BT sport

[Anonymous User]

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

[schnapps · Accepted solution]

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.

[Anonymous User]

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@schnapps wrote:

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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I would have thought if it was going to happen then this week would have been the ideal time.  BT have Champions League + Europa League + FA Cup in the next few days and could have sold a bundle of passes or at least got people in on a trial.   Maybe Sky and BT are holding fire until 6 nations is off terrestrial and F1 starts.

I cancelled BT Sport on Virgin hoping that something would have been announced, but guess I will be going back in early March and stumping up £18/month for another couple of months.

[Anonymous User]

this is the major flaw with now tv, no BT sports app and no eurosports app

[Anonymous User]

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@Anonymous User wrote:

this is the major flaw with now tv, no BT sports app and no eurosports app

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If you want access to 'Eurosport' (as well as 'Sky Sports' via one of the 'NOW TV' passes) you can always pick up a Roku Express - currently £24 from Amazon UK, AO, and Tesco... or £24.99 from Argos, Media Streaming Market, and Very, if any of those are better for you - because there's Roku channels (i.e. apps) for both Amazon's "Prime Video" and "TVPlayer" through which you can watch 'Eurosport', although FWIW the one I prefer is Amazon's because it has 'Eurosport Player' with all the "Extra" options, whereas TVPlayer's app only gives access to 'Eurosport 1' and 'Eurosport 2' as part of their package. The only caveat with using "Prime Video" for 'Eurosport Player' is that you have to be an Amazon Prime member before you can subscribe to 'Eurosport Player' (at an additional cost) but it's been faultless for me so far and the picture quality is great - something that's not always the case when streaming content from 'TVPlayer', in my experience.

As others have mentioned, 'BT Sport' should be available by "mid-2019" as a separate app in the Roku-Powered™ 'App Store' found on 'NOW TV' devices and, as a Roku channel (app) in it's own right, I would also expect to see it made available on Roku devices in the UK at around the same time. Were I to hazard a guess, I would say this will be around June/July time... but, with the FA already having confirmed the start date of the 2019/20 PL Season as  Saturday 10th August 2019, I would not expect it to be any later than the first week in August.

[Anonymous User]

Far from an ideal solution I know, but through EE I can watch bt sport for £5pm on my phone. There’s also an option to cast it on to your tv for £15pm - both of these came with three months free trial. depending on what network your on, there may be a similar offer which might be worth looking into. 

Like I said it’s far from ideal watching it on a small phone screen, but it’s a cheap and contract free version that could tide you over until it becomes available on nowtv - plus if you’re able to get the free trial and/or streaming then happy days and you don’t have to miss the football!

[Anonymous User]

Just published this morning,  at least we are still in their thoughts.

https://www-mirror-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.mirror.co.uk/money/shopping-deals/sky-launch-tv-...

[gavs82008]

@Anonymous User 

Indeed. From the article 

NOW TV customers will also soon be able to enjoy BT Sport on their NOW TV Smart Stick or NOW TV Smart Box with Voice Search, when the BT Sport app launches in the app store later this spring.

[Anonymous User]

Spring ends on Saturday 20th June so they won't be in any rush. BT has got the jump on SKY again

[gavs82008]

@Anonymous User 

Until Sky can allow Now TV to have red button games, catch up sports and all the sport channels in 50fps then yes I would certainly agree that BT have the upper hand with Sky/Now TV here.