Wales in bid to get £20m for TV rights

By PETER JACKSON
WALES are attempting to negotiate a record deal of more than £20m from the sale of TV rights to their Autumn Internationals. They have gone to the market in the hope of securing a hike of at least 20 per cent from their last contract by pushing the average price of the four November Test matches beyond £1.5m. The current three-year agreement with the BBC, which runs out this year, is understood to be worth around £15m.
WRU chief executive Martyn Phillips wants substantially more from the next rights deal starting from 2020.
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