The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has appointed BT’s content and business development director Tony Singh as its new chief commercial officer. Singh, who takes up his role in April, will oversee all revenue generation and its key commercial relationships, as well as customer-facing activities. He replaces Sanjay Patel, who will focus solely on […]
BT Group chief executive Gavin Patterson is due to step down later this year with the company claiming new leadership is needed following recent poor results. BT said it expects to have a new CEO in place during the second half of the year with Patterson set to continue in the role until a replacement […]
This week, BT boss Gavin Patterson (above) pledged that he would not invest in original dramas and focus on sport, which, contrary to received wisdom, may be a very good idea on his part. Going against the grain is a brave move, especially when drama is widely seen to be driving viewership for a range […]
BT will not go down the route followed by Telefonica and some other telecom players and invest in original drama, preferring to maintain its existing exclusive focus on sport, according to CEO Gavin Patterson. Speaking at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona yesterday, Patterson (pictured) characterised sport as a market-specific type of content and said that […]
BT has agreed a deal to sell Sky’s low-cost OTT TV service Now TV to BT TV customers. Sky will make the full Now TV service, which includes content such as Sky Sports, Sky Cinema and the Sky Atlantic channel, available via BT TV set-tops. BT will be able to sell Now TV subscriptions direct […]
BT’s TV base grew by 66,000 in the first three months of the year, and by 28% year-on-year, to reach 1.5 million at the end of the company’s fourth financial quarter, a level of growth analysts said was ‘disappointing’. BT Sport’s average daily audience figures increased 45% year on year, from the start of the […]
BT added 97,000 TV customers in its fiscal third quarter, taking its total to 1.4 million. The UK pay TV company said that viewership of its BT Sport offering had increased by 46% thanks in part to coverage of Champions League and Europa League football. BT said that 20 football matches recorded peak concurrent viewing […]
BT added 60,000 UK television customers in the quarter to June, taking its total to 1.2 million, in part thanks to the exclusive capture of Fear the Walking Dead channel AMC. This was BT TV’s best performance since the launch of BT Sport, which the company said reflected improvements made to the TV service including […]
Marc Watson, the CEO of BT’s television business, is leaving the company. The telco said he is exiting “to explore new opportunities outside the company”. It added that the search is underway for his replacement with internal and external considered. BT TV, formerly known as BT Vision, has invested aggressively in sports rights and for […]
The customer base for BT’s sports channels passed 2.5 million by the end of the group’s third quarter, helping drive revenue growth in its consumer division, according to CEO Gavin Patterson. BT said that revenue from broadband and TV grew by 22% during the quarter, contributing to the consumer division’s revenue growth of 6%, its […]
