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Appears Sky are on the verge of picking up a three year renewal for Super League, with the new deal involving the live broadcast of all games.

www.superleague.co.uk 

(Very unusual btw for a league to make a public announcement like this when a deal isn’t yet done).

Some reports elsewhere that Super League are taking a cut in the rights fee - not sure how true that is.

So Sky get more for less. Whilst leagues moving towards broadcasting all matches seems inevitable you'd think Super League would be concious to protect their stadium attendances, though I think the nature of the sport means that fans wouldn't give up watching it in person to watch it on Sky.

Can we also deduce from the fact the World Athletics is on location in Budapest that Paris 2024 will be on location as well.

I think that was a given. Tokyo is the only summer Olympics since the 80s not to be anchored on location, and with Paris being as near as the games could be without being in the UK it would be ridiculous not to be based there. Probably easier to get staff from London to Paris than from London to Salford.

Gabby Logan has arrived at Budapest for the athletics today. Jeanette Kwakye has been relegated/moved back to being trackside reporter, with Sarah Mulkerrins now joining the Radio 5 Live team.

I kind of agree with the previous comments on why they have bothered bringing Gabby to Budapest as Jeanette did a great job, and also got to host the first and possibly only British gold medal as well as the flagship events in the 100m finals. On the other hand, you can see why they would want one of their biggest presenters hosting coverage on primetime on BBC One, though Jeanette is more than capable as she has proved this week.

I know I'm agreeing with you agreeing with me but I'd actually say Jeanette comes across as more knowledgeable in these circumstances too - viewers know Gabby's attentions have been elsewhere the last few weeks and whilst I suspect she's done a few mens tournaments then gone on to cover an athletics tournament a few days later it just doesn't quite sit well.

I guess they've the Olympics in mind but even if Gabby remained on the athletics next year, which presumably she will, I think Jeanette getting the gig this year would be fine and build up her profile to give her a presenting slot on the games next year if she isn't doing the athletics herself - although as I've said before for me I think Gabby would be more useful in a general presenting role rather than limited to the second week of athletics with virtually no studio shifts. I would hope that if they can have Clare on location at the swimming for the first week they have Gabby anchoring the evening shift from the studio, then they basically switch roles when the athletics begins.