Title says it all. Read more here,

[urlhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/jun/21/sky-tv-super-league-rights[/url

Great news.

By the sounds of it to get a deal like that in times like these is good business and it gives the game great stability.

Hopefully the clubs can now continue to bring through their youth players and continue to grow their crowds and the game can kick on.

more than RU? was theirs about £85 mill which started this year?

That's a result! I, along with many, feared a big reduction so hopefully that's a positive sign for the future.

I need to see the small print because I'm paranoid the RFL will have messed summat up somewhere along the line.

I would love to know what it is compared to RU.

40million more than the latest deal is a great start though.

SC increase is a must for me. 2 million increase for me and 500k more for the championships. Our sport needs to be more attractive.

I think RU received £87m for their last TV deal, but I dont know how long that was for. Our last TV deal was a three year deal, how that compares to the new 5 year deal I dont know. Taking into account the rising cost of running the sport there wont be much left to increase the SC with. It is nice however to know that it hasn't decreased as it has with other sports.

Current deal = 3 years at £16.7m a year

New deal = 5 years at £18m a year

Which given the current market is a good deal, especially when you compare how the likes of the Football League and Scottish League have had massive cuts in the value of their rights in recent years.

does EVERY SLclub recieve the same amount even if for example Wigan are on 15-20 times a season and Salford are on 3-4 times a season

But it's not. We've gone from a 50 million 3 year deal to a 90 million 5 year deal. Not much of an increase but stability is key!

EDIT: as stated 2 posts back.

Probably due to the cut in entertainment when watching wendyball............

theirs was 5 year and came into effect 2010/11

Fantastic

Only thing I can find for RU is this -[urlhttp://www.espnscrum.com/premiership/rugby/story/88188.html[/url

Which is £54m over three years split between Setanta and Sky (with ESPN picking up the Setanta part), but which shows loads more games per week than our current deal. Their play-off final wasn't even live on Sky.

Just about enough of an increase to allow Widnes into SL without having to throw Wakey out....

[urlhttp://www.sportfocus.com/newspub/story.cfm?ID=30978[/url

That's just the Sky part which includes all the England and other games (outside their Premiership). As a direct comparison the £54m I linked to is a like for like with SL

When you consider that you idenitfy above, the £54m for the Premiership, the deal for the Heineken Cup and BBC 6 Nations deal - it shows how far we are behind in income generation.

Its an improvement from 54m as its 2008 the article. Thats internationals and the prem. They also get good BBC money I would imagine and ESPN.

You sure?

I watched it...was it when Ashton get leathered?

Was on ESPN.

Ah was the one that Owen Farrell kicked them to death.

That was the semi

I remember reading a few months back how the RFU want around £200m for the next deal. As it stands they have a contract for each part, International, club, european,. They would like to combine them all for the £200m.

The one I linked to is specifically their Premiership deal, which while the detail was release in late 2008, only came into effect the season just finish and still has two more season to run. The one you linked to is about England games and a host of other crud (but not the Prem). However like we've both identified they earn huge amounts of money when you add in the other deals.

But in like for like terms, the domestic club deals aren't a million miles away from each other, however their deal is for more games per week than the two SL games per week Sky show.