if they stopped ripping people off with extortionate prices they would get more people signing up..and not droves leaving as at present.

certainly got them worried and people have taken different avenues... so in a way we may get a fair price in the end.

its not illegal.

New channels begin in august

might not be long before the drone racing league takes over

I suppose more games will be on the red button now with clashes with other sports, (Darts on Thursday for one). What are the odds the Grand Final will be pay per view.

More likely games will be played on different days (hopefully Friday to Sunday) rather than clashing with darts. Tv fixtures are dictated by sky remember, if a change in schedule suits them it will change.

Free to air is the only way to expand the game nationally, this has being proven time and time and time again in as many sports as you care to name.
This is currently one of the major set backs for RU in Australia.

Kodi is a bit dodgy to say the least but agree that Murdock is amongst the worst of the worst in terms of theft/not paying his dues.

I have been with sky from the beginning from when it was a square dish and I have had the sports since then and the only thing I watch on the sports channel is rugby league so I pay for the rest of the rubbish that I do not watch but if we have our own channel what would we have to watch on it

I'm in mid 20s and the only growth sport that I can think of in the past 10-15 years is darts which is on Sky. Am I forgetting anything?

Edit - UFC too.

The thing with Kodi is that it just doesn't work does it. You can technically 'watch' things on it, but it's instable, the frame rate and resolution if often terrible, the sound is terrible. It's not anything like the real thing, it's as bad if not worse than watching movies that have been taped in the cinema on a camcorder.

This publicity is just unbelievable. It's a paid advert by Sky. They've paid the journalists to write about the significant reductions, but there won't actually be any. Premier League football is going to be split across two football channels at £18 each. So to get BT Sports, and both Sky football channels you'd have to pay £59 just for that, plus £30 ish for the lowest package. Throw broadband and phone in and you are at £130 a month.

Rugby League will get screwed here too I feel. We'll be lumped into some 'boutique' channel with Kabbadi and Badminton and they'll use that to say the sport attracts less viewers than it used to.

All internationals and the challenge Cup need to be on free to air tv. It's criminal the recent test against Samoa wasn't. Sadly for Super League we need the big money sky pays to show games exclusively, the money from free to air wouldn't compare.

I have said for a couple years now that the UK TV market is way behind the times and needs a big overhaul.

It's crazy that the rest of the world can watch Saturday PL games which are not available on TV in the UK.

And it is a way Sky can renegotiate contracts on thier actual worth.

People want a tailored on demand service.

Will we still receive a similar funding from Sky if their profits are reduced? Thats the worry we are on the edge with the current funding

Perhaps this is the opening for discussions with Sky re: the previous deal which should accelerate our discussions for the structure going forward.

Its an interesting change and one that has come earlier than i though, and a major change in Sky's business model. The atomisation of content will probably be the biggest change since the advent of Pay-tv.

There is a chance we could be at the forefront of it, a rugby league channel exists already, Rugby League needs to take control/ownership of it and for it to become the portal and starting point for RL.

I watch things in prestine 1080p HD on Kodi. Sport, films, TV shows.