & sunday...sky can do this but choose not too..so lets look at other options.

and thats been cocked up too..





the BBC have 1 live international this year and nobody has a clue which live game it is?

No, they may own shares at the moment, but don't control the company or their programming. If ITV had any interest in showing rugby league, they'd have bid in any of the numerous times rights have been for sale over the past 15 years or so, ditto Five, Channel 4 etc.

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i dont understand why this doesnt already apply to the SL, i thought it was european law that tv rights cant be monopilised by one channel, it seems its one law for the EPL and another for everyone else

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As I posted on another thread none of the terrestrial channels (even the beeb with their attitude) give a monkeys about Rugby League.



If it's not moronball they arn't interested.

The BBC have trailed it on a couple of other sports broadcasts, the coverage of the F1 last weekend had a little "coming up on BBC Sport" thing which mentioned the two live games.

i would go furher and say international moron ball. they give domestic RU small coverage to, although the guiness premiership highlights are on at sensible times.

Itv have nothing to do with channel 4 let alone Horse racing. In fact channel 4 dont even pay for the rights.

The main reason why there are not many Monday night soccer games on tv is due to the amount of teams playing in Europe.

ITV 4 would be a great place for Super League but no company in the free tv market would be willing to dish out £100 million on Rugby League.