BT Sport - Launch of BT Sport Ultimate

Bit rainy in Switzerland, so here's the caption BT Sport have been putting on top of filler programmes.


WTA Lugano will move to BT Sport Extra 1 at 1900, if it's still going (or even started) by then.

The WTA might be regretting moving this tournament outdoors (it was indoors last year). So much rain all week.

Crazy to think there wouldn't be any problems playing outdoors in Switzerland in April. They have played some matches indoors at a club 20 minutes drive away.

Plenty of rain at the other WTA tournament this week in Bogota too.

I assume more schedule changes tomorrow with Lugano aiming to play the QFs and SFs in the same day from 9:30.

Some interesting scenes during the Bundesliga match between Mainz and Frieburg last night on BT Sport 1 with Jonathan Pearce and Stewart Robson on commentary having quite a bit of filling to do.

First of all kick-off was delayed by four or five minutes by fans whistling and holding up banners as part of the protests against Monday night games which have been going on in Germany all season. Then, half time came and all looked normal with players leaving the pitch and coverage going to the first half time commercial break, only to come back to find that the referee had gone to VAR in the meantime and awarded a penalty which was about to be taken. Then there were more protests just before the start of the second half with hundreds of toilet rolls thrown onto the pitch. That took about five minutes to clean up, and as soon as all the paper was eventually cleared, the fans revealed that they'd all brought a second roll each which they they then threw on!

All in all it was a wonder it only came off air 17 minutes late.

BT Sport have announced that they're going to launch a PPV channel:


but other than a logo, zero other details so far.

Wonder if that will end up as PPV outlet for Box Nation?

Original name.

Can't see what else they'd use it for. Wouldn't be surprised if Box Nation closes around the same time.

Frank Warren (Promoter behind Box Nation) is expanding his Boxer roster he's signed Tyson Fury in the last few days, so using this for PPV Boxing seems to make sense. Any expansion beyond Boxing would be concerning for the existing BT Sport proposition.

UFC could probably go down that route but can't think of the last time another sport was shown on a PPV basis.

WWE is sometimes shown on Sky on a PPV basis. But, the only other time I can recall was Prem Plus back at the start of the century.