Super League to Return on Opening August Weekend

[deluded pom?]

https://www.totalrl.com/super-league-to-return-on-opening-august-weekend/

 

[titoelcolombiano]

Is there any controversy over there about renegotiating reduced TV rights deals like there is here?

 

[deluded pom?]

Is there any controversy over there about renegotiating reduced TV rights deals like there is here?

Not to my knowledge. I believe Sky have been very accommodating to SL so far.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/r...emainder-40million-contract-Super-League.html

 

[titoelcolombiano]

Not to my knowledge. I believe Sky have been very accommodating to SL so far.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/r...emainder-40million-contract-Super-League.html

Thanks! and wow! That is actually really good of Sky, just goes to show the tantrum 9 threw was all about control and politics.

 

[Pommy]

Thanks! and wow! That is actually really good of Sky, just goes to show the tantrum 9 threw was all about control and politics.

Obviously I don’t know the ins and outs of sky’s business but super league is probably fairly insignificant to them, NRL to 9 wouldn’t have been.

 

[t-ba]

Obviously I don’t know the ins and outs of sky’s business but super league is probably fairly insignificant to them, NRL to 9 wouldn’t have been.

It's just some cheap filler content that rates quite well for its cost really isn't it?

 

[titoelcolombiano]

Obviously I don’t know the ins and outs of sky’s business but super league is probably fairly insignificant to them, NRL to 9 wouldn’t have been.

You're absolutely right, I would have thought that the scenario would have played out the other way around though:

NRL extremely significant to 9's ratings success = treat NRL with absolute respect
SL filler content for their sports channel = treated with lack of respect with little care for the financial state of the game

 

[Pommy]

It's just some cheap filler content that rates quite well for its cost really isn't it?

Well it’s certainly dwarfed by EPL after that it’s probably almost insignificant to them. Probably not far off a rounding error.

 

[deluded pom?]

Obviously I don’t know the ins and outs of sky’s business but super league is probably fairly insignificant to them, NRL to 9 wouldn’t have been.

Every sport in the U.K. is insignificant compared to soccer but RL is certainly towards the top end of Sky viewing figures for the rest. RL is vastly underpaid by Sky in comparison to other sports that don’t bring in the same sort of viewer numbers. Sky have RL over a barrel. They pay just enough to keep SL a full time comp, nothing more, nothing less. Unfortunately there isn’t any competition at the moment for the tv rights so Sky pay the bare minimum.

 

[titoelcolombiano]

RL is vastly underpaid

TV companies underpaying for RL in relation to the ratings it brings... where have I heard that before?

 

[Inkers75]

Football is king in UK. All other sports are insignificant to TV broadcasters.

 

[deluded pom?]

Football is king in UK. All other sports are insignificant to TV broadcasters.

I said that in my previous post.

 

[deluded pom?]

SL returns on the 2nd August but no confirmation of when the GF will be!