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NRL increasing its TV airtime. Finally!

Roar Guru
3rd February, 2011
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St. George Illawarra Dragons 2010 NRL premiers

ONE HD’s decision to broadcast a ‘One Week At A Time’-style NRL show is the best indication yet that Channel 10 and ONE are serious contenders for the NRL’s next television rights deal.

The show will be hosted by Channel 10 rugby league reporter Adam Hawse, with NSW Origin coach Ricky Stuart as his sidekick.

It’s a breath of fresh air to not only have another rugby league-only show but, for the second year in a row, a current non-broadcast partner joining the rugby league community.

It’s not time to get giddy, I know, but it’s great news for rugby league fans and must be great news to the NRL CEO David Gallop.

Still on rugby league television shows, I would like to see ‘Mad Monday’ return and for the entire 2011 season. The show premiered last season during the finals, hosted by Cameron Williams with Phil Gould, Ray Hadley and Sunday Telegraph‘s Neil Breen also appearing.

While Breen was there for the media’s point of view, Gould and Hadley analysed the games played over the weekend and the matchups for the weekend ahead.

The ‘Matty Johns Show’ also started in 2010 and it’s likely to return for another year.

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Another show is ‘Controversy Corner’, with prizes and games involving players and the public.

The more NRL on television, and in the media, the better.

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