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| Quote ="cherrydevil"Believe it or not, I couldnt really care less and dont give a damn if you believe it or not. However if you were a Rugby fan you would know what happened as it was widely reported at the time. However as you are a Union fan, with nothing better to do than troll on Rugby websites, then you probably genuinly haven't got a clue.'"
Well obviously you do care and do give a damn because you are still arguing. As I said, if it was widely publicised at the time, where are all the news articles about it? Thats right, because it wasnt.
I deal in facts, not what a couple of randoms make up on an internet forum.
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| Pay per view or bookies sites this week end for the NRL but on your PC
But Super 14 or Aussie Rules on the box!!!
Do those games actually get anyone watching?
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| I think on this one, Roy Masters is slightly wrong. Sky did indeed have to fork out more the EPL, but they still make a bid for the NRL. They had been used to paying approx £50,000 per season to cover the NRL, plus sat feeds and studio costs. Setanta offered £500,000 per season, and Sky were willing to up their bid to £100,000 per season, but could see that Setanta were overpaying for the NRL.
Sky's general strategy was to encourage Setanta to pay too much for all their rights, just as it was their strategy with onDigital over the FL rights. Sky's Chris Warren was brought to Setanta to present NRL coverage, but by the time the season came around Setanta had realised that they'd over-paid. Hence Setanta broadcasst the Channel 9 coverage raw.
After losing the rights, Sky put it around that they had never been interested in aquiring the rights, but the reality is more nuanced. They were interested in the rights; but at the right price. Sky's chief strategic aim was to see their rival overpay for sports rights.
The NRL made the classic mistake of taking the short-term route of taking the higher bid. The extra Aus$1,000,000 on offer felt too much to refuse. But in the long run they've been stiffed by the better sports rights poker player, ie Sky. The NRL failed to ask if Setanta had a sustainable business model.
A curiosity is Sky/Fox/NewsCorp's involvement in all of this. Each division is constantly in touch with each other yet they still claim to act independently.
In the next few days (poss weeks), I fully expect Sky to agree to a deal where they cover one game per week. What is holding up the deal is a scheduling problem for Sky. Sat morning's are now dominated by S14. Fridays or Mondays are looking more likely.
The NRL may bring a higher audience, but in the northern hemisphere, NRL sells considerably fewer SS subscriptions than the S14 Union comp. League is obviously a much better sport, but commercially we're a minority sport in comparison to Union. And the proof of that pudding can been seen in the sports pages of UK newspapers on a daily basis.
It is childish to call people trolls just for suggesting that Sky did indeed bid against Setanta for the NRL.
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| S14 gets about 30k viewers doesnt it?
I bet the NRL could beat that
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| Quote ="Dico"S14 gets about 30k viewers doesnt it?
I bet the NRL could beat that'"
Keep praying it doesn't...
Toyota Cup does.
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| The highest Super 14 rating I can find is 46,000 and a low of 22,000, the highlights show "The Super 14 Show" gets around 17,000 - 20,000 viewers.
Championship Rugby League has had a high of 61,000 viewers this year, even the Varsity match had 44,000.
If done correctly including the right matches being picked then NRL could easily beat Super 14 ratings, plus I'm sure a highlights show would be watched by many.
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| It's habbit though, a lot of older folk these days are quite happy to sit on a friday night and watch the SL with their feet up whereas a few years ago many would have been down the pub. SL traditionally has a good timeslot for viewing especially on a friday, you try and get people to break their normal habbits to watch NRL first thing on a friday/saturday when they're used to being out shopping, up town etc and you'll end up with poor figures.
They should delay it to 4pm on saturday before the SL game
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| Burgess playing well for Souths , On now.
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| yep watching it on bet365...they love him..
thing i like about the bet365 feed...is that its the raw feed...eg the other morning we heard ray warren talking about playing golf somewhere..and offering his hotel room to someone if they wanted a shower..lol
i'm just waiting for someone to let rip with the swear words..lol
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| Someone did swear in the Roosters game, and also the commentry team Gary Belcher and the other fella were chewing gum messing constantly with there ties and telling the production crew who couldn't hear them at the time that they were calling them nasty names !!!
Its great.
Just watched the bunnies smash the dogs (for free) who needs espn?
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| im surprised the S14 rates so well over there
its not far off the ratings it gets locally
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| So have bet365 been covering all the games? Just noticed today!
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| They had two on at the same time this morning.
Souths v Newcastle, tomorrow 8:30am.
Eels v Canberra, Monday 10am.
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| Quote ="Catalancs"They had two on at the same time this morning.
Souths v Newcastle, tomorrow 8:30am.
Eels v Canberra, Monday 10am.'"
Are pretty much all matches been covered then? Two were on this morning! Do you think this will last for the season?
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| It's been on since round 1 so I'd imagine it's going to be a season long thing. Not sure but I think this might be the first weekend with four games. Up until now it's been one game on Friday, Saturday and Monday.
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| The only (minor) problem with NRL on betting sites is that was the main reason no broadcaster picked up Serie A - why pay for rights when it can be seen for free.
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| There's been two games on a friday since week 1
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| Quote ="Dico"There's been two games on a friday since week 1'"
Actually that rings a bell. Weren't they on one after the other though?
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| Does anybody know if tomorrow's Rabbitohs game is going to be streamed on any of the betting sites?
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| Quote ="Catalancs"=#800000Bet365 had two on at the same time this morning.
Souths v Newcastle, tomorrow 8:30am.
Eels v Canberra, Monday 10am.'"
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| MSK Sky Ch 433 (son of Setanta but non-subscription) showing "Live NRL" next Friday at 10am.
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| Quote ="Wigan/Leeds Andy"MSK Sky Ch 433 (son of Setanta but on-subscription) showing "Live NRL" next Friday at 10am.'"
It's part of the News & Events pack, which nearly everyone who has Sky will have. Several replay spots for NRL are showing as well.
Virgin Media doesn't have MSK though.
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| Quote ="lister"It's part of the News & Events pack, which nearly everyone who has Sky will have. Several replay spots for NRL are showing as well.
Virgin Media doesn't have MSK though.'" It's free to air, think he meant Non-subscription.
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| Quote ="east hull FC fan"It's free to air, think he meant Non-subscription.'"
I did.
Pesky typos.
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| Quote ="lister"It's part of the News & Events pack, which nearly everyone who has Sky will have. Several replay spots for NRL are showing as well.
Virgin Media doesn't have MSK though.'"
I dont have news and events but I used to get MSK, havent looked at it for a while, knowing my luck now therye showing something half decent I would imagine it will be though.
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