Is there any reason why the Rugby League cant get a dedicated channel on Sky to promote the game.
Could include interviews, phone in's, archived matches, IE challenge cup, super league, regal trophy, the old floodlite trophy, internationals etc etc the list is endless.
Im sure if the likes of Liverpool, Chelsea and Man Utd can have there own channel surley we as a sport could generate enough intrest to make this viable

How much does it cost to have a dedicated channel on Sky? Would it be free to Sky customers or would they have to pay extra? How many people would actually watch it?

I cant see why it couldnt be free to air.
I flick around channels all the time when theres nothing on, i couldnt think of anything better than watching a old match or two or listening in to phone in

I agree, I'd watch it and so would a lot of die-hard RL fans. But how many others would? If its free to Sky customers then it's got to be financed through advertising which comes back to the issue of who would watch it?
I'd agree that it would be good to have an RL channel showing old games and interviews/news etc, maybe only have it on from 6pm onwards each day like BBC 3 & 4, but I just don't know how it would be funded.

It's something I've always wondered about, and something I'd love to try and look into as a journalist, and see if there were possibilities, avenues or even chances to see if something could happen.

when you look around the amount of poor quality local channels on sky. and some of the religeous based ones seemingly ran out of someoens front room it cant cost as much as you think to actually air the channel. obviously then you have production and staffing costs but it could be viable . There used to be a channel purely for wrestling! which had to expand to wrestling and MMA to fill up the schedule i guess.

I've also thought the same, but channels like Babe station must rake in the money from the sad acts calling in, and the mystical man in the sky channels have the Nazi youth bloke with his billions of Euros backing them.

How would an RL channel finance the channel? Rugby babes talking about god?

as niche markets go....you may be on to something there

I don't know how these channels are run but wouldn't it be possible to be sponsored by say League Express, Rugby League World, Forty Twenty, Love Rugby League, RLFans, clubs promoting their up and coming matches and any other RL organisation with adverts between the programmes? I'd also pay a small subscription every month for a dedicated RL channel. And from midnight till 5am it could be more for the adults where pervs ring in to chat to babes starting off in team kits and end up with nothing on


Surely all these would generate enough money to keep the channel going.

Why not tennis, golf and cricket. One of the few ways we are spreading the game is people accidentally watching or flicking through the channels and finding our game interesting. A shift away from the traditional SS channels (come on everyone knows them off by heart) would only hurt our game.

TV is dying, you could start a rugby league channel on the Internet as a web TV show. Very little cost involved, choose your own schedule, no silly contracts need to be signed.

Superleague could easily do this if they wanted, they would have the rights to old (Superleague anyway) matches that could be put online.

Or even a weekly roundup show with some interviews etc