Apparently BT have got the ESPN games after 2012-2013 to 2015-2016 (which will end ESPNs deal after next season). Hopefully it won't just be restricted to BT vision.
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Damnz it.Comment
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No worries pal, we're drinking, **** em!
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Oh well bye bye ESPN then. Only thing that's keeping them alive now is the UFC coverage.*Except Michael, who died.Comment
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BT have 1st Choice too for Start of Season and 18 games. Sky gave up 50% of 1st Choice Rights. So many of the big games will be on BT.
Also this adds to the Rumour that Disney Corp will end up buying BSkyB conflict of interest and aganist Reg. Rules if they bought them whilst still having premiership Contracts with ESPN [they own them]
So anyone know of a good Motorised Sat Dish with Free Al-Jeez Sports service?Comment
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I hate all this **** about having to have two different broadcasters, it's the fans who lose out.The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if you can't top it, laugh at it; if you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved.Comment
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**** all innovation in broadcasting. Sky continue to get fat fleecing sports fans by dumping them with 30 channels of **** just to watch live football.Was muß, das muß.Comment
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this competition, and splitting of the packages is a joke
costing the punters even more money, it would be better if sky had them all and noone else bid, instead the fees with be going up and more money will be transfered from fans to multimillionaire players, its not as the money is staying in the game for development etc in one end out the otherComment
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Why don't the Tories tax the Premier League? Super profits tax or something like that.Was muß, das muß.Comment
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My bad, they should tax the viewers who pay the stupid subscription fees. Entertainment tax on top of the VAT.Originally posted by Mattshark View PostWas muß, das muß.Comment
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Each match will cost BT 6.6mil
Go **** yourselfComment
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BT have picked up the Premiership Rugby from 2013-2014 taking all the games from Sky and ESPN.
Might be the end for ESPN in the UK.
Premiership Rugby in £152m broadcast deal with BT
Premiership Rugby has signed a four-year broadcasting deal with telecoms firm BT worth £152m.
From the 2013-14 season, BT will have exclusive live broadcast rights to Aviva Premiership Rugby and the JP Morgan Asset Management Sevens.
From 2014-15 it will also have the exclusive rights to matches played by Premiership clubs in any future European competitions, for three years.
It comes after BT also secured live Premier League football rights.
In June it was announced that BT had secured the rights to broadcast live Premier League games for the first time, securing the rights to 38 matches a season from 2013-14 to 2015-16.
Technical upgrades
Live Aviva Premiership matches are currently split between BSkyB and ESPN, and under the new agreement, BT will have live broadcast rights to up to 69 matches a season.
"This is a game-changing agreement and will deliver a service that I know our club supporters will enjoy," said Mark McCafferty, chief executive of Premiership Rugby, the umbrella body representing the Premiership Rugby clubs.
As well as showing the live games, BT will assist clubs in upgrading the technical infrastructure at their stadia.
The deal covers a time period which will see the Rugby World Cup staged in England in 2015, as well as rugby sevens being played at the 2016 Olympics in Rio.Comment
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