BT Sport - General Discussion

They also predicted what the first and last games that would be shown on MOTD at the end of BT Sport Panel this morning, I have little doubt they will be wrong with the prediction the Everton game will be last, as always!

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MOTD at 10.30pm: 1.Swansea/ManUtd, 2.Arsenal/Villa, 3.Norwich/Everton, 4.L'pool/Stoke, 5.WestHam/Cardiff, 6.WBA/Saints, 7.S'land/Fulham

Well, it only took them this long

Not really that long as Bolton games used to be shown last, when we used to be in the Premier League - which was great as I used to go out on a Saturday and not be bothered about getting home to watch MOTD as I could watch the last 30 minutes and be safe in knowing I could see the highlights of the Bolton games - worked 99.9% of the time!

Interesting that mid Bundesliga match on BTS2 that they have moved the channel dog from Bottom Right to Top Left, I assume that it was found by someone to have been partially obscuring the Bundesliga's official watermark Dog and subsequently either ordered to or voluntarily switched.

Free Rugby on Friday Evening ....

All UK homes will be able to watch this Friday’s Aviva Premiership Rugby clash between Harlequins and Northampton Saints after Bt Sport bosses announced the game would be broadcast free to air.
The match will air on BT TV (507/510/5, Sky (413/426), Virgin (547/549) and Freeview (57) from 7pm.


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10-Sep-2013 @ 12:33

It's an odd use of that Freeview slot they have at the moment. Would be nice if they set up a sports channel.

I think you'll find BT have set up a sports channel. That slot I assume is the one C5 will ultimately use for 5Later - can't see BT running the barker promo channel much longer.

Meant sports news.

I seriously don't think that's a priority. Even on Freeview you have frequent sports bulletins on BBC News and Sky News, and if you were that interested in sport you wanted more, you'd probably have got Sky or Virgin anyway, and hence Sky Sports News. Setanta Sports News was just a complete waste of time, Sky Sports News can benefit from piggy backing on Sky's rights and without those it's just aimless chat half the time.

Sky Sports News did get good figures on Freeview though and the main reason Sky removed it was it gave too much value to the Freeview package.

BT would have access to Premier League and FA Cup goals as well as Premiership Rugby, I could imagine they could even go for 'news channel' status and show stuff from other broadcasters or get a deal with the BBC to show clips of stuff they hold the rights to and are allowed to sub let.

There are lots of people who are interested in sport that can't afford subscription television and there could be lots of business who could use the service, for example Wetherspoons used to show Sky Sports News but it doesn't subscribe to the business rates for Sky Sports the same with a local sport themed barbers.

Sky Sports News was on Freeview because Sky were committed to provide Freeview with three services but was a massive shop window.

I don't think it'll happen anyway.

I see the DOGS have become transparent.