SPL 2 could be dead in the water if a deal can be agreed to show SLF games on the box.

Back to league grounds?
The SFL could be about to save themselves by agreeing a TV deal that will could also help to kill off the threat of a breakaway group of clubs forming SPL2. A yet un-named is keen to cover First Division football next season and a meeting has been brokered by one of the breakaway group's driving forces, Dundee's chief executive, David MacKinnon. It is understood that Setanta, who failed to agree a deal with the SFL to show up to 20 live games last season, may be ready to present another deal to bring SFL football back to the screens. The SFL have a small carrot to dangle in front of potential suitors in allowing access to their archive, which includes film of all Premier Division matches up until 1998. If league games were back on the box on a regular basis, it may make getting a sponsor for the SFL a bit easier.

MacKinnon said: "I was asked several weeks ago to form a working party along with Michael Mulraney from Alloa in order to help find a TV company willing to broadcast our matches. Fortunately, we've managed to set up discussions between the league and an interested party for midweek. It would be wrong to name them at this stage but they seem quite keen to become involved." The lack of a TV contract last year was one of the reasons which led to the formation of the SPL2 group. STV pulled the plug on their coverage after the 2005-06 season. MacKinnon admits that if an agreement is reached this week it may be enough to keep the rebels within the fold. He went on: "That doesn't concern me too much. The reason I became involved with SPL2 in the first place was because I could see no alternative for our club. At that stage the SFL had no TV deal, sponsorship or commercial impetus. Now we seem to be making progress. There has been a shake-up at Hampden, with new chief executive David Longmuir due to start early next season, and, in any case, SPL2 wasn't an ideal solution either."
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