Talks over a TV deal for the PRO16 will continue this week amid reports that Sky Sports are frontrunners for main broadcasting rights.
The company look set to take over from Premier Sports, who agreed a three-year deal with the league in 2018.
A meeting between relevant bodies has been lined up and is expected to thrash out new arrangements, though nothing official has been confirmed to every interested party just yet.
It is hoped the overall new deal will be bigger than the £30 million arrangement agreed three years ago, a package that involved multiple companies, including Premier Sports.
With four top-line South African provinces joining in the Bulls, Lions, Sharks and Stormers, the league is set to experience a notable upsurge in quality.
But the broadcasting revenue will still fall short of the riches on offer in France, where a bumper contract has just been negotiated with Canal + raking in some £100 million a season over four years.
In England, an arrangement was struck with BT Sport before Christmas worth some £40 million a campaign until 2024.
Sky Sports screened PRO Rugby between 2014 and 2018 with the BBC also showing games.
But the landscape changed when Premier Sports took over.
It is believed the BBC have been keen to get back on board, with a Welsh rugby source telling WalesOnline: “I heard that 10 days ago the BBC were really going for it.”
The Rugby Paper, however, suggests Sky are in pole position to secure the main broadcasting rights, which would mean matches being on pay-per-view.
Whether the BBC will be involved in a terrestrial element of the deal is unclear, but it would be a surprise if Welsh language channel S4C didn't feature.
