BT chooses Red Bee Media for sports channels playout

Red Bee Media has been chosen by BT to provide playout, channel and media management services for BT’s new live sports offering, BT Sport.

The channels, which will be available 24 hours a day in HD and SD, are scheduled to launch this summer.

Grant Best, senior channel executive producer, BT Sport, said: “We are delighted to have teamed up with Red Bee Media for playout, channel and media management services. It’s vitally important that we have complete confidence in our ability to deliver the amazing live sports coverage we’ll be offering to customers of BT Sport. We chose Red Bee Media because of its impressive expertise in supporting this type of live event broadcasting. We are happy to extend our relationship with Red Bee Media, having already chosen them to help us with the design the BT Sport logo.”