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BT and Sky announce TV contract
BT and Sky announce TV contract.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \nRNS Number : 4689Z BT Group PLC 15 December 2017 \n\n This announcement contains inside information.\n \n December 15, 2017\nBT AND SKY AGREE SUPPLY OF MARKET-LEADING TV CHANNELS ON EACH OTHER'S PLATFORMS\nBT TV customers will be able to sign up for all of NOW TV's top quality content, including Sky Sports and Sky Atlantic\nBT today announced a multi-year agency deal for BT to market and sell Sky's NOW TV service to BT TV customers. NOW TV offers Sky's most popular content, including Sky Sports, Sky Cinema and the Sky Atlantic channel.\nSky will make the full NOW TV service available on BT TV's set top box and BT will be able to sell subscriptions to NOW TV's great passes directly to BT customers. \nBT customers will be able to watch the Sky content seamlessly as an integrated part of the BT TV platform.\nAt the same time, BT has agreed to wholesale its BT Sport channels to Sky, allowing Sky to sell these channels directly to Sky satellite customers. The BT Sport channels include exclusively live UEFA Champions League and Premier League football. This will mean that satellite customers will be able to buy BT Sport from Sky as well as from BT.\nThe agreement brings to a successful conclusion negotiations that have been on and off for a number of years.\nGavin Patterson, chief executive of BT, said: \"This is an important day for BT and for our customers, who will be able to enjoy a whole range of Sky's sport and entertainment programming on their BT TV boxes. \n \"This is the next logical step for our TV and content strategy. Having built up an outstanding portfolio of exclusive sports rights and a loyal base of customers, we feel that no...