{"id":13624,"date":"2025-07-22T14:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T14:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/13624\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T14:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T14:45:07","slug":"bbc-sport-expands-womens-rugby-coverage-in-new-premiership-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/13624\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Sport expands Women\u2019s Rugby coverage in new Premiership deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Trophy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"715\" height=\"429\"  \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">BBC Sport is expanding its women\u2019s rugby coverage with a new deal to broadcast Premiership Women\u2019s Rugby matches across the 2025\/26 and 2026\/27 seasons.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fans can look forward to a live match every week of the season \u2013 plus one semi-final and the final \u2013 all streamed live on BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website and app.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alex Kay-Jelski, director of BBC Sport, said: \u201cThis deal is another big step in BBC Sport\u2019s commitment to women\u2019s sport. Premiership Women\u2019s Rugby is fast, physical and full of elite talent, and we\u2019re proud to bring that to audiences across the UK on BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website and app. With the Women\u2019s Rugby World Cup exclusively on the BBC this summer, 2025 is a landmark year for women\u2019s sport, and we\u2019re right at the heart of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Genevieve Shore, PWR\u2019s executive chair, says: \u201cToday marks another important step forward for Premiership Women\u2019s Rugby. In partnership with the BBC we intend to give our incredible athletes the biggest platform possible, to show off the elite rugby talent that exists in this country. The Rugby World Cup later this year will be a breakthrough moment in our sport, but the story won\u2019t end there. The world\u2019s best players play their rugby every week in the PWR, and I am excited to say that now they\u2019ll also be shown every week on the BBC.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BBC Sport is expanding its women\u2019s rugby coverage with a new deal to broadcast Premiership Women\u2019s Rugby matches&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-13624","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\/13624","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=13624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}