Premiership Rugby

BT Sport will revolutionise the way Aviva Premiership rugby is broadcast with a series of ground-breaking new innovations to be unveiled for the forthcoming season.

BT Sport's innovations include:

• Cameras in dressing rooms 
• Introduction of kicking tee camera and lineout cam 
• Pre-match pitch walk, featuring interviews with players 
• In-match interviews with directors of rugby 
• Half-time player interviews 

Kick-off times will remain largely constant throughout the new campaign with a typical weekend of action featuring three live games:

1. Friday at 7.45pm
2. Saturday at 3.15pm 
3. Sunday at 2pm

BT Sport will also screen a midweek rugby show – Rugby Tonight – from 8pm-10pm each Wednesday evening, plus two live matches from the French Top 14 every week.

BT Sport Premiership Rugby matches

BT Sport's live Aviva Premiership coverage begins on Friday September 6 with Newcastle Falcons v Bath Rugby, kick-off 7.45pm

World Club 7

Premiership Rugby confirms that BT Sport will screen the World Club 7s live from Twickenham on 17 & 18 August. The ground-breaking tournament brings together, for the first time, some of the biggest names in club and provincial rugby from the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, together with some of the emerging names in the 7s game.

BT Sport will broadcast three hours live on Saturday followed by five and a half hours on Sunday.