09-04-2023, 05:55 PM
Yeah I’m surprised about that, because up until now it’s been strictly an English team pick on ITV, Irish team pick on RTE, and the only Welsh team, Ospreys (while they were still in the tournament) had all their games on S4C. If I were to hazard a guess, I’d think BT as main rights holder were probably allowed to “protect” one of the games from FTA coverage, leaving RTE and ITV to have the other game - which obviously (if that is the case) worked out better for RTE than ITV.