It's possible that it is tied up in a broader package amongst other sports and events. I have never understood Sky they make some really bizarre decisions, a few years ago they bought the rights for India's tour of New Zealand in the Cricket but only broadcast one of the limited overs games, they were showing Premier League years of soccer AM repeats instead.

Similarly with this deal I would be amazed if they don't actually have the rights to all of the matches, I don't buy the idea that the NRL have held back 5 league matches a week to offer a cheaper package, but still include all the rep and finals matches.

I hope they will have the NRL full-time highlights show but I'm not holding my breath.

Is that an issue for you? Personally, I doubt whether there will be a week where I manage to watch all three NRL games on top of the SL games and Toronto.

Sky going all in for 5 years.

Fantastic news.

Much as it pains me, that was spot on.

I'm the same. I have PS, but normally end up deleting more games than I watch as I just don't have time to watch them all, so I have always just picked my games to watch and deleted the rest. I will miss the Footy Show though, I love that program. Sky, to be fair to them, have come up with a far better package than I expected them to do. In answer to the 'where has the money come from?' question raised by MK; maybe losing the cricket to BT has left money in the pot for it?

They only lost the ashes in Australia but get your point. Money could have came from lots of streams. I mean Floyd Mayweather vs Connor McGregor did crazy PPV numbers and made sky lots of money.

Sky recently lost ATP men's tennis to Amazon also.

Really wouldn't worry that sky getting the NRL means less money for super league.

They lost all cricket broadcast from Australia, which includes the Big Bash too. Not just the Ashes (although, with how we performed I'm glad it wasn't on SKY!). You're right, the Mayweather fix made crazy money and the tennis wouldn't have been a cheap deal either. Plenty of money in SKY's pot so Super League shouldn't be affected

I am pretty sure that SKY have always held the rights for NRL just that whilst they didn't have enough channels they sold it onto PS. I am pretty sure that was how Setanta did it.

I normally get chance to watch most of them as I work from home and am up early.

No way sky would have sold up the rights to origin so I don't think that's true.

It is a whole package kind of all or nothing I think

I wonder what criteria will be used to choose the three NRL games that Sky shows. Channel Nine has three games (Thursday night, Friday night and Sunday afternoon). Will it be just those, or will Sky be free to choose from those and from the other Fox Sports exclusive games as well?

Pity that the NRL didn't do a deal that gave Sky three games per week, and the other five were sold to Premier Sports.