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  • BT signs Clare Balding to its new sports channel

    BT signs Clare Balding to its new sports channel

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    BT has signed up award-winning broadcaster Clare Balding to present hr own “unique” chat show on its forthcoming BT Sport channel. Balding, who was highly praised for her brilliant work fronting the BBC London 2012 Olympics and Channel 4’s Paralympics coverage, will present and co-produce a weekly sports magazine show which will feature interviews with…

  • BT recruits Samantha Bond to push YouView

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    Former Miss Moneypenny actress Samantha Bond has been recruited by BT to help promote its YouView TV service. The actress played Moneypenny in four films opposite Pierce Brosnan. She has since guest-starred in ITV’s Downton Abbey and last year starred alongside Omid Djalili, Tim McInnerny and Georgia Moffett in a new production of Joe Orton’s…

  • BT signs up Universal Channel & Syfy for Vision

    BT signs up Universal Channel & Syfy for Vision

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    A new deal between BT and Universal Networks International, the international channel division of NBCUniversal, will bring three new channels to the telco’s TV customers. Live streamed versions of the Universal Channel, Syfy and E! Entertainment will launch on BT Vision “in the coming weeks” with video on demand content following in early 2013. A…

  • BT Vision Player on YouView – updated

    BT Vision Player on YouView – updated

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    We cast our critical eye over the BT Vision Player, now available on YouView.

  • BT Sports channels to be based at Olympic Park

    BT Sports channels to be based at Olympic Park

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    BT has announced its new sports channels will be produced and based at the Olympic Broadcast Centre located at the heart of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. In June the company won the rights to show 38 live Barclays Premier League games per season for three years, including 18 of the best quality ‘first pick’…

  • British Museum channel launches on BT Vision and YouView

    British Museum channel launches on BT Vision and YouView

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    BT has teamed up with the British Museum to offer a new video on demand channel to the telco’s TV subscribers. Customers with a BT Vision box or subscription to the BT Vision Player on YouView will have access to a range of long and short form documentaries with lectures and short films available linked…