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BT Sport Rugby coverage

Matt20 — Sat, 18 Sep 2021 08:31:23 GMT

Why can we now only watch 3 games of Premiership rugby over the weekend? 1 game per day ?

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garybs29 — Sat, 18 Sep 2021 15:00:24 GMT

You'll need to ask the people in charge of the premiership who made the decision to go back to normal rather than the all games again

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Cluskeydee66 — Sat, 18 Sep 2021 15:11:19 GMT

Probably because crowds are allowed in now compared to last season. Thought the rugby would have got the hdr treatment on channel 465 this season. Is there plans for the future for hdr games ?

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MJH62 — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 12:37:19 GMT

Because its in the contract between BT Sport and the Gallagher Premiership. Last season's arrangement was a temporary one in response to crowds not being allowed into grounds,

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gomezz — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 18:51:43 GMT

It is a shame the highlights programme is still being squeezed into 1:30 rather than the 2:30 previously used which was much better for showing the ebb and flow of a match over 20 minutes of action.

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Cluskeydee66 — Sun, 26 Sep 2021 14:12:22 GMT

@DarrenDev Are there any plans Darren for the rugby to be shown on new ultimate hdr channel or just the 433 channel?

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DarrenDev — Sun, 26 Sep 2021 15:48:37 GMT

Not something I can reliably comment on I'm afraid @Cluskeydee66 - I don't know what plans there are to bring HDR to rugby.

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gomezz — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 08:58:39 GMT

I see the BTS3 broadcast of this weekend's highlights was borked by the Red Bee incident.

Going to record this afternoon's broadcast and also recording it from BTS1 tomorrow morning. It could be a while before I get to see the matches that were not on live.

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gomezz — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 10:50:28 GMT

At the third time of asking now got a highlights programme that is not screwed up. Worth the wait though. 🙂

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zulu17 — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 20:00:54 GMT

@gomezz wrote:
At the third time of asking now got a highlights programme that is not screwed up. Worth the wait though. 🙂

Pleased you got there in the end , That certainly sounds like a case of TRY TRY and TRY again which sounds like the programme content.

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bc909885 — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 08:21:31 GMT

Totally agree. It's so frustrating having to either watch the whole match on replay or just a 3 minute montage of whiteline crossing and kicks. Seems everything is designed to appeal to youngsters who apparently aren't interested in the game, just the scoring bits. It's the same with the Caribbean Premier League cricket. Used to be 45 mins (to fit an hour slot with adverts) now reduced to 12 minutes. Just biff, bang, bosh of 6's and 4's and wickets.

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bc909885 — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 08:24:44 GMT

There is also the fact that Premiership Rugby have launched their own web based service. Every match available either as paltry 3 min "highlights" (bitesize eh) or all games are replayed in full. But only 24 hours after the result.

They have also removed the hour long highlights show from free to view Channel 5 which I think is incredibly short sighted if you want to grow the fan base.