Sky Sports activities will present all six matches in every Tremendous League spherical reside, totalling round 170 video games annually, together with Magic Weekend fixtures, play-offs and males’s, ladies’s and wheelchair Grand Finals; the brand new settlement extends Sky Sports activities’ partnership with the Tremendous League past 30 years
Final Up to date: 14/10/23 3:00pm
Sky Sports activities has agreed a brand new three-year deal to broadcast the Tremendous League
Sky Sports activities will broadcast each Betfred Tremendous League match reside for the primary time from subsequent season as a part of an historic new three-year rights deal.
The brand new settlement extends the Sky Sports activities’ partnership with the Tremendous League past 30 years.
As a part of the deal, Sky Sports activities will present all six matches in every Tremendous League spherical reside, totalling round 170 video games annually throughout Sky Sports activities channels and platforms. It will embrace Magic Weekend fixtures, Playoffs and all three Grand Finals – Males’s, Ladies’s and Wheelchair.
The funding additionally signifies that video referees will now function in all Tremendous League matches, bringing elevated consistency and integrity to the game.
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Jenna Brooks and Megan Wellens are pitch aspect at Outdated Trafford to stay up for the Tremendous League Grand Ultimate between Wigan Warriors and Catalans Dragons.
Jenna Brooks and Megan Wellens are pitch aspect at Outdated Trafford to stay up for the Tremendous League Grand Ultimate between Wigan Warriors and Catalans Dragons.
Jonathan Licht, Sky Sports activities managing director mentioned: “We’re extraordinarily pleased with our long-standing relationship with Tremendous League and delighted to be extending our partnership past three a long time by this settlement.
“It has been an distinctive season and we’re excited that from subsequent season each strive, deal with and cross from each fixture will probably be proven reside throughout Sky platforms – a primary for the game.
“Alongside our dedication to the ladies’s and wheelchair sport, we’re delighted that followers will have the ability to get pleasure from essentially the most complete providing within the historical past of the game.”
RL Industrial retain the flexibility to draw new viewers with the continuation of free-to-air broadcast alternatives, in addition to by a devoted Tremendous League-owned streaming platform – with additional particulars to be confirmed by the autumn.
As a part of the Reimagining Rugby League mission developed by the strategic partnership with IMG, membership of the boys’s Tremendous League will probably be decided by a brand new grading system from 2025.
Rhodri Jones, RL business managing director mentioned: “Tremendous League’s partnership with Sky Sports activities has been consistently evolving because the competitors was launched in 1996, and we’re excited to have confirmed this vital extension which is able to elevate that partnership, and the Tremendous League itself, to a brand new degree.
“The timing is ideal for a deal of this type after such an thrilling and aggressive season underlining the real depth of the competitors, and with Rugby League embarking on an thrilling new period by our strategic partnership with IMG.
“Sky Sports activities additionally share our optimism in regards to the potential for progress of the ladies’s and wheelchair Tremendous Leagues within the subsequent three years, so additionally they type an vital a part of the brand new deal.”
Along with reside matches, Tremendous League followers can tune in to Sky Sports activities for a variety of help programming, together with interviews and options, and may keep throughout all the most recent Rugby League information throughout Sky Sports activities’ channels on social media, SkySports.com and Sky Sports activities Information.