article_snippet: Premiership bosses confirmed Premiership Rugby's longest-ever broadcasting rights deal with BT Sport on Monday, extending the existing four-year contract until 2021.
article_snippet: No doubt Premiership Rugby's longest-ever broadcasting rights deal with BT Sport gives us some certainty against which to plan those discussions.'
article_snippet: Premiership chiefs netted £152million when agreeing Premiership chiefs first deal with BT Sport in 2012, and this new extension is expected to command a sizeable increase.
article_snippet: Northampton skipper Dylan Hartley rejected several lucrative contract offers from French clubs to commit to Franklin's Gardens earlier this season however, and league bosses will hope increasing revenue through deals similar to the BT contract will continue to boost that ongoing fight.
article_snippet: the Aviva Premiershipis already set to rise to £5.1million for 2015-16, with clubs able to gain £400,000 in credits for the number of home-grown players in their squad.
article_snippet: Northampton skipper Dylan Hartleyraises the trophy for Northampton having won the 2014 Aviva Premiership .
highlights_snippet: The four-year contract extension is the league's longest ever TV rights deal .
  
highlights_snippet: Premiership Rugby signed a £152m four-year deal with BT Sport in 2012 .
  
highlights_snippet: Live Premiership games will increase to 80 a season in the new TV deal .
  
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