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JO
Jon
What?
GE
thegeek Founding member
I think what Mr Cornwall is trying to point out is that BT Sport Europe is showing sport from other continents. (It's shown SPFL highlights in the past, though I suppose it could be argued that Scotland is in Europe too.)
GE
thegeek Founding member
UEFA CL

Interesting that the report from Malmo on the build-up to Malmo - Real, was from the Swedish rights holder Viasat SportSE's Frida Nordstrand tonight.

I'd heard that there was a plan to share facilities with the Scandinavian rightsholder; hadn't realised that it extended to reporters too. I wonder if it's a mutual arrangement - though more than likely in English only...

10 days later

GE
thegeek Founding member
Thursday's Fenerbahçe v Ajax Europa League game will be on the Ultra HD channel - the first live match on the channel that's not a BT Sport OB.
DV
DVB Cornwall
An aside, it seems that UEFA have downgraded the UEFA EL, this season, it's notable that pay for links are not being provided, at least in the group stages of the tournament to local broadcaster's feeds from their main site. I'm wondering whether this is partly responsible for BT not filling all it's Extra slots with matches in this phase of the competition.
GE
thegeek Founding member
Sorry, even I'm having trouble decoding that one.

BT Sport are showing 8 games this evening, as has been the case for both previous matchdays. I'm not sure they ever committed to showing more than this in the group stages.
DV
DVB Cornwall
BT has the broadcast OTA facilities in place to transmit more matches, it seems odd that they are not using all available slots to show matches, without commentary if necessary. Online access is available to them.
RD
rdd Founding member
For anyone missing the old Europa League theme, BT Sport were nice enough to play it right after the opening credits in their introduction to Liverpool v Rubin Kazan tonight.
MI
Michael
rdd posted:
For anyone missing the old Europa League theme, BT Sport were nice enough to play it right after the opening credits in their introduction to Liverpool v Rubin Kazan tonight.


BR
Brekkie
Was Liverpool airing on BT Sport 2, rather than BT Sport Europe after the Tottenham game, a fairly late schedule change. I'm sure they were both scheduled for BT Sport Europe earlier in the week, though of course the 6pm/8.05pm kick-offs allow little time for build up of the second match.
SW
Steve Williams
Was Liverpool airing on BT Sport 2, rather than BT Sport Europe after the Tottenham game, a fairly late schedule change. I'm sure they were both scheduled for BT Sport Europe earlier in the week, though of course the 6pm/8.05pm kick-offs allow little time for build up of the second match.


Yes, yes and yes, it was changed after the schedules were published in the Radio Times, although they made the change quite a while ago, presumably immediately after it became apparent it would be Klopp's first home match and it could do with more than five minutes build-up. In turn Celtic moved to ESPN.

BT has the broadcast OTA facilities in place to transmit more matches, it seems odd that they are not using all available slots to show matches, without commentary if necessary. Online access is available to them.


BT would certainly not want to show a match without commentary.

15 days later

GE
thegeek Founding member
Not sure if this has been posted before: DixonBaxi's page about their work on the August refresh.

As of last weekend, the breakbumpers (which they refer to as 'brand chants') are being generated live in high-profile programming - for example, the first break after the Mohrinio interview in last week's Premiership coverage had a big blue "nothing to say" bumper (that being pretty much the only thing he said in the interview)
UKnews, bilky asko and VMPhil gave kudos

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