Re: Will Championship rugby be on tv 2012??? : Fri Sep 02, 2011 10:28 am  

New deal doesn't include Championship or International Games, I'd imagine they'll discuss them at a later date. RFL want to be pushing Sky to get it on, Sky Show Rugby Union away from the top flight, and ever show foreign games, Rugby league is getting a raw deal and its about time the RFL argued that

Re: Will Championship rugby be on tv 2012??? : Fri Sep 02, 2011 11:59 am  

Brew wrote:

New deal doesn't include Championship or International Games, I'd imagine they'll discuss them at a later date. RFL want to be pushing Sky to get it on, Sky Show Rugby Union away from the top flight, and ever show foreign games, Rugby league is getting a raw deal and its about time the RFL argued that

So you want to be playing thursday nights for most of your games next year ?

Now we have lost Widnes the likes of yourselves Leigh and Fev will feature even more on any TV deal

Re: Will Championship rugby be on tv 2012??? : Fri Sep 02, 2011 12:14 pm  

Fax Bluenose wrote:

The original announcement on Sky Sports News actually included the Championship. When did they change this?

Purely from memory only.

On twitter this morning, Neil Barraclough (Daily Mail RL writer) tweeped "Premier Sports Champ deal means live UK #rugbyleague to be shown by at least 3 different broadcasters next year - is that good news or bad?"

Not good news for me though as I'm with Virgin Media. Their response to an email last month was "Thanks for your e-mail to Virgin Media about the Premier Sports channel. We're sorry to inform you that the channel you’re looking for isn’t part of our line-up."

It goes against my principles but I think I need to shift to Sky, the RL Puppet Masters.

Re: Will Championship rugby be on tv 2012??? : Fri Sep 02, 2011 2:14 pm  

Rcvd a letter from Premier Sports this morning stating they will be showing at least 30 matches from the Championship inc Grand Finals.Cup and behind the scenes features on clubs and staff

Total of 180 games inc NRL

Re: Will Championship rugby be on tv 2012??? : Fri Sep 02, 2011 3:06 pm  

bentleyman wrote:

Rcvd a letter from Premier Sports this morning stating they will be showing at least 30 matches from the Championship inc Grand Finals.Cup and behind the scenes features on clubs and staff

Total of 180 games inc NRL

Definitely moving to Sky

Re: Will Championship rugby be on tv 2012??? : Fri Sep 02, 2011 5:34 pm  

Just had a scout through the channels and noticed that Premier doesn't have an HD channel. I know sky didn't show championship on HD but it would have been nice. I also remember premier did a free couple if says and their showing of the NRL was not a fantastic quality. Can anyone confirm if this got any better?