BT Sport - General Discussion

Not sure you can read too much into it. You could quite easily suggest that now they've found their feet, they want to show potential viewers (paying or already included in free offers but unaware or previously uninterested) how good their output is.

Think BT Sport were pretty surprised at how many subscribers they got - it was a very healthy number pre-launch. Suspect this is an exercise in ensuring people know that they can get it - and to show them how good it is, and how different to Sky it is.


Definitely feels more "BBC Sport" in lots of ways - which I know may not appeal to some, but Sky's aggressive, macho - and in some ways very dated - approach isn't going to be popular with everyone either.

Very bare schedule from BT Sport next weekend due to the international break in football and Premiership Rugby taking a break for the Heineken Cup - their live action next weekend is basically limited to a couple of Australian soccer games in the morning and baseball/college American football in the evening.

No weekend with a Wrexham match in it can ever be described as weak.

A couple of wee observations from watching the preview tonight:

• The free preview is a simulcast of Sport 1 on the spare Freeview channel, rather than being one of the regular outlets with the encryption turned off
• No ads in the ad breaks, just a string of trailers with 'if you're enjoying this, here's how you can subscribe' slates in between each one
• Again, not being scared to acknowledge the existence of other channels - the Ellie Simmonds interview included a little clip of the 'Meet the Superhumans' trailer

BT Sport 1/2 on channels 58 and 59 use MPEG4 video so can't be made free to view to work universally. Although many, especially more recent, multi-standard TVs can handle MPEG4, the official video standard for SD Freeview is MPEG2, which is used on channel 57 and is compatible with every Freeview SD device in the UK. (Channel 58 and 59 solely for Vision+ box users).

good point - though I think what I failed to get across was that none of the Dsat channels were unencrypted.

Calamitous weekend, on air gesticulation blunder by David Ginola yesterday repeated again by Raphael Honigstein this evening. Honigstein removed from the panel of Sunday Night Football after 40 minutes.

This is going to develop, Ofcom will be involved.

In what way will it develop? Did you complain to Ofcom?

This isn't Twitter, you do not have a limit on the number of characters you can use. You have introduced the idea of a "gesticulation blunder" as if the reader is meant to know what you are talking about. This terminology has not been used in this thread previously. A Google search for the phrase shows your post as the top result so it doesn't seem to be a phrase that is being used elsewhere at the moment either. Maybe you could post again with more details of what you mean?

Or you could just search for "bt sport david ginola"

Thank you. There is a video available of what happened yesterday...


Perhaps Mr Cornwall would like to say what happened today?

I think 'calamitous' may be taking it a little far.

This clip of Saturday's incident shows it in a little more context: