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we will be closing our first generation TV service in the first quarter of 2014/15,' BT said. With BT Broadband and BT Mobile, you get free access to the UKs largest wi-fi. 'We launched a smaller, sleeker and more power efficient version of the YouView set top box. Switching away from Sky TV, Virgin Media, BT TV or TalkTalk TV to streaming alternatives can save you 100s of pounds and you can still keep the exact. Upgrades go ahead.īT's upgrades this month show that the provider is still committed to YouView, even with the Sky factor, however.īT announced their intention to bring all their customers on to YouView in their most recent end of year results. 'Sky's refusal to offer access to on reasonable terms causes serious harm to consumers and must be resolved urgently,' BT said earlier this year.

After fast growth and despite a price hike, the provider has have about five million BT Sport subscribers and 60% of those also take BT broadband. Sports channels are increasingly important for BT. With an overspill channel (Extra), which again is only for Premier League football. It now only offers the Sky Sports Main event channel, costs 400 a year and the only sport guaranteed to be shown on it is Premier League football. On their Twitter page, they did not explain the reason for the disappearance.Until a deal is agreed, BT's YouView dream will be kept in check: BT customers taking Sky Sports have to take a Vision+ box, a significant disincentive for new customers, as well as plain confusing. Sky Sports on YouView from BT, since the change, is pretty much pointless.

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Update on March 4th – Motors TV has returned to the Sky platform in the same EPG slot as previously. Update on February 27th – Per Daily Sports Car, a source close to the situation is hopeful that the channel will be reinstated in the next week, which is good news for everyone concerned. Is Motors TV closer to the brink than any of us realise? But this is a desperately sad situation that is driven by finances. With the above in mind, Motors TV could return to Sky. Back in 2007, Sky’s basic channels were taken off Virgin for nearly two years because of a carriage dispute, at the time it was a high-profile dispute between the two parties. Similar situations have happened before, and successfully resolved. And, at the end of the day, no one is really going to defect from Sky to Virgin Media to watch Motors TV, maybe a handful, if that. For Sky, it would have been “we want X” to extend the carriage agreement, Motors TV would have said no and walked away. My suspicion, although as far as I can see Roy does not confirm this, is that Motors TV has to pay a flat rate fee to the likes of Sky, irrespective of whether it is channel 413 or 447 on their EPG.

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If you’ve got one of our existing BT TV packages and are interested in, or want to upgrade to a new one then you’ll be able to do that by logging in to My BT. The crux of the argument is that Motors TV has found itself sliding down the EPG, meaning they get a smaller audience. With our flexible TV package where you can upgrade, downgrade and add on content month-by-month without changing your contract. Reading the article, it appears Roy is deeply unhappy with Motors TV’s treatment on French platforms on beyond.

The article, written on February 15th, contains quotes from Jean-Luc Roy who is the president of Motors TV. Update on February 26th – Thanks to those of you on Twitter and elsewhere who have linked to this piece on the Endurance Info website. If we hear anything more about this, I will update this post… The main casualty of this, if contracts do not change, would be the World Endurance Championship who currently have some races broadcast exclusively live on the channel. Obviously it is concerning that the channel has been removed from two platforms in the space of two months. The main difference is that Now TV is fully integrated into BT YouView packages while TalkTalk YouView customers pay a set amount of 4 per month and add Now TV memberships on separately. The removal from Sky follows the removal of the channel from Freeview via an aerial and YouView earlier this year, having been added in late 2014. Their Twitter has not yet commented on the situation, but Sky’s Help Team on the social networking website said that Motors TV are “no longer broadcasting on Sky”. I think it is a tragedy for terrestrial television in general and YouView in particular if the only access to live sports is through, TalkTalk and BT, who insist that customers must have infinity broadband to access their sports channels. The reason, as of writing, is unknown but the channel disappeared from its channel 447 slot on the EPG at some point late this morning. Motors TV has today (Thursday 25th February) been removed from the Sky platform.

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