{"id":598988,"date":"2026-08-20T08:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T08:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/598988\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T08:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T08:52:10","slug":"opening-half-hour-of-tnt-sports-premier-league-broadcasts-to-be-shown-on-youtube-premier-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/598988\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening half-hour of TNT Sports\u2019 Premier League broadcasts to be shown on YouTube | Premier League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">TNT Sports will make the first 30 minutes of their live Premier League broadcasts available on YouTube this season starting with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/aug\/19\/premer-league-fixtures-coventry-ipswich-hull\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester United\u2019s visit to Hull<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The pre-Premier League show EKO \u2013 Early Kick Off \u2013 will be available free-to-air for the first time, as well as on TNT Sports and the streaming service HBO Max.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Presented by Liam MacDevitt or Olivia Buzaglo, EKO will start at 11am and feature the early team news from the game, which is released 75 minutes before kick-off, and the pre-match thoughts of TNT\u2019s main pundits such as Steven Gerrard and Joe Cole. The Saturday lunchtime live games kick off at 12.30pm live on TNT and HBO Max.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">In another departure for TNT, EKO will be broadcast before all of their live Premier League games this season rather than just before their Saturday lunchtime kick-offs, as was the case last season. As a result, TNT\u2019s coverage of an 8pm Saturday kick-off will begin with an EKO programme starting at 6.30pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The 30-minute show will have a magazine-type tone and feature discussion of wider issues rather than just the game itself, such as transfers and new players, in an attempt to broaden TNT\u2019s match audience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cTNT\u2019s coverage is evolving and this will help us reach more football fans earlier in the day,\u201d Scott Young, an executive vice-president at the parent company, Warner Bros Discovery Europe, said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cWe have a large number of loyal subscribers, but it\u2019s also important to reach fans off-platform. I think everyone is really looking forward to the return of the Premier League, especially after the excitement generated by the World Cup.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TNT Sports will make the first 30 minutes of their live Premier League broadcasts available on YouTube this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-598988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}