Quote: Call Me God "80,000 people paying £1 a pop to watch St Helens v Wigan would cover the costs of the OB set up etc.....but it's getting RL fans to part with a tenner a week for 4 games on a subscription model that would be the problem.
Unless SL start offering a central ticketing system, a collective shirt manufacturing deal and a cohesive and central marketing strategy, then the game is in trouble, because the Likes of Wigan and Saints will soon tire of dragging around the deadwood clubs.....'"
Thats the Nfl model. They have shared revenue streams like merchandise and sponsorship. I Pay £140 a year for full Nfl season pass, that enaboes me to stream every live fame every week what ever team i chooose. I stream all the Dolphins games and occasionally other games. Plus sky have Nfl.
If sky stopped showing RL i would cancell all my sky packages. Full stop. I would then subscribe to whoever had the Rl rights. Sky no this and will pretty much at keast match any competition for RL rights. But seen has for 25 years nobody else has had any real interest in RL and sky have paid us pretty much what we are worth to them, why would RL switch from sky unless somebody comes up with stupid money.