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Well with BT paying £700 million for EPL, then buying UKTV rights and now NatGeo channels and FX. You would be silly to think BT aren't out to become a serious player.

They are also actively in talks with other providers with this kind of investment they are going to want customers. Package all that with BT Infinity you have a serious alternative to VM and Sky.

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Not trying to be funny so please don`t take that way.:)

Do you mean that they have brought the right to "show these channels" to add to there portfolio OR brought ( as in it`s mine) the channels .

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Well they have simply signed none exclusive carriage agreements to put those channels on their platform. The football they have the live rights as in ITS MINE and you can't have it.

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Bollcks. Virgin are going to drop ESPN and get BT aren't they.

That means all ESPN covered Aviva Prem Rugby and baseball gone on Virgin.

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Lets see what entails before before coming to conclusions on what might or might not happen.:)

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I like what was being said, BUT how can VM get BT on board for the football as it is a different broadcastor.

Its seems to me a bit stupid as BT do not have a large sub position to put in a bid for the football on its own, they need another broadcastor to help out with the money.

Could VM join forces with BT Vision to get football ?

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Virgin isn't the broadaster. It's the platform.

Re: ESPN may lose EPL Football(Update)
 

It was revealed last night from sources close to French Football Weekly that ESPN UK will be showing Ligue 1 matches on their TV channel for the upcoming season. The news comes on the back of the new Premier League deal announced last night that saw ESPN lose the rights to show Premier League football from the 2013 season.

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Thanks Den, lets hope ESPN find other matches to fill in the void. Although i thought the EPL games that they have now, including Kick-off times were not very appealling.

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I cannot see ESPN America going any where so American sports fans should be catered for. It will be interesting to see whether ESPN go after the NFL rights which (Sky TV) had and expired after the Superbowl. They have Monday night Football already and supply Sunday and Monday NFL countdown on ESPN America.

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No I think from Summer 2013 we may see:

-BT Football TV (Working name) launching on Virgin TV as part of the XL Pack or pay extra channel.
-ESPN will sign an new deal with Virgin Media with ESPN America HD launching but moving to pay-wall (Not on XL Package).

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With the way Scottish Football are going if the SPL do not vote to let the new Rangers into the SPL I think Sky Sports will walk away to save money for their half of the £3.2b EPL deal.

Then ESPN may pick up the 30 games per season that Sky has the rights to.

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l somehow cannot see them both moving to the pay-wall MB as they need to keep the XL pack as competitive as possible because if they did remove these extra channels that would weaken this pack significantly and then one suspects all hell will break lose with some members on this forum.

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for any users in Republic of Ireland. Setanta will be broadcasting 33 live 3pm games next season

Re: ESPN may lose EPL Football(Update)
 

BT plans to make a dedicated Premier League channel available across a wide network of platforms, including Freeview and YouView, following its shock acquisition of rights to 38 games a season.

Free-to-air homes will be able to enter an unlock code to access the subscription channel, which will be broadcast via DTV as well as broadband. BT is yet to confirm pricing for its 38-match-per-season package.

BT, which yesterday agreed a three-year deal to pay £246m per season for Premier League rights, is keen to ensure wide distribution for the channel and is understood to have kicked off initial talks about wholesale deals with platform providers Sky and Virgin Media.

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I also read elsewhere, that they were yet to decide what to do, by a BT spokesman.

Best we wait and see