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Baker and Kelly Join BT Sport - I'm tempted to leave PlusNet after 11 years!

CaptainFantasti — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 17:03:35 GMT

Danny Baker and Danny Kelly are doing a for BT Sport starting August 16th.

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“Baker and Kelly’s Vaguely Sporting Phone-Out” is a new live interactive football show that will run on Friday evenings for 40 weeks throughout the 2013-2014 season on BT Sport. The first show will air on August 16, the day before the Barclays Premier League season kicks off.

I love Danny Baker and the Baker and Kelly shows are fantastic.
The chance to get some live football 'free' is also tempting.
I'll be sad to leave PlusNet after 11 years of good service, so I'm hoping, as a BT owned company, that PlusNet can do a deal to make BT Sport available.
As it is at the moment, I'm checking how much notice I have to give: I'm guessing a month, and how much money it's going to cost to move;
I recently got Unlimited and bought a Technicolor router for about £7, so I'm guessing that was subsidised.
Anyway, sorry for rambling, but seeing as I'll have to give my notice in mid July, I'm hoping PlusNet will announce something soon.

Re: Baker and Kelly Join BT Sport - I'm tempted to leave PlusNet after 11 years!

VileReynard — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 17:06:29 GMT

No accounting for taste.

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picbits — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 17:50:22 GMT

Phew - I thought you meant Kelly from PN had defected to BT ........

Re: Baker and Kelly Join BT Sport - I'm tempted to leave PlusNet after 11 years!

Townman — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 20:31:32 GMT

IMHO sport on BT is a good enough reason to stay with PN!
Want it or not it is everywhere and governs people's lives!

Re: Baker and Kelly Join BT Sport - I'm tempted to leave PlusNet after 11 years!

Kelly — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 20:55:25 GMT

Quote from: picbits
Phew - I thought you meant Kelly from PN had defected to BT ........

lol. Still here

Re: Baker and Kelly Join BT Sport - I'm tempted to leave PlusNet after 11 years!

dvorak — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 21:12:41 GMT

I'll certainly be looking at moving if it's still free when my contract is up - assuming PN have nothing on offer

Re: Baker and Kelly Join BT Sport - I'm tempted to leave PlusNet after 11 years!

tijara33 — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 05:49:46 GMT

Baker, Kelly (whoever they are) ???, & an Indian call centre!!!
3 good reasons to stay with Plusnet IMHO.

Re: Baker and Kelly Join BT Sport - I'm tempted to leave PlusNet after 11 years!

Anotherone — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 08:46:19 GMT

Here here.

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newagetraveller — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 09:20:34 GMT

"Here here."
Sorry, but can't resist. Where where?
Do you mean hear hear?

Re: Baker and Kelly Join BT Sport - I'm tempted to leave PlusNet after 11 years!

Anotherone — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 09:44:07 GMT

Probably, typed very much in a hurry as I was passing so to speak. Well I'm glad Kelly is still here (here) and hope he's not going anywhere.
But I hope Plusnet are giving this TV stuff serious consideration as it seems to be enticing a lot of people - not just the sports side - there are obviously a number of football "fans" out there, as well as here (not me) but plenty who want access to Films etc. There are several threads on the subject of Plusnet TV on these forums.

Re: Baker and Kelly Join BT Sport - I'm tempted to leave PlusNet after 11 years!

CaptainFantasti — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 19:59:12 GMT

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IMHO sport on BT is a good enough reason to stay with PN!

That's a bit like saying, "There's porn on the Internet, so I won't use the Internet."

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Want it or not it is everywhere and governs people's lives!

No more than other people's interests govern theirs.
I think in the olden days, the ubiquity of sport on TV was an issue as there were only 4 channels.
Nowadays, FreeView offers dozens of TV channels and dozens of radio channels, so it's easy to avoid sport if you're averse.
Having said that, I started this thread partly in the hope it will push PlusNet towards a future that includes BT Sport.
To all the other "I don't like sport" posters, I didn't start this thread to illicit your opinions of me, my taste or sport, and I regard such posts as off-topic.

Re: Baker and Kelly Join BT Sport - I'm tempted to leave PlusNet after 11 years!

VileReynard — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 20:33:20 GMT

And there's sport or shopping on every single one!
I'd like to say that I have a special hatred of gophers.

Re: Baker and Kelly Join BT Sport - I'm tempted to leave PlusNet after 11 years!

PeterLoftus — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 05:14:59 GMT

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Having said that, I started this thread partly in the hope it will push PlusNet towards a future that includes BT Sport.
To all the other "I don't like sport" posters, I didn't start this thread to illicit your opinions of me, my taste or sport, and I regard such posts as off-topic.

But it doesn't work like that, The people who don't like your version of the future are entitled to post
I for one get my sport from eleswhere. If Plusnet supply sport they have to pay for it so all our bills go up. I want Plusnet for the internet and phone provision and service not as a supplier of content.

Re: Baker and Kelly Join BT Sport - I'm tempted to leave PlusNet after 11 years!

CaptainFantasti — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 07:55:37 GMT

Your point about not wanting content from an ISP and its potential knock-on effect on bills is a valid one.
I am hoping as a BT owned company that a deal could be done, although, no doubt legal or commercial issues might prevail.
I take issue with your first point: as the thread starter, I know what the topic is:-
it's a discussion on whether BT Sport can be delivered via PlusNet.
Anyone saying "I don't like sport" is making a general point that doesn't refer to the topic.
I'd also like to return to my porn analogy.
Porn is available via PlusNet:
however, you can choose to not look at, or for, it.
I believe the same will be true of sport if my future comes to pass.
dick:quote

Re: Baker and Kelly Join BT Sport - I'm tempted to leave PlusNet after 11 years!

tijara33 — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 09:44:14 GMT

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To all the other "I don't like sport" posters

I love sport but not particularly those loud mouth presenters. I want PN to give me excellent access to the internet at the best possible price, which at the moment they do very successfully. I certainly don't want to be paying so that other people can watch 22 morons kicking one another as well as the round ball & shouting obscenities at one another. I choose to watch my sport, mainly cricket, via Sky for which I am prepared to pay a substantial fee.
Therefore Plusnet, please remain a sport free zone

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Devonian — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 10:14:00 GMT

After being a BT Broadband customer before PlusNet, I promise you the worst service, the worst customer service, and the worst tv/broadband.
Good luck.

Re: Baker and Kelly Join BT Sport - I'm tempted to leave PlusNet after 11 years!

CaptainFantasti — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 10:17:20 GMT

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I love sport... I want PN to give me excellent access to the internet at the best possible price, ... I choose to watch my sport, mainly cricket, via Sky for which I am prepared to pay a substantial fee.
Therefore Plusnet, please remain a sport free zone

If sport could be added to PlusNet at no extra cost (indeed, it might attract more revenue thus being financially beneficial), would you have any objections?

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I certainly don't want to be paying so that other people can watch 22 morons kicking one another as well as the round ball

Are you interested in odd-shaped balls?
BT Sport has the right to Rugby Union: Aviva Premiership French Top 14 European Rugby Sevens Rugby
I've little idea what any of that means as I don't follow rugby: however, unlike other posters here, I have no objection to other people enjoying things I don't.

Re: Baker and Kelly Join BT Sport - I'm tempted to leave PlusNet after 11 years!

VileReynard — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 11:01:45 GMT

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

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Townman — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 12:20:28 GMT

Quote from: CaptainFantastic
unlike other posters here, I have no objection to other people enjoying things I don't.

What you are hoping for is to get content which PN will have to pay for, delivered to you for no additional cost (over that of providing connectivity) to you. In other words you want all PN subscribers to (one way or another) subsidise you enjoying your pleasures. This being the case it seems reasonable to me, that those of us who have no interest in sport (particularly football) and wish only to receive a connectivity service from PN do have a clear right to say so in this public forum, regardless of what you believe to be on or off your topic.
Only in the unlikely circumstance that PN's (or BT's) cost of delivering content is zero can anyone rightly claim that these services are delivered for free. One way or another everyone will be paying for this regardless of their desire to do so or intention to consume.
As for your porn analogy, that just does not 'stack up' - it might well be out there and one chooses not to view it, but PN are not carrying the cost (and one way or another passing that on to the consumer) of it being there. If you want to draw analogies to support your case, it would be useful if they were comparable.

Re: Baker and Kelly Join BT Sport - I'm tempted to leave PlusNet after 11 years!

RichardB — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 12:51:56 GMT

I would not expect the BT Sport content to be free on PlusNet, I would expect to pay for it on top of the PlusNet Broadband price.
At the moment the only way to get BT Sport is either to subscribe to Sky & pay an extra £12 per month to BT or sign up to BT Broadband and get it free.
My son is already asking when we can get BT Sport.......