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Anonymous User · ‎11-02-2019

Can I access BT Sport on now TV? To watch champions League matches.

schnapps · ‎11-02-2019

Hi @Anonymous User

Unfortunately at the moment there is no BT Sport on the NowTV service .

There is a cross supply agreement between BT & NowTV where the BT Sport App is maybe coming to the NowTV boxes & stick.

Where this information is still a little sketchy at the moment and no official date has been confirmed apart from it's apparently going to happen sometime during 2019.

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gavs82008 · ‎23-07-2019

@Anonymous User @UKTVPlayapp

Found this on the BT forum

https://community.bt.com/t5/TV-Content-including-BT-Sport/Full-Now-TV-through-the-YouView-box/td-p/1905267/page/3

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Hi Everyone,

Sky and BT are working together so that Sky will be available through NOW TV on BT TV later this year. We’ve not released any specific dates yet and when we do our existing customers will be the first to know.

I appreciate that this will come as a disappointment but as soon as I have any other information to share I will happily do so.

FYI that I do not work for NOW, just a NOW customer trying to help

Anonymous User · ‎23-07-2019

Looking like we're a long way off seeing this cross supply deal coming to fruition @gavs82008 as both this and the comments a couple of days ago on the Sky forum would imply a long wait rather than anything happening soon. BT & Sky have made a right pig's ear of things 😐

UKTVPlayapp · ‎23-07-2019

Apparently BT Sports is launching on now tv boxes in Ireland on 1st August 2019 but the uk has to wait longer for it to launch. I thought it would have launch Ireland and uk at the same time

gavs82008 · ‎24-07-2019

@UKTVPlayapp it is highly frustrating to say the least that Ireland is getting the content deal to begin much sooner and on time, whereas here in the UK we are bumped again.

According to the Sky help website it is confirmed by the end of the year

https://www.sky.com/help/articles/get-bt-sport-on-sky

When will this be available?

It's expected that these new services will be available by the end of 2019 - with further announcements expected nearer the time.

Like you said Ireland are getting the channels in a week!

https://www.sky.com/ireland/tv/sports-extra?irct=shop-roi-home-sports-extra

Introducing Sports Extra
Sport made simpler - BT Sport & Premier Sports are coming to Sky from 1 August

FYI that I do not work for NOW, just a NOW customer trying to help

Anonymous User · ‎24-07-2019

Unfortunately in Sky/BT speak 'the end of the year' will most likely mean mid 2020 going by their track record 😐

You'll notice they say "it is expected...." which is the key phrase here, this is in no way a guarantee, just as "we expect it by mid-2019" when the original announcements were made by both parties.

gavs82008 · ‎25-07-2019

@Anonymous User @UKTVPlayapp looks like Ireland now have their prices for BT sport confirmed on the Sky Ireland web site. Pretty decent price to get it added, hopefully a similar sort of price for BT on Now TV, but not going to hold my breath considering the sports pass full price is £33.99!

Unless they bundled it in as one and kept the price, cause who actually pays that price?!

https://www.sky.com/ireland/tv/sports-extra?irct=shop-roi-home-sports-extra

Sport made simpler - BT Sport & Premier Sports are coming to Sky from 1 August

Get an unbeatable range of live sport all in one place. For the first time you canwatch every single live Premier League game across Sky Sports, BT Sport and Premier Sports.

Get Sports Extra from

~~€20~~+ €10a month for 6 months

FYI that I do not work for NOW, just a NOW customer trying to help

Anonymous User · ‎25-07-2019

Nothing about Now TV Ireland getting BT Sport, is there?

gavs82008 · ‎25-07-2019

@Anonymous User correct nothing mentioned about Now TV. But the fact they have pricing up for the Sky TV side already is showing the UK is being let down.

FYI that I do not work for NOW, just a NOW customer trying to help

Anonymous User · ‎25-07-2019

@gavs82008

I read somewhere that the Sports Extra Pack in Ireland is on an 18 month contract. Not sure if that was an official comment or not though.

Anonymous User · ‎25-07-2019

I am not 100% certain that BT Sport will be part of Now TV. I think BT Sport would do great business with the Now TV model of day/week/month passes especially on champions league weeks but still stick stubbornly to a very restrictive distribution.