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This is a timeline of the history of TNT Sports (United Kingdom), and of its predecessor, BT Sport.

BT Sport

  • 2012
    • 12 June – The announcement of the rights to the Premier League for the next three seasons reveals that BT has won the rights to 38 matches each season.[1] The news followed speculation that ESPN was reconsidering its position in the UK.[2]
    • September – BT wins the rights to
      7s Series, and in November it picks up the rights to American, Brazilian, French and Italian top-flight football.[3][4]
  • 2017
    • 8 April – BT Sport starts showing boxing following a deal with Frank Warren Promotions.[19]
    • April – BT Sport replaces Sky Sports as the rights holder to British Speedway.[20]
    • 21 April – BT Sport shows sports gaming for the first time when it broadcasts live coverage of FIFA 17.[21]
    • August – BT Sport broadcasts cricket's Caribbean Premier League for the final time.
    • September – BT Sport begins showing matches from the
      FA Women's Super League.[22]
  • 2018
    • 14 February – BT and Sky agree a £4.4bn three-year deal to show live Premier League football matches from 2019 to 2022, but the amount falls short of the £5.1bn deal struck in 2015.[23]
    • March–May – BT Sport broadcasts the 2018 Indian Premier League. It is a one-off as the following year the event transfers back to Sky Sports.
    • May – BT Sport shows Serie A for the final time as in July is loses rights to Italian football to Eleven Sports[24]
    • June – BT Sport shows the NBA for the final time ahead of the rights transferring to Sky Sports.[25]
    • August – BT Sport becomes the exclusive holder of all rights to the UEFA Champions League. The deal includes live coverage and highlights. Consequently, for the first time, there is no free-to-air coverage of the competition.
    • 15 September – BT Sport launches its pay-per-view channel
      BT Sport Box Office.[26][27]
    • 4 December – The standard definition feeds of BT Sport stop broadcasting on Virgin Media.
  • 2019
    • 2 August – BT Sport 4K is rebranded as BT Sport Ultimate.
    • 3 November – BT Sport ends its coverage of the WTA, having broadcast women's tennis since 2014. The rights pass to Amazon Prime for the 2020 season.
    • 8 December – BT Sport broadcasts the Scottish League Cup for the final time. The rights transfer to Premier Sports.
  • 2021
    • 5 February – BT Sport secures the rights to all international and domestic cricket played in the West Indies and New Zealand for the next two years. This includes England's tour to the West Indies in 2022.[33]
    • 9 May – BT Sport's coverage of the
      FA Women's Super League
      ends when the non-terrestrial rights to the competition transfer to Sky Sports.
    • 13 May – The Premier League announces that, for the first time, the next three-year broadcasting contact has been awarded without a bidding process. Consequently, BT Sport is paying the same amount for the same packages as it did for the 2019-2022 contact.[34]
    • 15 May – BT Sport coverage of the FA Cup ends as the rights pass to the BBC and ITV.
    • May – BT Sport broadcasts German domestic football for the final time. Sky Sports replaces BT Sport as broadcaster of Germany's Bundesliga and Supercup from the start of the following season.[35]
    • 21 August – Serie A football returns to BT Sport after having been shown by other broadcasters since 2018. The new deal sees BT Sport showing six matches per round for the next three seasons.[36]
  • 2022
    • 11 April – BT Sport secures the rights to show live coverage of the Canadian Premier League.[37]
    • 1 August –
      BT Sport ESPN
      is renamed BT Sport 4.
  • 2023
    • 28 May – BT Sport Score is broadcast for the final time. The rolling scores and results programme ends as part of a review into non-live sports programming ahead of BT Sport becoming TNT Sports.[38]
    • 18 July – After just under ten years on air, BT Sport closes down at 6am, and is immediately replaced by TNT Sports.

TNT Sports

  • 2022
  • 2023
    • 21 February – It is announced that BT Sport will be renamed TNT Sports in July and that Discovery+ will be the new streaming home of the service.[44][45]
    • 18 July – At 6am, TNT Sports launches. It carries the same line-up of programming and sports coverage as BT Sport had done, with the exception of
      American College Sport
      .
    • 24 October – TNT replaces Sky as rights holder to the NBA. The deal will see TNT show more than 250 games each season.[46]
  • 2025
    • January – TNT Sports' coverage of the WWE will end when all WWE content in the UK will be broadcast through Netflix.[48]
    • August – TNT Sports will take over as broadcaster of the FA Community Shield.
    • August – The new arrangements for broadcasting of the Premier League will see a significant increase in the number of games broadcast on television, with all matches not kicking off at 3pm on a Saturday now being shown live. Sky's number of matches will almost double and will now broadcast a minimum of 215 matches, up from 128, including all ten games from the final day of the season and the two midweek rounds previously shown by Amazon. TNT's total of 52 games/season remains the same. This arrangement runs until the end of the 2028/29 season.[49]
    • Some television coverage of the FA Cup will, once again, go behind a paywall when TNT Sports begins a four-year deal with the Football Association to show the FA Cup.[50]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Premier League rights sold to BT and BSkyB for £3bn". BBC News. 13 June 2012.
  2. ^ "ESPN could quit UK". Pocket-lint. 9 May 2012.
  3. ^ "BT poaches Premiership Rugby rights from ESPN, Sky". Digital Spy. 12 September 2012.
  4. ^ "BT deals further blow to ESPN with new rights deals". Digital Spy. 6 November 2012.
  5. ^ "BT Sport broadens appeal as it signs live women's tennis with WTA agreement" (Press release). BT Group. 11 January 2013. Archived from the original on 17 February 2013. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
  6. ^ "BT buys ESPN'S UK and Ireland TV channels". The Guardian. 25 February 2013.
  7. ^ "Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) confirms BT Sport deal". Seen It. 7 May 2013. Retrieved 7 May 2013.
  8. ^ "BT Sport to bring MotoGP™ to British audiences from 2014". MotoGP. 9 May 2013. Retrieved 9 May 2013.
  9. ^ "BT Calling". The Non League Football Paper. 21 May 2013.
  10. ^ "BT and Virgin Media sign wholesale BT Sport deal". BT Group. 15 August 2013. Retrieved 15 August 2013.
  11. ^ "Champions League: BT Sport win £897m football rights deal". BBC Sport. 9 November 2013. Retrieved 9 November 2013.
  12. ^ NBA seals 'multiyear' UK broadcast deal with BT Sport
  13. ^ Evans, David (10 January 2014). "World Rally Championship seals BT Sport TV deal with live coverage". Autosport.com. Retrieved 11 January 2014.
  14. ^ BT Sport lands BDO World Darts Championship rights
  15. ^ BT television boosted by sports channel screening Uefa Champions League
  16. ^ BT Sport has secured UK TV rights to Ashes in Australia
  17. ^ BT Sport steps into Speedway coverage
  18. ^ "BT Sport wins joint FA Cup rights". BT. 17 July 2013.
  19. ^ BT Sport launches ‘Fight Night Live’ boxing coverage
  20. ^ British Speedway moves to BT Sport for 2017 season
  21. ^ FIFA 17 matches to be broadcast live on TV for first time by BT Sport
  22. ^ "FA WSL on TV". The Football Association.
  23. ^ "Premier League raises less from TV rights auction". BBC News. BBC. 14 February 2018. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
  24. ^ Serie A: Eleven Sports gain TV rights from BT in three-year deal
  25. ^ "Sky Sports and NBA announce four-year broadcast and digital partnership". Sky Sports. Retrieved 2019-01-26.
  26. ^ "BT Sport to launch pay-per-view Box Office channel". sport-onthebox.com. 17 April 2018. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
  27. ^ "Canelo v GGG rematch to launch BT Sport Box Office". sport-onthebox.com. 18 August 2018. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
  28. ^ "BT Sport secure WWE rights from rivals Sky Sports". The Independent. 2019-06-20. Archived from the original on 2022-05-07. Retrieved 2019-10-31.
  29. ^ "SPFL secures ground-breaking broadcast deals | SPFL". spfl.co.uk. Retrieved 2019-08-07.
  30. ^ MacInnes, Paul (Sep 8, 2020). "All 28 Premier League games in September to be shown on live TV". The Guardian. Retrieved Sep 29, 2020 – via www.theguardian.com.
  31. ^ Premier League's pay-per-view TV deal under fire from furious football fans
  32. ^ Premier League confirms scrapping of controversial pay-per-view model
  33. ^ "BT Sport to air England cricket from West Indies and NZ". 5 Feb 2021.
  34. ^ Premier League TV rights: Broadcasters agree to roll over existing deal
  35. ^ Sky Spots announces exclusive Bundesliga rights for next four seasons
  36. ^ BT secures Serie A football
  37. ^ "Live: Pacific FC v Forge FC". BT.com. Retrieved 2022-04-11.
  38. ^ BT Sport axe Score results programme
  39. ^ Metz, Axel (12 May 2022). "BT Sport subscribers to get major package upgrade completely free of charge". TechRadar. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
  40. ^ Frater, Patrick (2022-05-12). "Warner Bros. Discovery and BT to Launch Sports Venture in U.K. and Ireland". Variety. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
  41. ^ Cite error: The named reference :3 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  42. ^ "CMA approves BT Sport and Eurosport UK joint venture". Broadband TV News. 2022-07-22. Retrieved 2022-07-23.
  43. ^ Szalai, Georg (2022-09-01). "Warner Bros. Discovery, BT Deal to Create U.K. Sports Joint Venture Closes". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2022-09-03.
  44. ^ Goldbart, Max (2023-02-21). "Warner Bros. Discovery & BT Group's UK Sports Streaming JV To Launch As TNT Sports". Deadline. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
  45. ^ Eurosport and BT Sport will disappear after TNT Sports rebrand
  46. ^ Over 250 NBA games coming to TNT
  47. ^ TNT Sports succeeds in last minute cricket deal
  48. ^ https://cultaholic.com/posts/netflix-to-become-home-of-all-wwe-content-in-the-uk
  49. ^ Premier League agrees record £6.7bn domestic TV rights deal
  50. ^ "TNT agrees deal to show FA Cup from 2025-26 season". BBC Sport. Retrieved 2024-02-15.
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