Subscribers to BT Sport will be able to watch a range of great sporting action on ESPN including:
* Football from around the world including the Bundesliga and Ligue 1
* Great American sport including MLB, NASCAR, Indy Car and NCAA Football and Basketball
* The X games
* and other international sport such as French Top 14 Rugby, AFL and DTM
Subscribers to BT Sport will be able to watch a range of great sporting action on ESPN including:
* Football from around the world including the Bundesliga and Ligue 1
* Great American sport including MLB, NASCAR, Indy Car and NCAA Football and Basketball
* The X games
* and other international sport such as French Top 14 Rugby, AFL and DTM
It's being positioned very much as a world sport channel then. From that statement the intention seems to be to place Europa League and FA Cup on the BT Sport branded channels. Makes sense.
The handover from the launch programme sounds really interesting.
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The show will simulcast on BT Sport 1 and BT Sport 2 until the moment the two channels become independent when viewers will see Jake Humphrey heading to the football studio to cover the Audi Cup on BT Sport 1 and Craig Doyle in the BT Sport rugby studio covering the JP Morgan Asset Management 7s on BT Sport 2.
I don't think you'll see too much difference on air (other than, I'd imagine, no more ads for Sky Sports and much more cross-promotion). ESPN will continue to be played out from the same place, although their studio will be moving later in the year.
I think I'm right in saying that ESPN's play out is being done by the same company that is doing BT's?
I've just seen the wraparound advert on tonight's Evening Standard and noticed that both Danny Baker and Danny Kelly are on the presenting line up, anyone know what they're doing? It's a interesting rostra of presenters - Tim Lovejoy, Helen Skelton and Lynsey Hipgrave. I assume they're all staying doing their other gigs?