In Excess of £200M...?

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Having read Chris Irvine on twitter suggesting that we're increasing from £127m (the deal running to the end of 2016) to over £200m (deal running 2017-2021) I'm very happy indeed.

Well done rfl ...

Pleased to hear about this, more games on tv = more exposure for the game.
I'd like to know if it was Sky who contacted the RFL or the other way round about a new deal but either way it works in our favour.
I'm glad that Championship games are going to be available as i couldnt see them on Premier last year. This deal does make you wonder what that'll do to their channel now?

Only one problem, tweedledumb and tweedledumber need to go ASAP.

EDIT: Chris Irvine's Tweet at 10:30 today

Great news, first a awesome world cup now a new TV deal, things are looking up.. it can only get better!

Where does it say that?

But will they be paying for them?

So an extra £15m a year going into the sport.


Useless RFL. It's all cos Nigel Wood's a fat knacker. Incompetent pillocks.

More so than the value, at least this now allows proper long term planning, by the league and by clubs. Or would if we still had a licensing system

I assume the increased funding that was in the proposals for championship teams will come from this increased deal ...

So yes ... In a way.

Is that £200m the total for the new deal as a whole or the total for the extra five years? The new deal includes changes to the next three seasons too

Sky has 10.5m subscribers, Sky Sports doesn't.

They never actually release the figures, but best estimates range from 4 to 5 million.

It's disgraceful and terrible - it comes no where near the £152million union gets from BT etc etc etc



Here's hoping for a salary cap increase with that extra money!