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BT signs up “more than one million” BT Sport households
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More than one million households have registered for BT Sport since the phone and broadband provider started taking orders on May 10th. Broadcast from the Olympic Park in East London, the channels offer 38 Barclays Premier League games, exclusive Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) coverage and 800 hours of live tennis, including the TEB BNP Paribas…
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Will BT Sport come to Virgin Media this week?
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BT’s sports channels have been live and broadcasting for more than a week but there’s still no deal to bring them to Virgin Media customers. With this weekend marking the start of the Premier League, expectations and rumours of a deal are as fervent as ever but hard, verifiable information is impossible to come by.…
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BT Sport: Red Bee Media to provide subtitle and audio description services
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BT has appointed Red Bee Media to provide subtitling and audio description services for its new BT Sport channels. Under a deal announced on Thursday, Red Bee will also provide additional broadcast services including rich metadata and sports award-winning 3D sports analysis software, Piero. The companies previously worked together to design the BT Sport logo…
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BT Sport announces tie-up with Betfred
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BT has struck a deal with high street bookmakers Betfred which will see its three new sports channels available in the chain’s 1,370 branches. The deal is the first commercial contract announced by the broadcaster since the channels went live last week and means all Betfred shops will have access to BT Sport for the…
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Ofcom refuses to grant BT access to Sky Sports
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BT’s YouView customers are unlikely to gain access to Sky Sports 1 & 2 for the foreseeable future after Ofcom refused to grant BT an interim order awarding it access to the channels. BT has asked the regulator to investigate Sky for “an abuse of dominance” after the two companies failed to agree a carriage…
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BT finally launches BT Sport for retail YouView boxes
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Later than promised, BT has finally enabled owners of retail YouView boxes who also take a BT Infinity broadband connection to add its new sports channels to their package. As reported last week by seenit.co.uk, to order the channels box owners must pay a £49 activation fee and commit to a 12 month contract. Two…