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EE TV & TNT Sports red button

JordanTA — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 09:43:21 GMT

What is the Connected Red Button?

The Connected Red Button service on EETV gives you access to additional live TNT Sports content and interactive features exclusively through discovery+.

Features include:

Timeline Markers
Multi-match
Event Alerts and more

How do you get started?

EETV Sport or Big Sport customers can access the Connected Red Button by pressing the red button on their remote control while watching any of the TNT Sports channels (1-10) on their set-top box.

This will launch a side panel, allowing EE customers to continue watching while exploring additional content. Selecting any video within the panel will take customers to the discovery+ app, where they can watch that video with an enhanced sport experience, as well as continue to browse all the additional content exclusive on discovery+.

What box do I need?

EE TV Box Pro
EE TV Box Mini
EE TV Recordable Box
EE TV 4K Recordable Box

I don’t have a discovery+ account, what should I do?

If you’ve opened discovery+ for the first-time or haven’t signed into the discovery+ app, they will be prompted to “Activate discovery+” or to "Sign in" before proceeding.

Pressing “Activate discovery+” will provide EE customers with information and steps on how to create discovery+ account. Once they’ve followed the steps, they will then be able to access discovery+ app and watch or browse all the additional content TNT Sports content exclusive on discovery+.
Pressing “Sign in” will provide EE customers with information and steps on how to sign in using pin and pair, from there they will then be able to access discovery+ app and watch or browse all the additional TNT Sports content exclusive on discovery+.

Re: EE TV & TNT Sports red button

zulu17 — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 15:13:12 GMT

Should all the available extra LIVE streamed content available on the discovery + app be offered in the side panel as this afternoon (20th July) i wasn't offered when pressing the red button several streams that discovery + was broadcasting. These were Taekwondo , Fencing , Table Tennis, Platform Diving.

All of these 4 streams were listed within the discovery+ app Sports section as being live and available but as I mentioned not shown as available on the TNT sports connected red button on EETV.

I notice that these 4 missing streams on the EETV TNT sports connected red button when streamed on the discovery + app were streamed with EUROSPORT logo rather than TNT Sports logo on the broadcaster. I don't know if this is a factor in them not being identified as TNT Sports content ?

Re: EE TV & TNT Sports red button

DarrenDev — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 07:56:57 GMT

The connected red button is developed and managed by discovery+ - they choose the content that is displayed there, so it's not a question we'd easily be able to answer. You could be on to something with it being Eurosport content though @zulu17 - I know from our BT Sport days that sometimes video streams weren't delivered to us in a way that gave us any flexibility on how they were presented. i.e. we could only display them on devices that supported the format they came to us in. We couldn't re-package them to support all devices/platforms.

Re: EE TV & TNT Sports red button

zulu17 — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 20:12:00 GMT

Another oddity I noticed from the past couple of days is that the live FA CUP games Friday evening and Saturday early evening were not included as options in the list of Live & Upcoming events that the discovery + connected button displayed when red button activated . All the other live streams at the time were listed just the FA Cup games missing . WIthin the discovery app itself the live FA Cup games streams were clearly available as live events and watchable just no direct link to their live stream from the discovery red button on EETV.

Re: EE TV & TNT Sports red button

DarrenDev — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 08:14:59 GMT

Same answer still applies @zulu17 - their app, their decisions, their (possible) technical limitations.