NRL games in the UK?

[renouf]

Does skysports still show NRL games live? I noticed for next Friday there is no rugby league listed in the tv guide, whats the go with that?

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12944,00.html

 

[KalgoorlieRed]

No, they are on Setanta now.

 

[renouf]

crap, so do they show all the games live?

 

[roughyedspud]

3 games a weekend i think plus the footy show,NRL on fox & NRL teams programmes druing the week..

i'll see if i can find a setanta tv guide..

 

[renouf]

Yeah i'm looking at the guide now

That's pretty bad, seems like the CH9 games aren't being shown, so setanta take the rights, but they decide not to show half the games? what a joke

 

[roughyedspud]

http://wigan.rlfans.com/fusion_pages/index.php?page_id=28

as daft as it might sound i don't think setanta are gonna show the CH9 games,which friday night games are'nt they? until the aussies put the clocks back..

 

[deluded pom?]

I thought the Aussies permanently lived in the past spud :lol:

 

[Evil Homer]

Setanta is a much, much better provider of the NRL than Sky. There's absolutely no competition in the quality and amount of their broadcasts compared to when Sky had the NRL rights.

 

[renouf]

still seems like u guys miss alot of games... i might be moving over there soon

we get use to having every game on the tv

 

[roughyedspud]

you can only watch 1 game at a time...so we are'nt missing anything ;-)

 

[renouf]

thats not true, they show 2 games live at once on saturday nights

but you said setanta is only showing 3 games week, so what about the others?

 

[roughyedspud]

you can't watch 2 games at the same time though can you..

 

[renouf]

technically you can with the split screen, but the question is why setanta only show 3 games a week?

 

[roughyedspud]

because setanta can't dedicate half a dozen channels/screens to broadcast the NRL like fox do..and don't forget the games are on at daft o'clock so it would'nt be commercially viable if say only 20k people tune in

plus setanta might only have the rights for 3 games aweek..we don't know do we?

 

[renouf]

when sky had the rights, they use to show the friday night games didn't they?

 

[roughyed8]

when sky had the rights, they use to show the friday night games didn't they?

Not true, Sky used to cover a game from Super Saturday live at either 8am or !0am and a delayed coverage of the Sunday afternoon game with highlights of the rest of the round.

 

[roughyedspud]

aye sky was sh!t

 

[ali]

For anyone in the area of West Hampstead, London, the manager of the walkabout has ditched the Super 14 rah rah, and will be showing the mighty Nulla @ 11am Saturday.

Now all I need is a good performance from the boys in black, white and blue.

O2 Centre
255 Finchley Road
London NW3 6LU