[Brekkie]

Interesting that the next Rugby World Cup will start a good bit later on the 1st of October compared with the 8th of September this time. Although with it been in Australia bad weather should hopefully be less of an issue. It may actually be quite hot in some of the match locations. It’ll also be a far less attractive time zone for broadcasters in this part of the world, with breakfast time matches as opposed to prime time matches.

I'm sure it was Oct/Nov last time Australia hosted, probably because their big NRL/AFL leagues finish up at the beginning of October.   From our point of view that makes the scheduling even worse though due to daylight savings - in September it's 8pm in Melbourne/Sydney at 11am in the morning here, but that becomes 9am by November thanks to the clocks going in opposite directions.   

Rugby Union increasingly less of a big deal in Australia though - think they only showed the Aussie matches (wasn't many of them!) and the final free to air this time with everything else on Nine's subscription streamer Stan.   I'd imagine they'd be a bit of pressure to show more than that for a home tournament (the recent Womens Football World Cup found huge audiences in a country that doesn't really do football) but may be a bit of power to get key European fixtures as late as possible.