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icon_smile.gif Why not have a regular Sunday or Monday evening Championship 1 game televised on Sky?

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Yea or how about showing the Yorkshire Unison Second Division

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The question you should be asking is "why"? Why show a third tier RL game in front of a small crowd every week when they could be showing higher quality sport?

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icon_smile.gif The Thursaday night live Championship slot has been a modest success so far, why not Championship 1? Sunday 6.30pm ko wouldn't have any major sports competiton on Sky. Why Not?

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Quote: Wellsy13 "The question you should be asking is "why"? Why show a third tier RL game in front of a small crowd every week when they could be showing higher quality sport?'"


What High quality sport do they show on Sky Sports 2 or 3 Sunday or Monday night?

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In a sense we should be grateful that the second tier of our sport gets live TV coverage at all, without wanting the third tier as well! Only football, I think, enjoys that as well. Could you justify the extra expense in broadcasting a fourth live game every weekend, and one outside the top flight, which would attract more viewers to 'pay' for it?

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Even more so than providing a range of sports to attract subscribers to their sports channels SKY need to provide things that are attractive enough for companies to spend their cash on advertising time. The audience for championship 1 games would likely not be of sufficient value to potential advertisers, certainly when weighed against the other sports events they can fill a time slot with. Thus the games at this level would likely not be of sufficient value to a broadcaster to make them want to show them. Profit margin (if any) after the cost of the broadcasts would be too small to bother with.

On the same subject (sort of) Craig Spence the Communications Manager for the RFL was on BBC Radio Manchester on thursday and was asked about whether a tv deal could be done to get Championship games on free to air tv to increase exposure. His answer suggested that the Championship games are shown on SKY only because they are available as part of a package along with the SL rights and that the competition is not appealing enough to broadcasters for them to buy the rights to it as a stand alone. If the championship is seen in this way by a broadcaster that is willing to pay for the rights to the RL league competitions then it is unlikely that any broadcaster would be willing to pay for rights to Championship 1 games for the reasons given in my first paragraph.

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Quote: spooneryork "What High quality sport do they show on Sky Sports 2 or 3 Sunday or Monday night?'"


Football, Speedway and Tennis.

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Why not screen an extra Super League game? It would get more viewers?

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the poor 3rd tier rugby clubs get crushed by the mighty foot of duper league again.

The guy wants to have coverage of his team thats all icon_rolleyes.gif

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The Sky deal for the Championship also covers Championship 1 games.

Keighley played Dewsbury twice and I think Oldham and York had a game apiece too.

If I remember correctly the York tripled their normal crowd for their game so it's got to be worth it for the clubs.

Also isn't any Rugby League on TV good for our sport?

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didn't sky start showing CC games because another station was interested in the first place?

Sort of makes what Graig Spence says look stupid.

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Sky started showing them because the RFL negotiated it as part of the SKY SL deal.
Otherwise they'd have have had no interest, but the Championship fans won't tell you this.

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I remember reading a few years back another station wanted to show some games, sky then came to the party and started showing a live game on Thursdays because they had the rights.

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Eurosport were willing to show it if the RFL paid to have the show made, in reality, no chance. Thursday nights was negotiated into the 08/09 tv deal i think.

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