{"id":425617,"date":"2026-04-30T18:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T18:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/425617\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T18:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T18:27:10","slug":"rte-and-premier-get-champions-league-as-virgin-admit-rights-race-no-longer-sustainable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/425617\/","title":{"rendered":"RTE and Premier get Champions League as Virgin admit rights race \u2018no longer sustainable\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"RTE will have Champions League matches next year\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages_2267366996.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">RTE will have Champions League matches next year<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">RT\u00c9 and Premier Sports will have access to Champions League football from next year, but Virgin Media are the losers in terms of Irish audiences as UEFA have announced details of their broadcast deals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">UEFA have allocated broadcast rights across their member states from 2027\u20132031 and confirmed today that Premier Sports, who broadcast from Dublin, will have \u201cfirst pick\u201d access for Tuesday night games, with a highlights package and also the Champions League final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RTE will have Champions League matches next year RT\u00c9 and Premier Sports will have access to Champions League&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2049,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-425617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-aidan-fitzmaurice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}