Done.
The top (bottom) ten games shown on SKY sports in 2019 were games that featured either London or Catalan....in fact, you need to get to #24 game before neither of those teams feature. Neither of those teams are the draw......

I believe rugby union has not had its TV deal renewed in Australia, so it would seem that RL would lose it due to being a minority sport here with poor viewing figures. Without a decent TV deal there will be no full time professionals. Clubs with players on contract beyond the end of the current TV contract will risk going under.

unless individual clubs could possibly secure their own TV deals with a broadcaster - if Toronto are allowed to do this in north america, it would only seem fair to allow other progressive clubs the right to negotiate as individuals

what role if any could the bbc play in paying for a few live games

could the superleague start their own broadcast company with a subscription service

all possible discussion points and whilst not likely to bring in the amount that the Sky deal does, its better than nothing

Is it possible sky are panicking at the thought of Amazon muscling in especially with football ? My mate was gutted on Wednesday because he pays loads-a-money for all the tv sports channels then found out Liverpool were being shown on Amazon.

On Thursdays we are currently competing with (and losing to) Premier League darts.

The football Premier League has also made no secret that it wants to increase the number of TV slots, and Friday nights will invariably be one of their targets.

Na. Amazon are not trying to buy the full rights. For them a couple of weeks around holiday season does them fine. Amazon are using football to drive people to their site to buy things.

Exactly. How many Prime trials have been sold, just ahead of the peak retail period, "just to watch the footy"? And a lot of those will be accidently renewed.

After I wrote that i thought just the same. I flick between to 2 if the game is dull!

To be fair to Amazon, and I am no fan of theirs, they refund you your accidental renewals. I had this exact issue when I joined up simply to get free next day shipping (something they almost try and trick you into doing).

I forgot to cancel it until I noticed it leave my bank and then went through a fairly simple process to cancel and they messaged to say they would be refunding me.

Fairly decent behavior considering they are known for being tax avoiding snakes.

if you do this you want to cancel almost straight away, within a day or 2 - they still honour the full months trial

As per my earlier post, Kelner said he may have more news today - i'll have a listen in later, he's usually on just after 3 o clock

So they did quite a lengthy piece this afternoon, none of it very positive. There is currently no deal done, apparently. There was mention that an offer was made way below the current one. One thing that came out was that one producer is interested in a fly on the wall type show which goes behind the scenes of a game before and after as well as showing the game, a bit like rugby league raw used to do. Other than that it was very much wait and see.

The other shows are part of what we need in a broadcast deal too, not just the games themselves. I’ve often thought RL in particular would be a good sport for fly on the wall because it’s combative and can be fairly feisty behind the scenes.
It has to be full unvarnished access though. No point doing a namby-pamby isn’t everything wonderful version. Needs to show the highs and the lows.