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Six Nations Rugby going behind a TV paywall
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<blockquote data-quote="smartcooky" data-source="post: 706760" data-attributes="member: 20605"><p>A very bad move indeed. </p><p></p><p>Rugby did that in NZ back in the mid-1990s with the NPC and Super 12 when Sky took over, and it disenfranchised a <strong>lot </strong>of Rugby fans. The broadcasters relented by allowing some delayed coverage of matches on free to air channels, but the damage was done and people turned away from the game by the thousands. The crowd numbers dropped from the 30-40,000+ per match they were getting for matches in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch to what we see today.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smartcooky, post: 706760, member: 20605"] A very bad move indeed. Rugby did that in NZ back in the mid-1990s with the NPC and Super 12 when Sky took over, and it disenfranchised a [B]lot [/B]of Rugby fans. The broadcasters relented by allowing some delayed coverage of matches on free to air channels, but the damage was done and people turned away from the game by the thousands. The crowd numbers dropped from the 30-40,000+ per match they were getting for matches in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch to what we see today. [/QUOTE]
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