Quote Willzay="Willzay"But SKY apparently are getting the rights for free. The only ones who would get any sort of value would be Catalans. Therefore, only Catalans would stand to lose any sort of financial benefits and not the sport as a whole as some people on here believe. It's like the Stobart deal; free sponsorship for more exposure.'"
It all depends on what the terms of the deal are that was negotiated.
Also, even if Sky get the coverage for free, but dont have the pain and expense of sending crew over there, sending cameras and crew elsewhere, if Catalan were relegated, would be an additional cost for them.
Of course, Catalan would lose out massively if they were relegated, unless they could persuade "Bien Sports" to still pay them to show their games, but, that would seem unlikely.
Nothing like the stobbart deal, which seemed to do far more for stobbart than RL.
Interestingly there was a young lad on Dragons Den touting his business for "Stobbart Style" advertising, he'd have "painted up" Stobbarts trailers for a fraction of the supposed cost involved in their sponsorship. Although, IIRC, the value of the Stobbart deal was all estimates and guesstimates.
I'd still rather have Catalan in SL than not.
