You would hope that at part of the contract there will have been a clause specifying the promotional exposure.

Given IMG will have been involved in these negotiations I’m more confident this will be the case.

I think this is great news for the game and should assist with bringing exposure to the game.

When you look at the sky advertising as a main broadcaster it is shocking, you are lucky if you see a snippet or RL action

i've posted something very similar on Warriors fans

the Saturday games should all be the same time, same channel, so at least the RL fans know when they are on plus chance to give maximum exposure to non-RL fans. Dont mess around with different day, time, channel as it will soon lose its appeal if we are messed about

Friday night Eastenders, a short promo advert before and / or after would be ideal. I know that people North of London watch Eastenders, so we wouldnt just be targetting Londoners, but it probably get 6-7 m tuning in per episode, so even if a small %age of those saw and watched RL, it must be a win win for the sport

MoTD, get Gary Lineker to promote the following weeks game and then any other sports shows, should be doing the same to include the RL game on Saturday afternoon

It’s odd isn’t it because they have pulled some cracking campaigns together in the not too distant past but since the ones featuring Mark Webber & Brad Wiggins they seem to have stopped putting the effort in.

RL is an afterthought, I appreciate SKY have a diverse range of sports but even netball gets more advertising space than we do and I can't recall seeing packed out sports hall's holding ten's of tousands of supporters, not sure where you get the viewing figures from either so can't say if it is a big TV viewing draw, but I would guess it is less than RL.

Didn't RL used to have the second highest viewing audience behind Fooseball at one point?

I thought C4 did a fairly decent job in all. The BBC are still beholden to the RFU though, & I'll lay odds the rah-rahs will be sending a deligation to dampen any enthusiasm.
Still, unless it's dumped on the red button or online can't be anything but welcome.
CC rd 1 on red button on Sat BTW, don't forget

I just hope the bbc shake up their commentary team for SL games

I think they broadly do a decent job with the CC stuff. They do need to mix it up though, I'll give you that. Can't keep trotting out the usual suspects like Jiffy, Kear, Nobby, JJB & Kevin Brown (not forgetting everyone's favourite media tart, coffee-shop-Wilkin).

Info on the new streaming platform, £20-30 a month would be way too expensive! I just checked and my Watch NRL renewal would have been approx. £12 a month for significantly more content. https://twitter.com/johnnyddavidson/sta ... 6605424951

Info on the new streaming platform, £20-30 a month would be way too expensive! I just checked and my Watch NRL renewal would have been approx. £12 a month for significantly more content. https://twitter.com/johnnyddavidson/sta ... 6605424951

Interesting to see if there's an option to stream individual games. I have a Watch NRL subscription but don't have Sky Sports. Individual games (Wigan games I can't get to) would work for me