Originally Posted by jfman (Post 36088113)

BT won’t have definitive plans for anything re BT Sport - you can’t put half of your business up for sale and commit your as yet unidentifiable business partner to your business model. It only decreases the pool of potential investors.

The most obvious reason to accept a short term contract (over none) is that taking a hit later rather than now is an improved financial outcome. Regardless of how many people genuinely have BT Sport as a factor for subscribing tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, will be onto retentions.

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 36088114)

AFAIK any initial interest shown in buying the BT Sport channels came to nothing. Perhaps they intend to make it (more?) profitable by cutting out the middleman and keeping all the subs* by streaming??

* They would have to pay a commission to VM if they put this on VM. Perhaps this is what any dispute is about. Wasn't it Disney + who wouldn't join because VM wanted too big a cut?

Originally Posted by epsilon (Post 36087910)

Not a good time for digitalbitrate's Virgin Media monitor to be offline.

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 36088114)

AFAIK any initial interest shown in buying the BT Sport channels came to nothing. Perhaps they intend to make it (more?) profitable by cutting out the middleman and keeping all the subs* by streaming??

* They would have to pay a commission to VM if they put this on VM. Perhaps this is what any dispute is about. Wasn't it Disney + who wouldn't join because VM wanted too big a cut?

Originally Posted by Media Boy (Post 36088117)

DBR is working now.

Originally Posted by jfman (Post 36088115)

I’d say they are more likely to exit the market entirely.

Originally Posted by Media Boy (Post 36088120)

TiVo has reveal that Eurosport UHD and BBC Red Button HD are both showing listing after August 11th.

Eurosport 3 HD to Eurosport 9 HD will have "Coming soon" from 2am on August 9th.

Originally Posted by epsilon (Post 36088118)

Speaking of interest in buying the BT Sport channels (or lack of interest):
https://www.mediamole.co.uk/entertai...rt_457476.html

Originally Posted by Media Boy (Post 36088125)

ITV was not going to but BT Sport anyway after all ITV got they feet burned in 2002 with the ITV Digital / ITV Sport Channel.

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 36088121)

Well, i've just been reading that BT Sport no longer has some of the rights that they previously had. Maybe it is actually winding down.

Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 36088130)

Can I ask where you read that, please?

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 36088142)

I can't remember as I was surfing the internet. From what I remember, it said something along the lines of BT Sport had lost a fair few rights over the last one or two years and were now going to/have lost the Women's Championship League and Bundesligue. It was also speculated that they would lose WWE to Comcast to put onto Peacock as has happened outside the UK.

Originally Posted by Legendkiller2k (Post 36088154)

As far as i know the WWE/BT contract was a 7 year deal, unless something has changed aka WWE bought the contract back.

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 36088158)

Found this:

https://cultaholic.com/posts/peacock-to-launch-in-uk

Originally Posted by Legendkiller2k (Post 36088159)

That'll be the network the flagship shows will still be on BTsport as will the ppvs aswell as peacock if network closes, just like it is now ppvs are both on btsport box office and WWE Network.