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BT Sport scores multiyear NBA deal
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bt sportBT has struck an “exclusive multiyear” deal to screen NBA games on TV and online to fans in the UK and Ireland. Coverage starts on December 1st when the Indiana Pacers take on the LA Clippers at 8.30pm UK time on BT Sport 2 and the broadcaster says fans can look forward to regular…
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BT and Cardiff council partner to create new city centre WiFi network
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Cardiff Council has teamed up wit BT to launch of a free public wi-fi service covering the city centre’s busiest tourist, leisure and businesses areas. The first phase will see Queen Street, The Hayes, the High Street and St Mary Street all connected to the new WiFi network which will extended to the Cardiff Bay…
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Video: BT Sport places viewers at heart of new TV ad
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BT Sport will tonight (Tuesday November 12) unveil a new ad featuring Jake Humphrey as he walks through the lives of viewers enjoying high quality live sport on the channel. The presenter will pass through living rooms, a pub and a barbershop where audiences are so engrossed in the on-screen action that they fail to…
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BT Sport confirms £900m Champions League and Europa League deal
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BT has snatched the exclusive rights to the Champions League and Europa League from the 2015/16 season. The Champions League deal is a major blow to rivals Sky and ITV who currently share the rights. BT already held the rights to the Europa League for the current season. It also offers 38 Barclays Premier League…
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Despite the initial media negativity, BT Sport is paying off
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Back in August, amid frantic media coverage of BT Sport’s low audience figures, I explained why these were only one of the criteria by which BT would judge the channels’ performance and success. Last week doubters and the conventionally minded were made to confront their wrongness when BT announced its best broadband, phone and TV…
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Virgin Media loses 12,600 TV customers, blames BT Sport
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UK cable company Virgin Media lost 6,800 customers in the third quarter of its financial year. Results posted by Virgin Media and parent company Liberty Global show TV subscribers fell by 12,600 and phone customers by 24,400. In the same period the firm signed up 30,200 broadband customers. In a statement the company said performance…