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BT Sports Channel (Part 2)
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Sirius
24-08-2013
Originally Posted by derek500:
“I just say what I see”

Just always in a pro-Sky light. I actually measure the biggest threat to Sky by following your posting habits.
Ambassador
24-08-2013
Originally Posted by MeicY:
“The Saturday afternoon BT Sport Live was never meant to be long term (given that in a couple of weeks rugby will be filling that slot)”

I'd forgotten about that!
mogzyboy
24-08-2013
Michael Owen needs to be taken off co-comms immediately. They'd have done infinitely better by getting Craig Burley in.

Owen is worse than Andy Townsend.
Ambassador
24-08-2013
Originally Posted by mogzyboy:
“Michael Owen needs to be taken off co-comms immediately. They'd have done infinitely better by getting Craig Burley in.

Owen is worse than Andy Townsend.”

Hargreaves? I enjoy him.
steveh31
24-08-2013
Originally Posted by mogzyboy:
“Michael Owen needs to be taken off co-comms immediately. They'd have done infinitely better by getting Craig Burley in.

Owen is worse than Andy Townsend.”

You can't tell he likes Fulham can you?
mogzyboy
24-08-2013
Originally Posted by steveh31:
“You can't tell he likes Fulham can you?”

I don't care who he likes. He's bloody awful.
suffolkblue
24-08-2013
He's not as bad as Andy Townsend but agree hie is poor.
square_eyes
24-08-2013
Who thought that a scrolling text bar at the top of the screen was a good idea during a football match ?
Jason C
24-08-2013
This team news bar at the top is ridiculously intrusive and unnecessary - and it's made even worse by the fact that it's scrolling through the matches continuously.

If you want to put something like that up, BT, do it during the post-match analysis - NOT during the play.

Stupid decision which slightly spoiled what for me was an improved display from BT today.
DragonQ
24-08-2013
Hargreaves is great but Owen....Jebus he is crap. I hope he improves significantly over this season.
coventrywooo
24-08-2013
Originally Posted by mogzyboy:
“Michael Owen needs to be taken off co-comms immediately. They'd have done infinitely better by getting Craig Burley in.

Owen is worse than Andy Townsend.”

they should put Steve Macca co comm him and Ian work well togather
mlt11
24-08-2013
Originally Posted by MeicY:
“The Saturday afternoon BT Sport Live was never meant to be long term (given that in a couple of weeks rugby will be filling that slot)”

It's interesting because BT is continuing with its football scores ticker which is running permanently throughout the film now on BTS1.

When the Aviva rugby starts I wonder what they'll do. If the Aviva is on BTS1 surely they won't have a football scores ticker running constantly throughout the rugby coverage?

I think it's perfectly possible that BT may have originally planned to put the Aviva on BTS2 with BT Sport Live (as per last Saturday) on BTS1 throughout the season.

Another point to note is that there are a lot of weekends when there is no Aviva rugby. The Aviva only has a 22 game regular season.

But I'm sure all these things will evolve over time. BT will see what works and what doesn't and react accordingly - and that's quite right. Any new operation is never going to get everything perfect straight away so nobody should be surprised by changes where improvements can be made.

As an example I thought the team news ticker worked very well today though I would only have started it when the live game finished.
d'@ve
24-08-2013
Originally Posted by Jason C:
“This team news bar at the top is ridiculously intrusive and unnecessary - and it's made even worse by the fact that it's scrolling through the matches continuously.

If you want to put something like that up, BT, do it during the post-match analysis - NOT during the play.

Stupid decision which slightly spoiled what for me was an improved display from BT today.”

I agree with the above. Intrusive, distracting and unnecessary.

If they don't stop it, I will be forced to expand the TV picture to hide it!
derek500
24-08-2013
Originally Posted by TelevisionUser:
“It is not being anti-Sky to recognise that now Sky do have a serious and credible opponent in the form of BT and unbiased media commentators in the press and TV recognise that fact.”

If the 'unbiased media commentators' you read are saying that BT's YouView has been a 'roaring success', then they're not very good at their jobs.

Perhaps they're confusing it with TalkTalk's?
tvsatweek
24-08-2013
At 15.00pm when they have the the white bar and black bar at the bottom of the tv screen with the teams and score it would be good if they could put in the white bar the names of the scorers in the white long bar at the bottom as well
RichardRees
24-08-2013
Originally Posted by TelevisionUser:
“Oh dear, you mean you've both not yet seen a leaked draft copy of Sky's "Project Purple" that aims strangle BT Sports at birth, then? They are indeed keeping you both out of the loop, aren't they?

You might care to observe what happens when BT are showing some of their better 12.45pm kick off Premiership matches. Who knows, you might find that some Sky Bet Championship games get a wider than normal airing. ”

You are saying that Sky Sports is going free on 12 weekends to come. BT has the rights to 28 Saturday kick-offs, of which they have had two, leaving 26 to come. Having not announced any further free afternoons, your claim is that Sky Sports will be free virtually every other weekend that BT have a game.

What possible benefit or reason would there be for Sky Sports, a premium pay channel, to give so many weekends away for free? It isn't going to happen.
LOSG
24-08-2013
Originally Posted by RichardRees:
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What possible benefit or reason would there be for Sky Sports, a premium pay channel, to give so many weekends away for free? It isn't going to happen.”

It's like saying the only thing subscribing to BT for are their Premier League games, (which in the main is correct) so don't bother wasting your money we'll just let you have these ones (championship) for free instead. Not the worst strategy I've ever heard of if its true.

How many of BT's 26 remaining Sat games are 1st picks?
Igloo_Man
24-08-2013
Originally Posted by LOSG:
“How many of BT's 26 remaining Sat games are 1st picks?”

13 are first picks, 11 are fourth picks and 2 are fifth picks.
mlt11
24-08-2013
Originally Posted by RichardRees:
“You are saying that Sky Sports is going free on 12 weekends to come. BT has the rights to 28 Saturday kick-offs, of which they have had two, leaving 26 to come. Having not announced any further free afternoons, your claim is that Sky Sports will be free virtually every other weekend that BT have a game.

What possible benefit or reason would there be for Sky Sports, a premium pay channel, to give so many weekends away for free? It isn't going to happen.”

Richard - I'm sure you will prove to be absolutely correct (as always).

I can't see how it could possibly make any sense whatsoever for Sky Sports to go free on so many days.

People who are interested enough in what BT has to offer that they are willing to go to the trouble of paying for it are very unlikely to opt for the alternative of free Championship football on Sky instead.

And a Sky offer of free Championship football is going to have literally zero impact on anyone who can get BT Sport for free.

Anyway we can return to the issue in a few months time to see who was correct.
samburrows
24-08-2013
Jonathan Pearce doing the French game on ESPN. Apologies if this has happened previously this season but I don't recall him doing any freelance live work since he joined the BBC some time ago.
coventrywooo
24-08-2013
Originally Posted by samburrows:
“Jonathan Pearce doing the French game on ESPN. Apologies if this has happened previously this season but I don't recall him doing any freelance live work since he joined the BBC some time ago.”

on the football comm page, we are talking about this, it might not be freelance, bbc might of asked BT if bbc comms can be used, cuz Simon Brotherton has been used also on BT..
TelevisionUser
24-08-2013
Originally Posted by square_eyes:
“Who thought that a scrolling text bar at the top of the screen was a good idea during a football match ?”

Originally Posted by Jason C:
“This team news bar at the top is ridiculously intrusive and unnecessary - and it's made even worse by the fact that it's scrolling through the matches continuously.

If you want to put something like that up, BT, do it during the post-match analysis - NOT during the play.

Stupid decision which slightly spoiled what for me was an improved display from BT today.”

Originally Posted by mlt11:
“It's interesting because BT is continuing with its football scores ticker which is running permanently throughout the film now on BTS1.

When the Aviva rugby starts I wonder what they'll do. If the Aviva is on BTS1 surely they won't have a football scores ticker running constantly throughout the rugby coverage?

I think it's perfectly possible that BT may have originally planned to put the Aviva on BTS2 with BT Sport Live (as per last Saturday) on BTS1 throughout the season.

Another point to note is that there are a lot of weekends when there is no Aviva rugby. The Aviva only has a 22 game regular season.

But I'm sure all these things will evolve over time. BT will see what works and what doesn't and react accordingly - and that's quite right. Any new operation is never going to get everything perfect straight away so nobody should be surprised by changes where improvements can be made.

As an example I thought the team news ticker worked very well today though I would only have started it when the live game finished.”

I'd suggest giving some actual feedback to BT Sport about any niggles or how things could be done better and here's the link: https://bt.custhelp.com/app/contact#...U2NDIsNjYwMCJ9

Originally Posted by mlt11:
“Richard - I'm sure you will prove to be absolutely correct (as always).

I can't see how it could possibly make any sense whatsoever for Sky Sports to go free on so many days.

People who are interested enough in what BT has to offer that they are willing to go to the trouble of paying for it are very unlikely to opt for the alternative of free Championship football on Sky instead.

And a Sky offer of free Championship football is going to have literally zero impact on anyone who can get BT Sport for free.

Anyway we can return to the issue in a few months time to see who was correct.”

From all that I've read in respect of Project Purple, it does come across as a scorched earth attack and destroy policy whereas a more nuanced, strategic and long term damage limitation approach might actually serve Sky better.
mlt11
24-08-2013
Originally Posted by TelevisionUser:
“From all that I've read in respect of Project Purple, it does come across as a scorched earth attack and destroy policy whereas a more nuanced, strategic and long term damage limitation approach might actually serve Sky better.”

Can you give any specific examples of what Sky is actually doing under Project Purple other than:

1) Lots of advertising

2) One free day of Sky Sports last Saturday

In what way are the above a "scorched earth attack and destroy policy"?

They seem like pretty mundane, run of the mill things to me.

And what could Sky do? They can't stop BT broadcasting. They can't stop BT advertising. Sky isn't in a position to "destroy" BT Sport. BT Sport has won certain rights, it's on air, BT will no doubt market it very strongly and events will take their course whatever Sky does.

The only variable which Sky has control over is how much it bids in the next CL and PL rights auctions. It is those two auctions which are going to be the most important factors in how the rivalry between BT Sport and Sky Sports develops over the next few years.

However those rights are for the future. The respective rights positions are set now for the next two years and neither Sky nor BT can do anything to change the positions that they are in.

So I don't think that any decisions that Sky or BT take now are going to have any significant effect on what happens over the next two years - ie until the next CL rights contract starts.
PhilH36
24-08-2013
Dunno if anyone's mentioned this before as haven't been through the whole thread, but some pubs are pirating BT Sport already! The pub I was in in Southampton at lunchtime was showing it on a poor quality internet stream which broke down a couple of times.
derek500
24-08-2013
Originally Posted by PhilH36:
“Dunno if anyone's mentioned this before as haven't been through the whole thread, but some pubs are pirating BT Sport already! The pub I was in in Southampton at lunchtime was showing it on a poor quality internet stream which broke down a couple of times.”

I would contact BT and report them. Ex Sky man Bruce Cuthbert is BT's Head of Commercial Customers.
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