Upset for league fans
PA Auckland; A 30 per cent increase in television rights for the English Rugby League Challenge Cup final between Hull and Hull Kingston Rovers means that New Zealand rugby league fans will miss seeing the match' which was to have been . screened ■ tomorrow. ; ’ -,M*. The match was played last week-end and in a bitter
jcontest the Rovers emerged, 10-5 winners. Mr Keith McEwen, head of sports programming fof Television New Zealand, said that the rights were -held bjl the -British Rugby League Council, which had increased them to such an extent that i the programme would cost more than the rights to ths world heavyweight boxini : title fight between Muhara • mad Ali and Larry Holmes, |
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Press, 9 May 1980, Page 4
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