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Thursday, February 28, 2019

Some UK and Spanish TV Sports rights news

Some UK and Spanish TV Sports rights news
Indycar UK TV
As reported yesterday, Sky Sports have the UK rights for the Indycar series, taking over from BT Sports
Most races will be shown on Sky Sports F1, but perhaps on some other Sky Sports channels if and when there are some overlaps
UK Football...

Wednesday, February 27, 2019

BT Sport loses IndyCar rights

BT Sport loses IndyCar rights
BT Sport will not broadcast coverage of the IndyCar Series this season after losing the rights to the championship.
BT Sport have covered Indycar since 2013.
BT Sport Indycar commentator Tom Gaynor said “Unfortunately it looks like IndyCar will not be on BT...

Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Subscription based BBC-ITV, dubbed "Britflix", Netflix rival due to be announced soon

Subscription based BBC-ITV, dubbed “Britflix”, Netflix rival due to be announced soon
A BBC and ITV joint venture will see the launch of a subscription based on demand service for archive content, set to rival to Netflix from the BBC and ITV could be announced as soon as Wednesday,...

Monday, February 25, 2019

Loss of UK satellite TV signals in the morning? Its the biannual solar outage time

Loss of UK satellite TV signals in the morning? Its the biannual solar outage time
It’s that time of year again when you can lose your UK TV satellite signals for a few minutes mid morning.
Don’t panic – it is the bi-annual sun outage and normal this time of year.
The solar...

Saturday, February 23, 2019

Intelsat 907 (BBC Satback) at 27.5 West update

Intelsat 907 (BBC Satback) at 27.5 West update
Intelsat has updated their “Estimated End Of Life” expectancy for I907 to Q1 2020.
IIRC the previous was Q4 2019.
Looking at the document, it looks like a few other Intelsat satellites are due to have their life extended by about 4...

Friday, February 22, 2019

La Liga UK Rights...lost by Eleven Sports, moves to Premier and ITV4

La Liga UK Rights…lost by Eleven Sports, moves to Premier and ITV4
Premier Sports has confirmed it has acquired the Pay TV rights to show Spain’s La Liga, weeks after it secured the rights to show a number of international leagues previously covered by Eleven Sports.
Premier Sports...

Friday, February 15, 2019

Channel 4’s Formula 1 Coverage : Billy Monger joins presenting team

Channel 4’s Formula 1 Coverage : Billy Monger joins presenting team
Channel 4 have today officially confirmed their coverage plans for the 2019 Formula One season.
Channel 4 will air highlights of every round plus live coverage of the British Grand Prix.
Steve Jones continues with the team in h...

Thursday, February 14, 2019

Sky TV price increases expected on 1st April 2019

Sky TV price increases expected on 1st April 2019
Sky is to increase the price of some of its TV and broadband deals from Monday 1 April 2019
The changes have been noticed as Sky has updated some of its website terms and conditions to say prices will be increasing from Monday 1 April, though it...

Monday, February 11, 2019

Satellite installers in Spain still not knowing about their job!

Satellite installers in Spain still not knowing about their job!
Saw this recently posted on an internet forum :
“The world is full of of people telling you what is good and what is not we have been here 16 years…I have a vast knowledge of satellite…we all know is not legal...