🏴Breaking🏴
S4C will provide free-to-air coverage of Wales v South Africa on 22 June (KO: 14:00)
Sky will broadcast both games against Australia in July, with highlights of each game on S4C.
Australia v Wales, July 6th
KO: 10:45
Australia v Wales, July 13th
KO: 10:45
Happy
#RWC2023
eve!
Here's the broadcast and kick-off information for every single pool game in UK & IRL time:
📅Friday 8 Sep
🇫🇷France v New Zealand🇳🇿
📺ITV / RTE / S4C
⏰20:15
🇮🇹 Italy v Namibia 🇳🇦
📺ITV / Virgin Media
⏰12:00
📅Saturday 9 Sep
☘️Ireland v Romania🇷🇴
📺ITV /
The number of Televised games for each club through the first 11 rounds of the season ⬇️
🐯 Leicester - 10
🪓 Exeter - 7
🦈 Sale - 7
🃏 Harlequins - 7
😇 Northampton - 7
🐻 Bristol - 6
💫 Saracens - 6
🍒 Gloucester - 6
🛁 Bath - 5
🦅 Newcastle - 3
#GallagherPrem
🇫🇷Breaking🇫🇷
French broadcaster TV5Monde has confirmed that 1️⃣0️⃣ Top 14 games, including the final, will be shown for free in Ireland & the UK this season👏
✅️ 1 game every Saturday (2pm) from rounds 22 to 26
✅️ Playoffs
✅️ Semi-finals
✅️ Final
✅️ Free
#Top14
🏉🏆 Enjoy the French Rugby
#Top14
in May and June!
👉Watch ALL the matches LIVE and FREE on
#TV5MONDE
From Sat 27th April at 2pm until the final on Fri 28th June at 8pm, watch via our App or livestream on our website 🤩
More info
#france
#rugby
🚨Breaking🚨
Japan Rugby League One is finally available to watch live in Ireland and the UK.
RugbyPass TV will broadcast 2 games per round, starting this weekend.
The games are free and will be shown worldwide on RugbyPass TV, except for Japan, NZ, Malaysia and Africa.
The number of Televised games for each club through the first 11 rounds of the season ⬇️
🐯 Leicester - 10
🪓 Exeter - 7
🦈 Sale - 7
🃏 Harlequins - 7
😇 Northampton - 7
🐻 Bristol - 6
💫 Saracens - 6
🍒 Gloucester - 6
🛁 Bath - 5
🦅 Newcastle - 3
#GallagherPrem
@HuwGriffinRugby
The weekly winter to summer change is such a key feature of the league. Connacht in December compared to Durban is very different. To put it lightly 😁
@jimhamilton4
Champions Cup, Challenge Cup, Super Rugby Pacific, Women's Six Nations this weekend:
Shown on 14 different channels, 11 different streaming platforms across 10 separate broadcasters in Ireland and the UK!
🚫No broadcaster for Japan v England
🚫No TV deal for the Champions Cup from 2025
🚫No TV deal for the Challenge Cup from 2025
🚫Decrease in value of TV rights deal for the Premiership from 2025
What happened to competition for rugby's media rights?
England’s Test against Japan may not be shown on TV.
No deal yet for the first summer Test. The RFU are sure fans will be able to watch it somewhere, but cannot say where yet.
@TimesSport
This account hit 1000 followers over the weekend so I just want to say a massive thank you to everyone who has liked, shared, followed and engaged with the account over the past year.
I'll continue to provide the weekly broadcast and kick-off guides as the feedback on these has
Premier Sports and Viaplay are yet to confirm if the
#Top14
will be shown this coming season 🚨
As
@cgroderick
correctly points out, the previous deal expired in June.
I've contacted both broadcasters for comment🤞
🚨Breaking🚨
Premier Sports has agreed to take back control of Viaplay in the UK (subject to competition approval)
🏉URC, Top 14, Challenge Cup to remain
📺Same channels on Sky & VM
✅Streaming to continue on Prime
▶️Premier Sports to launch a new streaming service next year
🚨Breaking🇫🇷
Canal+ has secured the Top 14 and Pro D2 broadcast rights from 2027 to 2032 for €696.8 million
📈€128.7m per year for the Top 14, up 13.3%
📈€10.7 million per year for the Pro D2, up 36%.
#Top14
|
#ProD2
🚨Breaking: Premier Sports will relaunch in the UK on April 9
✅️Premier Sports 1 & 2 will be available on Sky, Virgin, Amazon
✅️New enhanced streaming service
✅️Existing Viaplay customers will be automatically transferred to Premier Sports
✅️URC, Top 14, Challenge Cup
The top 5 most valuable domestic rugby broadcast deals in the world:
🥇Top 14
🥈Super Rugby*
🥉URC
4️⃣Premiership
5️⃣Pro D2
*Deal includes rights to Australia and New Zealand national team games
(Source: SportsPro)
Unsurprisingly, TNT Sports are hoping to renew the next Premiership broadcast rights package for significantly less that the existing £36.6m per year deal, which ends in 2024. (According to the Telegraph)
For perspective, the Top 14 deal with Canal Plus is worth £97m per year,
Have you ever wondered why some YouTube highlights skip crucial moments and are only 2 to 3 minutes long?
It's all due to the broadcast agreements and fair play to EPCR for making that clear⤵️
Happy Rugby World Cup day folks 🌍
Here's your full rugby broadcast & kick-off guide for Ireland and the UK this weekend
#RWC2023
- starts tonight
#MUNvLEI
- pre-season "friendly"
#PremRugbyCup
- TNT Sports' rugby debut
#FOSROCSuperSeries
x 1
The
#URC
continues to smash records:
✅Record 2,978,611 viewers across Round 8
✅Total viewership this season tracking at double-digit growth
✅Italian viewership increasing
"The Pacific Nations Cup 2024 will be available to watch everywhere on the planet, either through a local broadcast partner or on RugbyPass TV. Confirmation of kick-off times, venues and broadcast arrangements will be confirmed in due course."
World Rugby has today unveiled the vibrant new brand, format and fixtures for the reimagined Pacific Nations Cup, a six-team annual competition featuring Canada, Fiji, Japan, Samoa, Tonga, and USA.
#PacificNationsCup
The
#WorldRugbyU20s
WC starts on Saturday. Here's what we do know:
Virgin Media are broadcasting 19 games in Ireland, including all games involving Ireland
S4C are broadcasting all games involving Wales
Rumours that WR will show all games online but nothing is confirmed yet
🚨 Update 🚨
Just received confirmation from
@SportTG4
that Munster v Crusaders will be shown worldwide on the TG4 player and app (for free), with the exception of New Zealand 🙌
More great news on the free-to-air front:
TG4 to broadcast Munster v Crusaders on February 3rd
Awaiting confirmation on whether the game will be available worldwide on TG4 Player
#Munster
Here's your rugby broadcast & kick-off guide for Ireland and the UK this weekend 🙌
#SummerNationsSeries
x 3 🏴🇫🇷 🏴🏴☘️🇮🇹
#FOSROCSuperSeries
x 1 🏴
The
#NPC
is back 💥 x 2 🇳🇿
"International friendlies" 🇳🇿🇦🇺 🇦🇷🇿🇦
The following aren't being broadcast:
Samoa v Tonga / Japan v
South Africa v New Zealand will be shown on Sky Sports Mix & Sky Showcase & NOW.
This is good news for fans who don't have a Sky Sports subscription but do have access to Mix and Showcase - both channels are widely available (Sky, Virgin Media etc)
KO 19:30 IST/BST
#NZLvRSA
TV5MONDE have confirmed that they will be broadcasting Sharks v Clermont in the Challenge Cup semi-final and Toulouse v Harlequins in the Champions Cup semi-final live for free this weekend👏
#ChallengeCupRugby
|
#InvestecChampionsCup
The
#ChampionsCup
is back tomorrow. Here's your broadcast & kick-off guide for all 48 pool games in Ireland & UK time 🏆
ROUND 1
📅FRI, 8 DEC 2023
🏴Glasgow v Northampton Saints 🏴
⏰20:00
📺TNT Sports
☘️Connacht Rugby v Bordeaux 🇫🇷
⏰20:00
📺TNT Sports
📅SAT, 9 DEC 2023
🏴
For all our new & amazing Welsh followers, Alun Wyn-Jones makes his 1st start for Toulon tonight in their pre-season match Vs Perpignan
*You can watch the match LIVE on RCT’s (
@RCTofficiel
) YouTube channel
@rugby_ap
Agree. The product is not the problem. We should embrace it for what it is and stop constantly calling for change. Let's embrace what makes rugby union different.
Take the scrum. Instead of complaining about scrum resets, let's use that time to analyse what's going on, jump to
According to
@jimhamilton4
on today's Rugby Pod, Chasing the Sun 2 will apparently be available in the UK (and Ireland hopefully) "very soon"
Sky was the first broadcaster in Ireland & the UK to show the first season 👀
#ChasingTheSun2
🚨 UPDATED - last minute Viaplay updates🚨
- Montpellier v La Rochelle added (UK only)
- Lyon v Toulon now streaming only at 17:10, not 15:00 as previously shown on Viaplay's website
Here's your rugby broadcast & kick-off guide for Ireland and the UK this weekend 🙌
The
#Top14
The Challenge Cup and Champions Cup are back this weekend 🙌
Both competitions will be shown by 7️⃣ different broadcasters, across 🔟 different channels, and 8️⃣ different streaming platforms this weekend*
*In Ireland and the UK 🤯
#InvestecChampionsCup
With the
#Top14
starting in just 7 days, here's a breakdown of how the regular season games in the Top 14, URC and Premiership will be shown domestically in the upcoming 2023-2024 season.
Pay-TV/streaming v Free-to-air:
🇫🇷Top 14: 100% v 0%
🇬🇧Premiership: 96% v 4% (41% are PPV
The
#WorldRugbyU20s
WC starts on Saturday. Here's what we do know:
Virgin Media are broadcasting 19 games in Ireland, including all games involving Ireland
S4C are broadcasting all games involving Wales
Rumours that WR will show all games online but nothing is confirmed yet
Here's everything you need to know about
#TNTSports
, which launched today (thread)
- No price increase
- BT Sport app to shut down later this year
- Access via Discovery+ (UK only)
- Access via NOW in ROI
- BT Sport channels renamed
- Existing linear channels remain in place
Here's your full broadcast & kick-off guide for Ireland & the UK this weekend⤵️
✅URC
✅Premiership
✅Top 14
✅Super Rugby Pacific
✅Pacific 4 Series
✅PWR
✅MLR
✅Welsh Premiership final
#URC
|
#GallagherPrem
Here's your full broadcast & kick-off guide for Ireland & the UK this weekend⤵️
✅Champions Cup
✅Challenge Cup
✅MLR
✅Super Rugby Pacific
✅Japan Rugby League One
#InvestecChampionsCup
|
#ChallengeCupRugby
Premier Sports and Viaplay are yet to confirm if the
#Top14
will be shown this coming season 🚨
As
@cgroderick
correctly points out, the previous deal expired in June.
I've contacted both broadcasters for comment🤞
Some positive broascast/content news:
The new La Vila International Rugby Cup involving Spain, USA, Canada and Brazil starts this weekend 👌
All games will be streamed for free on RugbyPass TV 📺
Saturday, November 11th:
15:00 🇺🇲 v 🇧🇷
19:00 🇪🇸 v 🇨🇦
🇯🇵 Japan Rugby League One update:
Both semi-finals will be shown live on RugbyPass TV *worldwide for free this weekend.
Sat: Wild Knights v Eagles
KO: 06:05 (IRE/UK)
Sunday: Brave Lupus v Sungoliath
KO: 06:05 (IRE/UK)
*Excluding Africa, NZ, Malaysia, Japan
#NTTLeagueOne
The
#SummerNationsSeries
kicks-off on Saturday with Scotland v Italy at 15:15
Series broadcast details 👇
UK: every game is being shown live exclusively on Amazon
Ireland: all games involving Ireland are being shown on RTE.
@PremSportsIRL
will show all other games
#SCOvITA
Reminder that *TV5Monde's free coverage of the Top 14 starts tomorrow with Toulouse (🥈) v Racing 92 (🥉) at 14:00 Irish & UK time.
Watch on Samsung / Android / Amazon / Roku / app / online 📺
*Commentary in French 🇫🇷
#STR92
|
#Top14
🇫🇷Breaking🇫🇷
French broadcaster TV5Monde has confirmed that 1️⃣0️⃣ Top 14 games, including the final, will be shown for free in Ireland & the UK this season👏
✅️ 1 game every Saturday (2pm) from rounds 22 to 26
✅️ Playoffs
✅️ Semi-finals
✅️ Final
✅️ Free
#Top14
The
#GallagherPrem
is back tomorrow!
Here's the broadcast and kick-off information for every game (55) in the first 11 rounds*
*Broadcast information for the remaining rounds hasn't been released & ITV's games haven't been announced yet
🏉Round 1
📅Friday 13 Oct
🐻Bristol
Fully expect TNT Sports to retain the rights - but the value will likely be equal to or less than the current deal. Why?
-Very little competition in the rugby broadcast market at the moment
- Renewal would cement TNT's status as the home of rugby union
-Countless format changes
Reports out of England today suggest that TNT will not be renewing their existing Champions Cup contract with the EPCR.
Allow they’re probably still favourites to regain on a cut deal, this is a story to watch out for.
More free to air games anyone?
The URC goes from strength to strength and these latest viewing figures released from
@URCOfficial
reaffirm the league's rise in popularity.
Overall viewing figures are up 8% (37.4million) on the 2021-2022📈
#BKTURC
#URC
Impressive viewership figures for the
#GallagherPrem
derby weekend with "over 1.1 million television viewers".
However, it's worth noting that 395,000 of those viewers watched the highlights on ITV.
740,000 watched the games live.
3️⃣1️⃣ games are being shown across Ireland & the UK this weekend, including 1️⃣4️⃣ on FTA. Guide will be out tomorrow📺
✅URC
✅Premiership
✅Top 14
✅Super Rugby Pacific
✅MLR
✅Pacific 4 Series
✅️PWR
✅️Welsh Premiership Final
#URC
|
#Top14
There is absolutely no guarantee that European cup rugby will be shown on free-to-air TV from next season.
The existing deals with ITV, RTE & S4C end this season.
It's also worth noting that Premier Sports' Challenge Cup deal expires this year too.
#InvestecChampionsCup
Broadcast numbers out for first 9 Drua games[home&away various start times].Population of Fiji is 900K.Number of devices [phone,tablet,app]used to watch live on FTA average 175,000.Up 18% YoY. That's devices,not people.Quite extraordinary.We estimate 50% of country watching live.
Fears for Champions Cup as talks stall with TNT Sports over new deal UK broadcast deal.
+ something I discussed on The Ruck, the idea of having “destination” semifinals in neutral countries like Portugal. Interesting…
@TimesSport
👇🏼
Here's your broadcast & kick-off guide for all 2⃣4⃣ games being shown in Ireland & the UK this weekend 📺
✅Champions Cup
✅Challenge Cup
✅6 Nations
✅Super Rugby Pacific
✅Super Rugby Women's
✅Japan Rugby League One
✅MLR
#InvestecChampionsCup
|
#ChallengeCupRugby
Some rugby broadcast news you may have missed in the past week:
TNT Sports* will broadcast up to 11 games in the Premiership Rugby Cup. The Cup will feature both Premiership and Championship sides for the first time.
@TG4TV
are going to broadcast all of the Women’s
Premier Sports is officially back in the UK 📺
✅️New website & app
✅️Linear channels rebranded
✅️App available on iOS, Android, FireTV, AndroidTV, Chromecast
✅️Dedicated TV apps for Samsung and LG devices coming soon
UPDATED❗️
Just received confirmation from Premier Sports that the
#Top14
final will be shown live on Premier Sports 2 🙌
Still no linear coverage in the UK
There is no live linear coverage of the
#Top14
final in Ireland or the UK this weekend
The only way viewers in ROI can watch the game live is on
@TV5MONDEUK
(app/player)
UK based viewers can watch the game live on the Viaplay app/player and on TV5Monde (app/player)
Here's your full broadcast & kick-off guide for all 3⃣5⃣ games being shown in Ireland & the UK this weekend⤵️
✅URC
✅Premiership
✅Top 14
✅Super Rugby Pacific
✅Pacific 4 Series
✅JR League One SFs
✅PWR
✅MLR
✅Super Series Sprint
#URC
|
#GallagherPrem
Bids for the domestic
#Top14
and
#ProD2
media rights are due next week 🇫🇷
The existing Top 14 and Pro D2 deals are worth €113.6m and €8m per year respectively 📺
The next cycle runs from 2027 to 2031 (with option for longer).
Yet another increase in value is expected.
A whopping 4⃣0⃣ games are being shown across Ireland & the UK this weekend, of which 2⃣3⃣ will be FTA. Guide will be out tomorrow📺
✅URC
✅Prem
✅Top 14
✅Super Rugby P
✅Super Rugby W
✅6 Nations
✅JR League One
✅MLR
✅Super Series Sprint
✅AIL
✅Allianz Cup
✅Pacific 4
What will the rugby broadcasting market in Ireland & the UK look like in 2024?
A total of 14 broadcast agreements are up for renewal before the 2024-2025 season gets underway.
This is on top of Viaplay's announcement to pull out of the UK market (no date provided).
The Premiership's TV rights revenue has dropped from a peak of £40m per year to £31.5m per year from next season 📉
How will tournament organisers drive media rights revenue back up? Promotion / relegation?
#GallagherPrem
No Six Nations this week but there are still 3⃣4⃣ games being shown across Ireland & the UK this weekend 📺
✅URC
✅Super Rugby Pacific
✅Rugby Europe Championship
✅Top 14
✅MLR
✅Celtic Challenge
✅PWR
#BKTURC
|
#URC
🚨Breaking🚨
The Asia Rugby Women's Championship will be broadcast on RugbyPass TV, YouTube and Facebook.
The Championship kicks off today at 11:30 Irish/UK time with Hong Kong China v Japan
#OWC2024
|
#OceaniaRugby
The Six Nations & Super Rugby are back👌
Here's your broadcast & kick-off guide for every game being shown in Ireland & the UK this weekend 📺
✅Six Nations
✅Super Rugby Pacific
✅U20s Six Nations
✅Top 14
✅Main Event Munster
✅England A v Portugal A
✅Celtic Challenge
Amazon's interest in broadcasting sport in Ireland & the UK seems to be diminishing:
🚫No more rugby
🚫No more Premier League
🚫No more tennis
You need much more than cheap subsciptions to attract viewers and increase returns.
Another win for traditional broadcasters.
The success of the combination of free-to-air, pay TV and streaming in Ireland is highlighted by
@connachtrugby
being the 5th most watched team in the
#URC
in the 2022-2023 season
@MasterOfNonePod
👀
Big news! Guaranteed they'll stay in ProD2 now after promotion last season. Great spot to be.
Worrying for Welsh club rugby however that relatively smaller sides can now lure talent away.
🏆Happy Sixmas folks🏆
Here's your broadcast & kick-off guide for every game being shown in Ireland & the UK this weekend
Six Nations✅️
Rugby Europe Championship ✅️
Top 14 ✅️
U20s Six Nations ✅️
Main Event Munster ✅️
Celtic Challenge ✅️
PWR game ✅️
#GuinnessM6N
|
Important to note that if you don't want to listen to a game with commentary in Irish, you have the option to pay for commentary in English.
The overwhelming consensus is that TG4's rugby coverage is excellent.
Let's not forget it's completely free (TV licence aside)
#URC
Gentle reminder that O'Gara's La Rochelle are in action against Bordeaux at 20:05 tonight.
Former Connacht player Ultan Dillane starts at lock, while former Exeter winger Jack Nowell starts at 11.
🎥Viaplay player only
✖️No coverage in ROI
#SRUBB
#Top14
@SquidgeRugby
Of the 5 games that are available to watch legally, they're being shown across 3 separate channels and 3 separate streaming platforms in Ireland and the UK.
Also, there are only 2 games available on linear channels in the UK!
Here's your broadcast & kick-off guide for every game being shown in Ireland & the UK this weekend 🙌
8 x URC ☘️🏴🏴🇮🇹🇿🇦
5 x Premiership 🏴
1 x Premiership Women's Rugby 🏴
4 x Top 14 🇫🇷
1 x Super Series (Final) 🏴
3 x RE Super Cup 🇬🇪🇧🇪🇷🇴🇪🇸🇵🇹
2 x La Vila Cup 🇧🇷🇪🇸🇺🇸🇨🇦
1 x Women's
The Champions Cup is back👊
Here's your full broadcast & kick-off guide for all 2⃣7⃣ games being shown in Ireland & the UK this weekend 📺
✅Champions Cup
✅Challenge Cup
✅Super Rugby Pacific
✅Japan Rugby League One
✅MLR
#ChampionsCup
|
#InvestecChampionsCup
All URC Round 1️⃣6️⃣ games will be shown live on Premier Sports' linear channels (➕️app) in the UK.
The Top 14 Round 2️⃣3️⃣ coverage will be app only, but that could change before the weekend.
#URC
|
#Top14
For anyone looking for highlights of the weekend's
#RWC2023
games, extended highlights (14 mins+) are up on Rugbypass TV.
Sign up is required, but it's completely free.