Esher Rugby - Community Network/Business to Business Club Package

Media/Press Coverage

If you decide to become a sponsor and club partner, you will be associated with a successful, legendary rugby club with an enviably high profile in all sections of the media, from local press to mainstream national television. It goes without saying that the quality of those you endorse carries weight with a discerning public.

The Rugby Club (Thursdays on Sky Sports Xtra, repeated twice)
News features: e.g. Breast Cancer game, Brian Smith coaching session
Fixtures and results from National 1 games
Occasional match highlights (1 - 2 featured games)
Average daily reach is 258,000 (Sky Sports Xtra)
SOURCE: BARB
BBC London
News features from special events, e.g. RFUW Nations Cup, interview with John Inverdale, Touraid Finals

Radio

BBC Southern Counties Radio
Weekly Rugby Special on Saturdays featuring interviews with Mike Schmid and John Inverdale.
Average weekly reach is 277,000 (12% of transmission area population)
40,000-50,000 listeners to Sport Programme; average hours per listener 8.3
Website
Radio interviews and news articles on Esher Rugby page of Southern Counties website
Radio Jackie - South West London & North Surrey (Commercial)
Results/fixtures on sports news,
Features for special events, e.g. Ladies Day
Average weekly reach is 20,000

National Press

Fixtures, Results & League tables in all main National newspapers

Local Press

Walton & Weybridge Informer
Regular back page exposure with photos
Average net circulation 48,543 (free letterbox delivery)
   
Yourlocalguardian Elmbridge
Regular back page exposure with photos
Average net circulation 42,054 (free letterbox delivery)
   
Esher News & Mail
Weekly sports editorial
Match reports & previews
Club news, reader offers and promotion
Average net circulation 5,530
   
Surrey Herald
Weekly sports editorial
Reader offers
Average net circulation 4,458 (Walton, Weybridge and Hersham)
   
Surrey Comet
Weekly sports editorial
Match reports and previews
Average net circulation 6,991
SOURCE: Audit Bureau of Circulations
   
Essential Esher (Local monthly publication)
Regular Esher Rugby column
Monthly local publication
   
Totally Weybridge (Local monthly glossy publication)
Coverage of club events
Monthly local glossy
   

Evening Standard (London)

Evening Standard (London)
Regular match reports on sports pages in Rugby Round Up (Thursdays). Average net circulation 292,976
SOURCE: Audit Bureau of Circulations

Coverage of Esher matches

National Division 1 Opposition Press Coverage
Home & away fixtures with 15 teams, e.g.:
Yorkshire Post
Birmingham Post
Coventry Evening Telegraph
Cornish Guardian
Nottingham Evening Post
Express and Echo (Exeter)
Rotherham Advertiser

Rugby Press

Rugby Times
Weekly match previews
Regular match features with photos
Coverage of special events e.g. Touraid.
12,000 subscribers per week, including clubs.
8,000 copies sold through news stands
Readership over 150,000 per week
   
The Rugby Paper
Weekly Match reports: regular match features with photos
Coverage of special events e.g. Breast Cancer Game
Average circulation over 15,000
Estimated readership of 75,000
   
Rugby World Magazine
Monthly club round-up
Occasional team and player features
   

 

 

 

 

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