BT Sport is a group of pay television sports channels in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
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42 Facts About BT Sport
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BT Sport is available on the BT TV, Sky and Virgin Media television platforms in the UK and Sky, Eir TV and Vodafone TV in the Republic of Ireland.
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BT Sport holds exclusive live UK and Republic of Ireland TV rights to 52 Premier League matches per season, the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, UFC, National League, Ligue 1, Serie A, the European Rugby Challenge Cup, the Premiership Rugby Cup, MotoGP, the FIH Hockey World League and WWE.
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BT Sport holds shared rights to the Scottish Professional Football League with Sky Sports and BBC Alba.
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BT made other notable rights deals ahead of BT Sport's launch, including UFC mixed martial arts under a three-year deal, and MotoGP beginning in 2014, under a five-year deal.
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In May 2013, BT announced that BT Sport would be offered for free to its internet subscribers via streaming.
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In January 2015, BT Sport renewed its licensing agreement with ESPN International under a seven-year deal, allowing it to continue operating an ESPN-branded network as part of BT Sport, and hold rights to ESPN original programming, and event broadcast rights that are distributed internationally by ESPN.
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BT Sport announced that it would launch BT Sport Ultra HD, the first 4K sports channel in the UK, on 2 August for the 2015 FA Community Shield.
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On 2 August 2019, BT Sport relaunched its 4K channel as BT Sport Ultimate, and began to offer Dolby Atmos sound and high dynamic range on supported devices.
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On 20 June 2019, BT Sport announced an agreement to carry the programming and pay-per-views of U S professional wrestling promotion WWE, ending a relationship with Sky Sports that dated back to the network's launch in 1989.
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Under the agreement, WBD will assume the operations of BT Sport, and merge them with Eurosport under a new brand at a later date.
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The 4K channel BT Sport Ultimate is available to BT Superfast Fibre customers for an additional fee.
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On 25 February 2013, BT announced that it had acquired ESPN's UK channels and their sports broadcasting rights, including rights to the FA Cup, UEFA Europa League, Scottish Premier League, Bundesliga and NASCAR.
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On 7 May 2013, BT Sport acquired the rights to air Ultimate Fighting Championship events and taped programming in the UK and Ireland for three years, from 1 August.
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Two days later it was announced that BT Sport had acquired an exclusive five-year deal to broadcast MotoGP races from the 2014 season, including free practices and qualifying as well as full coverage of Moto2 and Moto3.
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In January 2014, it was reported that BT Sport had acquired the rights to broadcast the World Rally Championship for the 2014 season.
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BT Sport Score is a weekly television programme broadcast on BT Sport during the football season.
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Since 2015, BT Sport have had exclusive live coverage of the UEFA Super Cup.
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BT Sport has exclusive rights to the Vanarama National League covering 1 game a weekend.
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Deal with BT Sport sees them exclusively broadcast the league's associated sevens series and the Premiership Rugby Cup.
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The Challenge Cup will be shown exclusively on BT Sport whilst broadcasting of the Champions Cup will be shared with Channel 4 in the UK and Virgin Media Sport in the Republic of Ireland with both channels simulcasting one match from each round and the final.
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BT Sport usually have one forward and one back acting as co-commentators on every match so one of Dallaglio, Kay or Flatman along with one of Healey, O'Driscoll or Monye join the lead commentator, Nick Mullins or Alastair Eykyn in the commentary box.
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BT Sport has rights to numerous British, European, American and global motorsport series both in live and highlights form.
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BT Sport holds the UK rights to UFC programming, most recently renewed in 2018, including live events and other non-live programming.
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BT Sport have been highly praised by the UFC and fans alike for their coverage and work on their promo's.
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Since 2017 BT Sport has an association with BoxNation to show certain live fights from Frank Warren Promotions.
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On 15 September 2018 BT Sport showed its first boxing pay-per-view boxing event - the rematch between Gennady Golovkin and Saul Alvarez and on 1 December 2018 BT showed the Deontay Wilder vs Tyson Fury fight.
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From 2015 to 2020, BT Sport held exclusive live coverage of the FA Community Shield.
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Previously, BT Sport showed both 2018 Copa Libertadores Finals between the Argentine Superclasico rivals Boca Juniors and River Plate; in simulcast with FreeSports.
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In 2019, BT Sport won rights off Sky Sports to broadcast every match of the 2019 Indian Premier League, however from the 2020 Indian Premier League the rights switched back to Sky Sports.
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In January 2013, BT Sport signed a deal with the WTA to show 21 live tournaments from the women's tennis tour.
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From January 2017, BT Sport had the rights to show 52 WTA tournaments every year until 2019.
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BT Sport did not renew their contract for the 2019 tournament and the rights are now held by QUEST and Eurosport.
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BT Sport produces a series of feature-length sports documentary films under the title BT Sport Films.
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