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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…
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BT Sport scores with a near perfect launch
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More years ago than is personally comfortable to admit, I worked in a call centre where the bosses would regularly bring big clients around to show them how safe their business was with us. No visit was ever complete without a bigwig peering over some poor sap’s shoulder and watching them perform some mundane, everyday…
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It’s not just Virgin Media customers who are locked out of BT Sport
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A few days ago I looked at the frustrations of Virgin Media customers who face missing out on BT’s new sports channels when they launch today. While they’re certainly the most voluble group missing out on the channels, they’re not the only one. YouView customers who purchased their own boxes but have connected them to…