League on U.S. television?
NZPA staff correspondent Sydney Sports fans in the United States will get a regular television diet of Australian rugby league if negotiations next month come off. The Australian league president, Ken Arthurson, leaves for the United States next . month to finalise.
negotiations with TV networks. Sydney premiership games, which feature many leading New Zealand' players, will be televised there every week next season. Only the occasional midweek game has been shown in the United States, but even so the Americans can-
not get enough of it and the networks are eager to sign for more. Mr Arthurson . told the Sydney “Daily Telegraph” that visitors from the United States couldn’t get over the amount of body contact in league and how the players survive without more protective gear.
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