The BBC has secured the rights to broadcast England’s two Tests against Argentina in June.
Stuart Lancaster’s team travel to South America, minus their British & Irish Lions contingent, for what will be their first two-match series against the Pumas in Argentina since 1997.
BBC commentator Brian Moore, who is covering the forthcoming Lions Tour with talkSPORT, confirmed that the corporation had picked up the rights to screen the tw0-test series from the Argentine rugby board UAR.
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The BBC has won the rights to cover the next four summer and winter Olympic Games up to 2020 after signing a new deal with the International Olympics Committee (IOC).
The deal will include exclusive TV, radio and digital rights for the next two summer Olympics in Rio (2016) and the 2020 Games, as well as the next two winter Olympic Games in Sochi (2014) and Pyeongchang (2018).
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