News is coming out today that TNT have successfully had a bid to show the Six Nations next year behind pay per wall. This is an absolute joke if true! Talk about cutting off your nose spite your face. Have a look at some of the comments below ..
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📺 BREAKING: RugbyPass are reporting that TNT are officially set to land the Six Nations rights for next year, taking it from BBC & ITV.
The Rugby Paper also reported similar yesterday that this could be the last year on free-to-air TV.
Travesty. That’s going to dramatically…
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🚨 𝐄𝐗𝐂𝐋𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐕𝐄: “There is now a real risk that the BBC will be frozen out" – an executive involved in previous negotiations told The Rugby Paper yesterday.
👀 This may be the last year BBC covers the Six Nations…#GuinnessM6N pic.twitter.com/BRDSQtDbAL
— The Rugby Paper (@TheRugbyPaper) January 26, 2025
Broadcasting Act 2009 concerning Major Events Television Coverage. This provision of the Act permits the designation of certain qualifying events of major importance to society to be broadcast on a free-to-air television service on a live or deferred basis in the public interest
I have said for the future of the sport in England, we need the 6N on paywall, BUT using that to fund making club rugby free to air. We don’t need 5 weekend’s of rugby a season Free to air. We need consistent rugby week in week out.
Unavoidable sadly – just didn’t think it would happen this quickly. The dominance of football, the PL and the recent success of the England team means the RFU are facing an uphill battle, and then you’ve got the constant changing of the laws and suits lining their own pockets.
Does this free up (a lot of) funding for BBC and ITV to invest in domestic and European rugby? A partnership with Premier Sports, maybe for the Euros, or one with TNT for the Premiership could see regular weekly domestic coverage of English rugby as well as URC. New thinking.
In Ireland the 6 nations is a protected product and has to be FTA by law. They should do something similar for the uk
There are a lot of retired and perhaps less able people that cannot get to games or cannot afford to. The Six Nations is something many look forward to watching each year, This will be a sad day. I remember Jeremy Corbyn making national team coverage as FTA one of his pledges. Pity this lot dont have the same idea.
Inevitable after Rugby was made professional.
You want a professionalise a sport, then money is all that matters and it is no longer a sport…it’s a business. So many fools cannot grasp the difference. The two are mutually exclusive…one or the other…it cannot be both.
Thank God I live in Ireland.