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.
So will still be Red Button access for Virgin and Sky?
@DarrenDevwrote:
No change other than names and logos.
If that's what you have now, then that's what will continue.
Woud it not make sense to renumber the channels in the BT TV/Youview EPG guide so that the channels are grouped together ?
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.
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.
@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.
@ozsat Good point about the ESPN streaming service. I’d completely forgotten about that.
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.