Rugby on TV 2014/15

kig

Does anyone know which channels will be showing rugby on TV for the coming season - Pro12, Top 14, Premiership, European Champions Cup, etc. Does Sky have the rights to all of these now, or does Setanta still have some rights?

Rigor Mortis

kig wrote: »

Does anyone know which channels will be showing rugby on TV for the coming season - Pro12, Top 14, Premiership, European Champions Cup, etc. Does Sky have the rights to all of these now, or does Setanta still have some rights?

Sky and tg4 have pro12 - still up for grabs whether bbc or Setanta have the ulster rights
Sky has top14
sky and Bt have Europe (tg4 have deferred highlights again)
Bt has the Aviva prem

bilston

Rigor Mortis wrote: »

Sky and tg4 have pro12 - still up for grabs whether bbc or Setanta have the ulster rights
Sky has top14
sky and Bt have Europe (tg4 have deferred highlights again)
Bt has the Aviva prem

Added to that RTE and Sky will share the Autumn tests (both screening the games).

RTE and BBC will cover the Six Nations as per usual.

There is no summer tour this year.

vienne86

bilston wrote: »

There is no summer tour this year.

....because of the World Cup, which will be broadcast by ......TV3.....aaargh!!!!!!

P_1

Ok I've asked this over in Le Cafe du Rugby but does anybody know if it's possible to pick up Canal+ and the other French stations that cover the Top14 on an Irish TV? Like is it possible to call the Canal+ call centre wherever it is in France and ask to be able to subscribe to their package s'il vous plait.

This season I don't particularly want to have to go trawling through streams to watch matches that are covered in France but not on Sky.

Newtown90

P_1 wrote: »

Ok I've asked this over in Le Cafe du Rugby but does anybody know if it's possible to pick up Canal+ and the other French stations that cover the Top14 on an Irish TV? Like is it possible to call the Canal+ call centre wherever it is in France and ask to be able to subscribe to their package s'il vous plait.

This season I don't particularly want to have to go trawling through streams to watch matches that are covered in France but not on Sky.

You would need to get a satellite dish and set it up on 19 degrees east I think it is.

Canal+ subs are fairly expensive too as fasr as I remember.

http://www.canalplus.fr/#sc_intcmp=EC:NAV:GALACTIQUE:CANALPLUS

You will need a french address for a subscription anyhow I would assume it would be pretty much the same as Sky here.

Were they not in a legal case with BEin Sports about the Top 14 rights??

Edit:

Plus a lot of their games are on "A La Carte" which is essentially ppv: http://liveonsat.com/LJS_other_rugby_U.php

vienne86

Glenviewjf wrote: »

You would need to get a satellite dish and set it up on 19 degrees east I think it is.

Canal+ subs are fairly expensive too as fasr as I remember.

http://www.canalplus.fr/#sc_intcmp=EC:NAV:GALACTIQUE:CANALPLUS

You will need a french address for a subscription anyhow I would assume it would be pretty much the same as Sky here.

Were they not in a legal case with BEin Sports about the Top 14 rights??

Edit:

Plus a lot of their games are on "A La Carte" which is essentially ppv: http://liveonsat.com/LJS_other_rugby_U.php

Even with a dish pointing to the hotbird satellite instead of astra, I think it is expensive. I live in Dublin but I happen to have a French address too, and looked at this briefly - I don't remember the amounts of money involved, but I dismissed it immediately.

icdg

Here's a rundown as to who holds the Irish (and UK where applicable) rights to the major rugby union tournaments in 2014-15 - Errors and omissions expected, of course!

International

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RBS Six Nations: RTE (UK: BBC)
Rugby Championship: Sky Sports
November Internationals: Ireland: RTE (UK: Sky Sports). England: Sky Sports. (Scotland and Wales: BBC)
There are no summer internationals in 2014-15. There will be August internationals in 2015-16 instead.

Club/Regional

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European Rugby Champions Cup: BT and Sky Sports (Highlights: TG4)
European Rugby Challenge Cup: BT and Sky Sports
Super Rugby: Sky Sports
Pro 12: TG4 and Sky Sports (UK: BBC Wales, BBC Alba, BBC Scotland, S4C, NI broadcaster TBC)
Premiership Rugby: BT Sport
Top 14: Sky Sports
Anglo-Welsh Cup: Sky Sports (Highlights: ITV)
National Provincial Championship: Sky Sports
Currie Cup: Sky Sports

I am unsure as to whether RTE continue to hold All-Ireland League rights.

kooga

as of yet there is no French tv company signed up to European Rugby Champions Cup

previously the H cup was on canal plus and france 2 with the challenge cup on france 4.

tv 5 monde every season shows the last few rounds of the top 14, you have to keep an eye on the tv lsitings.

H cup highlights used to be on s4c as well.

P_1

vienne86 wrote: »

Even with a dish pointing to the hotbird satellite instead of astra, I think it is expensive. I live in Dublin but I happen to have a French address too, and looked at this briefly - I don't remember the amounts of money involved, but I dismissed it immediately.

Ah so while it is technically and legally possible it is prohibitively expensive.

vienne86

P_1 wrote: »

Ah so while it is technically and legally possible it is prohibitively expensive.

Not sure about the legality of it. A lot of Brits living in France have Sky tv - they have a dish pointing to Astra and they truck a Sky box over from UK, but to sucscribe, they have to do so from an address in UK, and Sky, I presume, assume that the box is at that address. Not sure if it is legal to bring the box elsewhere, but lots of people do it. I sometimes bring mine to a mobile home out of Dublin.....not sure if that's legal, but it sometimes suits me to do that and it works.

So the same argument would presumably hold for having a French box with Canal + over here.

The technical issue is really that the French use a different satellite to UK and Ireland.

oneofakind32

vienne86 wrote: »

....because of the World Cup, which will be broadcast by ......TV3.....aaargh!!!!!!

While TV3 currently own the rights, it's in doubt weather or not TV3 will be operational this time next year as UTV Ireland are set to take most if not all of the content that brings in there viewers (Corrie, X factor etc.). TV3 will probably be looking to sell the rights on for a profit.

An Tarbh

Is it definite that TG4 have the highlights for the champions cup, I know they signed a 3 year deal in 2011 which expired at the end of last season, I wasn't aware they'd signed an extension to that deal.

Digifriendly

icdg wrote: »

Here's a rundown as to who holds the Irish (and UK where applicable) rights to the major rugby union tournaments in 2014-15 - Errors and omissions expected, of course!

International

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RBS Six Nations: RTE (UK: BBC)
Rugby Championship: Sky Sports
November Internationals: Ireland: RTE (UK: Sky Sports). England: Sky Sports. (Scotland and Wales: BBC)
There are no summer internationals in 2014-15. There will be August internationals in 2015-16 instead.

Club/Regional

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European Rugby Champions Cup: BT and Sky Sports (Highlights: TG4)
European Rugby Challenge Cup: BT and Sky Sports
Super Rugby: Sky Sports
Pro 12: TG4 and Sky Sports (UK: BBC Wales, BBC Alba, BBC Scotland, S4C, NI broadcaster TBC)
Premiership Rugby: BT Sport
Top 14: Sky Sports
Anglo-Welsh Cup: Sky Sports (Highlights: ITV)
National Provincial Championship: Sky Sports
Currie Cup: Sky Sports

I am unsure as to whether RTE continue to hold All-Ireland League rights.

Don't forget ITV also have highlights of Premiership Rugby.

icdg

An Tarbh wrote: »

Is it definite that TG4 have the highlights for the champions cup, I know they signed a 3 year deal in 2011 which expired at the end of last season, I wasn't aware they'd signed an extension to that deal.

They had it on their Rugby Beo page but have removed it now, oddly enough.