NBC Signs Three-Year Deal With Premiership Rugby

Premiership Rugby has signed a three-year agreement with NBC Sports Group for the coverage of England’s top flight ahead of its first overseas game on Saturday. London Irish’s match against Saracens at the Red Bull Arena in New Jersey this weekend will be broadcast live on NBCSN to kick off the deal and further coverage will begin in earnest at the start of the 2016-17 season in September. There will be up to 24 regular Game of the Week programmes for each round of the Aviva Premiership on NBCSN, which is in around 85 million US households, and then up to 50 Premiership games will be streamed …