ITV Box Office

According to Lyngsat, they are on:-

10.832H 23000 3/4 DVB-S2 8PSK

Looks like EPG data has come for ITV Box Office - courtesy of Digital Bitrate.

All it's showing is: 'Programmes Coming Soon', with the description as 'Welcome to ITV Box Office, programmes coming soon.'

Can't be far off right now to launch, can't it?

Has this rumour of boxing going to ITV and on ITV Box Office now gone cold because in the last month BT Sport have signed a deal with Frank Warren and Boxnation to have 20 live shows simulcast on both BT & Boxnation with a further 10 fights exclusive and pay per view on Boxnation with the channel also joining the BT Sport pack.

See more at:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/boxing/2016/11/11/boxnation-to-be-made-available-to-bt-sport-subscribers-as-pair-s/

It's been quiet for the past few months since the news of the licence being granted.

As for ITV Box Office - it was possibly being looked at by Haymon - who has got boxing fights screened FTA in the US, and was possibly moving towards the UK for the boxing deal.

Either way, with '20825' shaping up to be a new member of the ITV family - not long left till ITV spill the beans.

Chris Eubank Jnr world title fight to be first pay per view event on ITV Box Office.

Undercard to be shown on ITV4.

http://www.itv.com/presscentre/press-releases/itv-show-eubank-jnr-world-title-fight

Note that like Sky Sports Box Office, ITV will also be offering the PPV event online. I'd like to hope it'd be an addition to the ITV Hub apps.

Not a big enough name I'd have thought to get people paying.

And ITV conveniently forgetting they offered pay per view services (football at least) during the dark days of ITV Digital.

So ITV have spilled the beans.

It's interesting to see what ITV Box Office will offer, but I think that as a newcomer it's going to have some difficulty in attracting viewers.

I do hold out hope that it will be offered on NOW TV, as is Sky and Virgin.

Is there will there be an sd version out of interest

You are Yoda, AICMFP

I'd like to hope the online stream is at least 720p. This could tie in with an upgraded paywall service for ITV Hub where currently everything is SD.

As Sky Box Office isn't on NOW TV I doubt they'll maake it easy for ITV to make their service available.

I also think putting the undercard on ITV4 will likely backfire. They'll piss off ITV4 viewers by cutting away before the main event, and piss of ITV Box Office payers who are effectively paying for one fight rather than the entire night. Knowing ITV's luck too it'll probably be a knock-out in 30 seconds - and they'll miss it by accidently going to a Tic Tacs ad.