BT Sport TV and Eurosport UK Being Rebranded to TNT Sport
Farewell BT Sport. Last year’s agreement between broadband giant BT and Warner Bros. Discovery, which resulted in a 50:50 Joint Venture (JV) company between BTSport and Eurosport UK, will now officially result in the channels being rebranded as TNT Sport for the UK and Ireland.
According to BT, the change will be introduced from July 2023, when TNT Sports “will continue the spirit of what BT Sport has built over the past decade” – before the start of the 2023/2024 football season. Until then, BT Sport will continue on as usual.
The re-branded channel will carry content from the Olympic Games, the Premier League, UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, Premiership Rugby, MotoGP, UFC, Boxing, WWE, tennis Grand Slams, cycling Grand Tours and the winter sports season. “Eurosport (U.K & Ireland only) will become part of this new brand at some time in the future“, said BT.
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The agreement ultimately enables BT to focuse more of their efforts toward supporting Openreach’s £15bn deployment of Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP technology to 25 million UK premises by December 2026 (currently at 9.6 million premises passed). Not to mention their ongoing rollout of ultrafast 5G mobile infrastructure.
At present, there’s no indication of any future pricing changes for existing customers, although a price increase has not been ruled out either. One other point to make, for those who use the BTSport app for viewing, is that the Discover+ app will become the home of the newly rebranded channel.
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Would have made more sense to just rebrand the BT channels to Eurosport 3,4,5,6 etc
bt has been wanting to dump sport and tv since the new chairman took over from patterson
Just more money to find to watch sport. I think its a joke really to be honest. Having to pay for Sky Sports, Bt Sport, Amazon and now this..
Have you read the article? It’s not an additional service, it’s replacing BT Sports
You don’t have to pay.
Anyway, sport is like sex, better to be a participant than a spectator.
I wonder what’s going to happen with BT Sport Ultimate addon
BT Sport Ultimate will be either
1) TNT Sports Ultimate
2) TNT Sports UHD
The bt sport and TV packages are not that good you have now tv which bt don’t own so won’t be long till the bt tv box new and old will stop just another way ov screwing us out of more hard earned cash dint they no ppl are struggling to live at moment well done bt
The bt sport and TV packages are not that good you have now tv which bt don’t own so won’t be long till the bt tv box new and old will stop just another way ov screwing us out of more hard earned cash dint they no ppl are struggling to live at moment well done bt
Do we think that Eurosport will end up part of the BT Sport subscription as a standalone thing, rather than included in Sky’s base entertainment pack?
Yes
I have Eurosport Player.If BT Sport takes over Eurosport,what happens to my Subscription?
Patterson’s multi billion pound bet on sports finally dead and buried.
What an epic waste of shareholder money.