{"id":132580,"date":"2025-09-10T10:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T10:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/132580\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T10:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T10:58:07","slug":"womens-rugby-world-cup-more-than-7m-watch-group-stages-on-bbc-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/132580\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup: More than 7m watch group stages on BBC TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alex Kay-Jelski, Director of BBC Sport, said: &#8220;The response to the Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup so far has been phenomenal. These figures reflect not only the growing appetite for the women&#8217;s game, but also the impact of our commitment to telling these stories in fresh, creative and digitally accessible ways.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Matches have also been covered in live pages on the BBC Sport website. The most popular was England v USA, which had 757,000 views.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Games have also been streamed on the iPlayer and Sport apps, attracting a combined 5.8m streams so far. Non-home nation matches have also been popular, with 200,000 watching France v South Africa in Group D.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All four quarter-finals, including England&#8217;s clash with Scotland, will be broadcast on BBC Two and iPlayer across this weekend on 13 and 14 September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The semi-finals will also be live on TV, with the final on Saturday 27 September live on BBC One.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Kay-Jelski, Director of BBC Sport, said: &#8220;The response to the Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup so far has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-132580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}