I would link to the bbc story but BSC will do it, but appears Challenge cup no longer protected good or bad??

We should have more of a free hand to negotiate, but it's never good to have one of your two annual showpiece events effectively dissed like this.

Bad in the sense that it is a sad indictment on how valuable our sport is percieved to be to the nation.

Bad.
Only live televised RL some of us get to watch.

Bad as it's the only national exposure we get. Should we get more money from a better tv deal to invest it'll be like pouring fine wine into a colander.

This also might give the anti league elements within the BBC an excuse to drop any bid for it as well.

Apparently the study didn't involve viewers across the whole country, some areas were missed out.

This has obviously skewed the results.

The BBC must televise some RL. It surely can't completely ignore one of the most watched spectator sports in the country?

Would you like to bet? The rest of the media does, so why not the Beeb too?

[url=http://www.totalrl.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=192892&view=findpost&p=1899749Some issues with the report[/url. RFL aren't happy.

The RFL can now sell it to who they like, but they know that to have all of RL on Pay per View would be stupid so it wont happen. Look at these 4 nations, 2 of the games were on the BBC, for the first time in a long time, because they know that they got to get more people watching it.

I dont envision any changes to the Challange Cup

Give it to ITV

If they cover RL as well as they cover Football, please don't.

What Davis Davies said on Sky? was that these are only the committee's recommendations, that any of the sports mentioned can ask the Minister responsible to change his mind re whatever the relevant recommendation is, so nothing is apparently set in stone as yet!