{"id":86011,"date":"2015-05-05T10:45:17","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T09:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=86011"},"modified":"2015-05-07T10:48:46","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T09:48:46","slug":"bbc-awarded-uk-radio-rights-for-rugby-world-cup-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/bbc-awarded-uk-radio-rights-for-rugby-world-cup-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC awarded UK radio rights for Rugby World Cup 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<table class=\"table_main\" border=\"0\" width=\"601\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"3\" width=\"581\">\n<table width=\"601\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"5\" valign=\"top\" width=\"601\"><span id=\"phcHeader\" class=\"text_newshead\">BBC awarded UK radio rights for Rugby World Cup 2015 <\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-size: small;\">05 starting with the opening match between England and Fiji on Friday 18 September on BBC Radio 5 live. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Rugby World Cup 2015 is the biggest sporting event to take place in the UK since the London Olympics and one of the most prestigious events in the global sporting marketplace and the deal will enable rugby to reach new audiences in its biggest-ever year. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">World Rugby Chief Executive Brett Gosper said: &#8220;World Rugby is excited about the appointment of the BBC as the rights-holding radio broadcaster for Rugby World Cup 2015 in England, which promises to be a very special record-breaking celebration of rugby. The BBC\u2019s passion for our sport, combined with their commitment to the highest-standards of production is great news for fans and also rugby\u2019s ability to reach out and inspire new audiences.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Richard Burgess, Head of Radio Sport at the BBC, said: &#8220;We\u2019re really pleased to be able to offer fans extensive commentary and coverage of Rugby World Cup 2015 across BBC radio and mobile output, giving audiences across the UK access to a wealth of content wherever they are. Our radio commentary is second to none and we\u2019re looking forward to what will be a very exciting tournament.&#8221; <\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC awarded UK radio rights for Rugby World Cup 2015 05 starting with the opening match between England and Fiji on Friday 18 September on BBC Radio 5 live. Rugby World Cup 2015 is the biggest sporting event to take place in the UK since the London Olympics and one of the most prestigious events [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[11060,5026,5519,10926,3959,5670],"class_list":["post-86011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ulster-rugby","tag-11060","tag-bbc","tag-cup","tag-radio","tag-rugby","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86013,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86011\/revisions\/86013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}