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Re: Premier Sports confirmed for Champions Cup
DIR By: grahamwa
Date: August 14, 2024, 12:14 pm
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--- Quote from: West Stand Quin link ---
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> TNT also has every single premiership game this season which
means every away Quins game is available.
>
> Good for those Scottish, Welsh & Irish fans who would have had
the reverse problem in previous seasons deciding whether TNT was
worth it for euro games.
>
> Big additional drawback of premier sports is I can’t see many
pubs having it, they have Sky & TNT as they show premier league
football
>
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Thanks for recognising that your celtic cousins have had the
reverse since the Spivs decided to make the "Heiny" world
beating! URC folk have been able to subscribe for an annual
cost of £89 using the code URC89 in the last few weeks. Don't
know if its still avaialble, but its kinda fire and forget
you've paid and very good value.
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Re: Premier Sports confirmed for Champions Cup
DIR By: Brown Bottle
Date: August 14, 2024, 1:27 pm
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--- Quote from: DazzaS link ---
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> Sounds similar to last season - Friday, Saturday and Sunday
evening matches.
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Indeed. I suspect we'll have little interest in the Champions
Cup. Apart from the crap format, 2 home 8 pm kick-offs and no
desire for yet another subscription means we'll be unlikely to
see any of it. 'We' being my wife and I, that is, not Quins.
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Re: Premier Sports confirmed for Champions Cup
DIR By: DOK
Date: August 15, 2024, 2:35 am
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It will now cost £91 a month to watch rugby: This TV schedule
shows nightmarish reality for fans
Only way to watch all domestic and international competition
next season is to have multiple subscriptions at soaring expense
Ben Coles, Rugby Reporter 14 August 2024 • 3:49pm
Based on the length and value of recent TV deals, rugby union is
in a holding pattern waiting for the start of the new Nations
Championship from 2026 before signing longer, potentially more
lucrative agreements with broadcasters.
By then, hopefully, what is currently a quite disjointed TV
offering will hopefully be more straightforward, because as
things stand heading into the 2024-25 season, the new campaign
is going to test both your ability to remember all the channel
numbers on your service provider but also, more importantly,
your finances.
Following Wednesday’s announcement that the Champions Cup is
heading to Premier Sports for the next three years, here is
where you will now find rugby union coverage this season and how
much it will cost from month to month.
First, here is how it will cost consumers to have subscriptions
with each service.
TNT Sports – £30.99 per month as a standalone service, £20pm
with EE TV or £28pm with Sky
Sky Sports – £24 as an add to Sky TV, £26-£34.99 separately with
NOW TV
Premier Sports – £10.99 per month
TV Licence – £14.13 per month (£169.50 per year)
The most expensive options for Sky Sports – NOW TV’s Flexible
Month Membership for £34.99 per month – and TNT Sports with a
£30.99 Premium Plan through Discovery allow you to cancel at any
time rather than being tied into a longer contract with BT or
Sky, although that flexibility comes at a cost. Bundling Sky
Sports and TNT Sports into a larger TV and broadband package
with a provider has historically lowered the price, albeit over
longer contractual terms.
September
Premiership Rugby (TNT), 93 matches per season, expires 2016
URC (Premier Sports), 151 matches per season, expires 2025
Top 14 (Premier Sports), 110 matches per season, expiry TBC
Max monthly cost (including monthly average cost of license
fee): £56.11
The latest TNT deal for Premiership Rugby, announced earlier
this year, is believed to be on reduced terms compared with the
previous three-year agreement which ran out in 2024, mainly due
to the reduction of Gallagher Premiership clubs from 13 to 10.
Premier Sports was already broadcasting more club rugby matches
than any other channel with the URC and Top 14, so the launch of
a 24/7 rugby channel, announced in its press release confirming
the Champions Cup deal, makes sense.
October
Premiership Rugby (TNT)
Premiership Women’s Rugby (TNT), 20 matches per season, expiry
TBC
URC (Premier Sports)
Top 14 (Premier Sports)
Max monthly cost: £56.11
The second season of Premiership Women’s Rugby on TNT will
begin, after a multi-year agreement was announced back in 2014.
November
Autumn Nations Series (TNT), 21 matches per season, expires 2025
Premiership Rugby (TNT)
Premiership Women’s Rugby (TNT)
URC (Premier Sports)
Top 14 (Premier Sports)
Max monthly cost: £56.11
TNT to move for the rights to the Autumn Tests, taking them away
from Amazon Prime, comes with the price of having to give up the
rights to European rugby. It’s an understandable move in terms
of viewing figures, given the higher interest in England and
Test rugby than any domestic competitions, and as part of a
well-established production the Autumn Tests should be a big
hit.
December
Champions Cup and Challenge Cup (Premier Sports), 80 matches per
season, expires 2027
Premiership Rugby (TNT)
Premiership Women’s Rugby (TNT)
URC (Premier Sports)
Top 14 (Premier Sports)
Max monthly cost: £56.11
The debut of Premier Sports’ European coverage, becoming the
fifth broadcaster to show the competition in the United Kingdom
after ITV (1996-1998), BBC (1999-2003), Sky (2003-2018) and BT
Sport/TNT Sports (2016-2024).
January
Champions Cup and Challenge Cup (Premier Sports)
Premiership Rugby (TNT)
Premiership Women’s Rugby (TNT)
URC (Premier Sports)
Top 14 (Premier Sports)
Max monthly cost: £56.11
February
Six Nations (BBC/ITV), expires 2025
Premiership Women’s Rugby (TNT)
URC (Premier Sports)
Top 14 (Premier Sports)
Super Rugby Pacific (Sky), expires 2025
Max monthly cost: £91.10
This is the final year of the current Six Nations TV deal
between BBC and ITV, which has been broadcast on free-to-air
television dating back to 2003. Reports earlier suggested that
an agreement in principle is in place to continue sharing
coverage of the men’s and women’s Six Nations.
Sky, the former home for all of your rugby needs in the 2000s,
is now left clinging on to action from the southern hemisphere,
including England’s recent tour of New Zealand. That deal with
Sanzaar expires in 2025.
March
Six Nations (BBC/ITV)
Premiership Rugby (TNT)
Premiership Women’s Rugby (TNT)
URC (Premier Sports)
Top 14 (Premier Sports)
Super Rugby Pacific (Sky)
Max monthly cost: £91.10
The Premiership Women’s Rugby final will take place in March,
leaving TNT with the Premiership and Champions Cup for the rest
of the season.
April
Champions Cup and Challenge Cup (Premier Sports)
Premiership Rugby (TNT)
URC (Premier Sports)
Top 14 (Premier Sports)
Super Rugby Pacific (Sky)
Max monthly cost: £91.10
May
Champions Cup and Challenge Cup (Premier Sports)
Premiership Rugby (TNT)
URC (Premier Sports)
Top 14 (Premier Sports)
Super Rugby Pacific (Sky)
Max monthly cost: £91.10
European coverage on Premier Sports comes to a close with the
Challenge Cup and Champions Cup finals on May 23 and 24 in
Cardiff.
June
British and Irish Lions tour (Sky)
Premiership Rugby (TNT)
URC (Premier Sports)
Top 14 (Premier Sports)
Super Rugby Pacific (Sky)
Max monthly cost: £91.10
Sky’s Lions tour coverage will begin on June 20 with the warm-up
fixture against Argentina in Dublin, having shown every tour
dating back to 1997. Otherwise there will be finals for the
Premiership and URC (both June 14) and Top 14 (June 28).
July
British and Irish Lions tour (Sky)
Southern Hemisphere tours (Sky)
Super Rugby Pacific (Sky)
Max monthly cost: £49.12
Tours for next summer are still to be confirmed but England are
expected to play two Tests in Argentina and one in the United
States. The Argentina Tests would fall under the Sanzaar
agreement.
August
Women’s Rugby World Cup (BBC*)
The Rugby Championship (Sky)
*Telegraph Sport reported back in May that the BBC is poised to
win the race to broadcast the Women’s Rugby World Cup ahead of
ITV and Channel 4.
Max monthly cost: £49.12
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Re: Premier Sports confirmed for Champions Cup
DIR By: deadlyfrom5yardsout
Date: August 15, 2024, 3:44 am
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Premier takes over from TNT Sports whose predecessor, BT Sport,
first agreed an exclusive deal to show the Champions Cup and
Challenge Cup in 2017 and renewed the contract in 2022. In
recent seasons ITV has also shown a number of fixtures as a
terrestrial broadcast partner but that agreement has now ended.
#Post#: 127004--------------------------------------------------
Re: Premier Sports confirmed for Champions Cup
DIR By: connaughtquin
Date: August 15, 2024, 4:03 am
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Thank goodness for UTube, albeit the next day. Always good for
edited highlights, sometimes the full match.
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Re: Premier Sports confirmed for Champions Cup
DIR By: Adrian
Date: August 15, 2024, 4:49 am
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If you have a Virgin TV package you may already have Premier
Sports, I realised this morning I already have it.
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Re: Premier Sports confirmed for Champions Cup
DIR By: Brown Bottle
Date: August 15, 2024, 4:59 am
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--- Quote from: AdrianB link ---
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> If you have a Virgin TV package you may already have Premier
Sports, I realised this morning I already have it.
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Are you sure that isn't because Virgin are offering Premier
Sports free in August?
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Re: Premier Sports confirmed for Champions Cup
DIR By: Adrian
Date: August 15, 2024, 5:07 am
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--- Quote from: Brown Bottle link ---
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> Are you sure that isn't because Virgin are offering Premier
Sports free in August?
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I don't know, I need to look into it further.
#Post#: 127014--------------------------------------------------
Re: Premier Sports confirmed for Champions Cup
DIR By: Adrian
Date: August 15, 2024, 5:12 am
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--- Quote from: Brown Bottle link ---
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> Are you sure that isn't because Virgin are offering Premier
Sports free in August?
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Looks like you are correct, i didn't realise it was a freebie
for Aug only. oh well nevermind.
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Re: Premier Sports confirmed for Champions Cup
DIR By: DazzaS
Date: August 16, 2024, 3:26 am
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I have some stats which I stole from the Leicester Board:
According to BARB Premier Sport's reach is 480k per month
compared to 4.8m for TNT & 6.8m for Sky Sports. Their total
turnover is €27m and cost of sales was €30m. This was year end
December 2022 filed September 2023 according the official
Premier Sports accounts. They lost €7m in that year and €1m the
year before. ITV are not getting any matches. Apparently ERC
were annoyed that ITV pushed the European Final to ITV4,
prioritising the FA Cup final on ITV(1). Ironically not a
problem soon as the FA Cup will be between BBC and TNT. But
rather than renegotiate a deal, they went all in with Premier
Sports for the UK.
So essentially European Rugby has reduced them selves from a
reach of up to 30 million for ITV and 4.8million for TNT to less
than 500k on Premier Sports.
Expanding the club game by reducing the numbers that can watch
it. Not a great move.
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