Here are the list of channels that will telecast the 2011 Rugby World Cup in their respective countries. The 2011 Rugby World Cup is the seventh Rugby World Cup and will be held in New Zealand this year in September-October 2011.
List of Rugby World Cup Telecasting Channels
Argentina– TV Publica, ESPN
Australia– Fox Sports, Nine Network
Channel Nine will telecast all of Australia’s games + high interest games including the quarterfinals, semifinals and final.
Canada– TSN, TSN2 ( The Sports Network)- All 48 games.
Central and Western Asia RWC Television Rights ( Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Kazahkstan etc)- Showtime
Fiji World Cup TV rights– Fiji Television
France– TF1, Eurosport France, France Televisions and Canal+
Georgia RWC rights:- International Sport Media Group
Hong Kong RWC rights– PCCW
Ireland– Setanta, RTE
Setanta Sports are the primary rights holders for Ireland, while RTE have the free to air rights. RTE will telecast thirteen games- all of Ireland’s pool matches, the Final, the 3rd and 4th place play-off, both semi-finals, all quarter-finals and the opening match of the World Cup
Italy– Sky Italia
India Rugby World Cup Telecast Rights– Neo Sports India- All Games
Japan RWC broadcast rights– J Sports, Nippon TV
New Zealand– Sky New Zealand, Maori Television, TVNZ and TV3
Romania– Digi Sport Romania
United Kingdom– ITV & S4C
S4C will telecast nine matches- all of Wales’ group games, first match, one quarterfinal, one semifinal, third place playoff and final.
USA– NBC, Universal
Colombia– RCN
South Africa– SABC 2 & Supersport
Germany– DSF, Sport 1
The Asian5Nations has divisional leagues for developing rugby playing nations and covers an area of some 3 billion people. India is in the second division.
Will anybody be broadcasting to South Asia/S.E.Asia. I am particularly interested in knowing if there will be any coverage in India.
Grahame,
Star Sports India supposedly has the broadcasting rights in India for the Asian 5 Nations. Whether or not they actually show it on TV is something you’ve gotta check at your end.
http://www.asian5nations.com/node/160
No mention of SE Asia above.
As a diehard rugby fan (Qld reds & Wallabies) and resident of Indonesia, I would like to know which network will broardcast the 2011 RWC in SE Asia (Indonesia in particular), if any.
We have endured the year without Super 15 telecasts and we are all concerned the same will happen for the RWC.
I agree, it’s been really irritating (not to say disappointing) the we’ve had no rugby in Indonesia this year at all. The Australia Network broadcasts hour after hour of AFL and not a rugby ball in sight, even this weekend with a TEST match on.
When I wrote to the AN they directed me to Setanta who told me to watch it on the web, that’d be great if my download times exceeded 0.5kbs…where we are this is impossible advice
I hope that we get the 2011 RWC in Indonesia somehow, come on IRB do something…
TSN is confirmed.
What is TSN? I heard a rumour that Star may be showing RWC in Indonesia?
TSN is The Sports Network, holder of Canadian television rights for the Rugby World Cup.
Indonesian rights aren’t clear at this moment unfortunately.
Does anybody know if who (or if) will broadcast the Rugby World Cup 2011 games in Turkey??
Saran hold the telecast rights for Turkey
does anybody know when they are broadcasting the games?
we are active supporters of France (allez les bleus !), but are not allowed to streaming the French TF1 channel in Turkey. Local pubs broadcasting live are not allowing kids, and are not open at the time of the matches anyway.
is our only solution begging a French family for an invitation in front of their TV?
thanks to you if you have the answer.
Sorry to say, organizers has done awful job in giving rights to televisions since they are not covering every country, region.
I am concerned no one is showing in Pakistan? Similarly i have doubts in whole south east asia? If there is any network showing in india, Pakistan please let me know. Thanks
As you can see from the list, Neo Sports holds the rights for India