General : Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 2.

[ken1234]

Originally Posted by coulsontom

apparently bt has launched 2 channels on sky. 447 or something

hi lol i back but with sky cart have cable were i moved to just to say bt sport 1 this on sky epg 445 and bt sport 2 on epg 447

[coulsontom]

I don't understand why these newspapers keep going on saying BT will undercut Sky in the pubs market.
Surely as BT only have 1 game per week, that's not undercutting but just offering less for less.

[Media Boy UK]

Originally Posted by coulsontom

I don't understand why these newspapers keep going on saying BT will undercut Sky in the pubs market.
Surely as BT only have 1 game per week, that's not undercutting but just offering less for less.

One game per week???

BT have got two packages - one being 1st picks of the weekend games of 12.45pm on Saturdays.
The other one (I forgot the times of that package)

Oops sorry you are right:


Package - Kick-off times
1. Saturday 12:45 (26 games in all)
2. 10 matches midweek evenings and Bank Holidays, 2 matches Saturday 12:45 (12 games in all)

http://www.btplc.com/news/Articles/S...9-DD5237069DD8

[Chad]

Originally Posted by Media Boy

One game per week???

BT have got two packages - one being 1st picks of the weekend games of 12.45pm on Saturdays.
The other one (I forgot the times of that package)

BT have 38 games. The Premiership season has 38 rounds of games meaning BT have the equivalent of 1 game per week whilst SKY have about 3 per week.

The Daily Mail reported:

"And Scudamore’s team were able to extricate every possible penny from what were previously the least attractive match choices by the ‘game changer’ of including a total of 18 first picks in BT’s set of 38 games to be shown on the Saturday 12.45pm slot and midweek and Bank Holidays."

"Sky’s ‘Monday Night Football’, an 8pm match, and ‘Super Sunday’, featuring 1.30pm and 4pm kick-offs, are unaffected.
But ESPN’s absence means Sky also take over the Saturday 5.30pm kick-offs."

[Media Boy UK]

Originally Posted by Chad

BT have 38 games. The Premiership season has 38 rounds of games meaning BT have the equivalent of 1 game per week whilst SKY have about 3 per week.

The Daily Mail reported:

"And Scudamore’s team were able to extricate every possible penny from what were previously the least attractive match choices by the ‘game changer’ of including a total of 18 first picks in BT’s set of 38 games to be shown on the Saturday 12.45pm slot and midweek and Bank Holidays."

"Sky’s ‘Monday Night Football’, an 8pm match, and ‘Super Sunday’, featuring 1.30pm and 4pm kick-offs, are unaffected.
But ESPN’s absence means Sky also take over the Saturday 5.30pm kick-offs."

I did think BT has got the rights to 52 games - I was thinking EPL sold the TV packages in pack of 26.

[coulsontom]

Originally Posted by Media Boy

One game per week???

BT have got two packages - one being 1st picks of the weekend games of 12.45pm on Saturdays.
The other one (I forgot the times of that package)

Yes they have Pack A: 26 x 12.45pm Saturday slots
and Pack G: 12 games split into: 2 x 12.45pm Sat slots, + 10 Midweek + bank holiday fixtures.

That's 38 games. So they will only be broadcasting on 28 weekends of the season plus midweek + Christmas etc...

Any 18 of BT's choice are first picks.

Obviously, Sky retain first picks for the other 20 matchday's.

Sky now have 5.30pm Sat, and retain Sunday 1.30pm + 4pm plus MNF.

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Originally Posted by Chad

BT have 38 games. The Premiership season has 38 rounds of games meaning BT have the equivalent of 1 game per week whilst SKY have about 3 per week.

The Daily Mail reported:

"And Scudamore’s team were able to extricate every possible penny from what were previously the least attractive match choices by the ‘game changer’ of including a total of 18 first picks in BT’s set of 38 games to be shown on the Saturday 12.45pm slot and midweek and Bank Holidays."

"Sky’s ‘Monday Night Football’, an 8pm match, and ‘Super Sunday’, featuring 1.30pm and 4pm kick-offs, are unaffected.
But ESPN’s absence means Sky also take over the Saturday 5.30pm kick-offs."

Yes. BT are broadcasting 1 game on 28 weekends out of around 35/36(usually a couple of midweek matchdays).

Sky are broadcasting 3 games per weekend on average.

I think BT are saying that the Sat afternoon kick-off is the best time for pubs and claiming they want to capitalise on that market.
But how do they do that if they are "undercutting" sky's pub rights? Given their massive financial outlay.

[Media Boy UK]

More rebranded on way or missing out on more channels?

Ofcom has added to following channels from Zee and B4U on their list update for April:

-Zee News
-B4U AFLAM
-B4U Plus

More info as I get it.

http://licensing.ofcom.org.uk/tv-bro...updates/042013

[paultrademark]

So what's happening to the SPL games, and indeed if any 2nd SFL games with Rangers for this season?

[Media Boy UK]

Originally Posted by paultrademark

So what's happening to the SPL games, and indeed if any 2nd SFL games with Rangers for this season?

30 SPL and 10 Rangers games per season are moving from ESPN to BT Sports next season.

Rumours say BT wants to put the SPL games on Friday nights.

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Media web site Broadcastnow is reporting that The Horror Channel has got the rights to 1970's show 'The New Adventures of Wonder Woman'.

http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/i...054650.article

[colin25]

Originally Posted by Media Boy

30 SPL and 10 Rangers games per season are moving from ESPN to BT Sports next season.

Rumours say BT wants to put the SPL games on Friday nights.

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Media web site Broadcastnow is reporting that The Horror Channel has got the rights to 1970's show 'The New Adventures of Wonder Woman'.

http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/i...054650.article

The horror channel...I am guessing that is where they will show the SPL

[denphone]

Originally Posted by nstokes

I hope we do keep ESPN America/HD as i sometimes watch stuff on there. I will miss ESPN Classic

Yes l will miss ESPN Classic as well.

[Media Boy UK]

Originally Posted by colin25

The horror channel...I am guessing that is where they will show the SPL

The way some SPL teams are playing this season the SPL is good one for Horror Channel - but not going to happen. Due to Horror owners Liberty Global has said that they will not take on Sky Sports and BT Sports.

[RichardCoulter]

There's one less channel on the EPG today. Anyone know what's gone?

Could it be that we had Q radio and that's now gone (as per MB's post about Q leaving Freeview).

[Media Boy UK]

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

There's one less channel on the EPG today. Anyone know what's gone?

Could it be that we had Q radio and that's now gone (as per MB's post about Q leaving Freeview).

It's Travel and Living that was broadcasting on Channel 273 until last Tuesday.

Discovery Shed has now moved to Channel 273 (Was on Channel 274.)

[RichardCoulter]

But the channel list didn't decrease until today, is this because Travel & Living were showing a "closed down" slate for a week?

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Originally Posted by Chad

I have been reliably informed that SKY will be flooding the internet with 50% off for 12 month deals when BT launch their new look TV service and ESPN drops out of XL. My wifes cousin who works for SKY, and set us up on a 12 months 50% off contract, suggested up to 150,000 codes will be made available from July / August.

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/92...l-back-on.html

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/92...ily-codes.html

I'll keep people posted when the deals are on. You'll be able to get SKY's top package for around £65.00 per month for a whole year, or around £75.00 to £80.00 if you take BT Sports on top of this. It's only a 12 month contract anyway so at the end you could return to Virgin and get a further 6 months half price from them too. 18 months of half price TV!

Just out of interest, if and when ESPN drops out of XL will customers be able to cancel their services under their terms and conditions due to their services being adversely effected?

Looks like this is starting early with all the moneysavingexpert 50% off codes, unless this is Sky's response to the Martin Lewis programme encouraging customers to ring them up to haggle a discount.