{"id":385031,"date":"2026-01-22T23:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T23:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/385031\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T23:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T23:00:13","slug":"itv-extend-prem-rugby-television-deal-to-summer-2028","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/385031\/","title":{"rendered":"ITV extend Prem Rugby television deal to summer 2028"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prem Rugby has extended its broadcast deal with ITV for a further two years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The extension means ITV will continue to broadcast seven live matches per season, including the Prem final from Twickenham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The new agreement starts next summer and runs until the 2028 Prem final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">ITV will also broadcast all of England&#8217;s Six Nations matches this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last year, pay TV broadcaster TNT Sports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cx2eyj9y0pgo\" class=\"ssrcss-ckhpdl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">agreed a new deal<\/a> to show Prem Rugby matches on its various platforms until the summer of 2031.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are delighted to continue our partnership with ITV, which is now into its fifth year,&#8221; said Prem Rugby&#8217;s head of broadcast Ollie Lewis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Giving fans of Gallagher Prem Rugby free-to-air access across the season, alongside the Six Nations, is the perfect blend to showcase the stars of our league to wider audiences.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prem Rugby has extended its broadcast deal with ITV for a further two years. The extension means ITV&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-385031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}