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BT Sport changes

ozsat — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 14:45:03 GMT

On 1st Aug the following channels name changes will happen:

BT Sport ESPN becomes BT Sport 4

BT Sport Extra 1 becomes BT Sport 5

BT Sport Extra 2 becomes BT Sport 6

BT Sport Extra 3 becomes BT Sport 7

BT Sport Extra 4 becomes BT Sport 8

BT Sport Extra 5 becomes BT Sport 9

BT Sport Extra 6 becomes BT Sport 10

No indication if there is any expansion of availability beyond the BTtv EPG.

Re: BT Sport changes

DarrenDev — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 14:46:27 GMT

No change other than names and logos.

Re: BT Sport changes

ozsat — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 15:03:29 GMT

So will still be Red Button access for Virgin and Sky?

@DarrenDevwrote:
No change other than names and logos.

Re: BT Sport changes

DarrenDev — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 15:23:56 GMT

If that's what you have now, then that's what will continue.

Re: BT Sport changes

zulu17 — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 15:25:09 GMT

Woud it not make sense to renumber the channels in the BT TV/Youview EPG guide so that the channels are grouped together ?

Re: BT Sport changes

Brucemeister5 — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 16:40:11 GMT

BT signed a 7 year deal with ESPN in 2015 to supply up to 5000 hours of content per year. The name change from BT Sport ESPN to BT Sport 4 suggests to me that BT Sport will no longer have access to as much content as before, although Jamie Hindhaugh did say that there will be a ‘continued relationship’. It will be interesting to see whether Disney+ starts to show some of the sport that was previously on BT Sport under the contract with ESPN.

Re: BT Sport changes

ozsat — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 17:49:47 GMT

ESPN do have their own streaming service for the UK. Perhaps they intend to beef that up.

@Brucemeister5wrote:
BT signed a 7 year deal with ESPN in 2015 to supply up to 5000 hours of content per year. The name change from BT Sport ESPN to BT Sport 4 suggests to me that BT Sport will no longer have access to as much content as before, although Jamie Hindhaugh did say that there will be a ‘continued relationship’. It will be interesting to see whether Disney+ starts to show some of the sport that was previously on BT Sport under the contract with ESPN.

Re: BT Sport changes

Anonymous — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 19:07:53 GMT

@ozsatwrote:
On 1st Aug the following channels name changes will happen:
BT Sport ESPN becomes BT Sport 4
BT Sport Extra 1 becomes BT Sport 5
BT Sport Extra 2 becomes BT Sport 6
BT Sport Extra 3 becomes BT Sport 7
BT Sport Extra 4 becomes BT Sport 8
BT Sport Extra 5 becomes BT Sport 9
BT Sport Extra 6 becomes BT Sport 10

I see this list of new names and can't get Dodgeball out of my head.

ESPN 8

Re: BT Sport changes

Brucemeister5 — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 06:34:16 GMT

@ozsat Good point about the ESPN streaming service. I’d completely forgotten about that.

Re: BT Sport changes

Anonymous — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 19:45:15 GMT

As all the Extra channels are being renamed, and they are so far down the EPG I sometimes forget to look to see if anything is on, why can’t we have a red button prompt with a list of what’s on what channel when there is extra sport on one of them. Just a thought.

Re: BT Sport changes

DarrenDev — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 19:52:51 GMT

What about just using the TV guide and press blue to filter on Sport? You can also use the yellow button to edit the channel list and remove channels you don't want to see listed (e.g. channels you don't subscribe to).

Re: BT Sport changes

zulu17 — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 22:30:29 GMT

I suspect @DarrenDev that you don't use BT TV as your regular source of viewing . The incomplete and flawed hidden channel facility is something that should have been addressed long ago yet remains unaddressed.

Re: BT Sport changes

DarrenDev — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 06:05:31 GMT

Actually I do use BT TV as my only source of TV viewing @zulu17 but I don't watch sport.

What's wrong with the channel hiding feature?

Re: BT Sport changes

Anonymous — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 07:30:01 GMT

@DarrenDev I have hidden all channels I don't want but as I have all sky sports channels , the BT sport channels are after all of these in the EPG.

Re: BT Sport changes

tweetSP0RT — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 07:41:28 GMT

Any chance that the series linking will be improved? Repeatedly have had issues with live WRC particularly when it's jumped between Extra 1 and 2 etc. meaning that if I remember I have to go through and manually set every day's action to record. That didn't help though for Portugal when Saturday's data suddenly changed to put DTM on two channels at once!

Re: BT Sport changes

DarrenDev — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 08:03:31 GMT

I don't really understand your use case then @Anonymous ? When you're looking for sport to watch, is the channel it's on relevant? If you filter by sport, you'll see all the sport channels and can scroll through until you find something you want?

Re: BT Sport changes

zulu17 — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 08:28:47 GMT

An observation on using filter

Well following that suggestion

To filter by sport

select guide

press blue

6 remote presses to navigate to Sport

press remote to select

Thats 9 remote actions .

Then only 6 channels listed on EPG screen so further remote actions needed to bring up next 6 etc.

Filter is not remembered so default is for Guide to return to All Channels mode once exited.

Re: BT Sport changes

zulu17 — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 08:49:44 GMT

Channel hiding deficiencies include

Channels that are hidden are only not shown in the main EPG view.

The channels still occur if you use the useful MiniGuide and if you navigate previous/next channel

Searches still return On Now and Later results for hidden channel content.

BT Tv app will be unaware of which channerls you have hidden.

Current approach of SD Sports channerls , HD and UHD (non HDR) Sports Channel , SD Extra Sports Channels , HD Extra Sports Channels & UHD(HDR) Sports channel, within the EPG channel numbering does not lead to easy navigation.

Re: BT Sport changes

gomezz — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 09:24:53 GMT

@DarrenDevThe problem is we sports viewers mostly know if the event is going to be on BT Sport or Sky Sport or on Eurosport so quite like the convenience of being able to see at a glance those channels listed together without having to scroll past a load of channels which are definitely not of interest at that time. As it is we for BT Sport we are having to look at two separate parts of the of the EPG.

Personally I a use Harmony remote control in which I have Favourites set up to take me to the BT Sport or the Sky Sport or the Eurosport part of the EPG but I also need another favourite to take me to the BT Sport Extra part of the EPG. Especially with the upcoming renaming it is a UI nonsense to to have to do this.

I have said it before and I will say it again, the people running BT Sport cannot be be real sports fans and do not understand the sports-viewing mentality.

Re: BT Sport changes

DarrenDev — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 09:49:44 GMT

Bear in mind that 99% of the time, the BT Sport Extra channels don't have any content, so prioritising them over the other sports channels that are 24x7 (e.g. Sky) wouldn't make sense, and would most likely require contract renegotiations. Renaming BT Sport Extra 1-6 to BT Sport 5-10 won't change the content they show.