All BT Sport articles – Page 6
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Onside Law supports BT Sport deals
Specialist sports, media, and fashion law firm Onside Law acted for BT Sport on high-profile deals, including EE sponsorship of Wembley Stadium.
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BT adopts encoder to fight broadcast piracy
BT becomes first UK broadcast provider to use encoder. Video compression solutions specialist Ateme gets partnership.
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BT Sport launches Monthly Pass, expands Ultimate 4K UHD
BT Sport Monthly Pass competes with Sky Sports offering. 4K UHD HDR channel BT Sport Ultimate gets expansion.
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BT Sport snags Fury vs Wilder rematch; Stanley Cup finals
BT Sport snag exclusive rights for Fury vs Wilder rematch. Also picks up NHL rights.
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BT pays the price of retaining its UEFA title
BT Group paid a little more to renew its exclusive rights to UEFA club football tournaments for 2021–24, seeing off a renewed ITV and Sky challenge in the process. Exclusive content expected to help BT Sport stand on its own feet, and justify ongoing price hikes.
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PHABRIX flags role in HDR trials with BT Sport
Broadcast test and measurement solutions provider PHABRIX flagged its role in nine months of high dynamic range (HDR) technology trials conducted by BT Sport.
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Timeline Television selects Tedial’s MAM platform for BT Sport’s facilities
Production facilities specialist, and existing BT Sport broadcast partner, Timeline Television selected media asset management (MAM) provider Tedial’s Evolution MAM platform to handle and orchestrate media processing and workflow archiving at BT Sport’s facilities in Stratford and the BT Tower in London.
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BT demos 8K, but easing focus on technology
Amidst showcase of new network and broadcast technology, BT Sport stressed the importance of customer experience over technology bragging rights. Value of 5G emphasised for more efficient and agile production capabilities.
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BT Alumni People Moves, August 2019
Latest people movements include: Delia Bushell, Luis Alvarez, Gavin Patterson.
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BT Consumer People Moves, August 2019
Latest people movements include: Maria Armishaw, Sam Burrows, John Eccleston, Amy Farrer, Matt Gottschalk, Holly Logan, Kevin Macdonald, Chris Moseley, Khadija Oudrhiri, Will Popham, Ben Spencer, Abigail Vaughan.
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BT Sport and Amazon to partner on coverage
Amazon’s limited coverage of live English Premier League (EPL) football will be available in pubs and clubs in the UK, through a partnership with BT Sport.
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BT Sport launches an ultra-high definition channel
BT Sport launched a new channel to deliver live sports in ultra-high definition (UHD), high dynamic range (HDR), and Dolby Atmos sound format, at 50 frames per-second.
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BT Group confirms its BT Sport app will soon support 4K video
BT reportedly confirmed its BT Sport app for mobile, tablet, and large-screen devices will be able to support UltraHD 4K HDR video streaming quality from “later this summer”.
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EE launches a new range of home broadband plans
EE launched a new range of home broadband plans that include access to BT Sport and Apple TV 4K.
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BT Sport is losing the rights to broadcast the Women’s Tennis Association
BT Sport is to lose the rights to the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA), to Amazon.
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BT Group’s MLB coverage contract renewed
BT Sport renewed its agreement to broadcast coverage of Major League Baseball (MLB) in the UK until 2021.
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BT Sport reportedly set to gain WWE’s UK broadcasting rights
BT Sport is reportedly set to acquire the UK broadcast rights to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) - the existing contract with Sky Sports expires later in 2019.
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BT Sport is to lose the Emirates FA Cup broadcasting rights
ITV and the BBC are to share the broadcasting rights until 2021.
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BT Group management update: FY18-19
The results marked Jansen’s major public bow as head of the Group. New CEO was frank on the challenges facing BT, and equally honest in recognising no easy answers. Another year of falling revenue and EBITDA framed as a managed retreat in non-strategic areas, and in line with transformation ...