BT
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Michael Vaughan, Ricky Ponting and Geoffrey Boycott confirmed for BT Sport’s Ashes line-up
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BT secured the rights to the Ashes as part of its multi-year deal with Cricket Australia which also makes it the exclusive UK broadcaster of all Test Matches, One-Day Internationals and T20 Internationals played in Australia, plus the Big Bash League and Women’s Big Bash League.
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UKTV currently have ‘no plans’ to bring Gold HD to Virgin Media or BT TV
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The new channel launched last week on Sky where it replaced a HD version of natural history channel Eden on channel 110 and users of the satellite broadcaster’s rivals have been speculating about its arrival on their platforms.
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BT’s AMC channel to go free for a week on Sky
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The free week runs from Saturday 28th October to Sunday 5th November via the Sky digital satellite platform and will also include screenings of Hap and Leonard, Fear the Walking Dead season three, Into the Badlands and Pierce Brosnan’s The Son.
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Futuresource: Sky and BT’s exclusive 4K content strategy is ‘driving the market’
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Neither firm supplies their 4K content to the other and, even though BT sells its channels direct to end users on the Sky platform rather than wholesaling them to its rival, it’s so far kept its BT Sport 4K channel exclusive to its own TV platform.
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Rupert Grint’s and Luke Pasqualino’s crime drama Snatch is coming to BT’s AMC channel
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Based loosely on the popular Guy Ritchie movie of the same name, the drama centres on a group of twenty-something, up-and-coming hustlers who stumble upon a truck load of stolen gold bullion and are suddenly thrust into the high stakes world of organised crime.
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Canelo Alvarez vs Gennady Golovkin will be free to BT TV subscribers
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The fight, which sees the pair go head-to-head in Las Vegas in the early hours of September 17th, is being shown PPV by BoxNation Box Office, with fans having to pay £16.95 to watch.