BT Sports & B0xnati0n deal worth £100 million

[chad]

Total Sportek are reporting details of the deal signed between BT Sports and B0xnati0n. I'm unable to post the direct link due to the allegedly word change thing on this website.

"TV money is becoming massive part of all major sports and its the turn of Boxing in the UK as dedicated boxing network “B0xNati0n” signs a record breaking TV deal with BTSport to cover boxing coverage in the United Kingdom."

"It is believed that BT Sports will be splashing around £100 million to include dedicated boxing channel “B0xNati0n” in BT Sports packages." Length of contract "Undisclosed but believed to be a 2 year contract from January 2017 to december 2018."

If this is true allegedly and B0xnati0n will be in a position to put on some massive fight nights over the next 2 years. Dwarfs the alleged £6 million Eddie Hearn receives to put on the 20 fight nights for SKY on SKY Sports (£300,000 for each fight night). This is a game changer for allegedly and British boxing.

[DannyMCR]

Wow, amazing figure if true!

[the_doctor]

Just thinking out loud here, £100m over two years is over £4m per month - equivalent to over 300,000 subscribers (at £12/month)

That is a monumental figure. If it's true then there will be huge pressure on Warren et al to put on big shows on a regular basis

[tony1234]

FW will need decent calibre fights to justify that money not Billy Joe Saunders defending against some bin man , BT won't want unknowns as they will want to advertise in competition with SKY and Hearn

[JimJim2009]

Wonder how Eddie's feeling ?

[chad]

FW will need decent calibre fights to justify that money not Billy Joe Saunders defending against some bin man , BT won't want unknowns as they will want to advertise in competition with SKY and Hearn

Totally agree. I expect a few things to happen. allegedly to work with Al Haymon plus fighters like David Haye, Amir Khan and Carl Frampton to feature on the channel in UK based fights. Also expect guys like James DeGale and Lee Selby to feature on the channel when their promotion deal with Hearn expires. Don't think we'll see Bellew

[chad]

Wonder how Eddie's feeling ?

He'll be delighted. Gives him a chance to tell us again how he's made boxing sexy in the UK and how his quality promoting has made this deal possible for Fr&nk.

[afcmarshall]

hopefully we wont see TBA as much and frank will put a few more 50/50 or at least 60/40 fights on and doesn't go down the same road as eddie and have big names fighting latvians

[davie]

They could have almost afforded to put on Mayweathers 50th fight for that

[rd350lc]

Wonder how Eddie's feeling ?

smug maybe for a change !

[Stevieb8006]

The soon British boxing is out of the grasp of matchroom and theres more even pegging the better

[mullenman]

If that's true it's unbelievable for boxing in the UK..

[jizzle]

Fantasy figure

[mullenman]

Fantasy figure

That's what I thought

[jamesmcdonnell]

Well done frank if this comes to fruition. Great news for boxing in britain and also internationally. A smart move to align with BT sport given their extensive UFC coverage.

Happy days!!

[dalcumly]

I hope that means that BT will NOT go down the PPV route as the scheduling settles down.Remember this particular promoter started that whole idea!

[chad]

Fantasy figure

Once a new deal is sorted out between BT Sport and Virgin Media B0xnati0n will be made available to all of BT's 6 million BT Sports customers across all TV platforms. At £100 million, over 24 months, allegedly / B0xnati0n will receive £4,166,666 per month from BT. Works out that BT are paying roughly 69p per BT Sports customer to have B0xnati0n added into the BT Sports pack.

Virgin Media pay BT £120 million per year to have BT Sports on their platform and to have it included in the XL and VIP packages.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/201 ... gives-cha/

I agree £100 million sounds a lot but it's realistic when it comes to a sport TV carriage deal.

[Killer Blow]

What does this mean for existing B0xnati0n subscribers?

[CaptainSpacerod]

Great news for boxing fans.

If you already have BT Sport and pay the £12 allegedly fee on top of that will you now got allegedly for free as part of the BT sport package ?

[jizzle]

Fantasy figure

Once a new deal is sorted out between BT Sport and Virgin Media B0xnati0n will be made available to all of BT's 6 million BT Sports customers across all TV platforms. At £100 million, over 24 months, allegedly / B0xnati0n will receive £4,166,666 per month from BT. Works out that BT are paying roughly 69p per BT Sports customer to have B0xnati0n added into the BT Sports pack.

Virgin Media pay BT £120 million per year to have BT Sports on their platform and to have it included in the XL and VIP packages.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/201 ... gives-cha/

I agree £100 million sounds a lot but it's realistic when it comes to a sport TV carriage deal.

Realistic if you are talking Premier League football but there is a world of difference between that and Bill Joe Saunders defending his title in a half empty Wembley Arena.

[lefthook82]

Fantasy figure

[veriton]

fw must have built up a lot of goodwill by buying and showing international cards from all over the world on bocksnation. cards that sky would never have bothered with. really pleased this is happening, its a just reward for someone who has backed british boxing for years and years. makes all the ppv with joshua seem really ridiculous

[jamesmcdonnell]

The figure is believable, B.T have thrown a HUGE amount of money at their TV, initially to protect their broadband business, but now they are

The company I work for does all the training for BT's engineering staff who work on the BT vision project, and they have spent about 2 million over the last 4 years training up their people.

It's a vital part of their business now, they've been spending a lot of money to buy up the rights, they purchased ESPN's UK operation, and also shelled out a fortune for the Football rights, they obviously see this as another part of their arsenal, to chip away at Sky's user base, which is excellent news.

[jameswilson]

If I'v worked this out right this is £200,000 a show (20 shows a year,) which is obviously more than the rumoured £100,000 a show that I think was bandied around as the figure for the last Sky deal with Eddie. I think Hearn seemed to alude that this new deal he has allows him to focus more money within the deal into certain shows.

If we've worked this out correctly tho it doesn't rival the money guys can earn on Sky Sports PPV. It does tho hopefully mean a bit more stability. The constant postponements and cancellations were suspicious and obviously became a bit of a running joke here. Hopefully a guranteed £200k will mean better opposition for Flanagan and Saunders and probably means more signings and competition.

What this won't do tho is suddenly swap round the quality of salesmanship between Matchroom and Queensbury. Tickets will still need to be sold to balance books. The average Matchroom show clearly sells a lot better in terms of ticket sales than the other promoters.

As a BT sport subscriber as well as a Sky sports and allegedly subscriber who is a boxing fan I'm loving it tho.

[chad]

The figure is believable, B.T have thrown a HUGE amount of money at their TV, initially to protect their broadband business, but now they are

The company I work for does all the training for BT's engineering staff who work on the BT vision project, and they have spent about 2 million over the last 4 years training up their people.

It's a vital part of their business now, they've been spending a lot of money to buy up the rights, they purchased ESPN's UK operation, and also shelled out a fortune for the Football rights, they obviously see this as another part of their arsenal, to chip away at Sky's user base, which is excellent news.

Very true. They spent £80 million to snap up the rights to all Australian Test matches, One Day Internationals and T20 Internationals played in the country as well as the 35 KFC Big Bash League matches, women’s Ashes and the women’s T20 Big Bash League for the next 5 years.

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/mark ... ifies.html