Looks like Sky Sports has secured the broadcast rights for the All Blacks tour of South Africa in August. Nothing official from Sky yet but some fixtures have started appearing on Sky's listings.

ITV has secured the broadcast rights for the 2027 Rugby World Cup, according to the Guardian.

RugbyPass TV will stream France XV v England XV live and free globally* this Friday. *Excluding France, where the fixture will be broadcast by L’Equipe TV

Breaking: S4C to broadcast live coverage of all Wales matches in the Nations Championship for the next four years.

Premier Sports 🤝 FR-UK Premier Sports has announced a new partnership with FR-UK for coverage of the Top 14 Final later this month. As part of the partnership Premier Sports and FR-UK will both show the final live, including free coverage on FR-UK's YouTube channel.

This season's Top 14 final will be shown live on FR-UK's YouTube channel in Ireland and the UK. The final will also be shown live on Premier Sports and TV5MONDE.

BREAKING: the Champions Cup and Challenge Cup finals will be broadcast live and free-to-air on ITV4 and ITVX in the UK. There will be no FTA coverage in Ireland. #ChampionsCup

TV guide for this weekend's action: ✅️Six Nations ✅️U20s Six Nations ✅️Super Rugby ✅️Ireland Club XV v Scottish Club XV ✅️Top 14 ✅️RE Championship ✅️PWR ✅️Champ ✅️PREM Rugby Cup ✅️League One ✅️Celtic Challenge #SixNations2026 | #GuinnessM6N

CONFIRMED: Sky to broadcast Super Rugby Pacific until 2028 in Ireland and the UK.

SUPER RUGBY ON SKY: A number of Super Rugby fixtures have been added to Sky's listings. Sounds like the broadcaster has signed a new deal with SANZAAR – no confirmation from Sky or SANZAAR yet. #SuperRugbyPacific

England v Wales delivered ITV’s biggest peak audience of 2026 so far, with 5 million viewers across ITV1 and ITVX. The Six Nations fixture also attracted ITV's biggest sports audience of the year, with a 4.6 million average on ITV1 and ITVX.

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Streaming access to TNT Sports is moving from discovery+ to HBO Max in the UK on March 26th. As things stand in Ireland, TNT Sports will remain on NOW and will not be moving to HBO Max.

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Breaking: Virgin Media has secured exclusive broadcast rights to the new Nations Championship, which kicks off this year. The broadcaster will also show fixtures from the Summer Nations Series and the Autumn Nations Series.

As noted in the newsletter last year, ITV is introducing adverts during its live coverage of the 2026 Six Nations.

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RugbyPass to show Super Rugby in the US this season🇺🇸 No update yet on a broadcast deal for Ireland or the UK. Sky's deal with SANZAAR ended in 2025.

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5 – the number of Irish rugby matches that featured in the top 10 most watched programmes in Ireland in 2025, according to TAM Ireland/Nielsen Media.

CONFIRMED: ITV secures exclusive Nations Championship TV rights for the UK. The broadcaster has also secured the rights to the Summer Nations Series in 2027 and the July Internationals and Autumn Nations Series in 2029. In total ITV will show at least 124 games as part of the deal.

Ireland XV v England A will be broadcast live on Premier Sports. Kick-off is at 7:15pm on Friday, February 6th.

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Breaking: ITV has secured a two-year extension to its broadcast agreement with Prem Rugby: – ITV will continue to broadcast 7 live games per season, including the final – The renewal covers the 2026-2027 & 2027-2028 seasons

Premier Sports considering bid for Super Rugby rights according to rugby correspondent Nik Simon

Less than a month to go until the 2026 Super Rugby Pacific season kicks-off and there is no confirmed broadcaster for the UK or Ireland. Sky's deal ended in 2025 and there has been no word on a potential renewal or another broadcaster acquiring the rights.

BREAKING: Premier Sports will broadcast one live fixture per round in this year's Men's Six Nations in the UK. All games will still be available FTA.

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