when you look around the amount of poor quality local channels on sky. and some of the religeous based ones seemingly ran out of someoens front room it cant cost as much as you think to actually air the channel. obviously then you have production and staffing costs but it could be viable . There used to be a channel purely for wrestling! which had to expand to wrestling and MMA to fill up the schedule i guess.

I've also thought the same, but channels like Babe station must rake in the money from the sad acts calling in, and the mystical man in the sky channels have the Nazi youth bloke with his billions of Euros backing them.

How would an RL channel finance the channel? Rugby babes talking about god?

as niche markets go....you may be on to something there

I don't know how these channels are run but wouldn't it be possible to be sponsored by say League Express, Rugby League World, Forty Twenty, Love Rugby League, RLFans, clubs promoting their up and coming matches and any other RL organisation with adverts between the programmes? I'd also pay a small subscription every month for a dedicated RL channel. And from midnight till 5am it could be more for the adults where pervs ring in to chat to babes starting off in team kits and end up with nothing on


Surely all these would generate enough money to keep the channel going.

Why not tennis, golf and cricket. One of the few ways we are spreading the game is people accidentally watching or flicking through the channels and finding our game interesting. A shift away from the traditional SS channels (come on everyone knows them off by heart) would only hurt our game.

TV is dying, you could start a rugby league channel on the Internet as a web TV show. Very little cost involved, choose your own schedule, no silly contracts need to be signed.

Superleague could easily do this if they wanted, they would have the rights to old (Superleague anyway) matches that could be put online.

Or even a weekly roundup show with some interviews etc

TV isn't dying. Everybody I know watches TV or owns a TV.
Less than half the people I know watch things regularly on the Internet.

Well your looking at £75,000 just to get on the sky epg. If it was FTA then your looking at an extra cost of being on the Freesat EPG. Cable add more.

Then you have the satellite uplink costs, studio costs, staff cost.

So at this point your well into a million quid.

Annually or one off?

Its annually.

Forgot to also add that that you need a broadcasting licence and of course there is a fee for that.