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College football

ajscott32 — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 21:30:37 GMT

Does anyone know if college football will be on TNT sports this year as in previous years? Very few options to watch it since the ESPN player has been cancelled and nothing is scheduled on TNT that I can see.

Re: College football

zulu17 — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 23:41:06 GMT

Well a question was asked back in June in

https://community.bt.com/t5/TV-Content-including-TNT-Sports/NCAA-College-Football/m-p/2297830

not really had any BT update in that thread yet.

it would be good for TNT sports to have a customer enquiry point for theses sorts of questions to be addressed.

Re: College football

noopjay — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 08:57:42 GMT

@ajscott32 yeah I asked this before but still not sure.

@zulu17 I was actually jumping on here to ask if anyone knew why ESPNFC is no longer being shown on BT/TNT.

Worrying signs to be honest.

On a side note, ESPN Player is being shut down in UK (and other places I think) so it seems like something is in the works.

Re: College football

zulu17 — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 11:08:11 GMT

@ajscott32

I have received this reassuring message (albeit not from BT) to a separate enquiry I made

“Please be assured that TNT Sports will be showing the NCAA College Football when the season starts. For further confirmation of scheduling and streaming coverage, I would recommend looking on our Social Media pages closer to the start of the season. “

Re: College football

David_H — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 16:00:52 GMT

Hi, I've reached out to the Scheduling team who confirmed that:

"ESPN content, including ESPNFC and selected college sports events, will not be shown on TNT Sports. From the US, we are pleased to show live Major League Baseball as part of a wide range of live sport we show.

Find more information on TNT Sports programming at https://www.tntsports.co.uk/watch/schedule.shtml "

Thanks for your post,

David

Re: College football

w0036471 — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 17:04:30 GMT

Hi @David_H , that appears contrary to what Discovery Plus tweeted just three days ago?

Re: College football

noopjay — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 18:53:02 GMT

""ESPN content, including ESPNFC and selected college sports events, will not be shown on TNT Sports. From the US, we are pleased to show live Major League Baseball as part of a wide range of live sport we show."

So when BT Sport said nothing is changing other than the name, this was false advertising?

Re: College football

zulu17 — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 19:04:08 GMT

Certainly we seem to have conflicting information. Why is this ? Who do we believe ?

I presume everyone is presenting the information they believe to be accurate so clearly there is a drop-off in the information that BT and WBD people are being given.

Re: College football

noopjay — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 19:18:37 GMT

I will spend all weekend tracking down the TNT scheduling team!

Re: College football

zulu17 — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 19:22:51 GMT

I have referred the thread to the moderation team. I suggest we await further input from BT from someone who actually knows what is going on as clearly there appear to contradictions in what we are being told.

Re: College football

JohnC2 — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 07:50:15 GMT

Hi All, I'm sorry for the confusion over this coverage.
Please contact Discovery+ support directly for any queries using the the below webform.

https://support.discoveryplus.com/hc/en-gb/requests/new?ticket_form_id=4418531532433

Cheers

John

Re: College football

w0036471 — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 07:54:41 GMT

Forgive me for being sceptical, @JohnC2 , but as someone who already had a Discovery Plus annual sport subscription for the cycling, I asked them back in June if TNT would be included in that package and they *guaranteed* it would. So much so, they refunded the entirity of my annual D+sport package when it became apparent that TNT wasn't part of it. As a result, I don't believe these support operatives are remotely reliable.

Re: College football

ozsat — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 08:14:30 GMT

There is no reason for either of these comments to be wrong.

"ESPN content, including ESPNFC and selected college sports events, will not be shown on TNT Sports."
"NCAA College Football .. TNT Sports will be covering this season."

The ESPN coverage may not be availabe but the football is also shown on NBC, CBS and Fox.

Week 0

Saturday, Aug. 26

Notre Dame vs. Navy (Dublin, Ireland) | 2:30 p.m. | NBC
Mercer vs. North Alabama (Montgomery, Alabama) | 3:30 p.m. | ESPN
Jacksonville State vs. UTEP | 5:30 p.m. | CBSSN
New Mexico State vs. UMass | 7 p.m. | ESPN
San Diego State vs. Ohio | 7 p.m. | FS1
Vanderbilt vs. Hawai'i | 7:30 p.m. | SEC Network
Jackson State vs. South Carolina State (Atlanta, Georgia) | 7:30 p.m. | ABC
USC vs. San Jose State | 8 p.m. | Pac-12 Network
Louisiana Tech vs. Florida International | 9 p.m. | CBSSN

Re: College football

w0036471 — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 08:07:21 GMT

There may be an element of truth in that, as BT Sport always used to have the CBS SEC game of the week (often over better ESPN games).

It would certainly be extremely interesting if TNT (owned by Warner Bros) took a Fox product, especially as Fox have traditionally not offered it internationally.

Notre Dame's NBC package is owned by Sky Sports (who also show the Conference USA games from NFL Network).

Edit to add: if ESPN product is no longer available on TNT, it hints they may have their own plans from August 18.

Re: College football

ozsat — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 08:22:48 GMT

Perhaps add it to the Disney+ bundle - as done in the US.

@w0036471wrote:
There may be an element of truth in that, as BT Sport always used to have the CBS SEC game of the week (often over better ESPN games).
It would certainly be extremely interesting if TNT (owned by Warner Bros) took a Fox product, especially as Fox have traditionally not offered it internationally.
Notre Dame's NBC package is owned by Sky Sports (who also show the Conference USA games from NFL Network).
Edit to add: if ESPN product is no longer available on TNT, it hints they may have their own plans from August 18.

Re: College football

pigskin — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 08:50:02 GMT

BT site has list of all live sport to be shown on TNT in next 30 days, nothing is listed for weeks 0 or 1. Nor do any college sports feature on the complete A-Z list of sports TNT covers on the BT site. The obfuscation from BT throughout this debacle is tending me to believe there may be no live college football (or college sports in general). If you have contacted BT as I have on multiple occasions you will be aware that they do not want to engage at all. They initially spouted the "nothing changes" line and initially that is all the information they would give, but when that proved false they then advised it referred only to live sport at the transition date only. They had no information on out of season sports at the transition date. About a fortnight ago I was told that there would be an announcement on the sports that did not feature on the TNT coverage list within five days. Nothing came of it. BT are resorting to just trying to get you off the phone if you ask what is happening with NCAA sport. It seems mighty suspicious.

Re: College football

noopjay — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 09:38:39 GMT

@ozsat "The ESPN coverage may not be availabe but the football is also shown on NBC, CBS and Fox." But NBC, CBS & Fox aren't available in the UK are they?

@w0036471 "It would certainly be extremely interesting if TNT (owned by Warner Bros) took a Fox product, especially as Fox have traditionally not offered it internationally." We've had games from Fox on BT Sport in all previous seasons, ie. Big 10 games like Ohio State v Michigan. Probably because those massive games are available on their flagship FOX channel.

Overall, given that...

1) TNT sport isn't going to be part of Discovery+ (from @w0036471

2) ESPN Player has been cancelled in UK (from me & @ajscott32

3) Other ESPN products have been scrapped by TNT Sports

4) All the conference realignment stuff going on in USA, eg possibly PAC12 going to Apple TV subscriptions

....it seems likely that it's not even been sorted out yet at any level for UK coverage.

For anyone interested, here's what ESPN player says about TV rights in other countries.

Re: College football

Harold5hunter — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 11:26:57 GMT

The comment about BT Sport showing Fox college football games in past years is not accurate. They have only ever shown ESPN and CBS games.

I've been frustrated for a number of years about not being able to watch any games on FOX including Ohio State vs Michigan.

Re: College football

pigskin — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 12:43:12 GMT

New PAC12 deal would not take effect until 2025(if there still is a PAC12) so does not impact this year. This is likely the last season of College Football as we know it.

Re: College football

ozsat — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 13:52:40 GMT

Not available in the UK but not on ESPN - so could be taken by TNT Sports.

@noopjaywrote:
@ozsat "The ESPN coverage may not be availabe but the football is also shown on NBC, CBS and Fox." But NBC, CBS & Fox aren't available in the UK are they?
@w0036471 "It would certainly be extremely interesting if TNT (owned by Warner Bros) took a Fox product, especially as Fox have traditionally not offered it internationally." We've had games from Fox on BT Sport in all previous seasons, ie. Big 10 games like Ohio State v Michigan. Probably because those massive games are available on their flagship FOX channel.
Overall, given that...
1) TNT sport isn't going to be part of Discovery+ (from @w0036471
2) ESPN Player has been cancelled in UK (from me & @ajscott32
3) Other ESPN products have been scrapped by TNT Sports
4) All the conference realignment stuff going on in USA, eg possibly PAC12 going to Apple TV subscriptions
....it seems likely that it's not even been sorted out yet at any level for UK coverage.

For anyone interested, here's what ESPN player says about TV rights in other countries.