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End of National League football on TNT Sports

ozsat — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 09:11:35 GMT

National League football has moved to DAZN following a new tv deal - I don't even think TNT Sports were interested.

TNT Sports does not seem to be the premium product that BT Sports was. Olympics coverage is poor. I really do wonder if WDB are reall interest in anything except the very top premium sport product.

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Re: End of National League football on TNT Sports

gomezz — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 10:17:41 GMT

I think all the extra Eurosport channels that have been made available means TNT Sports is serving more Olympics coverage than ever before. That said will be needing to resort to the D+ app to watch the Womens Rugby Sevens.

Re: End of National League football on TNT Sports

Anonymous — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 11:39:50 GMT

@ozsatwrote:
I really do wonder if WDB are reall interest in anything except the very top premium sport

They are not, David Zaslav at WBD loves cheap reality TV and not much else.

I hope they get smashed at the next European Football rights auction.

Re: End of National League football on TNT Sports

ozsat — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 13:59:18 GMT

It isn't TNT Sports doing the extra Eurosport channels - they are a part of the same deal that WBD had with Eurosport for the last Olympics.

And none of those extra Eurosport channels have been added to Sky's EPG.

And the UHD channel has not been made available to TNT Sport customers at all. It is only available to Eurosport subsxcribers on VirginMedia.

They have said Eurosport is closing after the Olympics.

@gomezzwrote:
I think all the extra Eurosport channels that have been made available means TNT Sports is serving more Olympics coverage than ever before. That said will be needing to resort to the D+ app to watch the Womens Rugby Sevens.

Re: End of National League football on TNT Sports

gomezz — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 20:14:30 GMT

The Eurosport channels are part of the TNT Sports package.

Re: End of National League football on TNT Sports

ozsat — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 13:49:37 GMT

Depends on the platform.

@gomezzwrote:
The Eurosport channels are part of the TNT Sports package.

Re: End of National League football on TNT Sports

gomezz — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 22:10:12 GMT

The OP did not qualify their comments by platform.

Re: End of National League football on TNT Sports

ozsat — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 05:05:40 GMT

The platform doesn't matter in the OP - my comments were that DAZN have replaced TNT Sports as the National League host - and WBD coverage of the Olympics is poor.

But in regards to the platforms - you have to have VirginMedia and Discovery+ to get the widest ranger of Olympic coverage in the UK. SkyQ and EEtv offer Discovery+ but netiher Eurosport 4K. VirginMedia does not offer Discovery+.

There is no HDR in Discovery+ in UK - but it seems WDB in the rest of Europe does have HDR. Users of Max are reporting HDR.

And, as it stands, tomorrow only Eurosport will be on VirginMedia as the TNT channels are likely to be removed. They are in different packages.

@gomezzwrote:
The OP did not qualify their comments by platform.

Re: End of National League football on TNT Sports

zulu17 — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 09:04:13 GMT

Not really suprised that WBD have not done a deal with the National League. DAZN have i believe taken global rights .

there are some precedents for TNT Sports sublicencing DAZN sports rights to fill content on their channels (not saying that is likely here).

Most National League live games broadcast used to form part of the 4K TNT Sports ultimate events.

There does seem to be a bit of retrenchment of 4K coverage on TNT Sports Ultimate channel so it will be interesting to see what EE TV and WBD offer as replacement for the loss of the 4K National League coverage.