Hull v saints in on channel 4 the following Saturday that's should be a good game too. Hull usually start well that's a big potential upset on the cards, although I expect saints to win really. Another good fixture for Channel 4 to have.

We have Cas at home on the thurdsday for our second match and that's on sky.

A big guffaw from the rugby gods pitching us against Cas for the first home game. Could be a cracker.

Sponsors will be queuing up for deals if CH4 go beyond 2022. A great move, even if we were paying CH4 to do it!
I’ve been very dissatisfied at varying degrees with sky sports RL production over the last decade.I cancelled my subscription this year.

The live streaming is important to get money into the game from folk who logistically (and for other reasons) cannot make it to alive game. I hope that viewers that live well outside the M62 corridor, will watch Chanel 4's coverage, like what they see and will then watch it streamed live. Lets hope that new terrestrial viewers are aware that this service will be available, and it will be of a decent quality.

Great news to get more money in to the sport, more viewers and potential fans, and best of all even more games for us to watch through the year

Does clash with the early Premier League saturday matches though

So was looking to see who is fronting this and not found anything as yet. But what I have found is C4 have actually put it out to tender to private production companies, no idea who that may be.

I wrote to C4 to congratulate them on this deal.
Got a good reply which wss along the lines of 'we're looking forward to it and hope the viewing figures match the interest we've had so far'.

The ball is in RL fans court.

Difficult one this, clubs need fans in the stadium but the TV need viewers sat at home, my suggestion is go to the game and leave the TV on for the game, double bubble.

Alternatively, take your telly and a very very long extension cable to the game.

Good stuff.

I would say that the ball is in the RFL / Super League's court to deliver entertainment and sporting contest that drives attendance and viewing figures for C4.

Hopefully. Channel 4 has the numbers to increase there coverage going forward.
Even if you split the coverage with sky.
Sky take a Thursday and Friday night game. Channel 4 takes a Saturday tea time and Sunday tea time game.
Just a shame that football will take so much more priority than the great game we have. Where we could have a Saturday dinner time and Sunday dinner time game to have every game broadcast over the weekend.

We only need 6 slots a week. It would be absolutely fantastic to have all superleague games shown live.

Alternatively. Even if Channel 4 take 25% of the coverage. Make a deal for the 2nd tier to have some coverage.

Although my ideal scenario would be a 3/4 tier league system and coverage shown throughout the 3 leagues to evenly distribute the money across the board to bring some more money and health into the whole game.

Does anyone know yet the value of this contract?

It would be interesting to see now much they are paying, compared with Sky, pro rata per game.

That’s it then, it’s dammed in to failure. They’ll be only about 12 tv viewers!

Just seen channel 4 advert for Super League shown this morning, not seen anything on Sky yet?

1-0 to channel 4. Sky need to take note.

We're on TV 7 times out of the first 11 rounds this season, 5 on Sky and 2 on Channel 4. I'm buzzing with that, hopefully i can get to some of the games not on TV aswell. I'm so excited for this year

Warrington, thanks to Simon Moran doing just that. Estimates saying 3k going to Leeds.
That should look good with us filling the get pist wet through end.

With me ditching Sly (sic) Sports 6 years ago, and me getting my fix of live sports through other (ahem) sources, I'm less exposed to Sly's advertising/treatment of our game. Whenever I have their channels on, we almost seem like an inconvenience /channel filler to them. Almost like asking a stroppy teenager to tidy their room.

Hopefully, C4's emergence will give them a munch needed kick up the proverbial..... and get rid of all their match day team.

As long as you remember to top your elecy meter up it shuld be fine, you pay to get into the game so the club gets income, you leave the TV on C4 and it counts as a viewing figure, happy days all around

I've said it before on other threads and hopefully I don't sound like a broken record, or that poor bloke Mike O'Farrell from Middlesex CC (who's being hounded unnecessarily IMO) but why would Sky Sports actively promote our sport? We are not PL Football, or a sport with a premium audience like Golf, I agree with you that we are a stocking filler and it's in their interests to pay as little as possible for our 'product'.

There's plenty of competition on the stocking filler stakes most noticeably Women's Soccer, Women's Netball, Women's Cricket, which is fair enough to an 'enlightened' bloke like me at least it's played in the UK. BUT Women's Basketball from the USA, really?

Well, they have given our sport MILLIONS of pounds since 1989 (admittedly nowhere near the levels of PL, Cricket, Golf, F1 etc), and them "saving the sport" in 95, with the launch of SL a year later, so I'd expect them to plug RL in their "what's coming up this month" ad, but we rarely feature. If we do do, it's for a second, if we're lucky. We're bombarded with US sports (admittedly the time delay facilitates this) and women's sports, where one girl and her dog are the attendances (when you take away the free tickets....it DOES happen).
I know Salford, Wakey etc have poor attendances, but there's teams with 5 figure crowds, week in week out, so the general public ARE interested.
It just annoys me why RL is treated as the "ginger stepchild" of their sports portfolio.

On the 2022 trailer for Sky Sports we got 3 clips of about 0.73 seconds each. Women's cricket got well above that. Tells you everything

On the subject of C4 games, does anyone have any idea of the format or presenters?

Adam Hills…..and er….