Welsh Rugby Union chairman David Pickering believes Friday night matches can become a permanent feature of the Six Nations Championship.
Traditionalists were opposed on the grounds they made it tough for visiting fans to attend games that would otherwise be played on the weekend.
But that didn't stop a sizeable Welsh contingent turning up in Paris for the first Friday fixture in the tournament's history during this year's edition.
Now Wales are set to continue with the experiment in 2010 when they play France here at the Millennium Stadium on Friday, February 26.
France's dramatic 21-16 win over Wales at the Stade de France attracted the second highest television audience of the 2009 Six Nations.
While a final decision on the future of the Friday night project will be taken after next year's tournament, Pickering is no doubt of its worth.
"We are starting to see genuine reasons for saying the experiment is a successful one," said Pickering.
"The match in Paris last year generated the biggest television audience for a game in France at an average audience of 5.9 million and television audiences throughout the UK, Ireland and Italy were the second largest of all the fifteen tournament games at 11 million.
"We had a sell-out Stade de France crowd, a tremendous atmosphere and produced one of the best matches of the tournament for the neutral.
"In Wales we would obviously like to reverse the result next year but we are very much looking forward to what should be a great night out in Cardiff for the fans, a bumper TV audience and a magnificent atmosphere for the players within the confines of the Millennium Stadium."
Grand Slam champions Ireland open the 2010 Six Nations and the defence of their title against Italy in Dublin on February 6.
As was the case this year, the tournament wil climax in a 'Super Saturday' with Wales at home to Italy, Ireland taking on Scotland and England travelling to France.
Six Nations Championship 2010 Fixture Schedule (all times GMT)
Feb 06: Ireland v Italy 1430
Feb 06: England v Wales 1700
Feb 07: Scotland v France 1500
Feb 13: Wales v Scotland 1400
Feb 13: France v Ireland 1630
Feb 14: Italy v England 1430
Feb 26: Wales v France 2000
Feb 27: Italy v Scotland 1330
Feb 27: England v Ireland 1600
Mar 13: Ireland v Wales 1430
Mar 13: Scotland v England 1700
Mar 14: France v Italy 1430
Mar 20: Wales v Italy 1430
Mar 20: Ireland v Scotland 1700
Mar 20: France v England 1945
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