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Eurosport and TNT sports channels covering same events

zulu17 — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 10:57:47 GMT

I notice that this weekend TNT sports premium channels are being used to cover the same UCI Mountain Bike events from Lake Placid as Eurosport 1.

It has been noted previously that TNT Sports has dropped ( ligue 1 , Vanarama) or reduced (Serie A) several of its football coverage that used to occupy the weekend schedules. Now it seems that schedules are being filled with events that Eurosport are also covering. Is this trend going to continue ? I assume it in an intentional strategy and not just the channel schedulers working independently of each other.

Re: Eurosport and TNT sports channels covering same events

DarrenDev — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 10:59:43 GMT

That's not something you're going to get an answer to on this forum - or was the question rhetorical?

Re: Eurosport and TNT sports channels covering same events

zulu17 — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 22:38:25 GMT

This board is the place to post if you have any questions about watching TNT Sports,

Re: Eurosport and TNT sports channels covering same events

BSF74 — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 10:28:11 GMT

@zulu17 I think you will see a lot more of it preparation of a potential complete closure of Eurosport with everything moving to tnt

this has always been likely to happen after the olympics as detailed on the link below

https://www.motorcyclenews.com/sport/2023/february/eurosport-bt-sport-turn-into-tnt-sports/

Re: Eurosport and TNT sports channels covering same events

Brucemeister5 — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 10:39:42 GMT

I don’t think that this should come as any surprise. According to a well informed poster on another forum who happens to work for another broadcaster, TNT Sports is operating on a much smaller budget than BT Sport did. They’ve managed to maintain the high profile football rights in terms of the PL and CL, EL & ECL , but other football rights have been quietly dropped or cut back. It will be interesting to see if they keep hold of the MotoGP rights which expire at the end of the year.

Re: Eurosport and TNT sports channels covering same events

zulu17 — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 16:27:57 GMT

@Brucemeister5 well this appears on a current web page. Note displaying MotoGP under a eurosport image. I suspect in error and it should be TNT sport but who knows.

Re: Eurosport and TNT sports channels covering same events

gomezz — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 16:53:15 GMT

Interesting! I will be going wherever MotoGP goes.

Re: Eurosport and TNT sports channels covering same events

Brucemeister5 — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 21:36:50 GMT

https://www.tntsports.co.uk/moto/tnt-sports-motogp-live-coverage-uk-2025-deal_sto20053373/story.shtml

TNT Sports has renewed the rights to MotoGP.

Re: Eurosport and TNT sports channels covering same events

zulu17 — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 23:06:37 GMT

also

https://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2024/11/22/tnt-sports-becomes-new-home-of-sailgp-in-uk-ireland/

So SailGP moves to TNT Sports. (believe that Eurosport broadcast it previously ).

Re: Eurosport and TNT sports channels covering same events

Carlusha — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 02:06:53 GMT

@Brucemeister5wrote:
According to a well informed poster on another forum who happens to work for another broadcaster, TNT Sports is operating on a much smaller budget than BT Sport did. They’ve managed to maintain the high profile football rights in terms of the PL and CL, EL & ECL , but other football rights have been quietly dropped or cut back. It will be interesting to see if they keep hold of the MotoGP rights which expire at the end of the year.

WBD market capitalisation is around $24.8 bn and BT Group around $19 bn suggesting it is down to whether WBD are willing to invest. Time will tell whether we see more dropping or cutting.