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Obviously next Saturday is free, and Palace are playing on Sunday so I won't be able to watch any of the televised games, but after that I'm seriously considering adding Sky Sports to my package - 138 Premier League games is really good, and to be honest, I don't think the BBC are doing a good job with their f1 highlights programmes on the weekends that they don't have full race coverage. Has anyone managed a decent deal off the back of losing ESPN?
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As good as it is, its still £32.75 in HD (well not the F1, Tennis, News, WWE, minor golf, some rugby, etc), and a price increase supposedly incoming.
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Someone has said on this forum, that someone has found out that VM are testing BT Sports. How do we know that.
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First sky were offering BT Sport free for a year if VM customers switched now BT are offering a £100 Sainsburys gift card if you switch this offer runs until September 5th - http://www.productsandservices.bt.co...dband/packages
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VM will be comitting business suicide if they dont get BT Sport on by next Saturday.
I have already said that l will switch over to Sky, l am a big football fan, and l will go anywhere if l can get all the football on my service. I cannot understand why VM are not saying anything. |
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Why dont we all boycott the Sports channels on VM, and then VM will start to think about the customers - which keep the cable network alive.
I see they have taken off one ESPN channel and left just two. |
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Besides which why boycotting a sky product would that send a message to VM, BT are withholding (allegedly before we start the same debate, for the purpose of this statement working with the assumption of a pro VM stance :)) |
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Dave42, my whole point is that VM must know if there is going to be a deal or not, the suicide is that before 17th August, many subscribers would already have left.
All VM are doing is 'playing' the subscribers of VM and think we are stupid. |
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Still, at least there is some amount of integrity in that level of football, unlike the cry baby, primadonna, millionaires of the premier league!! |
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Anyone know if this will be picked up in the UK ? It seems Fox Sports has agreed a broadcast deal.
http://www.fiaformulae.com/news/Fox-...lti-media-deal |
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I should hope so - London is a host city.
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What l am saying regarding BT Sport is that, VM must know that there are customers seriously considering moving due to lack of info on the channels.
At the moment we have had nothing from VM to stop this from happening, all they say is that they are 'in talk' with BT over this. Yes, people are saying that they are saying nothing, but what about the paying customer, THATS US. This to me is extremely bad business from a major company. If l ran a company l would be putting out news to stop customers 'going to the other side'. You cannot run a company like that. VM must know either way, IF they are near to signing deals or not - at the end of the day - ITS US, that will end up paying for it. One more week to go, before l switch on Freesat for BT Sport. |
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Thanks for that, but its a strange way to run a business.
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Good point to bring up, Members are saying that VM are testing the BT channels on the network, how do we know that.
I didn't think you could find that out on cable tv. |
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The only way to do this is against the Ts&Cs of the Virgin Media contract as it requires a non-Virgin Media-supplied box to be connected to the cable feed. |
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BT Sport passes the one million mark...
http://www.btplc.com/news/articles/s...15f416117c8%7d Quite impressive, they're doing quite well without Virgin. |
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Must admit I'm impressed. It was just a few weeks ago they confirmed 500,000 had the channel. http://metro.co.uk/2013/07/25/bt-spo...ports-3899255/ Unless I'm reading this wrongly that means BT Sports have added another 500,000 customers / subscribers in 3 weeks. As the season draws ever closer, I can see the same signing up again prior to Saturday! |
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BT Broadband has around 6.5 million existing customers, it's a fair bet quite a few of those will be signing up for 'free' BT Sports. Sky is currently running a free broadband offer for Sky Sports customers. It will be interesting to see how all this pans out - it seems somewhat high risk from BT's point of view unless they can sign up lots of NEW, paying customers. Otherwise a very, very expensive way to retain their existing customer base. |
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To cover their outlay BT will need to bring in £325,000,000 per year for the next 4 years, which works out at £27,083,333 per month. Big figures but when you break them down further that only equates to 1,800,000 subscribers paying £15.00 per month. Taking into consideration advertising revenue, commercial business deals, BT Sports in Ireland, international distribution of some of their programming and the £15.00 connection fee for new customers, it’s very likely BT will see a return. |
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Something else to remember too is that BT will have to continue to invest money as and when contracts are up for renewal regarding showing rugby,footy etc. I know they may not be for a few years but you can guarantee Sky will come out fighting when contracts are up for renewal.
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I can`t see BT getting champion league off sky but maybe off ITV?
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It is not clear where those are coming from - Sky and Virgin each have around 4-5 million BB customers. Either or both are likely to respond aggressively if faced with losing between 20% and 30% of their existing BB customer base. |
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I think BT will 100% be aggressively bidding for the champions league when it comes about to bid for it. It is the second most lucrative rights second only to the Premier League.
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As we are paying for the Sports package that includes ESPN. And we are not getting the channels. Can we ask for a discount for the loss of them - even though they are free.
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BBC Sport spent basically all their budget on the upcoming FA Cup rights deal, so they won't bother defending their NFL coverage (if/when BT bid for it) which was on the Red Button anyway. |
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"More than a million households are ready and equipped to enjoy the start of the Barclays Premier League on BT Sport this coming weekend."
How many people are like my mate. Who is on BT Infinity, and therefore "ready and equipped", but has less than zero interest in watching BT Sport on his TV or his computer? |
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Good old marketing propaganda, worded by people who are VERY well paid manipulate thoughts with words. |
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http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/...0803-1839a.mp3 This was broadcast 9 days ago on BBC Radio Scotland. Listen from 3:51 to 4:24. Whilst it's a BBC production one of the presenters, Stuart Cosgrove, also works as Channel 4's director of creative diversity. Looks like NFL could be on the BBC or Channel 4 if the last comment made at 4:24 is serious. |
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Also, now BT have details of many new customers, they will be able to try and sell phone packages to BB subscribers and phone and BB packages to paying BT Sports customers. I believe they will make a good return from this investment. |
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"The million total includes satellite TV customers – both free and paying – as well as customers who are watching via BT TV. There is a mix of existing BT broadband customers – who have re-contracted their broadband for at least twelve months – and new broadband customers who have been attracted by BT Sport." Have BT made BT Sports automatically available to their customers who fit the criteria to get it free, or do the customers have to opt in to get access? For example on SKY SKY 3D is included in my package, but I couldn't access the channel until I confirmed with SKY that I wanted to opt in. ---------- Post added at 23:44 ---------- Previous post was at 23:38 ---------- Managed to answer my own question: http://bt.custhelp.com/app/answers/d...rt/c/6401,6611 "The first step is to make sure you've ordered BT Sport. BT Sport is free for BT Broadband customers, but you don't get it automatically. You need to order BT Sport by visiting www.bt.com/sport. If you're a BT Broadband customer and you just want to watch BT Sport online or via the app (not via TV), you need to activate it first. To activate, just log in to My BT. Scroll down, click on 'BT Sport' and follow the online instructions." So people will only be ready and equipped to watch the channel, on the BT platform, if they have opted in. |
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What is missing from this and other reports, is what proportion of that 1 million are NEW customers, and hence bringing in additional revenue to offset BT's £1+ billion investment in this service. |
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But many of their broadband customers won't be able (ie. ready and equipped) to get the channel. I don't live in an infinity area, my Bt broadband speed would be too slow.
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A little development you may be interested in. ESPN is shown on television magazines next week including TV and Satellite Week as being on Virgin, channel no 529 (530 HD) from Saturday. It was not listed for Virgin Media in the current magazines.
BT Sport is still not showing channel numbers for Virgin Media. Make of that what you will!:) |
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Radio Times has BT sport 1 / HD and BT Sport 2 / HD listed under virgin media with shows on today even though it isn't broadcasting on VM
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I think Premier Sports don't like Virgin Media that much.
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I think VM have agreed what will happen for ESPN but have not yet completed the deal in respect of BT Sport. I'm sure the whole story will come out in the end! |
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Rangers match fails to score with just 24,000 viewers.
http://www.theguardian.com/media/201...ers-tv-ratings |
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