No Mackems; Man Utd; Chelsea; Liverpool; or Match Of The Day, but at least some of the Magpies’ matches will be broadcast live on television in 2016/17 - although not as many as normal.
We won't even have Alan Shearer fighting our corner on a Saturday evening.
True the Championship, and the Football League in general, is not broadcast anywhere near as extensively as the Premier League, but there will still be 148 games shown across the English second, third and fourth tiers next season.
We down amongst the shit ... and we suffer for it.