BT Sport is opening up its services to all Freeview, BT TV, Sky and Virgin viewers in October. The broadcaster will take over the BT TV, Freeview channel 57 during the weeks of October 7 and 14 from 7pm on Monday to Friday. It will round off 'Open October' with BT Sport 1, BT Sport 2 and ESPN becoming available for all viewers on October 26 and 27. BT Sport presenters Jake Humphrey and Clare Balding The 'Open October' weekend includes live rugby from the Aviva Premiership, including Bath v Gloucester, Northampton v Saracens and Wasps v Leicester and coverage of Crystal Palace taking on Arsenal in the Premier League. Entertainment shows The Clare Balding Show and Baker and Kelly's VSPO, Beyond the Octagon, Rugby Tonight and Life's a Pitch are among the highlights across the week. Other sporting events airing across the two weeks include the FIFA World Cup 2014 Qualifier between Spain and Belarus, the UEFA U21 Qualifier between England and Lithuania, the Skrill Premier match between Macclesfield Town and Southport and Bundesliga action between 1899 Hoffenheim and Bayer Leverkusen. BT Sport's Simon Green said: "We want to give even more viewers the chance to see the new programmes and live sporting action happening on BT Sport during October. "Making the channels open to all allows us to show how we are offering something for everyone, from sports entertainment shows through to exclusive live sporting action."
So do I get my refund? Inter vs Roma with the latter having a 100% 6 from 6 wins with 17 scored and 1 goal conceded should be a corker tonight.
I think it's a psychological thing. People don't like paying two subscriptions for what is a similar product. It's cheaper just to watch it in pub and/or buy the dvd of the City games that are on BT. I reckon they'd be better cutting a deal with Sky to get it included in their sports package as well.
Agreed, that's why I get BT Sport and not Sky Sports. It's got a much greater variety instead of just EPL - which I get the action from on terrestrial - and La Liga.
Doesn't start until Monday anyway "during the weeks of October 7 and 14 from 7pm on Monday to Friday. It will round off 'Open October' with BT Sport 1, BT Sport 2 and ESPN becoming available for all viewers on October 26 and 27."
Swapped Talk Talk for sky and BT game me free broadband for 6 months. I'd have paid for it anyway - madness from their point of view
They are big time. With less than a million NEW subscribers so far they wont last. Expect another Espn situation in the future with BT, sadly for them.
