Aftenoon all

I've just got sky, is there a channel that you can watch the BBC Super league show on? my old man says he can't get it but i think there might be a Northern monkey region channel on there where you can watch it?

Cheers

Different subject slightly but still in relation to Sky, the news this morning said that Sky TV had been told that they needed to reduce the price that they charge other cable networks to show Sky sports. As a result the money sky will make will drop. Does anything think this could have a major impact on our game with Sky providing a huge amount of the funding?

Yeah you can get all the different regions BBC channels, they are just after all the porn channels, number 900 and something.

Quote ="monkeyshoes"Aftenoon all I've just got sky, is there a channel that you can watch the BBC Super league show on? my old man says he can't get it but i think there might be a Northern monkey region channel on there where you can watch it? Cheers'" www.rugbyleagueontv.co.uk/ Have a look here for the correct channel as it sometimes differs each week.

Quote ="monkeyshoes"Aftenoon all I've just got sky, is there a channel that you can watch the BBC Super league show on? my old man says he can't get it but i think there might be a Northern monkey region channel on there where you can watch it? Cheers'" www.rugbyleagueontv.co.uk/ Have a look here for the correct channel as it sometimes differs each week.

thank you, i shall have a geez tonight!

Hopefully not a significant impact although it must be a worry for all sports that Sky cover. I think the ruling only covered football?? so in a perfect world it would just mean less money for the over-paid football clubs.........
Sky have said that they will challenge the ruling so that could take another 12/18 months before we know the full outcome.

Thanks for the clarity, didnt hear the bit about just covering football. Would be a worry for us if it covers all sports. Guess there 2 options for sky:
1. give the clubs less money
2. charge the punters more for sky to make up the shortfall

Sky is vastly over priced anyway, would be interesting to see what happens when it all plays out.

The regional BBC channels are at the other end of the TV guide on Sky. But, yes you can watch SL show were ever you like, just tune to BBC Yorkshire and Humber.

Here are the channel numbers... just don't "accidently" scroll up to the channels starting at 900.



[code971-BBC 1 Scotland
972-BBC 1 Wales
973-BBC 1 NI
975-BBC 1 NE & C
976-BBC 1 Yorks
977-BBC 1 Yrks&Lin
978-BBC 1 N West
979-BBC 1 W Mids
980-BBC 1 E Mids
981-BBC 1 East (E)
982-BBC 1 East (W)
983-BBC 1 S East
984-BBC 1 South
985-BBC 1 Oxford
986-BBC 1 West
987-BBC 1 S West
988-BBC 1 Cl
989-BBC 2 England
990-BBC 2 Scotland
991-BBC 2 W
992-BBC 2 NI
[/code

It's taken ofcom 3 years to come up with this ruling and with sky challenging it it'll probably be another 3 years before this is sorted.

If ofcom win it can only be bad for our sport imo.

The ruling covers all "premium content", sports, movies etc.

Any potential loss from Sky would be covered by increased income from sponsors, there brand will be seen by more people on more channels (potentially).

Movies have been split out and referred to the Competition Commission. There may not be any change there at all.

And the ruling only applies to Sky Sports 1 and 2 as these are the only channels whose content they sell to rival broadcasters.

Another potential offset of losses is Offcom allowing them to charge for content provided on Freeview.

BSkyB are challenging the ruling in court so it's not settled yet.

Lazy reporting on Five Live then, their correspondent said it was all Sports and Movies, no mention of the split or the appeal.

The entire ruling is moderately complex and detailed - way beyond the capabilities of the Five Live news team methinks.



There was a pretty good piece on it during Today on R4 this morning, and there's a decent summary page on the Beeb website.

I'm sure you will

RFU threatening legal action if revenues are reduced according to radio news.

That'd be interesting. Depends what kind of contractual agreement is in place i guess.