I was thinking the other day about the championship clubs, the problems about TV and what they get out of showing the games. I have often said that the TV rights could be sold to a terrestrial TV channel. This would help the clubs as they can approach bigger companies to sponsor the club and ask for a greater amount of money for the sponsorship. Being on terrestrial TV means that they have the potential to reach every home instead of just a selective group.

I then had an Idea completely different from this one. All the games are recorded most of the games, if not all of them are put onto DVD. Why don’t the clubs join together set up a website and stream their games over the internet. I am sure it could be done live, but will probably cost a lot to do this, they could though do it after the game has finished it could be an hour or a day later. You pay a subscription fee this could be yearly monthly weekly or pay for the individual game. This would generate income for the club in two ways that I can think of, the first is the money paid for the subscriptions, secondly the advertisement on the website.
With this way of showing the game, it will keep people going to the games let people like myself that live abroad see every game and let the supporters that went to the game re-watch the game. The clubs could then use the site to put behind the scenes footage on and interviews anything to keep the fans coming back and visiting the site.

So I have found out that it is relatively inexpensive, someone would pay 10 pounds (no pounds key on Canadian computer)

And the clubs will not work together.

Starbug, I would not do a highlights program I would show all the game. I would also put player interviews on post and pre match analysis and possibly let fans record their own items and submit them. I would say that the subscription money would pay for the cost of putting the show on and the profit would come from the advertisement. I have done no cost analysis so it is all assumption but I think it should be looked into.
I am no internet guru but you get paid, as I understand it, if you host links to other sites and people use your site to access the sites.
Keeping the fans on the site for as long as possible without them getting board is the key to selling advertisement space

I would say that if someone could show the clubs that they can make money from this and they just have to work together to make it happen they would be up for it.
Another option is for the clubs to go it alone, they could do it on their own website but the costs would increase.
Who owns the rights to the games? Is it the club or the RFL?

Broadcast rights are owned by SKY [ or they were last time I asked ] , some clubs already put highlights or full matches on the internet , but the quality is generally poor , to do it properly you need multiple camera's , and showing live , or nearly live could impact on your attendances , I'll agree to disagree about the merits of ' Live ' compared to ' Highlights ' for lower tier sport

I would show the full game but not live, at best I would say an hour after the game realistically it would probably be the next day. I don’t see this having an effect on the crowds. There would be a cost, if this would include multiple cameras I think the revenue would make this worthwhile. Another spin off could be bringing in media students from local college’s as part of their studies, this brings the community aspect into it also. I think you are probably right about Sky holding the rights to the games, I also think this could be challenged as they do not show any of the games. It all comes down to the clubs joining together on this, this could be the stumbling block, and this seems to be the stumbling block on a lot of issues in the championship.

As has been suggested in the past , its time a dedicated person was appointed within the RFL with the specific responsibility for the development of the Championships and the clubs in them, unaffected by other issues within the game, somebody with vision and imagination, the old idea's dont work anymore, and new ones need more thought, it seems all the RFL care about is SL, and they just re hash ideas used in the top tier

But that would need them to admit that things arent working, something they would never do

sky gave the rights back to the RFL i think; 'they would rather buy some 3d camera's then spend money on showing championship games' despite it being fairly well watched