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Japan vs England on Rugbypass TV
DIR By: DOK
Date: June 3, 2024, 7:58 am
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Rugby’s battle to remain relevant not helped by disappearance of
England games
‘Exciting partnership’ with streaming service for Japan match
reveals much about current appeal of the sport to mainstream
broadcasters
DANIEL SCHOFIELD DEPUTY RUGBY UNION CORRESPONDENT 1 June 2024 •
8:04am
Even in the midst of this general election cycle, it will be
difficult to find a press release loaded with more topspin than
the announcement that England’s summer match against Japan –
officially the Lipovitan D Challenge Cup match – will be
broadcast on RugbyPass TV.
The Rugby Football Union proclaimed it an “exciting partnership”
while a chap from World Rugby spoke of the “provision of
world-class live content and unique storytelling” and
“broaden[ing] rugby’s accessibility”. A more realistic
assessment would be that it is another worrying sign of rugby’s
appeal to mainstream broadcasters that an England Test match has
ended up on a World Rugby-subsidised website.
This may not be the highest profile match of the summer but it
is one with perhaps the best narrative with Eddie Jones taking
on England for the first time since his second most recent
defenestration. Surely coverage of the press conference alone
should be enough to entice the BBC to bump a repeat of Money for
Nothing from its early morning schedule. Apparently not.
The free-to-view element is welcome and the RFU privately claim
to have turned down offers from pay-TV broadcasters. Yet it is
only free to view to the core English rugby demographic should
they be able to download the necessary apps, register their
details and remember their log-in in the early hours of the
morning of June 22. That is simpler for some than others,
particularly those who are used to only viewing their sport via
their traditional television. They cannot even fall back on
radio coverage as the BBC will not be sending a team to the Far
East.
I am going to make a bold prediction and state that come 15
minutes before kick off on that Saturday morning, there’s going
to be an unholy amount of swearing up and down the home counties
Pah, they’re dinosaurs according to England Rugby’s marketing
director Ewan Turney who has his eyes on the “younger audiences
[who] are gravitating towards streaming platforms”. Presumably
they are all going to be paying £200 for tickets to the England
v New Zealand game this autumn which is going to fund the new
Professional Game Partnership that is propping up Premiership
Rugby. What’s that? It will actually be the old fuddies you
don’t seem to value? Oh...
There is also a long and unhappy history of international
sporting matches being streamed on websites – England v Ukraine
in 2009 anyone? – that frequently end in disaster. RugbyPass at
least has a history of broadcasting matches in the southern
hemisphere. They are not a tinpot operation, in part because
they are funded by World Rugby.
But this in itself raises another round of questions. Will their
commentators and analysts be willing to call out a controversial
refereeing decision? Or question the logic of World Rugby’s new
laws? It is never quite clear what the degree of editorial
separation is between the sport’s governing body and a
supposedly separate broadcaster and accompanying news website.
Certainly you cannot declare they are fully independent.
Another worrying development is the fact that Sky Sports will
not be sending its own reporting team for the two-Test series in
New Zealand. Again, what does it say that one of our main
broadcasters is prepared to cover potentially the last ever
series against the All Blacks on the cheap?
Instead it will be left to a small band of newspapers –
including Telegraph Sport – to provide boots on the ground, ask
the tough questions and provide independent scrutiny for better
or worse of England’s performances, on and off the field. That
is probably just as well given that scandal never seems to be
far away when England touch down in the Land of the Long White
Cloud - be that ferries, dwarves or good old-fashioned sex.
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Re: Japan vs England on Rugbypass TV
DIR By: poorfour
Date: June 3, 2024, 8:20 am
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Reads a lot like a newspaperman trying to sell newspapers
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Re: Japan vs England on Rugbypass TV
DIR By: Fearless Fred
Date: June 3, 2024, 9:21 am
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I think the issue is that the Japan test was added later than
the New Zealand tests (Japan was announced in July 2023, the NZ
tour was scheduled as of Dec 2022). Sky had already got the
rights for New Zealand, but didn't want the extra expense of
having the Japan test too (probably hadn't been included in
their budgets). It would be difficult for other broadcasters to
justify the expense of a one-off game, particularly if it
requires "boots on the ground" to do the coverage if they don't
have sports-centric presence in the region already.
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Re: Japan vs England on Rugbypass TV
DIR By: deadlyfrom5yardsout
Date: June 3, 2024, 11:55 pm
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Send our intrepid roving reporter Maidstone Quin along, with his
smartphone to give us full coverage..
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Re: Japan vs England on Rugbypass TV
DIR By: Bolly-Quin
Date: June 4, 2024, 1:01 pm
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Which company is showing it in Japan and how do/can we use VPNs
to get round this?
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Re: Japan vs England on Rugbypass TV
DIR By: never sleep
Date: June 4, 2024, 2:17 pm
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You don't need a Vpn to watch it here. You just go to the
website, create a user ID and then log in and watch it. You can
also download the app to your android TV if you have one. I
think there is an apple version too.
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Re: Japan vs England on Rugbypass TV
DIR By: deadlyfrom5yardsout
Date: June 5, 2024, 2:27 am
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Cant record it though can we?
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Re: Japan vs England on Rugbypass TV
DIR By: poorfour
Date: June 5, 2024, 3:04 am
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--- Quote from: deadlyfrom5yardsout link ---
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> Cant record it though can we?
>
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No, but it will be available on replay a litle while later
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Re: Japan vs England on Rugbypass TV
DIR By: never sleep
Date: June 5, 2024, 3:43 am
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--- Quote from: Bolly-Quin link ---
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> Which company is showing it in Japan and how do/can we use
VPNs to get round this?
>
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It is on jsports 1.
But, I don't think that this is a free-to-air channel. So it may
not be possible to watch it easily.
HTML https://www.jsports.co.jp/program_guide/month/english/240622/
HTML https://www-jsports-co-jp.translate.goog/subscribe/broadcast/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
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Re: Japan vs England on Rugbypass TV
DIR By: Fearless Fred
Date: June 5, 2024, 4:03 am
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And the commentary will probably be in Japanese, so unless
you're fluent, it could be a little distracting!
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