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BT secures rights to climax of women’s top-tier rugby union league

DMP Durham Sharks and Gloucester Hartpury Women on Saturday 27th March 2021. (Photo by Mark Fletcher/MI News/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Telco BT has secured domestic rights to the climax of this season’s top-tier English women’s Premier 15s rugby union competition, SportBusiness understands.

The broadcaster will show live coverage of the final and is understood to be in talks with rights-holder the Rugby Football Union to also show both semi-finals live.

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