just thought I'd sum up how successful their CL coverage has been compared to last season's:
UK Viewing Figures
CL QFs: ITV (2015): 2.38m & 1.97m, Sky Sports: Not ranked in top 30 non-terrestrial programmes, BT Sport (2016): 1st leg not ranked in top 30, 2nd leg of MCFC v PSG: 0.78m.
CL SFs: ITV (2015): 2.8m (RM v Juve), 2.67m (Barca v Bayern). Sky Sports (2015): 0.88m (Bar v Bay), 0.89m (RM v Juve). BT Sport: 0.89m (MCFC v RM 1st leg), 0.95m (MCFC v RM 2nd leg), Atleti v Bayern didn't make the top 30.
p.s. Europa League semi-finals including Liverpool 0.98m & 0.78m, QF v Dortmund 1m & 0.8m & Liv v MUFC in the Last 16, 1.13m & 1.07m.
So BT Sport belittle us for an extra 200-300,000 viewers, and are regularly not within the top 30 non BBC, ITV, C4 & C5 programmes in a week, have 2m fewer viewers than the ITV games and are about par with the Sky games from last year, but those Sky games did not include an English club and the BT non-English club ties don't even make the rankings. Furthermore, Sky pull in more viewers, sometimes double, for their weekend PL games than BT do in CL, and again BT's PL games don't rank in the top 30 on a weekly basis either.
To sum up, BT Sport drew 610,000 viewers for the Rags loss in Wolfsburg on Matchday 6 in the Group stages. Liverpool's exit to Basel at the same stage the previous season on ITV drew 3.37m viewers, no wonder UEFA are pissed off. 3.15m watched the final on ITV last season, excluding Youtube I doubt half that watched it on BT Sport this year.