{"id":408442,"date":"2026-01-12T14:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T14:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/408442\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T14:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T14:29:09","slug":"virgin-media-tv-gives-subscribers-free-access-to-premier-sports-rugby-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/408442\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Media TV gives subscribers free access to Premier Sports Rugby | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its\u00a024\/7 rugby content includes\u00a0Investec Champions Cup, United Rugby Championship (URC), EPCR Challenge Cup, Top14 (France) and Major League Rugby<\/p>\n<p class=\"picture\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Screenshot 2026-01-12 at 13.03.35\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1468950_screenshot20260112at13.03.35_89281.jpg\"   loading=\"eager\" class=\"lazyloaded\" width=\"2636\" height=\"1318\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Virgin Media TV has given all its subscribers free access to Premier Sports Rugby, the UK\u2019s only dedicated 24\/7 rugby channel.<\/p>\n<p>Virgin TV customers now have access to the Investec Champions Cup, United Rugby Championship (URC), EPCR Challenge Cup, Top14 (France), Major League Rugby and Japan Rugby League One\u00a0via channel 553.<\/p>\n<p>David Bouchier, chief TV and entertainment officer at Virgin Media O2, said: \u201cWe\u2019re offering every Virgin TV customer even more value with access to Premier Sports Rugby at no extra cost. As the only Pay TV operator to provide this, we are demonstrating our commitment to give our customers the very best access to the content they love, and to further enhancing our sports offering with coverage of the world\u2019s biggest club competitions at their fingertips.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Its\u00a024\/7 rugby content includes\u00a0Investec Champions Cup, United Rugby Championship (URC), EPCR Challenge Cup, Top14 (France) and Major League&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-408442","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408442","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=408442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}