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BT Sport is going to bid for Cricket, the Liobs, F1 etc etc http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/10440065/Now-BT-plots-major-raid-on-summer-sports.html fudge if they got cricket and European rugby Id probably get rid of sky sports altogether. I wish you could just pay per sport you want. That could wel...

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Latest... As I understand him, the BT finance director says that the BT Sport payout works commercially. Increased revenues come from subscriptions, broadband revenue, advertising. There will be a range of payments for what is viewed but BT Sport will cost customer less than Sky. For football BT ha...

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BT Sport is going to bid for Cricket, the Liobs, F1 etc etc http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/10440065/Now-BT-plots-major-raid-on-summer-sports.html That would be a total 'game' changer. I currently take Sky Sports and BT Sport and BT telephone / broadband. I will soon have BT infinity broadband. BT...

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Slider wrote:Both share prices trading down.
BT down by 2% which is bad.
BSkyB down by 8% which is panic.

BT financial projections seemingly unchanged for the next 2 - 3 years.

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Latest... As I understand him, the BT finance director says that the BT Sport payout works commercially. Increased revenues come from subscriptions, broadband revenue, advertising. There will be a range of payments for what is viewed but BT Sport will cost customer less than Sky. For football BT ha...

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Latest... As I understand him, the BT finance director says that the BT Sport payout works commercially. Increased revenues come from subscriptions, broadband revenue, advertising. There will be a range of payments for what is viewed but BT Sport will cost customer less than Sky. For football BT hav...

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At the moment BSkyB average 1.55m viewers for every Premier Leage game, and have 10m subscribers; whereas BTSport have 2m subscribers. That's a lot of money to pay with that many subscribers. BT have just announced that Openreach saw the "best ever" quarter for fibre take-up, with 316,000 net conne...

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At the moment BSkyB average 1.55m viewers for every Premier Leage game, and have 10m subscribers; whereas BTSport have 2m subscribers. That's a lot of money to pay with that many subscribers. sky started when? Before you were born? BT started August 2013? :roll: Cammy is about in his 50s I'd say so...

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camroc1 wrote:At the moment BSkyB average 1.55m viewers for every Premier Leage game, and have 10m subscribers; whereas BTSport have 2m subscribers.

That's a lot of money to pay with that many subscribers.

sky started when? Before you were born? BT started August 2013?

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Fark me. More Celts complaining that BT's coverage of the ENGLISH Premiership rugby is too English centric. ROFLMAO I generally just think their coverage is shite. People moan about Barnes and Harrison's OTT approach but some of the stuff I've heard out of the BT commentators makes them sound posit...

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With BT winning Champions League coverage from Sky, they clearly are in this for the long haul and will win. All the shit on this thread from the Irish about the RCC is nothing to do with union control, good of the game etc. Their problem is that they will have to pay for BT. :lol: yeah damn sky wa...

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With BT winning Champions League coverage from Sky, they clearly are in this for the long haul and will win. All the shit on this thread from the Irish about the RCC is nothing to do with union control, good of the game etc. Their problem is that they will have to pay for BT. This could get very na...

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To be honest I even preferred ESPN to Sky when it was on there. I guess BT's is kind of built on the foundation of ESPN with the pundatory, but overall I really like BTs rugby. I reckon BT rugby coverage is excellent and stands a very good chance of increasing the fan base.....the Union committee m...

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The English and French are adamant that unless the Unions give them commercial control, there will be no Europe next season. All partners get an equal say as it is, if they wan't anything else they can set up their own sport and manage it themselves. It won't be Rugby Union though. Could call it Le...

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globus wrote:So. Rachel gets the bullet. Myers is very quiet.

Sorry lads, but the pretty face, lissom lady with intelligence gets dumped.

It's like falling in a dog thingummy. Poor, British public; poor.

I imagine, you apart of course, that the voters for this gameshow are women of a certain age.

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Any Irish like the BT rugby coverage!?

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SamShark wrote:It's nice to see that lovely bloke Craig Doyle so enthusiastic about BT and English rugger.

He does a good fronting job and there is a wide range of characters doing walk on cameos

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I've no knowledge at all on this subject but just how deep are BT's pockets? I'm guessing bigger than Sky? However, I'm guessing Sky rely on their TV service, should BT buy up more and more rights to the premier league in coming years it'll make Sky less and less appealing to the customer. BT howev...

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To be honest I even preferred ESPN to Sky when it was on there. I guess BT's is kind of built on the foundation of ESPN with the pundatory, but overall I really like BTs rugby. I reckon BT rugby coverage is excellent and stands a very good chance of increasing the fan base.....the Union committee m...

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Doing the BT Sport to safeguard and expand the business, very pleased after 13 weeks. Better rugby premiership viewing figures than Sky had and soccer figures about 77% of Sky at the mo. Thought when somebody looked at the stats that that was shown to be bullshit? As in 1.7m for Sky's football cove...

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Listened to interview of BT CFO given to bloomberg.... Paraphrase... Profits up, revenue growth, over 2 million signed up directly for BT sport + 2 million via Virgin. Doing the BT Sport to safeguard and expand the business, very pleased after 13 weeks. Better rugby premiership viewing figures than...

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Listened to interview of BT CFO given to bloomberg.... Paraphrase... Profits up, revenue growth, over 2 million signed up directly for BT sport + 2 million via Virgin. Doing the BT Sport to safeguard and expand the business, very pleased after 13 weeks. Better rugby premiership viewing figures than ...

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Oh, with regard to clubs seeking to play the odd game or two against French clubs, was IRB approval needed pre pro era for English fixture secretaries to invite cross border games against Welsh clubs?

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Bill wrote:anyone mention how much better BT sports coverage is?

less sensationalist sky style crap - more focus on the game itself, be it rugby or football

Several times... much better than BBC or Sky...

...sometimes I even watch before kick off

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Duff Paddy wrote:
grubberkick wrote:If only this could lead to a comeback for those great Welsh clubs..... Cardiff, Swansea, Newport
...Ebbw Vale...

Maesteg

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If only this could lead to a comeback for those great Welsh clubs..... Cardiff, Swansea, Newport

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As an Irish fan I'd just like to say Neil Francis's article is a disgrace. I can't believe he left Callum Clarke and Ashton off the list of w@nkers. So where are we in this argument? PRL tried to pull a fast one by signing a dodgy tv deal and are now scrambling for survival. The French are tagging ...

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Seemed to go well - thought it was 5 minutes (wit kant) but turns out I was "under" for about 35 minutes (wit kant). Really weird feel when I came out of it as I thought I was falling over. I can remember everything mentioned during the session (wit kant) but I don't think there were any post hypno...

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JoeyFantastic wrote:
JM2K6 wrote: The unions all try to make a profit.
Before we go on, can you clarify to me that you understand the difference between the clubs and their unions?

And hopefully everyone knows what a pro player is...

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The French and English Unions need the clubs.....the other Unions need players who play for the clubs and have favourable grannies

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And when it comes to mammoths in the room

1 the clubs are fighting for the spirit of the game

2 BT are doing a great job at showcasing the game and probably bringing in new viewers

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The clubs should stick for a pro Euro competition run by themselves......if they want to survive. After the RWC anything could happen.

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What did he say that was so offensive. I'm not talking about the way he said it but the actual content He is suggesting that the competition created by PRL and LNR is the future of European club rugby. In my opinion this is completely unacceptable, as PRL are too close to the front line in all of t...

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Significant concessions from ERC we'll see now whether the RFU have the spine to stand up to the likes of Wray or whether they will just abdicate control completely. The RFU will fold. They have been compromised, and the RWC blackmail threat is hanging over them. I see this as a process of working ...

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So I think we can all agree that there's some very big concessions by the unions there and if PRL turn their noses up at this, it'll demonstrate that they are not interested in compromise, just dictating terms to everybody else. I think we can also all agree that there were no valid reasons for the...

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The IRB have already released a statement saying it needed their approval. True enough but there's been a fair bit of shite spouted by all parties on this matter. I seem to remember looking through the IRB terms or reference and it seemed they only had sanction over competitions that represented th...

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The Unions should be running international rugby and infrastructure...... not power grabbing club games.

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And, for what, exactly, do you think they'd 'injuncted' (sic) and sued for? If we saw the contracts it'd be a lot clearer. Anything we say at the moment is groundless in that regard. Somebody's going to get done for breach of contract about the two tv deals though. Point 1: you won't because there ...

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What an utterly retarded article. How exactly are the Welsh, Scottish and Irish club sides supposed to compete financially with the English and French? It's unworkable in a professional environment and this is just an old clubman bitching about professionalism. Clubs are, and always will be, the li...

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I am only making the point that Saracens are putting a lot of effort and money into expanding rugby and the Celts mock it. I remember watching Rob Andrew playing for wasps in front of a couple of hundred . This doesn't make them a powerhouse. The bolded bit is just irrelevant shite. I do not unders...

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