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BT TV is restructuring and has big plans for a summer relaunch.
Alex Green, ex-VM and the head of BT TV will leave. Sources told the Telegraph that Richard Young, the head of business development, Kate Dean, the director of content and James Lord, the head of commercial for BT Sport have already left.
There will be a big push in the summer with the launch of a 4K BT TV box and new bundles with mobile services. Champions League coverage will be charged for and pubs heavily marketed to.
Managing Director of BT TV Delia Bushell said: “This summer will be almost as big for us as the launch of BT Sport two years ago. It’s a big moment.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/n...ague-push.html

denphone

23-03-2015 19:41

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If BT think that many will pay extra for their Champions League coverage then they are very deluded in their thinking.

Mad Max

23-03-2015 19:43

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Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35766871)

If BT think that many will pay extra for their Champions League coverage then they are very deluded in their thinking.

Correct......:mad:

alwaysabear

23-03-2015 19:49

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Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35766871)

If BT think that many will pay extra for their Champions League coverage then they are very deluded in their thinking.

No chance of me paying for it. BT could come a cropper if they have misread the appetite of the consumer to pay for Champions league.

muppetman11

23-03-2015 19:49

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 35766859)

Let's be honest here it needs sorting out their TV offering is far to confusing and has some glaring ommisions in comparison with its main competitors.

telegramsam

23-03-2015 19:56

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Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35766871)

If BT think that many will pay extra for their Champions League coverage then they are very deluded in their thinking.

Agree entirely. I for one wont be paying extra to watch Champions League football. BT seem to of put it on a very high pedestal but they`re in for a mighty shock if they do go ahead and charge extra for Champions League games.

Superblade7

24-03-2015 05:05

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Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35766871)

If BT think that many will pay extra for their Champions League coverage then they are very deluded in their thinking.

I agree. I hardly watched it on Sky / ITV so certainly have no interest in a separate subscription channel. I reckon BT have seriously overestimated it's value as a standalone product.

telegramsam

24-03-2015 14:48

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I must confess I do watch some champions league matches but wouldn`t pay extra to do so. I was asked this in a survey I did some time ago (it didn`t say who the survey was on behalf of but I think we can now guess it was BT),anyway I stressed that I wouldn`t pay for champions league football.

Anypermitedroute

24-03-2015 17:18

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Same here, I pay for sky sports, have BT on XL but there is no way I would pay purely for champions league football

1andrew1

24-03-2015 17:26

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It will be interesting to see how everything is priced up in the summer. From BT Retail's perspective, it will have three new offerings:
- Mobile phones
- 4K BT TV box and some 4K BT Sport channels
- Champions League channel

It wil be interesting to see what VM does about Champions League because only it and BT will be retailing it to customers, assuming they can strike a deal.

johnathome

24-03-2015 19:39

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 35767019)

It wil be interesting to see what VM does about Champions League because only it and BT will be retailing it to customers, assuming they can strike a deal.

Can you remember how much the current wholesale deal was? About £70m a year from what i remember?

Arthurgray50@blu

24-03-2015 19:59

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I can assure you that l wont be paying for Champions League on BT, we pay enough as it is for football on TV.

BT are trying to beat Sky, but they wont.

In fact did anyone notice that on my Tivo box at the weekend there was no screens on the red button for the football on SS1

At the end of the day, the viewer can decide what to pay for. And then maybe we wont get ripped off.

This season, l have watched Spurs 90% on Tv As it is too expensive to go live

muppetman11

24-03-2015 20:32

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 35767019)

It will be interesting to see how everything is priced up in the summer. From BT Retail's perspective, it will have three new offerings:
- Mobile phones
- 4K BT TV box and some 4K BT Sport channels
- Champions League channel

It wil be interesting to see what VM does about Champions League because only it and BT will be retailing it to customers, assuming they can strike a deal.

Just as Telefonica agrees the sale of O2 to Hutchison Whampoa.

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1andrew1

25-03-2015 08:25

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Originally Posted by johnathome (Post 35767047)

Can you remember how much the current wholesale deal was? About £70m a year from what i remember?

Yes, think that's it. The figure I had in my head was £3.50pm per XL customer of which there are about 1.8m making £75.6m.

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In fact did anyone notice that on my Tivo box at the weekend there was no screens on the red button for the football on SS1?

We tried to look but your curtains were closed. :)

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Just as Telefonica agrees the sale of O2 to Hutchison Whampoa.

Yes, will apparently take a year for approval. Then it's farewell O2 Arena, hello 3 Arena. Its case will probably be helped by the launch of BT's own mobile service which should increase the market share of a combined EE + BT. Again, that deal has yet to be cleared so BT will launch its mobile service using a wholesale agreement with EE.

muppetman11

25-03-2015 11:21

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 35767122)

Yes, think that's it. The figure I had in my head was £3.50pm per XL customer of which there are about 1.8m making £75.6m.

We tried to look but your curtains were closed. :)

Yes, will apparently take a year for approval. Then it's farewell O2 Arena, hello 3 Arena. Its case will probably be helped by the launch of BT's own mobile service which should increase the market share of a combined EE + BT. Again, that deal has yet to be cleared so BT will launch its mobile service using a wholesale agreement with EE.

To be fair BT Mobiles sim only deals look OK with 4G included.

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