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Claire Balding will be having her own Talk Show on the new BT Sports channel interviewing the Stars
See Here http://www.btplc.com/News/Articles/S...A-80CFB20EF355 Also, say you wanted the BT Sports channel Red Button services and MUTV do you need two boxes one for BT and another for Virgin/Sky to get what you want, as I do not think that the new BT Sports package on BT Vision will include the MUTV channel, I could be wrong and MUTV will be part of the BT Vision line-up of channels going forward |
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Remind me again when is the channel due to launch
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Also, say you wanted the BT Sports channel Red Button services and MUTV do you need two boxes one for BT and another for Virgin/Sky to get what you want,
as I do not think that the new BT Sports package on BT Vision will include the MUTV channel, I could be wrong and MUTV will be part of the BT Vision line-up of channels going forward MU bought out Sky's share in MUTV last month and now own it all themselves, so that probably removes any remaining obstacles to a BT deal. Their Sky channel change seems to be part of the Sky buy-out deal. |
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Is their anything that woman won't do. She does my head in so I won't be tuning in to watch het yap to some sports people. Sadly I will miss ESPN as they really are good at what they do currently. Such a shame.
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Is their anything that woman won't do. She does my head in so I won't be tuning in to watch het yap to some sports people. Sadly I will miss ESPN as they really are good at what they do currently. Such a shame.
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Is their anything that woman won't do. She does my head in so I won't be tuning in to watch het yap to some sports people. Sadly I will miss ESPN as they really are good at what they do currently. Such a shame.
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Shock horror Sports presenter presents a sports show.
![]() To change tack slightly - We know BT have taken BBC talent. ESPN presenters too? Rebecca Lowe, perhaps? And what about a standalone show for AC Jimbo? As that would just be guaranteed to be different. |
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AC Jimbo definately deserves his own show or atleast to continue presenting seria A football on BT Vision. He is fantastic!
I like that they have jake humphreys as their premier league anchor, could be great, hopefully they can sign up some excellent pundits. They should try and go down the gary neville route and find someone young and hungry rather than the same old tried an tested keegans and savage's of this world. What will the pricing be like? With all the talk of ESPN ceasing to exist will they be free on he XL package on virgin or would they prevent that from happening as they see virgin as major competitors when BT clearly are aiming to gain BT infinity and vision customers. Should be interesting to see this play out, especialy as some big premier league games will be on BT Vision. If BT are serious about this they need to carry it through, something ESPN and setanta have failed to do. Eventually need to target the rights to champions league and the sorts. Al Jazeera had always been the ones rumoured to really eventually challenge sky but it looks like BT are going to have a go first, atleast over the next 3 years Although Im not too optimistic about their chances |
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In reality BT badly needed to win the bulk of the EPL rights (and which was clearly its intention) to take on Sky and attract a significant subscriber base. With only a third of the games that Sky have that will give them a much harder task as Sky has a massive head start in subscribers, most of whom take Sky Sports as part of a wider package.
BT are making all the right noises and signing big name presenters etc but ultimately it all comes down to how many subscribers they can attract and how much money they are prepared to throw at it in relation to the returns they get. I'm still not sure, in the light of them not seizing the bulk of the EPL rights whether they have a workable strategy or are simply a 2013 model of ESPN with significantly higher costs. We will have to wait and see. |
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Claire Balding will be having her own Talk Show on the new BT Sports channel interviewing the Stars
See Here http://www.btplc.com/News/Articles/S...A-80CFB20EF355 Also, say you wanted the BT Sports channel Red Button services and MUTV do you need two boxes one for BT and another for Virgin/Sky to get what you want, as I do not think that the new BT Sports package on BT Vision will include the MUTV channel, I could be wrong and MUTV will be part of the BT Vision line-up of channels going forward |
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In reality BT badly needed to win the bulk of the EPL rights (and which was clearly its intention) to take on Sky and attract a significant subscriber base. With only a third of the games that Sky have that will give them a much harder task as Sky has a massive head start in subscribers, most of whom take Sky Sports as part of a wider package.
BT are making all the right noises and signing big name presenters etc but ultimately it all comes down to how many subscribers they can attract and how much money they are prepared to throw at it in relation to the returns they get. I'm still not sure, in the light of them not seizing the bulk of the EPL rights whether they have a workable strategy or are simply a 2013 model of ESPN with significantly higher costs. We will have to wait and see. Quote:
Can we look forward to seeing this on your 'journalism Google blog'?
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Here's the BT Sport logo, if nobody has already posted it. Courtesy of Nick Harris on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/sportingintel/st...504513/photo/1 |
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Thats all they could come up with?
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It's pretty pathetic, isn't it? All the imagination of a particularly bland piece of cardboard.
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Here's the BT Sport logo, if nobody has already posted it. Courtesy of Nick Harris on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/sportingintel/st...504513/photo/1 ...oh yes, the 1990s...
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Hopefully it will be a case of the logo looking much better on screen in high resolution, because that is a pretty awful design.
On another note, Jamie Carragher has announced he is retiring at the end of the season - imagine BT will want to get him on board. They are also now letting people register interest in getting the channels, http://www.btsport.com And businesses at, http://business.bt.com/bt-sport/ 'Are you a Sky TV customer?' is among the questions asked. |
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On another note, Jamie Carragher has announced he is retiring at the end of the season - imagine BT will want to get him on board.
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Oh, please God, no! Don't let Carragher go into full-time punditry. The Scouse accent is genuinely appalling. Imagine having to put up with that on a weekly (sometimes twice-weekly) basis.
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And businesses at http://business.bt.com/bt-sport/
'Are you a Sky TV customer?' is among the questions asked. b) The question: are you a Sky subscriber has a third answer in addition to yes or no: no but I have the equipment. (Not an option on the consumer page). |
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richard keys on twitter is suggesting carragher is off to sky sports
Having said that think it worth taking anything Keys says with a pinch of salt, sense he still has a bit of an agenda against Sky. |
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Interesting, certainly would be preferable to Jamie Redknapp.
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Oh, please God, no! Don't let Carragher go into full-time punditry. The Scouse accent is genuinely appalling. Imagine having to put up with that on a weekly (sometimes twice-weekly) basis.
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I really don't have a problem with the BT Sport logo
Carragher was good at the Euros, just had to listen really hard |
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I just can't get over how inappropriate that logo is. It genuinely evokes telecoms in the most generic way, and in no way sells "sport" to me. On top of which, the font choice and sizing is awkward and there's no colour branding to speak of. It looks like a placeholder whipped together in five minutes. I certainly hope Red Bee weren't well compensated for it.
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