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A petition has been launched by internet provider Orcon calling for the New Zealand Rugby Union to stream live coverage of all national team All Blacks games online in the country.

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Pay-television broadcaster Setanta Asia has acquired rights for rugby union’s new European Rugby Champions Cup club competition.

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French pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports easily beat its main rival Canal Plus to land rights to European rugby’s new club tournaments, adding evidence to claims that the previously intense competition between the two broadcasters is cooling.

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Media rights clips from August 21 to September 3

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The Court of Appeal in Paris has set a date of October 9 to deliver its verdict in the appeal by the Ligue Nationale de Rugby and pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus over the decision to suspend their rights deal for the Top 14 rugby union league.

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French pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports this (Wednesday) morning confirmed a rights deal for rugby union’s new European club rugby tournaments.

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French pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports has struck a deal to acquire rights for rugby union’s new European club rugby tournaments, according to French newspaper l’Equipe.

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Fijian commercial broadcaster Fiji TV has said the country’s Communications Ministry is in talks with the International Rugby Board over the status of its rights deal for the IRB Sevens World Series following legislation that has been passed concerning the broadcasting of major events.

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The Court of Appeal in Paris will hear the appeals of the Ligue Nationale de Rugby and pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus over the decision to suspend their rights deal for the Top 14 rugby union league on September 4.

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Media rights clips from July 24 to August 20

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The BBC Northern Ireland division of UK public-service broadcaster the BBC has acquired rights for the Ulster province’s games in rugby union’s Pro12 pan-European tournament.

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France’s Ligue Nationale de Rugby has confirmed it will appeal against an order by the Autorité de la Concurrence, the French competition authority, to suspend a rights deal with pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus and hold a new tender process for the rights to the Top 14 rugby union league.

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French digital-terrestrial television channel L’Equipe 21 has acquired the rights to the ‘SuperCrunch’ – a pre-season rugby union competition featuring French Top 14 and English Premiership teams.

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France’s Ligue Nationale de Rugby (LNR) has been ordered to launch a tender process at the end of the 2014-15 season for the rights to the Top 14 after the Autorité de la Concurrence, the French competition authority, suspended the league’s five-year deal with pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus.

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Public-service broadcaster BBC Wales and Welsh language channel S4C have agreed a four-year deal securing live rights to the Pro12 from the 2014-15 season of the rugby union club competition.

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The International Rugby Board has said that the 2014 Women’s Rugby World Cup will be broadcast to more homes and countries than ever before.

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Australian Rugby Union chief executive Bill Pulver hopes the negotiation process for the organisation’s next round of broadcast rights can bring about a significant uplift in revenue.

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Organisers of the World Club 7s have announced that the 2014 edition of the rugby union sevens tournament will be available in 200 million households worldwide.