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Rugby Union

The Six Nations Committee bucked the trend when awarding its UK rights earlier this month, opting for wide coverage from free-to-air broadcasters and leaving pay-television money on the table.

Rugby Union

Public-service broadcaster BBC Wales and Welsh-language channel S4C have secured broadcast and online rights to Wales’ warm-up games for the 2015 Rugby World Cup.

Golf

UK public-service broadcaster the BBC has defended its decision not to show the first six hours of play at golf’s Open Championship on Monday.

Rugby Union

UK public-service broadcaster the BBC has reached a five-year agreement with the Rugby Football Union to show highlights from all of England’s autumn international Test matches.

Tennis

All England Lawn Tennis Club chief executive Richard Lewis has indicated that UK public-service broadcaster the BBC is likely to retain the rights to the Wimbledon championships when its current contract expires.

Shadow Culture Secretary Chris Bryant has accused the UK government of forcing public-service broadcaster the BBC to the margins of major sports rights bidding.

Rugby Union

UK public-service broadcaster the BBC and commercial broadcaster ITV have agreed a new six-year deal under which they will share rights to the Six Nations from next year’s edition of the national team rugby union tournament.

Rugby Union

UK public-service broadcaster the BBC has teamed up with commercial broadcaster ITV to submit a joint bid for the rights to the Six Nations rugby union national team tournament.

Football

Mike Kiernan, analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence examines television audiences in the UK for the 2014-15 English Premier League season

Basketball

UK pay-television broadcaster the BBC has struck a deal to provide coverage of Great Britain’s games during the EuroBasket Women 2015 national team basketball competition.

Football

The BBC has hit back at claims by Scottish Professional Football League chairman Ralph Topping that the UK public-service broadcaster is “discriminating” against the game in Scotland.

Athletics

Pan-regional sports broadcaster Eurosport took advantage of a lack of competition to secure live rights for the Diamond League athletics series in the key German and UK markets ahead of the 2015 season.

Barbara Slater, head of the BBC Sport division of UK public-service broadcaster the BBC, has warned that a cut in the UK television licence fee could lead to the broadcaster losing rights to major sports properties.

Football

UK pay-television broadcaster BT Sport has acquired rights for football’s Scottish Premiership 2015 play-offs.

Rugby Union

Live television audiences for rugby union’s Six Nations championship in 2015 were up year-on year in the tournament’s largest market, the UK, where public-service broadcaster the BBC recorded an average of …

UK public-service broadcaster the BBC has partnered with pay-television broadcaster BT Sport to acquire rights to magazine programme the Clare Balding Show.

UK pay-television broadcaster Sky and public-service broadcaster the BBC have invited the four candidates for the presidency of Fifa, world football’s governing body, to a live televised debate.

Football

UK pay-television broadcaster BT Sport has said it will provide the FA Cup quarter-final game between Bradford City and Reading on a free-to-air basis following the exploits of the former football club in this season’s edition of the knockout competition.