BT Sport win CL TV rights

JazzG

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24879138

Looks like they've simply blown Sky and ITV out of the water, deals runs from 2015-2018. Very surprised Sky missed out on this, CL football is a big thing for their sports package.

Good news is some matches (incl the final) will be shown free bad news is have to pay these fucking bellends to listen to Michael Owen, David James, Kevin Keegan and Steve McBananaman for three years.....

@BBCSport

Sky issue a statement saying BT Sport paid "far in excess" of its valuation for live rights to Champions League & Europa League for 2015-18

The clubs will make more out of this so they won't be complaining!

Patters

Whisper it quietly but BT Sport isn't actually that bad. They talk about as much shit as Sky do, but at least they don't dress it up as a professional show. They know they're basically the Talksport of TV. Something endearing about an organisation that knows it's shit compared to one that doesn't.

Not sure CL games were a big deal from Sky's perspective. The league has always been their bread and butter.

Timbob

Boooooo!

goon

I don't care that much about the quality of the coverage, usually I only turn in for the match anyway, though I do enjoy Sky's pre & post match analysis far more than BT's cringy gimmicks, it's like ITV when they won coverage of the Premier League highlights, that retarded van parked outside the stadium with Andy Townsend inside 😆

What I do care about is the extra £12 a month. Unless they release an Xbox app I'll need to watch this shit on the laptop via their app.

Patters

otfgoon wrote:
I don't care that much about the quality of the coverage, usually I only turn in for the match anyway, though I do enjoy Sky's pre & post match analysis far more than BT's cringy gimmicks, it's like ITV when they won coverage of the Premier League highlights, that retarded van parked outside the stadium with Andy Townsend inside 😆

What I do care about is the extra £12 a month. Unless they release an Xbox app I'll need to watch this shit on the laptop via their app.

HDMI connection bruv. Or an s-video one for older laptops.

goon

I usually use a VDI connection but it's too much effort, the sounds always out of sync too.

y va marquer

Mentioned on the news that this deal "shouldn't" affect Irish TV broadcasting of UCL.
Not exactly a certainty though.

Meatwad

i'm surprised that even just a few games being shown on terrestrial tv was able to last this long in britain. over here quite a bit of american football, basketball, baseball games are shown on terrestrial and if not basic cable. but the difference here is that american football and basketball have timeouts (that the teams call) and tv timeouts built in. baseball has breaks and the middle and end of innings. so the networks can make their money back by selling ads.

i've watched games on itv and they've actually had commercial breaks during matches and you miss shit. WTF.

bt should get better talent with their improved live football offerings. if they flip it on sky when the premier league rights are up for renewal and they control 4 of 6 packages there is no reason for gary neville to be working at sky. he'd just switch to BT because they would be showing the most premier league games and all of the european games.

Qwiss

y va marquer wrote:
Mentioned on the news that this deal "shouldn't" affect Irish TV broadcasting of UCL.
Not exactly a certainty though.

I bet you the Irish press haven't a fucking clue how RTE and TV3s deals work. Aren't TV3 tied into ITVs deal?

JazzG

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/competitions/champions-league/10437687/BT-Sport-claims-victory-over-Sky-after-paying-900m-for-rights-to-show-Champions-League-and-Europa-League.html

According to that they bid almost twice as much as Sky, Sky in the second round after seeing their bid weren't prepared to match it.

Qwiss

Meatwad wrote:
bt should get better talent with their improved live football offerings.

I don't think that'll happen. What they've shown so far is that they have original ideas. Most people think Gary Neville is a good pundit but he wasn't poached from anywhere else. What Sky have done with Neville and Carragher is take young players who understand what its like to be a player now. Also 2 players synonymous with 2 of the biggest teams in the league. BT got Michael Owen from that generation, a player no clubs supporters like and a guy who cares more about horse racing than football.

I want to see one of these stations throw a non footballer/manager in there. Get a journalist or a blogger on. Someone with a fresh perspective.

Rex

I haven't given up yet on being head hunted for that position, qs.

Qwiss

Any day now.

y va marquer

qs! wrote:
y va marquer wrote:
Mentioned on the news that this deal "shouldn't" affect Irish TV broadcasting of UCL.
Not exactly a certainty though.

I bet you the Irish press haven't a fucking clue how RTE and TV3s deals work. Aren't TV3 tied into ITVs deal?

Think so.
ITV are going to set up their own Irish Channel in 2015 (not sure of date) so that would have been the end of TV3 rights anyway.

Qwiss

True enough. Still I don't see us getting 2 nights of terrestrial CL after this deal. Maybe RTE could both nights but they're already pulling back on football with them dropping the prem highlights.

Tony Montana

qs! wrote:
I want to see one of these stations throw a non footballer/manager in there. Get a journalist or a blogger on. Someone with a fresh perspective.

That's a brilliant idea. Never thought of that. If they could get someone from the broadsheets that would be great.

Qwiss

I reckon your man from Zonal Marking would be brilliant for someone. Or when they're hiring for the CL get Honnigstein, Sid Lowe, etc on and have them depending what nations are showing.

Armor

BT have Honigstein Laurens and Horncastle on Sunday nights for the European coverage they pop up on other stuff too. Their European coverage is top class tbh and way better than the PL crew.

I really like Sky's CL coverage. Will BT have interactive like Sky so all the games get shown? It better not mean that they only choose certain games and Arsenal games aren't picked up.

Qwiss

Horncastle is awful. I don't know Laurens.

I'm sure interactive is part of the deal for that money.

Burnwinter

qs! wrote:
I want to see one of these stations throw a non footballer/manager in there. Get a journalist or a blogger on. Someone with a fresh perspective.

Michael Cox would be great actually. Don't know if he's always right, but he talks about tactics with both detail and a tendency to avoid received wisdom.