ITV is poised to win the rights to broadcast every England rugby union Test from next year after submitting a successful £80m bid for the inaugural Nations Championship .

The terrestrial broadcaster has beaten off a rival bid from TNT Sports to secure a deal that will ensure that all of the Home Nations matches will be available free-to-air for at least the next three years, in a major boost for the exposure of the sport. The Breakdown | Thirty years of Champions Cup has given us the beastly, beautiful and bizarre Read more

ITV already has a joint £63m deal with the BBC for the Six Nations Championship, with the commercial channel having the rights to every England game and 10 of the 15 matches overall as they are paying a greater share of the bill, and once the contracts are sig

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