DV
There are, but some of the events runs concurrently with another.
Therefore some of the tournaments will be relegated to Red Button / Online.
The rest of the WTA (and ATP) calendar for this year, with TV information, can be seen at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WRxU9vW0uJk8dc1oPlfW3E0aKFhZ-goYoWwGKsA-HnE/edit?usp=sharing
In weeks where there aren't any of the Grand Slams, four Mandatory and five Premier 5 events, there are usually two events running side by side, either a Premier and an International or two Internationals. Also apart from the finals at the end of the year, there is usually an International event running in Fed Cup weeks.
At the moment BT pick up the International events on an ad hoc basis, and usually only the final stages. This may be because at present the WTA doesn't produce a world feed for International events. For example, earlier this year Hobart was only made available from the semi finals onwards, and BT took locally produced coverage of the Auckland International (with Sky NZ graphics). When Birmingham was an International event (it's now a Premier), Eurosport were the host broadcaster and therefore produced the graphics. I wonder if the WTA are offering more tournaments on their world feed from next year.
This week BT are showing the final stages of the Strasbourg International but there is no coverage of the Nuremberg International. The new deal enables them to show them all but obviously some will clash with each other and other live sport so will end up on the red button. They are somewhat inflexible at the moment in that they will only show European events on BT Sport Europe and American events on ESPN. Events elsewhere in the world have to be on BT Sport 1 or 2.
Are there even 52 events. Events last a week, they have 6 weeks off at the end of the year, 8 weeks doing the grand slam (with usually nothing significant the week before/after), then weeks off for the fed cup. The 30 events they currently show are probably the only 30 worth showing.
There are, but some of the events runs concurrently with another.
Therefore some of the tournaments will be relegated to Red Button / Online.
The rest of the WTA (and ATP) calendar for this year, with TV information, can be seen at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WRxU9vW0uJk8dc1oPlfW3E0aKFhZ-goYoWwGKsA-HnE/edit?usp=sharing
In weeks where there aren't any of the Grand Slams, four Mandatory and five Premier 5 events, there are usually two events running side by side, either a Premier and an International or two Internationals. Also apart from the finals at the end of the year, there is usually an International event running in Fed Cup weeks.
At the moment BT pick up the International events on an ad hoc basis, and usually only the final stages. This may be because at present the WTA doesn't produce a world feed for International events. For example, earlier this year Hobart was only made available from the semi finals onwards, and BT took locally produced coverage of the Auckland International (with Sky NZ graphics). When Birmingham was an International event (it's now a Premier), Eurosport were the host broadcaster and therefore produced the graphics. I wonder if the WTA are offering more tournaments on their world feed from next year.
This week BT are showing the final stages of the Strasbourg International but there is no coverage of the Nuremberg International. The new deal enables them to show them all but obviously some will clash with each other and other live sport so will end up on the red button. They are somewhat inflexible at the moment in that they will only show European events on BT Sport Europe and American events on ESPN. Events elsewhere in the world have to be on BT Sport 1 or 2.
Last edited by dvboy on 20 May 2016 11:10am
