Premiership Final Viewing Figures Hit Five-Year High

Premiership Rugby has revealed that this year’s Premiership final achieved the best television viewing figures since 2010 with a peak audience of just short of 300,000. The top flight finale on Saturday May 30, which saw Saracens beat Bath 28-16, was watched by a high of 297,000 viewers live on BT Sport and then by an average of 338,000 people on the ITV highlights programme. The total live viewing figures for Premiership rugby in the 2014/15 season amount to over 8.9 million, which is up six per cent on last season. That comes after a 40 per cent rise in viewing figures in the competition’s f…

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