I believe that if you do it through the club, some of the cost will find it's way into Halifax' coffers.

There is a meeting this afternoon in Brighouse about the RFL's plans for the Championship and the above has been announced.

The coverage sounds like match wise it will be similar to Sky's but with a better build up and editorial focus.

When would these games but going out on tv?thursdays like sky did?i was just wondering from a fixture point of view if we were going to have to put up with thursday night games again this time?

Yes Thursday nights. There will be more C1 games as well this year.

Which will absolutly cripple Championship 1, and to be honest wont do the championship any good either.

Thursday nights are just ridiculous, Clubs needfans to travel to get their fix, not just to get a few tins and stay in.

Were fans invited to the meeting or was it just club officials ?.

The clubs also won't receive a penny from the TV deal. Great deal brokered by the RFL that.

If the clubs are not getting anything out of the deal, why the chuff are we doing it???????

Ridiculous...

Apparently clubs may get something through getting commission on subscription they sell.

In favour of this or not, there's no chance of subscribing if you are on Virgin Media

It's up their site if go here [urlhttp://www.premiersports.tv/[/url and click on 'Rugby' on the left hand side. The only other day they could put it on is a Sunday because they won't want it up against Super League. But with a lot of people at matches on a Sunday I can't see that happening either.

AAAAArgh, just when I thought I would be able to get some RL fix next season with no SKY and not even any SL, I find out its not on Virgin Media which is what I am on.
Is there no way it will be at all?

Still waiting for an answer to my email of today to Virgin Media. Expecting roughly same reply as last month and the month before:- "Thank you for your e-mail dated 3 September 2011 with regards to the availability of Premier Sports. Unfortunately we don't have plans to introduce this channel just yet......."



Premier Sports TV have requested that customers contact Virgin directly asking for Premier Sports to be made available on their platform.

If I get a positive response, I will post it on here.

It's ironic that Sky Sports are dumping Championship Rugby, but the only way to get it from Premier TV is to subscribe via the Sky platform

Barstewards.

Our sponsors must be pretty hacked off - how many times were we on Sky last year? That's all gone now. I remember seeing some BARB figures showing over 150,000 viewers for Championship Thursdays. Well done RFL, well done. Immense.

just watched sea eagles v rabbitohs on there, i dont have sky so not paying there silly prices, got premier for £7,99,a month

Littlerich said: "It's ironic that Sky Sports are dumping Championship Rugby, but the only way to get it from Premier TV is to subscribe via the Sky platform"

Seanfax said : "just watched sea eagles v rabbitohs on there, i dont have sky so not paying there silly prices, got premier for £7,99,a month"

I'm confused now as the 2 statements seem to contradict each other. I currently have Sky and Sky Sports. I have wanted to dump them for years but, up to now, it has been the only way to get my RL fix (apart from going to games of course). If I now dump Sky in it's entirety will I be able to subscribe to and receive Premier Sports or not?

theres nothing to stop you cancelling sky sports as a premium channel,then subscribing to premier on a reduced
monthly payment.

Can you please clarify as this baffles me.

The information I have got from Premier Sports is that is only available as a subscription channel via Sky Channel 433.

How can you get Premier Sports if you don't have Sky? Or are you really saying you do actually have Sky but do not subscribe to Sky Sports?

But seanfax says that he doesnt have sky, just gets premier sports. Surely you need sky to get it????

You don't have to subscribe to sky, all you need is a dish and a box.

After your first 12 months, you are free to cancel all subscriptions to sky, but keep the box and watch free to air channels and subscription services provided by third parties.

If you don't have sky, go on ebay and buy a second hand box, then get a local aerial company to come and put a dish up for you.

i always thought the sky tv services run via your sky card

If Premier Sports is like Setanta (washes my mouth out and spits) then you should be able to get it through a type of freeview box where you can pay for extra channels through a top-up card. I may be wrong, though.

Yeh, but once the contract expires you can still use the box to decode free to air channels, there's also a card sky sell that gives you a few extra I think

I haven't got Sky,
Therefore I haven't got a sky dish,
I don't know what a decoder is,
Therefore to get Premier sports should I buy a Television?

reading all this, I think i'm safe to say if you got virgin media you won't be watching Championship rugby next year

ive had sky in the past, but cancelled all paying channels about 6 months ago,so basicly i am using my sky box as a freeview box, just geting free channels,so all i did was subscribe to premier sports for £7.99 a month,,u dont need to be signed up to sky to get premier eventho u use the sky card,

As John Logie Baird once said: "You gotta buy my moving picture box to watch the televisual feast that is Championship Rugby League".

So heed the great inventors words and treat yourself to that TV set you've been longing to buy.