BT Sport is about to alter its identify to TNT Sports this summer time, that means Premier League and Champions League football might be proven on a brand new channel from the 2023/24 football season.
The channel identify change was introduced in February 2023, after BT Sport negotiated a three way partnership with Warner Bros Discovery to mix their respective networks.
But what does this really imply for viewers within the UK and Ireland, and what's TNT Sports?
What is TNT Sports?
A subsidiary of Warner Bros Discovery, TNT Sports is already a live sports activities broadcaster elsewhere on the planet, displaying home and European football throughout South America, in addition to the NBA, NHL and NCAA within the United States.
Warner Bros Discovery Sports Europe President and Managing Director Andrew Georgiou mentioned: "The TNT Sports identify is already synonymous with high-end live sport in a lot of nations around the globe and an extra signal of the dimensions and experience that Warner Bros. Discovery brings. to its partnership with BT."
Why is BT Sport altering its identify?
In September 2022, BT Sport and Warner Bros Discovery introduced a three way partnership which might finally merge the BT Sport channels with Eurosport UK – owned by Warner Bros Discovery – to carry a wider assortment of sports activities choices to followers.
With TNT Sports already a longtime identify elsewhere on the planet, the merger goals to permit BT Sport to turn into extra environment friendly and provide a extra premium product.
Marc Allera, CEO of BT Consumer Division, mentioned: “We have introduced that we're taking one other necessary step in our plans with Warner Bros. Discovery to carry collectively one of the best of BT Sport and Eurosport below one roof.
“TNT Sports is the brand new identify that can substitute BT Sport, from July 2023. This marks the logical subsequent step for BT Sport in addition to the broader transformation of BT's shopper enterprise.
“Once launched, it can turn into a massively thrilling new premium sports activities providing for patrons. I'm really happy with our groups, who've labored at tempo to create a more practical platform that can see this new model of sport within the UK and Ireland got here to life for the primary time forward of the beginning of the 2023/24 football season."
When will BT Sport rebrand to TNT Sports?
TNT Sports will change the identify to BT Sport from July 2023. This change is anticipated earlier than the 2023/24 football season within the UK and Ireland.
Eurosport ought to finally be built-in into the TNT Sports identify, however it can stay its personal entity till after the 2024 Paris Olympics, because it owns the rights for the Games.
Since 2013 BT Sport has televised Premier League matches each weekend and have become the unique broadcaster of the Champions League and Europa League within the UK in 2015. The Europa Conference League is now additionally a part of the bundle .
The deal runs till 2024, that means it can proceed below the TNT Sports identify. Likewise, BT Sport presently has an settlement with the Premier League to broadcast 52 live matches per season, till 2025.
How a lot does TNT Sports price?
Currently, a BT Sport monthly subscription (opens in a brand new tab) prices £29.99, providing entry to all channels and discovery+ and not using a fixed-term contract. Meanwhile, subscribers on a 24-month contract pay £18 monthly.
As issues stand, no value modifications for present BT Sport subscribers have been reported on the rebrand to TNT Sports, though there isn't any indication that a rise has been dominated out. neither sooner or later.
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