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BT Sport extends Women’s Tennis Association broadcast deal
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Starting from January 2017, the new deal will see an increase of 30 events per year from the current deal and includes the rights to broadcast tennis clips and WTA content on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.
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Premium live sports are heading to Freesat but will it be Sky’s NOW TV or BT Sport?
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The BBC Trust’s recent decision to allow Freesat, the subscription-free satellite service co-owned by the BBC and ITV, to offer paid-for sports content via broadband has prompted speculation that Sky’s Now TV could be heading to the platform.
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BT’s rivals renew calls for “legally separate” Openreach
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A coalition of telecoms firms and trade groups, including Sky, TalkTalk, and Vodafone, has renewed calls for BT’s Openreach network business to be hived off into a “legally separate company”.
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BT Sport to bring Champions League and Europa League finals to YouTube
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As part of its deal for the competitions BT agreed to make a number of games, including both finals, available free to air and last summer launched a new Freeview channel on which it shows the games.
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TalkTalk’s pay-TV business declines and slips into fourth place behind BT
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The loss of 25,000 TV customers over the past year has seen TalkTalk slip behind BT to become the smallest of the UK’s four pay-TV firms.
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BT Sport is coming to TalkTalk from June
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The channels will be available rolling monthly contract directly from BT to all TalkTalk TV users, mirroring BT’s approach of selling its channels direct to Sky homes rather than signing a wholesale deal with its rival.