Does anybody know which 2 clubs featured in skys first showing of RL ?

In the advert for 20 years of SKY, is the very first sportsman shown a bearded Keiron Cunningham? If it ain't it's his twin!

the first SUPERLEAGUE televised game was Paris St Germain- Sheffield Eagles.......prior to that i have no idea

Im after the 1st ever Rugby League game broadcast by sky

Bilko could know, expecially if it involved Wigan.

your having no luck googling it then?................me neither.

No iv tried the other ones aswell (wikipedia,jeeves,google etc..)

Have you asked on the virtual terrace forum as well?

It might seem like splitting hairs but 'Screensport' televised wigan games on the Sky platform in 1989 & 1990 before ITV got the rights for a couple of years ?

Just done it hopfully ill get an answer it must have been us v someone

Sky Sports' first Live Match was a Premiership Trophy Round 1 match between Castleford and Leeds at Wheldon Road on Sunday 21st April 1991, a day after the channel launched.

I say launched, Sky Sports was actually created following a merger between two rival satellite broadcasters - "British Satellite Broadcasting" and "Sky Television". So whilst the name Sky Sports is 20 years old, the channel itself is actually 21 because Sky Sports directly replaced the proceeding "The Sports Channel" (not Screensport) which was part of BSB.

BSB Sport Channel launched in March 1990 and immediately picked up Rugby League, even though the sport had live coverage of league games (this side of the pennines at least) on Granada ITV. Like on Sky, Eddie Hemmings and Mike Stephenson did the commentary for the channel.

BSB's first Live Game was Wakefield v Wigan from Belle Vue on 1st April 1990 which Wigan won 23-14. BSB had very little audience, and fans were p*ssed off by the original Sunday 6:30pm kick off times. Sky effectively took over BSB's Sport Channels contract. A week before Sky's first game, a Wigan v Castleford league game was shown by the Sport Channel.

Sky Sports was free for the first full year it aired during the 1991-1992 season. Granada were still showing games but by 1992-93 Sky had picked up the Premier League and started to charge £5.99 a month (£2.99 introductory offer) for the Channel. Sky also took exclusive rights to Rugby League and began showing Live games on Friday's with a full delayed, or highlights of a, game shown on Sunday Nights.

21 years later Rugby League remains Sky's longest serving contract with WWE Wrestling. And in all those years BSB/Sky have only failed to televise the Wigan v St Helens derby once. Way back in April 1991 the Good Friday derby was postponed due to Saints playing a Cup Semi Final and when it was re-arranged for a Thursday Night a week later they didn't show it.

Edit - Maybe not.