17-03-2023, 04:04 PM
(17-03-2023, 10:19 AM)NI92 Wrote: All games from this years Rugby World Cup to be broadcast on Free to Air in Ireland on RTE and Virgin Media in a deal similar to the current deal for the 6 Nations. Both broadcaaters will broadcast the final and the rest of the games to be equally shared.I think TV3 had full rights in 2007?
Last time TV3 had full rights was 2015 and RTE was 2003, every other world cup since the millennium apart from the aforementioned whether on TV3 as it was or RTE since had all Ireland matches, opening game and knockout matches live
www.rte.ie
Setanta and eir had the full rights for at least two of them, 2011 and 2019 I think, with sub licenses of the protected games to RTE and VMTV. The 2011 one had the infamous studio pairing of Matt Williams and Neill Francis with no specialised presenter (Williams effectively doubled as presenter and pundit) all presented from Dublin.
Meanwhile I see BBC NI has demoted its traditional St Patrick’s Day sports coverage to the iPlayer? May not be the first time mind you.