I heard tonight.
Sky not showing the Championship next year.

I won't miss trying to get to 7:30pm KO's, but if true its kind of a kick in the teeth for Championship RL.
Have to say tho we never got great promo's or pushed like SL, RU, Cricket etc.

Not a bad thing for attendances , although I heard that Premier Sports might be interested on another thread.

They didn't pay us for the privilege anyway

One of the issues with the Championship and NRC tv coverage is , will the RFL allow SKY to retain ' ownership ' of the two finals or the play offs for more than one season at a time

This must not be allowed to happen , as this would make it totally unviable for any other broadcaster to even consider taking on and paying for any future TV coverage

Have to admit I agree with Steve. The lack of authorisation Channel M was able to get after SKY started showing games in 2007 meant that their Code XIII show became a stale magazine show in contrast to the vivid highlights led games it was and while it didn't lead directly to the eventual mothballing of the station, it didn't help when they were asked to stump up cash to SKY even though they only broadcast one of say 10-12 games on a weekend.

If these RUMOURS are true then sky should have no say what so ever over anything that relates to club rl outside of sl.
Surely thats up to the chairmen of the clubs outside of sl?.

Yes they should , then again I doubt they could agree on what colour ball we should play with

Not necessarily , SKY usually tie up all the loose ends and the money bandits from SL install their SKY butt plugs.....End of story.

Doesn't look good for the proposed payments out of SKY monies, to the Championship clubs, in our wonderful revamped competition, next season, does it?

Perhaps the rfl new this and this is why they are hoping to turn champ 1 into some kind of community league with little or no central funding.

Or some kind of community league with central funding , and a Championship with none

Someone on the terrace says preimer sport will be showing some games next season, who are they?

They're a Sky channel who currently show NRL matches and Student Rugby League.

It just shows that the RFL couldn't care less about what goes on outside Super League, they should be fanatically marketing The Championship to counteract the effects of the franchise system. If we want The Championship to be taken seriously then it needs to be televised. Hopefully someone will take it over and market it properly instead of just shoving it on Sky Sports 8 extra red button channel deep down the list in order to put some naff sport on the main sports channels and forgetting about it, sky never took it seriously.

additional subscription required I believe

Indeed. Tenner a month (I think), though that's no different to ESPN.

Sky and the franchise system will kill our game. I have said it from day one.

Don't like the Thursday night matches so won't miss those and if it means having to pay extra for another package I won't be doing that either ,pay enough as it is ,think Fred will be getting more orders if it happens

I must be in a pretty small minority who isn't just getting used to the Thursday games, but quite enjoying having them and still leaving the weekend free.

Do you know if its on virgin media?.

Cancel Sky sports etc and get this new channel - simples and £40 better off.

It could be a good thing if it is shown on Premier Sports. You never know they may start to sponsor The Championship. I will certainly cancel my Sky Sports and get Premier Sports.

Be good if they helped us to break away from Sooper Dooper League and SKY. I can dream , because SKY and RFL are intentionally killing our teams off.

Thats because you are always on the tv Matt.

I'll miss thursday night rugby as I enjoy watching the championship/s & seeing how our competition are doing too this league is so entertaining I can't understand why SLY wouldn't want to have this excellent brand of rugby which probably costs peanuts compared to paying for SL

Like has been said it may help bring club attendances up & boost income some what so every cloud as they say.