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Sky Sports secures 6 new sport deals
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Sky Sports has secured six long-term rights agreements across six different sports including the British & Irish Lions, Super League rugby, England overseas cricket, Scottish football, speedway and sports entertainment leader, WWE.
• LIONS RUGBY– Exclusively live coverage of the 2017 British & Irish Lions Tour to New Zealand, including every Test match against the mighty All Blacks
• SUPER LEAGUE– A five-year deal from 2017, ensuring only on Sky Sports can viewers enjoy live Super League matches until at least 2021
• WWE– A five-year deal from 2015 offering over 600 hours of content a year from the worldwide leader in sports entertainment including weekly programming and 12 special PPV events a year
• ENGLAND CRICKET– A seven-year deal for live cricket from New Zealand, including two England winter tours in 2018 and 2020
• SCOTTISH FOOTBALL– A four-year deal with the Scottish FA beginning next season for the Scottish Cup, international friendlies and Scottish FA Youth Cup
• SPEEDWAY– At least five more years of Elite League speedway starting this April, offering Sky Sports viewers live coverage of 25 meetings a season
• LIONS RUGBY– Exclusively live coverage of the 2017 British & Irish Lions Tour to New Zealand, including every Test match against the mighty All Blacks
• SUPER LEAGUE– A five-year deal from 2017, ensuring only on Sky Sports can viewers enjoy live Super League matches until at least 2021
• WWE– A five-year deal from 2015 offering over 600 hours of content a year from the worldwide leader in sports entertainment including weekly programming and 12 special PPV events a year
• ENGLAND CRICKET– A seven-year deal for live cricket from New Zealand, including two England winter tours in 2018 and 2020
• SCOTTISH FOOTBALL– A four-year deal with the Scottish FA beginning next season for the Scottish Cup, international friendlies and Scottish FA Youth Cup
• SPEEDWAY– At least five more years of Elite League speedway starting this April, offering Sky Sports viewers live coverage of 25 meetings a season
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To be honest I don't know what WWE is classed as! But its shown on Sky Sports ;-)
But why include WWE under sport - isn't it a constructed reality show like TOWIE or Made in Chelsea?
And as for Scottish Football - I guess the Conference contract wasn't up for renewal yet, so they chose the next option...
the clue is in the name - WWE
where the E stands for Entertainment.
the same could be said about any league really.
the winners are always going to come from a tiny sub-section of teams.
Scotland - 2 teams (at the moment 1)
England - 3 teams (maybe 4 at a push)
Spain - 2 teams
Italy - 3 teams
Germany - 2 teams
one of those deals [cricket] probably won't take place due to ICC restructuring
the rl deal and lions deal are both extensions of existing contracts, though the 'new' SL set up sees the matches increase to 100.
scottish football was the best domestic contract up for renewal, bt if they did bid might be disappointed about that
its still the case that bar part of sl and speedway these are all for contracts that are winter based.
Atletico is currently tied with Barca and ahead of Real Madrid. The Premiership is having one of its most open races in years. Wolfsburg won the German title in 2008/9. There have been at least five different winners of each of those leagues in the past 30 years, Scotland has had two, and until Rangers make it back there is precisely no chance the league will be won by anyone other than Celtic.
Good news about Super League though.
Rugby Union I don't care about, think it's rubbish personally.
Cricket from New Zealand doesn't fuss me other than the England tours there.
Speedway doesn't interest me.
Scottish deal is fine, surprised about it including the Scottish Youth Cup though, don't see anyone really watching that, but it must've been part of the deal on offer.
Might have thought they would have been more interested in picking Grand Prix speedway back up again now that there is a young British World Champion who is going to be in contention for years to come.
Lets see what 6 nations viewing figues are compared to Rugby League World Cup.
I thought people stopped complaining about the WWE being on Sky Sports years ago ..
Anyway, it's obvious why it's on Sky Sports - money. The kids like to watch it, so the parents will pay for the Sports package.
Any Lions tour is a pretty big deal, and will appeal to viewers in England, Scotland and Wales. Only problem is the kick-off times aren't great for UK viewing. I'm not much of a fan of either rugger code, but the Lions I'll watch. Agree with you on most of the rest, same issue re: start times for the cricket from NZ. Maybe England won't be hopeless by then.
well if you're gonna include the last 30 years then you need to include aberdeen and dundee utd then.
is the english premier league really that open in terms of who will win it? in reality it'll be from the same usual suspects. just like every other league.
Don't care really, as I won't be watching it. Just because it might get bigger viewing figures doesn't mean I'll become interested in the sport. I think league is good and union is (to put it politely) rubbish. That's never gonna change.
Viewing figures between the 2 different codes are therefore totally irrelevant to me.
Didn't even watch the RWC in 2003 when England won it because I think it's a rubbish sport, and I'd rather watch a sport involving 2 nations I have no real interest in but in a sport that I like watching, than watch England in a world cup final in a sport that I have no interest in watching because I think it's rubbish.
Wrestling is no more fixed than
Snooker
Cricket
Horse racing
And some football matches
They haven't, not on this list anyway, so I can breathe easily - for the time being :-(
But in those sports the participants do actually sink shots, hit and catch the ball, win races and score goals, they don't pretend to do so. And the "fixed" outcomes are very rare, not every single contest. Or does WWE occasionally have matches where the winner hasn't been agreed in advance?
Erm, yes it is. WWE is fixed in every aspect at all times. No other 'sport' is. To say it's no more fixed than the other sports you mentioned makes me wonder if you'd been drinking when you posted that, because it's such absolute complete tosh it's just not even funny.
You're right about Aberdeen (last time they won was 1985), Dundee's last title was 1983.
Wolfsburg winning the German title in 2008/9 was not a case of "usual suspects", and if Atletico were to somehow win La Liga this season that would be very unexpected as well. Man City are at least new to the top table in England, even if it is 100% down to dumb luck and oil money.
The Scottish league at the moment obviously suffers from what happened to Rangers, but an eighteen point league just after Christmas on the back of ten straight wins for Celtic means the whole thing is pretty much a foregone conclusion. And it's not as though Celtic are a power in Europe. Watching their players celebrate like they just won the world cup as they bang in their third and fourth goals against the likes of Kilmarnock is fairly laughable.
I am the other way.
And as for the RL World Cup las year, how many teams were Australian???
Ehhh...and Ireland