09-07-2023, 01:32 PM
(09-07-2023, 01:19 PM)dvboy Wrote: I guess they have only paid for highlights this year, given the clashes with Tour de France (although the final on Friday does not) and losing a lot of the sport audience to Wimbledon already they didn't think it worth it.
I thought they got the rights along with the men's and women's senior World Cups, but looking at the reports from the rights announcment in 2017, the Under 20s rights is oddly only until 2019, and also didn't include the 2021(2) women's World Cup. So maybe they did a bit of cost saving in the partial extension to only have highlights. But then what's the point in having the rights, making your own special programme and airing at 11:30pm or midnight?
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