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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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Once ESPNs original sports rights expire then BT will be free to show anything on any of their channels but no idea what the situation would be for staff contracts etc..
I would imagine once the rights expire BT might want to make ESPN a proper American sports channel and continue to buy in program content from ESPN and other US providers. I predict they will snap up the NFL MNF this year as the BBC deal was only for last season and maybe try and get the NHL when that next comes up. Sky have two years left on their NFL rights. Not sure about Ch4's NFL SNF but imagine the NFL want to keep some on terrestrial TV as they are trying to build up the sport in the UK.