Re: Channel 4 To Broadcast Super League in 2022 : Mon Nov 29, 2021 5:42 pm  

Does clash with the early Premier League saturday matches though

Re: Channel 4 To Broadcast Super League in 2022 : Tue Jan 18, 2022 10:16 am  

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.

Re: Channel 4 To Broadcast Super League in 2022 : Tue Jan 18, 2022 10:21 pm  

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.

Re: Channel 4 To Broadcast Super League in 2022 : Thu Jan 20, 2022 4:18 pm  

fez1 wrote:

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.

Re: Channel 4 To Broadcast Super League in 2022 : Thu Jan 20, 2022 4:51 pm  

Warrior Winger wrote:

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.

Re: Channel 4 To Broadcast Super League in 2022 : Thu Jan 20, 2022 7:39 pm  

fez1 wrote:

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.

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.

Re: Channel 4 To Broadcast Super League in 2022 : Fri Jan 21, 2022 12:18 am  

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.

Re: Channel 4 To Broadcast Super League in 2022 : Fri Jan 21, 2022 8:41 am  

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.

Re: Channel 4 To Broadcast Super League in 2022 : Sun Jan 23, 2022 9:13 am  

Warrior Winger wrote:

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.

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

Re: Channel 4 To Broadcast Super League in 2022 : Sun Jan 23, 2022 10:00 am  

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