Cable Forum - General ESPN, BT, Euro, Premier and Sky Sports news

Looks like BT Sports have acquired the rights to the upcoming WC playoffs in Africa according to this site (http://www.live-footballontv.com/), but has there been any official announcement?

Media Boy UK

10-10-2013 15:29

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The Independent: BT reveal they are considering bid for Champions League football to rival ITV and Sky Sports.

BT chief executive Gavin Patterson has indicated they may consider bidding for rights to broadcast Champions League matches from 2015.

Sky paid around £240million to share live coverage of the showpiece European matches each week, with ITV's £160m giving the free-to-air-broadcaster first pick of Tuesday night fixtures.

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/f...s-8871792.html

thenry

10-10-2013 15:34

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yup, they could do with CL but their punditry needs a shake up.

denphone

10-10-2013 15:47

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Originally Posted by Media Boy (Post 35630353)

So clubs and players will get richer as a result whilst we will to continue to pay more.

Anypermitedroute

10-10-2013 20:42

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I think BT need to do this in order to cement their future and be taken seriously as a true alternative to Skysports, other option could be internationals

alwaysabear

10-10-2013 20:46

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Originally Posted by thenry (Post 35630355)

yup, they could do with CL but their punditry needs a shake up.

Absolutely some of them are so frightened to upset their old mates with the truth.

denphone

11-10-2013 05:32

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Originally Posted by alwaysabear (Post 35630550)

Absolutely some of them are so frightened to upset their old mates with the truth.

l always say speak thy mind and if people are upset by it then that's their problem.

muppetman11

11-10-2013 23:02

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Originally Posted by TonyM19 (Post 35623194)

An update on Premier Sports.

In response to a tweet asking if they were about to appear on VM in the near future:

@south_stander @virginmedia funny you ask. They rejected us again 2 weeks ago and I think that is us done with negotiations.

@south_stander @virginmedia we wanted We wanted 0.3% of what they just paid BT!

and later

@south_stander @virginmedia it has to be SKY or the Premier Player I am afraid. Virgin are not for turning.

I think that just about puts that to bed.

More info from both sides

http://www.loverugbyleague.com/news_...umbles-on.html

Doug P

12-10-2013 17:46

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Premier should have taken the offer. They are not major players like Sky and BT and seem to have made a huge blunder not accepting VM's offer.

Nothing on the Twitter account quoted above suggests the "us" is anything but a reference to RL fans who want PS on Virgin or that the writer is anything of an insider who has proof of what was or was not offered it seems to me...

cityfan247

12-10-2013 22:21

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currently on Bt and ESPN

ESPN College Football
BT1 MLB play-offs
BT2 College Football

as a big fan of North American sports this is heaven for me. all in HD :)

The BT/ESPN bundle is so much better than the old ESPN bundle for me.

after these games there are 2 more College Football games and another MLB game across the 3 channels simultaneously. Fantastic.

alwaysabear

12-10-2013 23:57

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Originally Posted by cityfan247 (Post 35631375)

i have to agree.:D

The Yank

13-10-2013 10:36

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Originally Posted by cityfan247 (Post 35631375)

and me - I was skeptical when they took over ESPN but very very pleased how wrong I was - long may it continue. :D:D:D