Is it likely we will be able to stream through Virgin Media or Sky boxes or is this a service for phones, tablets and laptops?

Details of the sky deal have been announced: . Three NRL Telstra Premiership weekly matches per round · NRL Telstra Premiership finals series and Grand Final · Holden State of Origin Series · And further action from the southern hemisphere including the Nines Tournament, NRL All Stars and Trans-Tasman, Pacific Test and Australian Test matches www.skysports.com/rugby-league/n ... rl-matches

Details of the sky deal have been announced: . Three NRL Telstra Premiership weekly matches per round · NRL Telstra Premiership finals series and Grand Final · Holden State of Origin Series · And further action from the southern hemisphere including the Nines Tournament, NRL All Stars and Trans-Tasman, Pacific Test and Australian Test matches www.skysports.com/rugby-league/n ... rl-matches

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Quote yorksguy1865="yorksguy1865"Details of the sky deal have been announced: . Three NRL Telstra Premiership weekly matches per round · NRL Telstra Premiership finals series and Grand Final · Holden State of Origin Series. If true great but my wife will not be pleased · And further action from the southern hemisphere including the Nines Tournament, NRL All Stars and Trans-Tasman, Pacific Test and Australian Test matches www.skysports.com/rugby-league/n ... rl-matches'"

Not as much depth as Premier's coverage but better than I expected. No mention of how much the deal is worth? Would be interesting to compare it to the SL deal.

Marwan Koukash raised an interesting point on twitter regarding this.
Where has the money for this deal come from out of Sky's overall budget? What has made way for them to bid/acquire these rights?
More rugby is great for us but could this deal have eaten into their budgeted allocation for rugby league as a whole, meaning they have less to offer SL next time around?

3 is better than I first though, but still well short of PS.

It's possible that it is tied up in a broader package amongst other sports and events. I have never understood Sky they make some really bizarre decisions, a few years ago they bought the rights for India's tour of New Zealand in the Cricket but only broadcast one of the limited overs games, they were showing Premier League years of soccer AM repeats instead.

Similarly with this deal I would be amazed if they don't actually have the rights to all of the matches, I don't buy the idea that the NRL have held back 5 league matches a week to offer a cheaper package, but still include all the rep and finals matches.

I hope they will have the NRL full-time highlights show but I'm not holding my breath.

Is that an issue for you? Personally, I doubt whether there will be a week where I manage to watch all three NRL games on top of the SL games and Toronto.

Sky going all in for 5 years.

Fantastic news.

Much as it pains me, that was spot on.

I'm the same. I have PS, but normally end up deleting more games than I watch as I just don't have time to watch them all, so I have always just picked my games to watch and deleted the rest. I will miss the Footy Show though, I love that program. Sky, to be fair to them, have come up with a far better package than I expected them to do. In answer to the 'where has the money come from?' question raised by MK; maybe losing the cricket to BT has left money in the pot for it?