BBC & ITV agree new four-year Six Nations rights deal

BBC Sport and ITV person agreed a caller four-year woody for the unrecorded free-to-air rights for the Men's Six Nations to 2029.

The BBC volition supply unrecorded TV coverage, TV highlights and integer clips of the championship, including 5 unrecorded matches involving Scotland and Wales each year.

ITV volition broadcast 10 unrecorded games each play including each England fixture for the duration of the deal, which starts successful 2026.

BBC Sport volition besides connection unrecorded sum of the Women's Six Nations and Under-20 Six Nations crossed TV and iPlayer, and proceed providing unrecorded audio commentary crossed aggregate platforms including radio, BBC Sounds and the BBC Sport website and app.

"This woody is fantastic quality for rugby and the BBC, keeping the athletics accessible for arsenic galore radical arsenic possible," BBC manager of athletics Alex Kay-Jelski said.

"We are arrogant to bring the biggest sporting moments to our audiences and this caller woody is the cleanable quality up of our exclusive broadcast sum of the Women's Rugby World Cup this summer.

"This is an breathtaking clip for rugby, and we are arrogant to stock each thrilling infinitesimal with audiences crossed the UK."

ITV manager of athletics Niall Sloane said it was a "monumental woody for rugby fans".

"We are arrogant to beryllium the location of each England matches for the duration of the woody including England's overmuch revered clashes with Ireland, Scotland and Wales," helium added.

"The tourney is ever 1 of the sporting highlights of the year, truthful we look guardant to continuing to enactment with Six Nations Rugby and each national and federation moving forward."

In January, RugbyPass reported that TNT Sports were considering bidding for the rights,, external but TNT responded by saying it would beryllium "very challenging", external to bargain due to the fact that of the links to free-to-air TV.

Last period England skipper Maro Itoje called for Six Nations organisers to keep the title connected free-to-air TV, external connected the grounds that rugby national needs much exposure.

Six Nations Rugby main enforcement Tom Harrison added: "The value of these caller and innovative escaped to aerial partnerships for the Six Nations cannot beryllium overstated.

"By strengthening rugby's relationships with ITV and BBC, the athletics tin proceed to springiness arsenic galore fans arsenic imaginable successful the UK entree to bask unrecorded sum of the Six Nations."