Quote ="BiltonRobin"on the BBC website this week it was claimed that English international rugby union players would now be earning £1 million pounds per season.
This been made up of £300K from the rfu, £400K plus in club salaries and the rest from sponsorship and endorsements.
This kind of expenditure can only me achieved if the clubs and rfu have a huge income from a major TV company. Who intern need to sell the matches to generate their income.
This will not be the bbc, so I would expect them to be looking for another sport to promote in place of international rugby union.
If redhall are on the ball they should be courting the beeb now, not at the end of the sky deal.'"
The BBC wont be paying a lot for union or any other sport as the charter dose not allow it, but union makes its money from international games TV rights world wide, BT sports TV pays a lot to cover union as well as SKY. What coverage on the BBC dose do is attract top end sponsors like Guinness, Rolex & the like, who are after the people who are prepared to pay over £60 a ticket to watch at Twickenham, something we can only dream of. Union will use every trick they can to keep the BBC including the threat of removing access if any other sport threatens. They have done it before. As I posted earlier free to air coverage at peak times nation wide is worth a lot in sponsorship deals.
