Eurosport and TNT sports channels covering same events

[zulu17]

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.

[DarrenDev]

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

[zulu17]

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

[BSF74]

@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/

[Brucemeister5]

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.

[zulu17]

@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.

[gomezz]

Interesting! I will be going wherever MotoGP goes.

[Brucemeister5]

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

TNT Sports has renewed the rights to MotoGP.

[zulu17]

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 ).

[Carlusha]

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@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.

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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.