BT Entertainment packages.

Les_Easom

MSE show BT Entertainment + Fibre 1 package as giving 171 TV channels. BT website shows only 50+. 
What am I missing here?

JJ_Egan

Where is that shown ??

Is it an old link ??

My BT package Max TV has 170 plus channels   .

Lostintheclouds

Les_Easom said:

MSE show BT Entertainment + Fibre 1 package as giving 171 TV channels. BT website shows only 50+. 
What am I missing here?

Indeed what are we missing. It seems there is an error with the MSE Broadband/TV/Phone deal checker. And it doesn't appear to be an old link as I just double checked (https://broadband.moneysavingexpert.com/broadband-and-tv-deals)

The check that I did actually shows BT Big Sport + Fibre 1 as having 179 channels (but BT disagrees)

(I won't copy and paste the entire 179 channels from the link here so I'll just chose 'Music' as an example).

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179 TV channels inc:

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• All
• Entertainment
• Sport
• Movies
• News
• Childrens
• Lifestyle
• Factual
• Interactive
• Music
• Shopping
• Radio

4Music, Clubland, Kerrang!, KISS, NOW 70s, NOW 80s, NOW 90s, VisionTV

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The MSE checker says you should get 8 music channels with that package. But in reality the only one you get on that package is the Now 80s channel on channel number 83 (which is quite possibly on freeview anyway).

So if you call BT to query this, they send a link to an entirely different TV channel list from their website and makes it difficult to argue any case if you saw a different channel list on a 'non BT and hence unofficial checker  website'.

Has anyone else had issues with this? Especially those that have signed up recently?

Maybe there's an issue with the MSE affliated checker that needs addressing?

Lostintheclouds

I did the OP's check for the Entertainment Package on the BT Website and it does indeed state that you get just 54 channels on the BT Entertainment package - 17 Entertainment channels (including AMC) and 37 on Freeview.

https://www.bt.com/packages/entertainment

Just had another look for FULL channel lists on the various packages with BT and there don't seem to be any that show those channel lists as on the MSE checker with 170+ channels.

Is there some kind of legal smallprint that we are missing somewhere?

outofworksch

Bt have 2 entertainment packages.
One is basically the channels you get with now tv https://www.bt.com/packages/entertainment/

the other is the old entertainment package
https://www.bt.com/packages/classic/
I think many people have been caught out by it.