And after the world cup shambles and the loss of the NRL deal I'd be surprised at all if there is anyone within RL circles now still subscribing to Premier Sports.

I phoned up to cancel and they halved my payments, so I get the Toronto games for like £1something per game, which I'm OK with.

The issue is the fact the rest of the championship are not getting a penny for it. Why should PS be allowed to rock up at the shay, leigh sports village, post office road and show torronto v Fax, leigh , F*V without paying a premium when this is likely to affect ticket sales.

Why are premier allowed to show Toronto and not the rest of the championship. Sky bought the rights for the championship so why are Torronto allowed to sell there rights to PS. The chmpioship rules are there all clubs should stick by them

Another way of putting it is why would a TV company be prepared to pay for Toronto's games, but aren't interested in paying for other clubs' games?

Or, to be more controversial, why should clubs which have no attraction to TV companies get to block, or sponge off, a deal made with a club which does?

There are some lessons in this, but I think some club chairmen don't want to hear those lessons.

Will it have much effect? Not sure too many fans are going to subscribe to PS if their portfolio consists only of TW games.

How many Championship clubs raised these sorts of objections to their fixtures against Crusaders being broadcast on S4C?

It is a good illustration of the "damned if you do..." aphorism, as RFL are crticised (rightly IMHO) for a TV deal giving the rights to broadcast the Championship to a company that does not intend to broadcast it; yet if they Do manage to get someone to broadcast Championship games, others complain about that.

I don't understand the "hit ticket sales" objection. Talk about glass half empty. If the commercial at the club can't make some money out of advertising at a televised fixture then they should all be sacked.

And if televising killed the numbers attending, what happened at the darts, which was broaqdcast wall to wall, yet is always packed out?

The answer is of course that it's NOT the televising, it's how the game is marketed. Darts have the great advantage of being the current home of the Hearns. If only they would switch to RL as their next interest.

Am not saying don't broadcast it but why should TW get there own deal yet we have to make do with sky who wont show anything but the summer bash and middle 8s. If premier want to show games from the championship this needs to be a deal for all teams. Why should TW not have the same rules as the rest of the Championship. I would happily have one premier sports game or sky game of the championship each week. It worked fine before and made good viewing but not the TW show evry week and the home club is going to get no money from unless all object and say no

Perhaps TW used their initiative and sorted the deal out themselves

If no equal agreement can be made, then PS can televise all Toronto's home games. Sorted

Perhaps the example that York set in actually seeking to sell the fixture (others may have done as well) and had a bigger crowd than they have had for a good number of years.

If Toronto are able to negotiate some additional TV rights because they are based in another country then there isn't much you can do about it. Catalans do the exact same thing, and as someone else mentioned the Crusaders did likewise back when they were in SL.
Don't forget that both Toronto and Catalans will have far higher travel costs than others in their leagues though, so in the end the difference might not be that much.