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2/26/13 7:14 PM	Ignore \| Quote \| Edit \| Warn Admin \| Vote Down \| Vote Up \| Delete Post
El Toro UK 75 Member Since: 7/11/12 Posts: 142	Just to add GC said he would he would consider a two channel deal like what they have in brazil where they show programming on both a freeview type channel and a subscription channel You have ignored this user.

2/26/13 10:12 PM	Ignore \| Quote \| Edit \| Warn Admin \| Vote Down \| Vote Up \| Delete Post
Tartan warrior Member Since: 3/20/08 Posts: 2274	dandare - This is from BBC news. The deal will also see BT continue to show the US sports currently shown on ESPN America, which includes college basketball, college football and Nascar racing. What you posted has no relevance. Ufc is shown on ESPN UK not ESPN America. You have ignored this user.

2/27/13 7:02 AM	Ignore \| Quote \| Edit \| Warn Admin \| Vote Down \| Vote Up \| Delete Post
El Toro UK 75 Edited: 02/27/13 7:35 AM Member Since: 7/11/12 Posts: 143	Might be nothing but BT Vision are offering Barao/McDonald on demand http://bit.ly/Xhq3Rv As well as Aldo Edgar prelims http://tinyurl.com/caqxh5l and main card http://tinyurl.com/c8d7xh2 The current season of TUF is also available in their library I'm with sky but do virgin or anyone else offer ufc events on demand? You have ignored this user.

2/27/13 7:42 AM	Ignore \| Quote \| Edit \| Warn Admin \| Vote Down \| Vote Up \| Delete Post
NorthernIrishZombie 93 Member Since: 3/2/12 Posts: 454	BT's sports channels will have to be on Sky/Virgin for it to be economically feasible. It'll just be like having ESPN, only hopefully with more/better coverage of the UFC. You have ignored this user.

2/27/13 8:13 AM	Ignore \| Quote \| Edit \| Warn Admin \| Vote Down \| Vote Up \| Delete Post
Flannerz Member Since: 8/7/06 Posts: 466	BT will be launching two sports channels in the summer. I'd guess they'd be on the Sky platform but they haven't announced anything more yet You have ignored this user.

2/27/13 8:40 AM	Ignore \| Quote \| Edit \| Warn Admin \| Vote Down \| Vote Up \| Delete Post
DeWebb Member Since: 9/14/10 Posts: 345	BT Vision is more or less freeview isn't it? Any BT Sports Channels will likely be available to a huge amount of people, tho likely via sub. Isn't freeview in like 60 million homes? You have ignored this user.

2/27/13 8:49 AM	Ignore \| Quote \| Edit \| Warn Admin \| Vote Down \| Vote Up \| Delete Post
DeWebb Member Since: 9/14/10 Posts: 347	Best case scenario would be Channel 4, they have HD across Sky/Freesat/Freeview, that pretty much covers the whole of the UK. You have ignored this user.

2/27/13 9:13 AM	Ignore \| Quote \| Edit \| Warn Admin \| Vote Down \| Vote Up \| Delete Post
El Toro UK 75 Member Since: 7/11/12 Posts: 144	Flannerz - BT will be launching two sports channels in the summer. I'd guess they'd be on the Sky platform but they haven't announced anything more yet Having two BT sports channels available on the sky/virgin platforms like you and NIZ have said seems far more realistic than making those channels exclusive to BT Vision. You have ignored this user.

2/27/13 9:29 AM	Ignore \| Quote \| Edit \| Warn Admin \| Vote Down \| Vote Up \| Delete Post
donfro Member Since: 11/15/10 Posts: 111	ufc NEEDS to be on sky (sky sports in particular) if they want to be big in UK. 90% of people have sky -- it has ALL the big sports and ALL the channels all bundled into packages. NO ONE has ESPN, SETANTA or will have BT. UFC needs EYEBALLS in the uk. You have ignored this user.

2/27/13 9:30 AM	Ignore \| Quote \| Edit \| Warn Admin \| Vote Down \| Vote Up \| Delete Post
donfro Member Since: 11/15/10 Posts: 112	DeWebb - Best case scenario would be Channel 4, they have HD across Sky/Freesat/Freeview, that pretty much covers the whole of the UK. will NEVER happen. UFC will price itself too much for C4 + it is probably too edgy for C4 to bother with. People here still think it is CAGE FIGHTING with thugs You have ignored this user.

2/27/13 12:12 PM	Ignore \| Quote \| Edit \| Warn Admin \| Vote Down \| Vote Up \| Delete Post
Bisping=Gatekeeper4Life 114 Member Since: 8/16/11 Posts: 2176	Dana was talking about this big deal in the UK. If BT Vision is his idea of big then he is way of the mark. I hope this is speculation but with BT offering content already I don't think it is. Zuffa may have missed the boat on this one. You have ignored this user.

2/27/13 4:34 PM

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donfro - ufc NEEDS to be on sky (sky sports in particular) if they want to be big in UK.

90% of people have sky -- it has ALL the big sports and ALL the channels all bundled into packages.

NO ONE has ESPN, SETANTA or will have BT.

UFC needs EYEBALLS in the uk.

Lol Sky have 15 million I think someone said, freeview was at 60 million a few years ago probably have more since the switch over, I don't see how Sky have 90% of the UK. Phone Post

2/28/13 11:05 AM	Ignore \| Quote \| Edit \| Warn Admin \| Vote Down \| Vote Up \| Delete Post
Crw 10 Member Since: 1/3/11 Posts: 351	On Sky's own website it states it has 10,742,00 tv customers . This is accurate as of the 30th of June 2012. I wonder how many actual pay the extra for the sports package . Reading else were on the web it's saying sky hold about 40 percent viewership in the UK . You have ignored this user.

2/28/13 11:34 AM

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Gary Cook CEO EMEA @UFC #UFC "Sky have dominated. BT Vision have around 15 million homes, and have moved into the marketplace"

I thought Gary was all over the UK market.... Where the fuck does he get those figures from?! A quick google turns up the wiki stating "As of December 2012, it had an estimated 771,000 subscribers."

Now unless they've suddenly got a fucktonne of customers in the last 3 months, I'm calling bullshit. I think that's 15m customers as in BT customers... not vision customers. No one except that bunch of student tossers on the advert use BT Vision, it's a stream that relies on your internet connection.
Get off the crack pipe Cook, this is a REALLY bad move for the UFC. When we spoke to Dana about this, he said the UK market was 7 years behind, he was very excited about a TV deal move in the UK, but honestly - BT Vision has been around for about 7 years now and it's no better now than it was then. I wouldn't say this was sideways, I'd say this is a step back.

Fuurther googling as I type this has also turned up:
"BT has continued its expansion into sports broadcasting, acquiring ESPN'S UK and Ireland TV channels business in a deal understood to be worth in the "low tens of millions"."
Probably the best news yet. Hopefully they'll stay on Sky and offer a better deal, woven into the Sky sports packages by default.

2/28/13 1:19 PM

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xAdRockx - Gary Cook CEO EMEA @UFC #UFC "Sky have dominated. BT Vision have around 15 million homes, and have moved into the marketplace"

I thought Gary was all over the UK market.... Where the fuck does he get those figures from?! A quick google turns up the wiki stating "As of December 2012, it had an estimated 771,000 subscribers."

Now unless they've suddenly got a fucktonne of customers in the last 3 months, I'm calling bullshit. I think that's 15m customers as in BT customers... not vision customers. No one except that bunch of student tossers on the advert use BT Vision, it's a stream that relies on your internet connection.
Get off the crack pipe Cook, this is a REALLY bad move for the UFC. When we spoke to Dana about this, he said the UK market was 7 years behind, he was very excited about a TV deal move in the UK, but honestly - BT Vision has been around for about 7 years now and it's no better now than it was then. I wouldn't say this was sideways, I'd say this is a step back.

Fuurther googling as I type this has also turned up:
"BT has continued its expansion into sports broadcasting, acquiring ESPN'S UK and Ireland TV channels business in a deal understood to be worth in the "low tens of millions"."
Probably the best news yet. Hopefully they'll stay on Sky and offer a better deal, woven into the Sky sports packages by default.

Amen brother! Keep preaching, spot on with everything you say. Phone Post

2/28/13 6:38 PM

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Bisping=Gatekeeper4Life -
xAdRockx - Gary Cook CEO EMEA @UFC #UFC "Sky have dominated. BT Vision have around 15 million homes, and have moved into the marketplace"

I thought Gary was all over the UK market.... Where the fuck does he get those figures from?! A quick google turns up the wiki stating "As of December 2012, it had an estimated 771,000 subscribers."

Now unless they've suddenly got a fucktonne of customers in the last 3 months, I'm calling bullshit. I think that's 15m customers as in BT customers... not vision customers. No one except that bunch of student tossers on the advert use BT Vision, it's a stream that relies on your internet connection.
Get off the crack pipe Cook, this is a REALLY bad move for the UFC. When we spoke to Dana about this, he said the UK market was 7 years behind, he was very excited about a TV deal move in the UK, but honestly - BT Vision has been around for about 7 years now and it's no better now than it was then. I wouldn't say this was sideways, I'd say this is a step back.

Fuurther googling as I type this has also turned up:
"BT has continued its expansion into sports broadcasting, acquiring ESPN'S UK and Ireland TV channels business in a deal understood to be worth in the "low tens of millions"."
Probably the best news yet. Hopefully they'll stay on Sky and offer a better deal, woven into the Sky sports packages by default.
Amen brother! Keep preaching, spot on with everything you say.

AR Good post mate. The 15 million is just BT phone customers not BT vision, I just double checked it's in the video at 14.50 minute mark onwards.

http://aol.it/15gtTxz

3/1/13 9:42 AM	Ignore \| Quote \| Edit \| Warn Admin \| Vote Down \| Vote Up \| Delete Post
pidgey 2 Member Since: 2/27/11 Posts: 2187	is that BT shit on satellite as well? You have ignored this user.

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Bisping=Gatekeeper4Life 114 Member Since: 8/16/11 Posts: 2186	pidgey - is that BT shit on satellite as well? We don't know. BT have just released info on them buying ESPN but they haven't released info on whether Virgin and Sky are going to be able to show the channel. You have ignored this user.

3/1/13 10:59 AM	Ignore \| Quote \| Edit \| Warn Admin \| Vote Down \| Vote Up \| Delete Post
Skeletor68 13 Member Since: 5/13/09 Posts: 3562	Can we get that BT shite in Ireland? You have ignored this user.

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MentaL 359 Member Since: 1/12/07 Posts: 13181 Watch me finger a minor.	bt have a channel? thats news to me You have ignored this user.

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Bootsy Collins 29 Member Since: 7/26/07 Posts: 8567	Skeletor68 - Can we get that BT shite in Ireland? Prob be available on Sky or Chorus platforms You have ignored this user.

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DeWebb Member Since: 9/14/10 Posts: 351	MentaL - bt have a channel? thats news to me If you get freeview then yes. Its likely going to be no different than ESPN, they will just have a different name. You have ignored this user.

3/3/13 5:11 AM	Ignore \| Quote \| Edit \| Warn Admin \| Vote Down \| Vote Up \| Delete Post
The Super Bean 147 Member Since: 6/16/12 Posts: 1559	I'm glad ESPN are disappearing!! My sky plus cut out half way through the hunt fight! You have ignored this user.

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WH1ZZER 4 Member Since: 4/3/11 Posts: 90	Sub You have ignored this user.

3/3/13 8:16 AM	Ignore \| Quote \| Edit \| Warn Admin \| Vote Down \| Vote Up \| Delete Post
Bootsy Collins 29 Member Since: 7/26/07 Posts: 8597	To be fair it seemed the actual main card started 40 mins late hence why the broadcast started awkwardly in the middle of the FB prelims. Not really ESPN's fault. You have ignored this user.

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