TTT Posted 10 hours ago Report Share Posted 10 hours ago (edited) TNT have lost Europa League and Conference League to Sky Sports now. BSPL need to find out whether TNT have gone broke or not because it's a potential opportunity to explore. Edited 9 hours ago by TTT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TTT Posted 10 hours ago Report Share Posted 10 hours ago (edited) 33 minutes ago, IainB said: TNT could maybe want to go for the hat trick of binning Speedway off for a third time 😂 Did they bin it off or have they gone broke? They've lost an awful lot of content recently. Now we're hearing about all UEFA Club Competition rights being lost as well. Edited 10 hours ago by TTT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
szkocjasid Posted 10 hours ago Report Share Posted 10 hours ago 5 hours ago, Wee Eck said: Both of whom have ridden championship in the past. Teams don’t overlook riders who they believe to be competent enough. I think Nathan was unfortunate but don’t know why. I’m sure he’ll get a place during 2026. As for Ben, he’s 31 and has had many chances. A team succeeds by bringing in riders who improve during the year but I don’t think that can still be expected of Ben. On the other side, Max Perry, for one, is the type of rider that teams believe has a lot more to give so I’d expect him to get a place next year. Morley & Ablitt were overlooked due to the averages to a degree, plus Ablitt didn't want to travel. Both of these riders would have done better than a 2.00 rider, but couldn't because of the averages. So it's not correct to say they weren't picked because they wouldn't be competent enough. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IainB Posted 10 hours ago Report Share Posted 10 hours ago 17 minutes ago, TTT said: Did they bin it off or have they gone broke? They've lost an awful lot of content recently. Now we're hearing about all UEFA Club Competition rights being lost as well. I think £1m ayear on Speedway was loose change for them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TTT Posted 9 hours ago Report Share Posted 9 hours ago (edited) On the basis that TNT haven't gone broke and that the Channel will still exist. Granted TNT may not like British Speedway but when you're running a Channel that's behind a pay wall, You'll need to produce content otherwise you won't get subscribers. Future Speedway Ventures and the BSPL do need to get in contact with TNT to explore the situation as they may have rejected the initial chance to renew the British Speedway contract due to them being invovled in a bidding war over UEFA Club Competition rights where the price was was soaring. Now that they've officially lost that bidding war, They will have a lot of money left to spend. Future Speedway Ventures and the BSPL will be desperate for a TV deal and they'll take any offer presented to them and TNT will be desperate for content after losing various rights to various Sports, Therefore they can get some easy content for peanuts when it comes to British Speedway. Edited 9 hours ago by TTT 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flagrag Posted 9 hours ago Report Share Posted 9 hours ago (edited) 1 hour ago, TTT said: Did they bin it off or have they gone broke? They've lost an awful lot of content recently. Now we're hearing about all UEFA Club Competition rights being lost as well. TNT have not gone broke but are in transition they will likely end up being online only as DMax like the rest of Europe. The Sky sports announcement this evening was meant to be in the morning but as usual UK newspapers couldn’t wait to break the news . As others have said it may be worth Future Speedway ventures going back to TNT to see if they are interested in broadcasting Speedway if the sport part funded the production costs . The CL announcement is a shock we were confident at Sky that we had the lower European competitions which actually features more UK clubs than the CL. However it was thought that TNT would retain the CL as there offer was a substantial increase on the last deal but Paramount have gone even higher Edited 9 hours ago by flagrag 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE DEAN MACHINE Posted 8 hours ago Report Share Posted 8 hours ago 38 minutes ago, flagrag said: As others have said it may be worth Future Speedway ventures going back to TNT to see if they are interested in broadcasting Speedway if the sport part funded the production costs . Speedway hasn’t got a pot to pee in, it can’t fund itself let alone let alone part fund a company like discovery to show its racing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TTT Posted 8 hours ago Report Share Posted 8 hours ago Just now, THE DEAN MACHINE said: Speedway hasn’t got a pot to pee in, it can’t fund itself let alone let alone part fund a company like discovery to show its racing Agreed but I wouldn't rule out a TNT U-Turn on that tbh. They would've been planning to spend Millions on UEFA Champions League rights. They've been absolutely rinsed tonight and it's left them with a severe lack of content from 2027. They'll have no choice but to pick up content now even if they don't rate it that highly. British Speedway for peanuts is an easy starter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phannan Posted 3 hours ago Report Share Posted 3 hours ago 4 hours ago, TTT said: Agreed but I wouldn't rule out a TNT U-Turn on that tbh. They would've been planning to spend Millions on UEFA Champions League rights. They've been absolutely rinsed tonight and it's left them with a severe lack of content from 2027. They'll have no choice but to pick up content now even if they don't rate it that highly. British Speedway for peanuts is an easy starter. British Speedway is worth peanuts tbh. The way it’s run with clubs dictating to the sport is laughable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben91 Posted 1 hour ago Report Share Posted 1 hour ago I can just imagine the big wigs at TNT heaving a sigh of relief that they can plug a European football gap with British Speedway. Give over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikebv Posted 1 hour ago Report Share Posted 1 hour ago 7 minutes ago, Ben91 said: I can just imagine the big wigs at TNT heaving a sigh of relief that they can plug a European football gap with British Speedway. Give over. The CEO will be getting hold of Darren Fletcher at this early hour, to give 'Arry a bell... "Get hold of him Darren quickly, I only hope it isn't too late and Prime, Paramount and Sky have all nipped in with offers to them"... "And do you know anyone in the Kabaddi hierarchy? Just in case".... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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