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UK commercial broadcaster ITV has signed an extension with Premiership Rugby to show live matches on linear television for the next two seasons.

ITV will no longer show its weekly National Football League highlights programme in the UK this season

ITV has concluded an eleventh-hour deal with Viaplay to show live UK coverage of Uefa Nations League matches this week featuring Scotland and Northern Ireland.

The Uefa Women’s Euro 2025 is set for broad free-to-air coverage across the continent after the rights were secured by the European Broadcasting Union.

A UK television audience record could be set on Sunday when England take on Spain in the final of Euro 2024, after another round of stellar ratings in the country last night (Wednesday)

ZDF delivered a huge audience share of 76.8 per cent for its live coverage of Germany’s clash with Denmark on Saturday evening during a weekend in which teams from four of Europe’s ‘big five’ markets were in action.

German fans tuned in in their millions to watch the hosts thrash Scotland in the Euro 2024 curtain-raiser, which drew a 10-year audience high in the UK for a tournament-opener

ITV will continue to show EFL highlights for the next three seasons, SportBusiness understands, as it prepares to add live Championship and Carabao Cup matches to its schedules.

UK commercial broadcaster ITV is close to agreeing a sublicensing deal with Sky Sports for around 20 English Football League matches per season

Fifa has launched invitations to tender for UK media rights to the 2026 and 2030 World Cups, with significantly more matches set to be broadcast as the tournament expands to 48 teams.

ITV suffered a 61-per-cent drop in pre-tax profits in 2023 amid an advertising slump and significant investment costs in its ITVX streaming service

England’s FA Cup is returning to pay television after the Football Association awarded a range of rights to TNT Sports from 2025-26 to 2028-29 with a “selected” number of matches to remain on free-to-air television.

The Football Association has issued its domestic media rights invitation to tender, inviting broadcasters to submit offers for four seasons, from 2025-26 to 2028-29, SportBusiness understands

ITV, the UK commercial broadcaster, recorded its biggest audience of 2023, as 8.7 million people tuned into watch the closing stages of England's dramatic defeat to South Africa in the Rugby World Cup semi-final.

France's thrilling Rugby World Cup quarter-final defeat to South Africa drew the best audience of the year for commercial broadcaster TF1, but it was not enough to set a new all-time tournament viewership…

Everyone TV, the organisation which runs free TV in the UK and is jointly owned by the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5, has unveiled plans for a new streaming service which aims to help ensure public-service television is sustained into the future.