BT Sport


BT Sport is a group of pay television sports channels provided by BT Consumer; a division of BT Group in the United Kingdom and Ireland that was launched on 1 August 2013. The channels are based at the former International Broadcast Centre at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London. BT Sport is available on the BT TV, Sky and Virgin Media television platforms in the UK and Sky, Eir TV and Vodafone TV in the Republic of Ireland.
BT Sport holds exclusive live UK and Republic of Ireland TV rights to 52 Premier League matches per season, all Australia's home cricket matches, the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, UFC, National League, Ligue 1, the Bundesliga, the FA Community Shield, the FA Trophy and the European Rugby Challenge Cup, the Premiership Rugby Cup, MotoGP, the FIH Hockey World League and WWE. They are also the official broadcast partner of the European Rugby Champions Cup and Premiership Rugby. BT Sport also holds shared rights to the FA Cup with the BBC until 2020–21, the Scottish Professional Football League with Sky Sports and BBC Alba. In 2015, BT Sport launched their showcase service in SD and in HD in 2017. The SD service closed on 9 May 2017 and the HD service in 2018.

History

Launch (2013)

News of BT's first foray into sports broadcasting first came about on 12 June 2012 when it was announced that they had won the rights to 38 live Premier League matches for three seasons from the 2013-14 season, beating American broadcast partner ESPN who had held the shared rights with Sky Sports the previous season. BT announced at the same time that it would be launching its own channel for its new football coverage. The news followed speculation that ESPN was reconsidering its position in the UK. The following months also saw BT win rights to Premiership Rugby and its associated 7s Series, and American, Brazilian, French and Italian top-flight football. On 25 February 2013, BT agreed to acquire ESPN's UK and Ireland TV channels business, consisting of ESPN and ESPN America. BT would continue to broadcast at least one ESPN branded channel since the deal's completion date of 31 July, as part of its BT Sport package of services. The value of the deal was not disclosed, but BT was understood to be paying "low tens of millions".
On 2 May 2013, BT Sport 1 and BT Sport 2 were added to the BT TV EPG, followed by Sky the next day along with an on-screen message that the channel was coming soon. On Sky, the channels replaced BT's placeholders, Sailing 1 and 2. The BT-owned terrestrial feeds of Sky Sports 1 and 2, which were also used for Top Up TV, were dropped on 1 July in favour of BT Sport 1 and 2. The Channels started broadcasting on 1 August 2013, on the same day ESPN America ceased to broadcast and ESPN became ESPN from BT Sport; broadcasting most of ESPN America's content. BT signed a wholesale deal with Virgin Media on 15 August 2013 bringing the channels free of charge to customers on the TV XL package.
An interactive service, BT Sport Extra, launched in September 2014, broadcasting additional content at selected times. One video stream was available at launch which expanded to seven in August 2015. BT Sport Extra can be accessed directly from the EPG on YouView boxes and from the red button on Sky and Virgin Media.
On 9 June 2015, ESPN from BT Sport was rebranded BT Sport ESPN.

Expansion (2015-)

On 1 August 2015, BT launched three new channels: BT Sport Europe, a dedicated channel for its coverage of European football and rugby union including the UEFA Champions League, Europa League and rugby challenge and champions cups; BT Sport Showcase, a free-to-air only HD channel which would show a number of sporting events unencrypted via Freeview such as Champions League; and BT Sport Ultra HD, the UK's first and only 4K television channel which will broadcast a number of events in ultra-high-definition exclusively on BT TV. On 4 August 2016, BT Sport Europe was renamed BT Sport 3 and BT Sport Ultra HD to BT Sport 4K UHD. A similar channel to BT Sport Showcase was made available on Virgin media named BT Sport Free.
BT Sport 4K UHD was further rebranded BT Sport Ultimate on 2 August 2019.

BT Sport Box Office

In April 2018, BT Sport revealed its intention to launch a pay-per-view channel to show live boxing and in August BT Sport announced that the channel would launch on 15 September.

Availability

In the UK, BT Sport is available in standard definition with all BT TV packages for BT Broadband customers, programming is also available in UHD called BT Sport Ultimate to BT Infinity customers for an additional fee.
On Sky and Plusnet TV BT Sport 1 only is currently offered for free to broadband subscribers as 'BT Sport Lite', regardless of what subscription they have. Customers who wish to view the remaining channels can subscribe to the 'BT Sport Pack' in either standard or high definition. BT also provide broadband subscribers access to the channels via the BT Sport online player and mobile app. BT Sport pack Subscribers also receive BoxNation in standard definition only and Sky UK customers also have exclusive access to AMC from BT in the relevant definition.
Virgin Media customers receive BT Sport 1, 2, 3 and ESPN in HD and BT Sport Ultimate as part of their "Full House" bundle however, they do not receive BoxNation or AMC from BT.
TalkTalk TV customers must subscribe to the BT Sport Pack in order to receive the entire range of channels.
In the Republic of Ireland, BT Sport channels are bundled with Eir Sport subscriptions across all platforms, as a part of a deal BT had with what was Setanta Sports back then. The deal means BT Sport 1, 2, 3, ESPN and BoxNation are part of the Eir Sport Pack in the Republic, along with Eir Sport 1 and Eir Sport 2.
In addition Freeview HD customers received BT Sport Showcase and Virgin Media customers received BT Sport Free. They closed on 30 June 2018.
On 4 December 2018, the SD versions of BT Sport and BT Sport ESPN stopped broadcasting on Virgin Media.

Programming

Plans for the channels launch came about when it was announced in June 2012 that the broadcast rights to the Premier League from the 2013–14 to 2015–16 season were awarded to BT and Sky, outbidding existing broadcaster ESPN for the rights. BT showed 38 live matches from the Premier League each season, including 18 first pick matches, from the 2013/14 season to the end of the 2015/16 season.
In October 2012 BT announced it had also agreed deals to air Serie A, Ligue 1, Brasileirão and Major League Soccer, all of which were previously broadcast on ESPN, as well as Premiership Rugby.
In January 2013 BT announced they will also broadcast Women's Tennis Association matches from 21 tournaments.
On 25 February 2013, BT announced that it had acquired ESPN's UK channels and their sports broadcasting rights, including rights to the FA Cup, UEFA Europa League, Scottish Premier League, Bundesliga and NASCAR. This led to the shutting down of ESPN Classic and ESPN America in favour of the BT Sport channels.
On 7 May 2013, BT Sport acquired the rights to air Ultimate Fighting Championship events and taped programming in the UK and Ireland for three years, from 1 August. Two days later it was announced that BT Sport had acquired an exclusive five-year deal to broadcast MotoGP races from the 2014 season, including free practices and qualifying as well as full coverage of Moto2 and Moto3. BT Sport also broadcasts the FA WSL, A-League and programming from Red Bull Media House.
On 9 May 2013, BT announced that they had acquired the exclusive UK TV rights to MotoGP along with the Moto2 and Moto3 championships.
Later in May BT Sport acquired rights to the Football Conference for two years with 25-30 live games a season, including the end-of-season play-offs.
On 9 November 2013, BT announced a £897 million deal with UEFA to broadcast the Champions League and Europa League exclusively on BT Sport from the 2015–16 season for three years. The deal will end two decades of the competition being broadcast free-to-air on ITV, although BT stated that the finals of both competitions and at least one match per season involving each participating British team would still be broadcast free-to-air.
In January 2014, it was reported that BT Sport had acquired the rights to broadcast the World Rally Championship for the 2014 season.

Football coverage

Studio hosts

NameNat.Coverage
Jake HumphreyPremier League, Champions League, Europa League & FA Cup
Gary LinekerChampions League
Lynsey HipgravePremier League, Champions League, Europa League & FA Cup
Darrell CurriePremier League, Champions League, Europa League & FA Cup
Matt SmithPremier League, Champions League, Europa League, National League & FA Cup
James RichardsonChampions League Goals Show

Studio Pundits & Co-commentators

Lead Commentators

Reporters

Premier League

BT Sport currently has the rights to show 52 live Premier League matches from the 2019–20 to 2021–22 seasons. Their packages give BT the rights to 20 second pick and 12 fifth pick matches. The coverage for the current rights period see BT Sport showing live matches on Saturday lunchtimes at 12:30 pm, they will also show midweek matches and 5 matches from the split weekend. The rights to the Premier League are shared with Sky Sports and Amazon Prime Video, who have 128 live matches, and 20 live matches respectively. The BBC, have highlights of all matches on Match of the Day. BT Sport Score is a weekly television programme broadcast on BT Sport during the football season. The programme was launched in 2016 to rival the BBC's Final Score and Sky Sports' Soccer Saturday. The programme updates viewers on the progress of association football games in the United Kingdom on Saturday afternoons between 2:45 pm and 5:00 pm. Mark Pougatch and Jules Breach present BT Sport Score with Breach giving updates on Football League games, Fantasy football and social media. Usual pundits on the programme include Robbie Savage, Chris Sutton, Peter Crouch, Karen Carney, Jermaine Jenas, Paul Ince and John Hartson, along with various other guests, with ex Premier League referee, Peter Walton providing analysis on refereeing across the games.
Premier League matches are anchored by presenter, Jake Humphrey. Matt Smith, Lynsey Hipgrave, or Darrell Currie also present when there is more than one game broadcast on BT across a matchweek. Studio pundits include Rio Ferdinand, Joe Cole, Jermaine Jenas, Peter Crouch, Robin van Persie, Owen Hargreaves, Martin Keown, Robbie Savage, Michael Owen, Glenn Hoddle, Steve Mcmanaman, Chris Sutton, John Hartson and Paul Scholes. Lead commentary is provided by Darren Fletcher and Ian Darke, with Paul Dempsey, Adam Summerton and Rory Hamilton occasionally appearing, while co-commentary is provided by Steve McManaman, Robbie Savage, Glenn Hoddle, Martin Keown and Jermaine Jenas. Reporters include Des Kelly and Andy May and occasionally Reshmin Chowdhury, Darrell Currie, Lynsey Hipgrave and Matt Smith.
In June 2020, BT Sport announced two new innovations for Premier League fixtures, to engage fans when matches are played behind closed doors as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Viewers have the option to watch with or without a pre-recorded dynamic crowd noise feature, using the Red Button, or socialise with 'Watch Together' through the BT Sport app.

European Club Competitions

BT Sport has exclusive live coverage of the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, UEFA Super Cup and UEFA Europa Conference League until 2024.
UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League
is the main presenter of the Champions League action with Jake Humphrey, Lynsey Hipgrave and Darrell Currie also presenting coverage. Jake Humphrey is the main presenter of Europa League action, with Lynsey Hipgrave, Darrell Currie and Matt Smith also presenting coverage. Matt Smith presents the highlights show of both the Champions League and Europa League after every match night of each competition alongside usual pundits that appear on coverage of games played that night.
James Richardson hosts the Goals Show every Champions League match night, during the group stages, with James Horncastle, Julien Laurens and Raphael Honigstein joining as pundits to keep viewers up to date of all the scores and they can watch every goal go in live.
Lead commentators on the Champions League coverage on BT Sport include Ian Darke, Jon Champion, Derek Rae, Daniel Mann, Adrian Healey, Jonathan Pearce, Mark Donaldson, Guy Mowbray, Paul Dempsey, Peter Drury, Darren Fletcher, Steve Bower, Clive Tyldesley, Simon Brotherton, Dave Farrar, Adam Summerton, Alistair Mann, Steven Wyeth, Seb Hutchinson, Don Hutchison, Rob Hawthorne, Bill Leslie, Gary Taphouse, Rob MacLean, Steve Banyard, Vicki Sparks, Angus Loughran, Julien Laurens, John Roder, Joe Speight, Kevin Keatings, Robyn Cowen, Mark Scott, Rory Hamilton, Oliver Wilson, Done Roebuck, Paul Walker, Wayne Boyce, James Fielden, Martin Fisher, Dan O'Hagan, Dave Woods, Matt Smith, Alan Parry, Steve Wilson and Dan Mason. Lead commentators on the Europa League include Ian Darke, Jon Champion, Derek Rae, Daniel Mann, Adrian Healey, Jonathan Pearce, Mark Donaldson, Guy Mowbray, Paul Dempsey, Peter Drury, Darren Fletcher, Steve Bower, Clive Tyldesley, Simon Brotherton, Dave Farrar, Adam Summerton, Alistair Mann, Steven Wyeth, Seb Hutchinson, Don Hutchison, Rob Hawthorne, Bill Leslie, Gary Taphouse, Rob MacLean, Steve Banyard, Vicki Sparks, Angus Loughran, Julien Laurens, John Roder, Joe Speight, Kevin Keatings, Robyn Cowen, Mark Scott, Rory Hamilton, Oliver Wilson, Done Roebuck, Paul Walker, Wayne Boyce, James Fielden, Martin Fisher, Dan O'Hagan, Dave Woods, Matt Smith, Alan Parry, Steve Wilson and Dan Mason. Studio pundits are used on English teams across both competitions as well as the knockout stages of both competitions and are taken from BT's Premier League coverage. The same co-commentators used on the Premier League coverage are also used on Champions League and Europa League coverage. As well as the co-commentators used on Premier League coverage, additional co-commentators on both the Champions League and Europa League include Tommy Smyth, Stewart Robson, Lee Dixon, Efan Ekoku, Steve McManaman, Danny Higginbotham, Craig Burley, Frank Lampard, Ally McCoist, Jim Beglin, Robbie Savage, Glenn Hoddle, Andy Townsend, Mark Lawrenson, Owen Hargreaves, Steven Gerrard, Paul Scholes, Rio Ferdinand, Garry Birtles, Andy Hinchcliffe, Don Goodman, David Croten, Don Hutchison, Clive Allen, Chris Perry, Jermaine Jenas, Danny Mills, Nigel Spackman, Tony Dorigo, Karen Carney, Gary Neville, Martin Keown, Danny Murphy, Kevin Kilbane, Chris Sutton, Iain Dowie, Stephen Craigan, John Hartson, Phil Neville, Robin Van Persie, Peter Crouch, Joe Cole, Paul Ince, Stephen Warnock, Jamie Carragher, Faye White, Adam Virgo and Kevin Davies. Reporters across both competitions include Des Kelly, Reshmin Chowdhury, Andy May, Paul Dempsey, Lynsey Hipgrave, Darrell Currie, Matt Smith, Natalie Quirk and Chris Ford.
Broadcasting teams for UEFA Champions League Finals
Since 2015, BT Sport have had exclusive live coverage of the UEFA Super Cup. In 2019, Gary Lineker presented alongside Joe Cole, Glenn Hoddle and Steve Mcmanaman. Darren Fletcher and Jermaine Jenas commentated, with Des Kelly and Lynsey Hipgrave both reporting.

Vanarama National League

BT Sport has exclusive rights to the Vanarama National League covering 1 game a weekend. Matt Smith is the main presenter, often being joined by pundits Grant Holt, Chris Hargreaves and Kevin Davies with Davies very occasionally providing co-commentary. Match commentator Adam Summerton is joined by Adam Virgo in the commentary box. Reporters include, Jeff Brazier and Natalie Quirk, and occasionally, Becky Ives.

FA Cup

BT Sport obtained the rights to the FA Cup through its acquisition of ESPN, who had one year remaining in their existing contract. In 2016, BT Group extended its contract with The Football Association to show up to 30 live games a season from the competition from 2018–19 to 2020–21.
In the first and second rounds, Matt Smith, Reshmin Chowdhury, Lynsey Hipgrave or Darrell Currie host the coverage. Presentation of the games come from the ground alongside the pundits used on BT’s National League coverage, as well as select guests related to the teams involved. Lead commentary on these games is provided by, Adam Summerton, Ian Darke and Paul Dempsey, alongside co-commentators, Adam Virgo and Kevin Davies. Reporters on these games include, Andy May, Natalie Quirk, Jeff Brazier and Becky Ives.
From the third round onwards, Jake Humphrey, Lynsey Hipgrave, Darrell Currie or Matt Smith host, alongside pundits taken from the Premier League coverage. Lead commentators include, Darke, Dempsey and Summerton as well as, Darren Fletcher and Peter Drury. Co-commentary is mainly provided by Steve McManaman, Glenn Hoddle, Robbie Savage and Jermaine Jenas. With reporters including, Des Kelly, Reshmin Chowdhury and Andy May.

FA Community Shield

Since 2015, BT Sport have had exclusive live coverage of the FA Community Shield. In 2019, Jake Humphrey presented, alongside Rio Ferdinand, Robin van Persie and Steve Mcmanaman. Darren Fletcher and Glenn Hoddle commentated, and Des Kelly reported.

FA Trophy and FA Vase

BT have the full exclusive rights to the FA Trophy and FA Vase finals every year from Wembley. Most recently in 2019, Matt Smith presented the games with Peter Drury and Kevin Davies commentating on the 2019 FA Vase Final and Adam Summerton and Adam Virgo commentating on the 2019 FA Trophy Final, with Jeff Brazier reporting across both games.

Bundesliga

BT Sport have full exclusive rights to the Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga. Lead commentary on Bundesliga action comes from, Ben Andrews, Steve Bower, Simon Brotherton, Paul Dempsey, Dave Farrar, James Fielden, Seb Hutchinson, Alistair Mann, Dan Mason, Jonathan Pearce, John Roder, Dan Roebuck, Mark Scott, Joe Speight, Adam Summerton, Paul Walker, Oliver Wilson and Steven Wyeth. The co-commentators include, Jim Beglin, Tony Dorigo, Efan Ekoku, Kevin Gallacher, Don Hutchison, Chris Perry, Stewart Robson and Nigel Spackman. Occasionally, Premier League pundit and ex Bayern Munich player, Owen Hargreaves also contributes to co-commentary. Ben Andrews, Tim Caple, James Fielden, Mark Scott and Oliver Wilson are the lead commentators on 2. Bundesliga coverage.

Ligue 1

BT Sport currently have exclusive rights to Ligue 1. Lead commentators on Ligue 1 action comes from, Wayne Boyce, Simon Brotherton, Paul Dempsey, Dave Farrar, James Fielden, Seb Hutchinson, Alistair Mann, Dan Mason, Jonathan Pearce, John Roder, Dan Roebuck, Adam Summerton, Paul Walker, Oliver Wilson and Steven Wyeth. The co-commentators include, Clive Allen, Tony Dorigo, Efan Ekoku, Kevin Gallacher, Don Hutchison, Chris Perry, Stewart Robson, Nigel Spackman and Adam Virgo.

Coppa Italia

Despite losing the broadcasting rights of Serie A to Premier Sports, the channel still shows some Italian football - the Coppa Italia plus Supercoppa. The same commentators heard on BT's coverage of Bundesliga and Ligue 1 can also be heard on Coppa Italia.

A-League

BT Sport currently have exclusive rights to the A-League where Fox Sports commentators and pundits are used.

Turkish Super League

BT Sport currently have exclusive rights to the Süper Lig for the 24 remaining matches in 2019–20. Commentators include Ben Andrews, Dave Farrar and Dan Mason.

Rugby union coverage

Premiership Rugby

BT became a senior broadcast partner of Premiership Rugby in 2013-14. The original Premiership coverage deal ran until the 2016/17 season and allowed BT Sport to exclusively broadcast up to 69 live games per season. The Aviva Premiership's viewing figures rose by 40% in TV audiences in its first season with BT Sport. A new deal was signed in March 2015 to cover the Premiership Rugby until 2021 covering up to 80 matches a season from 2017–18 and introducing an extended highlights programme from the 2015-16 season. Subsequently, in 2017 Channel 5 announced a deal that would see them simulcast five matches per season for the remaining duration of the deal.
The deal with BT Sport also sees them exclusively broadcast the league’s associated sevens series and the Premiership Rugby Cup. BT Sport also had exclusive live rights to the Anglo-Welsh Cup until its final competition in 2017–18.

European Professional Club Rugby

BT originally shared rights to European Professional Club Rugby 's champions and challenge cups with Sky Sports. The shared nature of the deal meant each broadcaster would exclusively broadcast up to 30 pool matches, 2 quarter-finals and 1 semi-final from each competition with the finals being shown by both. BT also received first pick on Champions Cup matches involving Premiership Rugby clubs.
For four seasons from the 2018-19 season, BT Sport became the official broadcast partner of the Champions and Challenge cups and broadcast up to 134 matches per season. The Challenge Cup will be shown exclusively on BT Sport whilst broadcasting of the Champions Cup will be shared with Channel 4 in the UK and Virgin Media Sport in the Republic of Ireland with both channels simulcasting one match from each round and the final.
Craig Doyle is the main presenter with Martin Bayfield and Sarra Elgan also presenting. Lawrence Dallaglio, Ben Kay, David Flatman, Austin Healey, Brian O'Driscoll and Ugo Monye provide further punditry and co-commentary. The reporters include Bayfield and Elgan as well as, Tim Cocker. BT Sport usually have one forward and one back acting as co-commentators on every match so one of Dallaglio, Kay or Flatman along with one of Healey, O'Driscoll or Monye join the lead commentator, Nick Mullins or Alastair Eykyn in the commentary box.
On BT's coverage of the Champions Cup, as well as those used on the Premiership rugby coverage, guest pundits and guest co-commentators are regularly used. In addition to Mullins and Eykyn, freelance lead commentators such as Andrew Cotter, Martin Gillingham, Ryle Nugent, Hugh Cahill, Scott Hastings and Sara Orchard are used, and along with Bayfield, Elgan and Cocker, Jill Douglas, Ross Harries, Sonja McLaughlan and Lauren Smith are also involved with presenting and reporting on coverage too.

Cricket coverage

In August 2015, it was announced that BT Sport had claimed the rights for Australia's home matches for five years starting in the 2016-17 season. This means that BT would show The Ashes series between England and Australia in 2017-18 with the deal also including the Big Bash League, the Women's Ashes and the Women's Big Bash League.
BT's coverage of the 2017-18 Ashes series was fronted by Matt Smith. The analysts and commentators included, Michael Vaughan, Ricky Ponting, Adam Gilchrist, Sir Geoffrey Boycott, Graeme Swann, Damien Fleming, Kevin Pietersen, Michael Hussey and Brett Lee. Alison Mitchell and Michael Slater also provided commentary, with Mitchell, also acting as a secondary presenter and reporter.
In the 2018-19 Australian cricketing summer, BT Sport took feeds from Australian broadcasters, Fox Cricket and Channel 7. With coverage being introduced out-of-vision by Matt Smith, Simon Hughes, Charles Dagnall or Simon Mann.

Motorsport coverage

BT Sport has rights to numerous British, European, American and global motorsport series both in live and highlights form.

MotoGP

is BT Sport's flagship motorsports event and in addition to the main MotoGP event, BT shows the Moto2, Moto3, Red Bull Rookies and CEV Repsol championships. Suzi Perry hosts the coverage alongside pundits Colin Edwards, Michael Laverty, James Toseland and Neil Hodgson. Commentary is provided by Keith Huewen and Neil Hodgson throughout qualifying sessions and the race. Gavin Emmett, former World Feed commentator, takes up the role of BT Sport's MotoGP reporter and also hosts coverage when Perry is unavailable. He also presents Chequered Flag which is aired after the MotoGP race has finished.

Motorcycle Speedway

BT Sport also broadcasts motorcycle speedway including, the Premiership Speedway, Speedway Grand Prix and the Speedway of Nations. Natalie Quirk and Scott Nicholls host the coverage. The commentary team is Nigel Pearson and Kelvin Tatum with Steve Brandon, the reporter.

Other International Motorsport Events

Other live series include the World Rally Championship, FIA World Endurance Championship, FIA European Formula Three Championship, International GT Open, World Series by Renault, Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters, and the Australian Supercars Championship where the world feed is taken directly from the host broadcaster. Highlights packages are also shown on BT Sport for series such as BRDC Formula 4 Championship and the British Formula Three Championship.

American sports coverage

BT Sport shows extensive coverage of American sports, including Major League Baseball, U.S. college sports, Major League Lacrosse, and the X Games. BT Sport has a long-term agreement with ESPN to carry its original programming, and events whose international rights are owned by ESPN International. Most of BT Sport's U.S. properties are aired by BT Sport ESPN.

Combat sports coverage

Mixed martial arts

BT Sport holds the UK rights to UFC programming, most recently renewed in 2018, including live events and other non-live programming. They also broadcast Cage Warriors events on occasions.
Since UFC 239, selected UFC pay-per-view events have now been carried exclusively on BT Sport Box Office, and are no longer included at no additional charge—a move which faced criticism from domestic fans.

Boxing

Since 2017 BT Sport has an association with BoxNation to show certain live fights from Frank Warren Promotions. On 15 September 2018 BT Sport showed its first boxing pay-per-view boxing event - the rematch between Gennady Golovkin and Saul Alvarez and on 1 December 2018 BT showed the Deontay Wilder vs. Tyson Fury fight. Both were shown on BT's pay-per-view channel BT Sport Box Office. Paul Dempsey leads the coverage alongside Richie Woodhall, Steve Bunce and other guests. John Rawling and Barry Jones provide commentary with Caroline Pearce or Ronald McIntosh the ringside reporters.

Professional wrestling

On 20 June 2019, U.S. professional wrestling promotion WWE announced that its programming would move to BT Sport beginning in 2020, ending a relationship with Sky Sports that dated back to the network's launch in 1989. BT Sport also shows live and repeated highlights of WWE Raw, WWE NXT, WWE SmackDown, NXT UK and pay-per-views and they also show programming usually on the WWE Network like WWE Ruthless Aggression and WWE 24 and BT Sport show special editions of No Filter WWE.

World Poker Tour

In February, the World Poker Tour announced a new deal with BT Sports to broadcast the World Poker Tour in the UK and Ireland across BT Sports networks. The company will broadcast season XV of the WPT, which took place from 2016-2017. Highlights from the season include the first WPT victory of poker commentator Mike Sexton and the first victory by a woman in an open WPT event.

Previous coverage

Football

Scottish Professional Football League

BT hosted rights to show 30 Scottish Professional Football League games a season, sharing the rights with Sky Sports and BBC Alba. Darrell Currie was the main presenter with pundits including Chris Sutton, Stephen Craigan, Ally McCoist, Michael Stewart and Alex Rae. All of these pundits also contributed to co-commentary duty alongside Rory Hamilton or Rob MacLean who were the lead commentators. There was always a 3-man commentary line up on the Scottish coverage with the most prominent co-commentary pairing being Craigan and Sutton. Emma Dodds and Connie McLaughlin were the match reporters on the coverage. From the 2016/17 season, BT Sport had aired a 30-minute preview show "Scottish Football Extra" before every live match. From the 2020-21 season, all 48 live SPFL Premiership matches will be on Sky Sports.

Scottish League Cup

From the start of the 2016-17 season, BT Sport had been the home of exclusive live coverage of the Scottish League Cup, showing two or three live matches per round, from July through to the final in November. The same personnel used on the SPFL coverage was used on Scottish League Cup coverage. From 2020, Premier Sports, will take over the rights for the Scottish League Cup showing 12 to 16 games per season.

Serie A

BT Sport previously held exclusive rights to the Serie A, Italy's top-flight association football league. From the start of the 2018-19 season, coverage moved to Eleven Sports then later to Premier Sports but as a replacement, BT Sport airs Coppa Italia and Supercoppa from 2018-19 until 2020-21 season.

DFB Pokal

BT Sport previously broadcast DFB-Pokal. From the start of the 2018-19 season, coverage moved to Eleven Sports for a season only,.

CONMEBOL Libertadores

Previously, BT Sport showed both 2018 Copa Libertadores Finals between the Argentine Superclásico rivals Boca Juniors and River Plate; in simulcast with FreeSports. A year later, the Copa Libertadores final coverage moved to BBC Sport.

Cricket

Caribbean Premier League

BT have broadcast all 34 matches from the Caribbean Premier League most recently in 2017. Sky Sports took over the rights from the 2018 edition onwards.

Indian Premier League

In 2019, BT Sport also won rights off Sky Sports to broadcast every match of the 2019 Indian Premier League, however from the 2020 Indian Premier League the rights switched back to Sky Sports.

Tennis

In January 2013, BT Sport signed a deal with the WTA to show 21 live tournaments from the women's tennis tour. The coverage consisted of up to 800 live hours of coverage every year until 2016, each season ending with the WTA Finals.
From January 2017, BT Sport had the rights to show 52 WTA tournaments every year until 2019. Coverage on most competitions took feeds from the WTA international TV feed, but with larger events from the Premier Mandatory and Premier 5 category matches, Sam Smith or occasionally Annabel Croft presented coverage alongside Martina Navratilova. Lead commentary was provided by Chris Bradnam, David Law and David Mercer alongside co-commentators, Annabel Croft, Nigel Sears, Anne Keothavong and Jo Durie.
The last competition BT Sport broadcast was the 2019 WTA Finals in which Clare Balding presented coverage alongside Anne Keothavong and Jo Durie. With Annabel Croft and Nigel Sears reporting from Shenzhen. Lead commentary came from David Law and David Mercer alongside Keothavong and
Durie.
For the 2020 WTA Tour onwards, Amazon Prime Video are now the exclusive UK broadcaster, showing 49 tournaments a year.

Darts

BDO Darts coverage

It was announced in December 2014 that BT Sport would share the rights to the 2015 BDO World Darts Championship alongside BBC Sport. Coverage would be presented by Ray Stubbs for the first two years of their coverage. In August 2016 they signed a new 2-year deal to share rights this time with Channel 4. Matt Smith took over as presenter with Chris Mason as studio pundit and Reshmin Chowdury as roving reporter. Commentators on BT Sport Darts coverage were John Rawling, Jim Proudfoot, Vassos Alexander, Paul Nicholson, Deta Hedman and Chris Mason, these are shared with Channel 4's coverage, as the commentary is produced independently. BT Sport did not renew their contract for the 2019 tournament and the rights are now held by QUEST and Eurosport

Basketball

NBA

BT Sport previously held exclusive rights to the NBA, since 2009-10 season. Live coverage of the games began on ESPN, from 6 October 2009 when the Utah Jazz took on the pre-season game against Chicago Bulls as part of NBA Europe Live Tour. Coverage continued on 8 October 2009 for Utah Jazz against Euroleague Basketball's Real Madrid Baloncesto. The NBA season officially started on 27 October 2009.
ESPN UK was unable to secure the rights to the 2012-13 NBA season until 5 December 2012 when a deal was made between NBA and ESPN to show 3 games a week, NBA All Star Game, First and Second Round NBA Play-off coverage, Western Conference Finals, and NBA Finals for this season. Coverage began the following day. The channel continues to show this after the acquisition of ESPN by BT Sport until 2017-18 season. From 2018-19 season, coverage moved to Sky Sports.

WNBA

Same as the men's league games, the Women's NBA games also moved to Sky Sports from 2018-19 season.

Magazine shows

BT Sport produces a series of feature-length sports documentary films under the title BT Sport Films. Among the films shown on the channel are The Beautiful Game, I Believe in Miracles and Don't Take Me Home. Documentaries that have been critically well-received include Rocky & Wrighty: From Brockley To The Big Time, about childhood friends David Rocastle and Ian Wright, Shoulder To Shoulder, on the Ireland national rugby union team during The Troubles, and Brothers in Football, which tells the story of Corinthian Football Club.
These are shown alongside documentaries from ESPN, including 30 for 30, Nine for IX, SEC Storied and Backstory, as well as official MotoGP films.

Classic sport

BT Sport's weekday daytime schedules often include sporting action from yesteryear. Football features heavily and includes league matches from the 1970s and 1980s from both the ITV Sport, including full editions of The Big Match, and the BBC's Match of the Day archives. Also featured are FA Cup matches from the 1970s to the present day and UEFA Champions League matches. Other sporting action includes boxing matches from the ESPN and ITV Sport archives as well as MotoGP races and Australian cricket.