Former England star and broadcaster Martin Bayfield has insisted that the Six Nations should stay on free-to-air TV, however enhancements are additionally mandatory.
Rumours had prompt that the match might be taken behind a paywall, having not been added to the UK Authorities’s protected sporting occasions.
Bayfield needs the competitors to stay on terrestrial TV, however on one station.
“Rugby simply can’t disguise away and solely soar out from behind a tree and say, ‘Right here we’re!’ after which disappear once more. It wants oxygen in any other case it’s simply going to fail,” mentioned Bayfield to The Telegraph.
“The Six Nations needs to be free-to-air and needs to be one platform so you have got one focus, one message, one tone. I don’t know if I’m too old style, however I would like to have the ability to hear the theme tune and suppose, ‘That’s the Six Nations’ and stroll in from the opposite room to look at.
“It’s a must to have an excellent build-up however much more essential is having good evaluation afterwards, and entry to the sport by way of the week. Each Six Nations sport must be like a mini Tremendous Bowl. You could have press conferences, you have got interviews with gamers, and superstars who take pleasure in rugby.
“We additionally must embrace new media to seize all ages group as a result of that’s what rugby is about. For the time being the one individuals who appear to be doing it are podcasters. They’ve entry to those individuals, why aren’t the TV corporations doing that?
“But when it stays on terrestrial TV, they’ve to present it the complete works, not only a transient build-up after which 5 minutes after the sport earlier than saying that they’re off to the Ant and Dec present. It’s got to be provided that continuous narrative right through so having it on one channel can be so significantly better.”
