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Originally Posted by martin201002
Is ESPN here to stay or will it disappear next year when it doesn't have any fa cup rights? or is it contractually obliged to stay as part of bt sports offering.
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I think its here to stay for a while, it has its own brand that is different to BT sports and they obviously felt they had enough stock of rights to fill this and two additional channels. I guess it will become a more focused orientated channel once it is more integrated into BT sports fold maybe it will get rebranded as BT sports 3 later. I think with TUPE your buying the entity name so therefore all employees under the ESPN will have the same or better arrrangements under BT sports and all contracts continue under the BT sports name so no reason they cant change so for now it must be cost of rebrand etc (but not 100% on TUPE laws and that will take it OT but having just had my company bought I was subject to TUPE)