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This service ceased prior to the start of the 2010–11 season.īetween August 2007 and June 2009, Setanta Sports was available through BT Vision, via DTT and a smart card, offering live Premiership and Scottish Premier League games, as well as other sporting events such as US PGA Tour Golf and Magners League Rugby. BT Vision also have the right to offer on demand coverage of 125 matches each season from the Football League and League Cup. Premium sport deal īT acquired the rights to carry 242 same-day (but not live) Premier League football matches per season in a three-year deal covering the 2007–08, 2008––10 seasons in a joint bid with BSkyB on, prior to BT Vision's launch. However, adoption was slow and by February 2008 BT Vision had just 150,000 customers. The aim was to attract 'hundreds of thousands' of customers by the end of 2007 and 2–3 million in the medium-term. BT Vision was the second IPTV television platform in the UK, after Homechoice TV. In May 2007, BT Group launched a national advertising campaign for BT Vision. Initial industry reaction was positive although there was some criticism that set up costs were expensive and it was noted that BT Group were entering a competitive market.

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Launch īT Vision was launched on 5 December 2006, competing with Sky, Virgin Media (then known as NTL:Telewest) and TalkTalk Plus TV (then known as Tiscali TV).

ĭespite the ban on BT offering cable services, it did offer to customers in the 1990s analogue satellite receivers compatible with the Astra satellite system (with built-in VideoCrypt decoders for receiving the Sky Multichannels package) these boxes were rebadged versions of receivers built by other companies, such as the BT SVS200 being a Cambridge ARD200. The ban was designed to protect the new smaller telecommunications companies and the small cable television networks in the United Kingdom as it was felt that BT had an unfair advantage because its pre-privatisation monopoly meant that its equipment was already installed in virtually every home and business in the country. When British Telecom (BT) was privatised in 1984, it was barred from providing television broadcasts over its telecommunication network, which meant that it was not possible for BT to provide a cable television service. Sky Sports 1 & 2 were made available to YouView customers on Tuesday 16 December 2014 following an interim ruling from the Appeal Court backing Ofcom's ruling that YouView is to be included in the 'Wholesale Must Offer' of the channels. The Vision service was, after August 2013, solely used to broadcast Sky Sports, as well as BT Sport for non-Infinity customers.

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On 11 April 2014, BT announced that the original Vision service would be closed down as of 30 June, with all customers getting a free upgrade to its modern YouView service. As BT TV transmits channels and content through IPTV, BT requires customers to sign up to the BT Broadband internet and phone service to use BT TV, with connection via BT's official router, BT Home Hub.īT started rebranding its TV services – BT Vision and its YouView service as BT TV between May and August 2013. BT Sport, ESPN and AMC from BT are available in non-fibre areas over IPTV using copper multicast where available. BT Sport channels are available in SD and HD through IPTV signals.

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As of the end of June 2019, BT TV had 1.9 million customers.īT TV uses the YouView platform, so offers Freeview channels via DTT along with YouView's additional on-demand content, as well as 30 extra entertainment channels (18 of which are available in HD), 9 extra children's channels, 11 movie channels ( Sky Cinema), 5 live sports channels ( BT Sport & Sky Sports) and other on-demand services delivered through IPTV. BT TV is a subscription IPTV service offered by BT a division of United Kingdom telecommunications company BT Group, and was originally launched as BT Vision in December 2006.

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