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Originally Posted by andy_m
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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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.