The BBC may no longer be able to afford to keep its share of the Six Nations because of the spiralling costs of broadcast rights and a fall in its income, its outgoing director of sport has warned MPs. Slater admitted that the financial pressures on the corporation when it came to sport were increasingly stark. “We need a well-funded BBC if we are going to be able to continue to afford sports rights,” she told MPs. Because it is very difficult for the BBC, on that trajectory of income, to continue to afford everything that we have. “But it’s less so with the Rugby World Cup because we’ve only done two deals in my time at ITV,” he said.

Source: BBC November 22, 2023 20:11 UTC