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Why did Virgin Media bother sending us that calendar of sport for the next year BEFORE signing the BT Sport deal? Surely they would have known seeing as they can't have made a whole ad campaign about it featuring Peter Crouch on the same day they announced the deal lol

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i would recommend Baker Kelly BTS on bt sports was very funny any one else watch it thoughts

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I thought it was dire like all these talkshows.

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NHL signed a new 4 year deal with Premier Sports on 5th July 2012.

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i'm not sure Premier Sports will be around that long unless they take steps to reach as large an audience as possible -with Sky and BT ahead of them in the pay tv market perhaps they should abandon the subscription route.

Quite frankly they dont offer any near as good value compared to Sky and BT.

Perhaps they could go the same as Eurosport that has some decent programming (some would say superior to Premier Sports) and are not subscription based. As I said in a previous post be more widely available (not just on Sky platform) be cheaper and get on a VM tv package

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How about Motors TV in SD. I'm not even worried about HD just anything other than the awful picture quality it is now :)

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The reason why Premier Sports is not on VM is that they wanted to be on the XL TV pack and VM said subscription route was their only option to get on the cable platform!

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presumably because Premier had asked for too much money and overestimated its value- I am sure if the price was right for both parties it could be on VM

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Totally agree. They do seem to have a large following in terms of their NASCAR and NHL coverage. Posts on Facebook however suggest lots of rugby and conference fans cancelled in the summer after BT snapped up the rights.

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I cannot see Premier Sports having much of a future unless they take steps to make themselves available to more customers or sell out in the UK as ESPN have done.

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So tomorrow afternoon, BT Sports, first PL game. I'm offering two to one on their huge DOG being in the bottom right corner, annoyingly.

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Believe it or not a lot were Luton fans helped Premier Sports subscription numbers!

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BT Sport signs 10,000 pubs,

http://advanced-television.com/2013/...ns-10000-pubs/

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Yes, that is a very good tactic. that would work.

BT buys lots of pubs, offers free beer to BT sport customers. I can see that working well :)

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They thought it was all over: Why Sky vs BT Sport in the battle for pay-TV dominance is a game of two halves.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/me...s-8771482.html

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wish they would move the dog to top instead of bottom

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They will when enough people complain about it as Sky did a few years ago when they tried it at the bottom of the screen

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I have no issue so far, but willing to let it not grow on me

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I said last week that BT Sport doesnt broadcast in 5.1 but my amp is now showing as 5.1 on BT Sport 1 HD on the football. Of course it goes to D 2.0 when on ads etc

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Thank god for the annoying dog coz this match is poor, seriously though it needs to be opaque wherever it is.

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It is a bit in your face, your eyes focus on it alot more than Sky Sports for example

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They've defo got a drink problem......:D :beer::beer:

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Just switched on for the last ten minutes, the dog isn't that annoying actually, but perhaps burn in will be an issue. The hd quality is good. That said, the sd channel is really really bad.

One question, we all know they have the Saturday lunchtime slot for the Premier League, but I notice that there's a Scottish Premiership match on 2 as well. They haven't seriously bought themselves different rights that they can only show at the same time, have they?

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I was thinking same..did seem strange

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Almost as strange as continuing to let Jonathon Walters take penalties!

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Can we stop the Premier League now?,top of the League......:D:D

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you should have had a bet :)

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Wont be there for long so make the most of it

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One thing for certain it won't be a team from Sheffield that knocks us off the top....;):rolleyes:

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Thats good then as i dont support any team from Sheffield :D

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I'd be up for this.

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lol..alphabetically saved from relegation :D

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They are currently working on this. The next set of BT Sports Scottish football fixtures don't really clash with their other rights:

Airdrie Vs. Rangers is a Friday night game 7:45pm kick-off
Motherwell Vs. Kilmarnock is a Saturday evening game 5:30pm kick-off
Hearts Vs. Celtic is a Saturday lunchtime game 12:30pm kick-off
Dundee United Vs. Motherwell is a Sunday afternoon game 3:00pm kick-off
St. Mirren Vs. Aberdeen is a Monday night game 7:45pm kick-off
Partick Thistle Vs. Hibs is a Monday night game 7:45pm kick-off
Rangers Vs. Dunfermline is a Saturday evening game 5:30pm kick-off
Ross County Vs. Inverness is a Friday night game 7:45pm kick-off

Only Hearts Vs. Celtic clashes. The interesting thing is BT are deliberately putting Scottish football head to head with SKY's football matches. Monday games clash with Monday Night Football, Friday games clash with some Championship fixtures, Saturday evening games clash with Sky's Saturday football and Sunday fixtures clash with SKY's Super Sundays.

BT are clearly using Scottish football as a weapon to try and restrict SKY's viewing audiences. Whilst Scottish football isn't big down in England, fixtures featuring Celtic and Rangers can draw up to 200,000 viewers. That's 200,000 not watching SKY Sports.

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that tactic will fail miserably, they obviously never watched a scottish game

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Have faith Andy I can think of at least 3 teams who are going to finish below Palace.......Man Ure, Everton and Chelski......:rofl:

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I have Swansea beating Man Utd 2-1 today. :D

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My Dad is pretty old school. If there is a Scottish game and an English game on TV at the same time, he always watches the Scottish game. I know plenty of old boys who come into the pub and moan if it's not the Scottish game on the big TV in the bar.

On a separate matter, I enjoyed BT's last 5 penalties graphic during today's Liverpool Stoke game. Nice little touch. I was watching thinking if Simon Mignolet has done his homework, this will be a save.......and it was.

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We'll need a miracle otherwise!

Cheers, that makes more sense. It all seems quite amateurish to me so far, had they managed to clash their own football rights then I would have been staggered. Putting Scottish football up against Sky matches, particularly those from the football league, will be a good tactic.

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hence why i don't watch in pub. Though some pubs have several games on.

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Can someone please explain to me, If VM have done a 'wholesale deal' with BT Sports.

Does this mean that VM have had to pay a vast sums of money, as if you are not on the XL package you will have to pay £15 per month compared to only £12 on Sky.

Can someone explain as l am confused.

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Its £15 a month as it includes HD. Its £15 month on Sky as well with HD. Its only £12 on Sky if you dont want HD

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Virgin Media have done a wholesale deal with BT Sports worth £75 million a year over three years to BT but remember you have to have the XL pack or above that to get it free Arthur.

http://store.virginmedia.com/?buspar...P_c_topnav_1_1

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you got to pay £15 on sky to get the HD channel Arthur

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Can't believe I'm saying this but Sky Sports are ripping off BT sport! Glossy studio-even an audience for the Saturday Football show!

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I was wondering when someone would bring that up - l thought l was watching BT Sport for a minute.

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I havnt noticed as im watching on Sky 3D not Sky Sports 1 HD :D:D

no seriously i have seen it and they have done that but with a live crowd. I prefer it over BT

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Not saying I don't but maybe Sky are a little rattled because they realised they were looking very tired!

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I have to agree

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Just came on to say what on earth is the live studio about, but see you're ahead of me! I've got to the stage where I'm switching off at half time and switching over immediately on the final whistle. What a load of silly nonsense.

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The studio up date is well over due they seem to use thew same set for every sport just changed the logos etc. Personally I prefer BT sports its refreshing and different.

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Sky have there first viable competition in TV sports EVER, There will be a bit of "what the hell do we do" and they will try EVERYTHING and take the headless chicken approach until it all calms down and they get a sensible plan of action.

Sky will already be panicking about how much they will have to pay for the Premier League next time the rights are up in 3 years. TV Companys once said "Don't take on Sky, if you do win you'll pay far too much". Maybe BT have thought, we might not win, but we will make sure Sky pay too much.

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see the numbers have returned too :(

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I still prefer Sky-Sports by a long away, but BT-Sport is much better than I thought it would be.

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The "Numbers?"

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On Sky Sports, numbers appear to make sure you are not streaming

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Yes pathetic it is.:td:

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i hate the numbers!

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the numbers at bottom of screen that they put up for security

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They dont bother me as at top above logo so i dont notice them

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The Numbers never left, they are there on the F1 Channel, and on the other sports channels. Not just football.

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They are always just above the |SKY|SPORTS|1HD| logo on my screen.

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there on the bottom left on VM thought

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Ohhhhhhhhh OK, I only have the XLtv pack on Virginmedia, have Skysports on SKY.

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Is the number being broadcast on Sky 2 or Pick TV? I'm at work so obviously nowhere near a TV

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Numbers have just been in the bottom left of Ashes hd watching northhants cain surrey :D

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Was quite impressed with BT`s start to their football coverage. Only the logo and score at the bottom of the screen irratates me a bit. As for 2 games being on at the same time I have a handy device called sky+ which records 1 for me to watch later!

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I can go one better than that!!!

I mentioned it not because I wanted to watch both matches but because I found it incredible that they could effectively compete with themselves.

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No it wasn't.

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BT Sports viewing figures for the Liverpool game averaged 447k with a peak of 764k

Sky Sport's coverage of Swansea v Man U on Sky sports 1 and Pick TV got 1.70 million with a peak of 2.48m

Sky 2's coverage of the game averaged 401k with a peak of 649k

The combined viewing figures for sky's coverage were 2.10 million with a peak of 3.13 million

Elsewhere Match of the Day returned with strong figures from 10:30 last night with 3.84 million tuning in

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I just read this article and as I don't watch the sport channels I have not kept upto date on this thread and I am not sure whether this of interest so decided to post a link. Sorry if this has already been covered or is of no importance.

"Exclusive: BT & Virgin Media’s deal doesn’t cover digital-only content"

http://www.seenit.co.uk/exclusive-bt...ntent/0829851/

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I seen it..on coming soon thread

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http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/11...-page-126.html

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Cheers Colin. Never though to check on there as it won't be 'coming soon'.

Oh well at least I tried. :)

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Now that BT Sport has been with us for a few days my own personal view is the footy coverage is decent, pq on HD is superb but beyond the football the schedule is for the lack of a better word....Setanta.

They need to up their game beyond the EPL and SPFL matches IMHO.

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To add credence to the fact that BT are a joke...I rang them this morning to add BT Vision to my account with free BT Sports etc etc,anyway,the Sales assistant went through everything,self install,free BT Vision box,free BT Sports....erm,no,"It appears Mr P that you are receiving BT Sport via Sky","Yes" I replied, "Then unfortunately you can not get it for free on BT Vision", "But why" I inquired,"Because we don't support multi-room":shocked::confused:........

At this point I could not help but laugh,"But I am not asking for multi-room just add BT Sports to my single BT Vision box"...."Can't do that because we don't have the software to support multi-room".....WTF!,suffice as to say I politely ended the call......Please BT at least give your Staff the correct information for Customers.:mad:

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extraordinary....

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what's the point of having BT Sports in London, when there call centre is in INDIA, i am calling them about that damn logo on the screen.

You cannot see the football properly with that logo there. Why dont they do what Sky, BBC, ITV do and have the logo at the top.

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Just spoken with a 'technical expert' at BT Sport (0800 11 4567 if anyone needs to know the BT Sports number).

Accodring to there guy, there have had numerous complaints over these logos, he claims it needs several weeks for a 'programmer' to move it.

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Well they must have pre booked a programmer a couple of weeks ago to move the logo to the top right in last night's Carribean Cricket!

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I have just watched the Fulham v *******, on BT Sports and the logo was there and it was a nuisance.

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I dont find it that tbh

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They should be on the top over the crowd rather than on the bottom over the action.

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BT Sport told me that they are trying to fix it, how long does it take to move it.

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The logo is a matter of supreme indifference to me compared to having the channels in the XL pack on cable!

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Arthur has to have something to complain about though.

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I actually quite like it where it is. It makes a change to all the other logos being up either top right or left. What I don't like is that damned security number in the bottom left of the screen on sky sports when it covers up all the game stats :mad:

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I saw some of last week's match, and it didn't bother me, and I really liked the picture in picture box which sits above the score.

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Me too.

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Could the ever rumored deal between BT Sorts and Boxnation be close?

B0xnation have the rights to show Mayweather Vs. Alvarez on the 14th September. B0xnation have also secured the rights too "Mayweather / Alvarez All Access". This is a 4 part series showing the build up to the fight. Boxnation are showing the first episode this Monday night however I've just noticed something interesting.

BT Sports are showing the first episode of "Mayweather / Alvarez All Access" too! It's being shown on BT Sports 1 Tuesday night 8:30pm, Wednesday morning at 12:30am and Wednesday night at 9:00pm. It's also being shown on BT Sports 2 throughout the week too.

Could a B0xnation / BT Sports deal be on the cards?

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BT Sport 3?

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Logos on screens is like living next to a railway track. You stop noticing the trains going by after a few hours. :p:

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ESPN losses plies up in failed battle for sport channels.

http://www.express.co.uk/finance/cit...sport-channels

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That`s a very big loss and it does make you wonder how BT can do any better,doesn`t it?

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The thing with ESPN is they might be part of a huge company but did they ever have enough nous to survive in the UK marketplace.

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They're part of a multi billion pound company, if they really wanted to they could have easily blown Sky out of the water

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Especially given how much more BT have had to pay for the same kind of product.

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I was saying this a few weeks ago, about BT Sports having a 3rd channel - and would it be part of the deal with Sky and VM - l doubt it.

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But they do have a 3rd channel, its called ESPN.

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They haven't got enough content to warrant having another channel

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They will need a lot more varied content for another channel. If there is no football on there is very little else apart from Ruby, but this is only at the weekend.

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They don't have a deal with Sky though, only VM.

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Ok its a 4th channel

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I've recently downgraded from TV XL to M, but since then it was announced that BT is to be free on XL. I understand it would cost me an extra £15/month to just add BT, or £23 to get XL again. Any ideas whether I might get any deals on these prices (I am a long-standing customer), and if so what is the best email address to use. Thanks.

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TalkTalk signs up 500,000 customers.

http://www.theguardian.com/business/...tomers-youview

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:confused: