BT Sport

[Buzzo]

I seem to now have BT Sport having just upgraded all my Kids channels for an extra £6 per month through Virgin.

[dom9]

Ahh thats what it was then Dom. I seem to remember them promising to show at least one of each English teams games on the BT Showcase channel. I never saw any, but they must have been very early rounds.

It was. Early round and early kick off. I missed most of it.

[G]

That was always the intention as far as I knew. Anyway BT sport boss is an asshole - talking about giving sport back to the public - in the same way SKY do I suppose?

I'll be watching on TV3 for free in horrid SD (I suspect the youtube feed will look better!)

Awful SD picture and awful commentators and analysis. I bloody hate that channel. BT sport for me.

[Hollowman]

They deliberately haven't marketed the free channel. Most people don't even know it exists. They've been getting audiences comparable to what Sky used to get on their pay channels for matches involving English clubs (averaging around 700,000), but the games on the free channel were attracting less than 200,000. I suspect UEFA will want that looked at. They were obviously more than happy to basically triple their income from UK broadcasters in exchange for slashing free-to-air access, bit Britain is one of the biggest markets for their corporate sponsors. They don't get any of the TV cash, they're just interested in eyeballs.

[RedSince1964]

They deliberately haven't marketed the free channel. Most people don't even know it exists. They've been getting audiences comparable to what Sky used to get on their pay channels for matches involving English clubs (averaging around 700,000), but the games on the free channel were attracting less than 200,000. I suspect UEFA will want that looked at. They were obviously more than happy to basically triple their income from UK broadcasters in exchange for slashing free-to-air access, bit Britain is one of the biggest markets for their corporate sponsors. They don't get any of the TV cash, they're just interested in eyeballs.