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Premier Sports announces TV team for Investec Champions Cup

Premier Sports is ready to deliver another campaign of Investec Champions Cup rugby in 2025/26 and has unveiled a 40-strong TV team line-up to showcase 80+ EPCR live games on its channels. All the action kicks off on December 5th with rugby’s finest commentators, presenters and pundits set to take centre stage as the tournament […]

December 3, 2025

URC returns to Premier Sports with Black Friday deal

BKT United Rugby Championship action returns to Premier Sports screens tonight (November 27th) following a four week international break – with all eight URC games live across the weekend.  Plus there’s four live games from France’s Top 14 for UK rugby fans to tune into. To celebrate the return of the club competition live on […]

November 28, 2025

Premier Sports launches Black Friday offer

With a new season of international club rugby just over a week away, EPCR’s UK broadcast partner Premier Sports is celebrating the return of the Investec Champions Cup and EPCR Challenge Cup with a Black Friday deal for rugby fans across the UK. Premier Sports will once again bring every match live from this season’s Investec […]

November 24, 2025

BKT URC Xmas derbies on BBC Wales

BBC Cymru Wales has agreed a free-to-air rights for three Welsh BKT United Rugby Championship matches over the festive period in partnership with Premier Sports. Scrum V Live will broadcast the live matches of Cardiff vs Scarlets on December 19th (KO 7.45pm), Cardiff vs Dragons on December 26th (KO 3pm) and Ospreys vs Cardiff on […]

November 14, 2025

PREM Rugby partners with Whisper

PREM Rugby has agreed a partnership with production company Whisper to deliver a new, authentic player-led content strategy. Capitalising on the recent  growth of the Gallagher PREM, Whisper is helping to further accelerate and deepen fandom throughout English rugby, through social and digital creative content and storytelling. The partnership forms part of PREM Rugby’s ambition […]

November 5, 2025

International rugby on Premier Sports this November

UK & Ireland sports broadcaster Premier Sports has added live international rugby coverage to its channels this November with a series of fixtures for fans – kicking off with an international double-bill featuring some of the sport’s biggest names. Tune in on November 1st at 1:10pm (UK) on Premier Sports 1, when the Barbarians take […]

October 29, 2025

Rugby League Ashes returning on BBC

The Rugby League Ashes series returns for the first time since 2003, as England take on Australia in a best-of-three Test match showdown this autumn. The tour will take place across three iconic venues: Wembley Stadium (October 25th), Everton’s new stadium at Bramley Moore Dock (1 November 1st), and AMT Headingley Leeds (November 8th). Fans […]

October 15, 2025

France: TF1 to air Rugby World Cup 2027

World Rugby and TF1 Group have renewed their partnership, with TF1 securing exclusive French broadcast rights for the Men’s Rugby World Cup 2027, to be held in Australia from October 1st to November 13th November 2027. The 11th edition in Australia will feature 24 teams for the first time, delivering 52 matches across seven host […]

October 13, 2025

Premier Sports readies for 1,000th URC broadcast

Premier Sports will celebrate a broadcasting milestone on October 11th as it airs its 1,000th BKT United Rugby Championship (URC) match live – marking its eighth consecutive season of bringing every game from one of rugby’s most competitive league to fans across five nations. Since first partnering with the then PRO14 in 2018, Premier Sports has […]

October 10, 2025

Data: Red Roses’ success drives big returns for sponsors

The Red Roses qualifying for the Women’s Rugby World Cup final has driven significant online engagement. Data from Adtech firm Quantcast shows that online engagement levels have grown 40 per cent during the tournament so far, compared with the same length of time the month before. To put it into perspective, the Women’s Six Nations […]

September 26, 2025