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Six Nations Rugby on TV 2020

The Six Nations Championship is an annual international rugby union competition.

The Six Nations involves six European national sides: England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales.

The 2020 Six Nations takes place between 1 February and 14 March 2020.

It is currently sponsored by the Guinness, and also known as the Guinness Six Nations.

 

Six Nations TV Coverage – Six Nations Broadcasters

The BBC have had live coverage of the Six Nations since its inception.
In 2011 it was announced that the BBC’s coverage of the tournament on TV, radio and online, would be extended to 2017.

However, in 2016 it was announced that the BBC had renegotiated its deal and would start to share UK TV coverage of the Six Nations with ITV, for the next six years.
Under this deal all England, Ireland and Italy home matches will be live on ITV; all Wales, Scotland and France home matches will be live on BBC: all Wales matches live on S4C.
BBC Radio 5 live will continue live commentary of all matches, which will be available on the BBC Sport website.

In Ireland, TV3 will have the rights for every game from the 6 Nations on Irish Television from 2018–2021

France Télévision will cover the competition in France which will last until 2021.

In Italy, from 2014 to 2021 DMAX of Discovery Communications will broadcast all matches (available on Sky Italia)

In Wales, S4C broadcasts matches featuring the national team using the BBC’s feed with Welsh language commentary.

Movistar+ in Spain will also be showing all Six Nations matches live.

Other broadcasters include BeIN SPorts (Mena), DAZN, Arena Sports, ViaSat, Supersort, Ziggo, Nova Sport and Digitalb

 

Six Nations fixtures & TV schedule 2020

ROUND ONE
Wales v Italy…. Principality Stadium (Cardiff)…. Saturday, February 1…. 2.15pm GMT…. BBC and S4C

Ireland v Scotland… Aviva Stadium (Dublin)…. Saturday, February 1…. 4.45pm GMT…. ITV

France v England…. Stade de France (Paris)…. Sunday, February 2…. 3pm GMT…. BBC

ROUND TWO
Ireland v Wales…. Aviva Stadium (Dublin)…. Saturday, February 8…. 2.15pm GMT…. ITV and S4C

Scotland v England…. BT Murrayfield (Edinburgh)…. Saturday, February 8…. 4.45pm GMT…. BBC

France v Italy…. Stade de France (Paris)…. Sunday, February 9…. 3pm GMT…. BBC

ROUND THREE
Italy v Scotland…. Stadio Olimpico (Rome)…. Saturday, February 22…. 2.15pm GMT…. ITV

Wales v France…. Principality Stadium (Cardiff)…. Saturday, February 22…. 4.45pm GMT…. BBC and S4C

England v Ireland…. Twickenham (London)…. Sunday, February 23…. 3pm GMT…. ITV

ROUND FOUR
Ireland v Italy…. Aviva Stadium (Dublin)…. Saturday, March 7…. 2.15pm GMT…. ITV

England v Wales…. Twickenham (London)…. Saturday, March 7…. 4.45pm GMT…. ITV and S4C

Scotland v France…. BT Murrayfield (Edinburgh)…. Sunday, March 8…. 3pm GMT…. BBC

ROUND FIVE
Wales v Scotland…. Principality Stadium (Cardiff)…. Saturday, March 14…. 2.15pm GMT…. BBC and S4C

Italy v England…. Stadio Olimpico (Rome)…. Saturday, March 14…. 4.45pm GMT…. ITV

France v Ireland…. Stade de France (Paris)…. Saturday, March 14…. 8pm GMT…. BBC