Probably means something like Channel M; so it will be something like one camera and pi$$ poor commentary.

The Premier Sports email says....

Premier Sports are delighted to announce that Championship Rugby League from England will be coming to the channel live and exclusively from next February 2012. We intend to broadcast at least 30 matches from the league, Grand Finals of both Championships and the Cup. The coverage will have a local rugby league community approach and will include behind the scenes features on clubs and staff. The hope is that the current and new subscribers will feel the £7.99 subscription offers great value with over 180 live rugby league games available to view from Australia's NRL and now the Championship in Britain.

I'll definitely subscribe to that.

Out of curiosity, is there any news of a deal for the Challenge Cup yet?

Does it state ' live ' matches , or just matches ?

Bloody Hell, you want jam on it

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Premier Sports are delighted to announce that Championship Rugby League from England will be coming to the channel [ulive[/u and exclusively from next February 2012. We intend to broadcast at least 30 matches from the league, Grand Finals of both Championships and the Cup. The coverage will have a local rugby league community approach and will include behind the scenes features on clubs and staff. The hope is that the current and new subscribers will feel the £7.99 subscription offers great value with over 180 live rugby league games available to view from Australia's NRL and now the Championship in Britain.

There’s the statement, read it how you will.

Only asking

, just hoping it changes from Thursday nights , costs us money we can't afford

I'm signed up to Premier Sports but will be cancelling once the NRL season ends, and will start again in February.

Makes the subscription worth more with them having Championship RL as well.

Given the number of people who seem on here to be prepared to pay monthly subscriptions to watch RL outside the Super League, then perhaps pay per view streaming of games is a way forward, particularly if the clubs involved might see some of the money, which doesnt seem to be the case with the likes of Sky/Premier.
Having listened to the poor & disinterested 5Live commentary of St Helens v Salford last night on Freesat, I know the dedicated RL media (weekly/monthy press & forums) that already exists could do a better job if they expanded into that area.

Glad the Championship has found a home.

Can't agree with the idea of a Rugby league only channel. It seems like preaching to the choire, how many non and new fans would tune into a specialist channel or bother looking for it.

Let's see what that home looks like first before getting excited

When the Championship clubs and fans were clamering for a TV deal , a non paying mid week attendance killer wasn't what they really wanted

A paying mini SL deal is what they really meant , this doesn't sound like that either

Ash, think your right about an RL only channel we have to use the media we already have control over better. My own view is that there are a lot of games filmed by clubs both Semi pro & amateur that are never aired. The technology is there to stream them through the internet, but most need editing & commentary adding, so that the clubs could make some money from them.