OT : Sky Sports 5

Just when you thought Sky were being out-manoeuvred by BT in the Sports Channel stakes, good old Sky pull an Ace from out their sleeve and give us SKY SPORTS 5, dedicated to European Football. No doubt at a further cost to the consumer, but, you never know, they may be doing out of goodwill for all.

http://www1.skysports.com/football/...-a-new-channel-dedicated-to-european-football

Sky today announces good news for millions of its customers ahead of the new football season with confirmation that Sky Sports is to launch the first-ever television channel dedicated to European Football.

•Sky customers should revisit the site on June 12 to activate Sky Sports 5 and register for two years’ free Sky Broadband Unlimited.

Customers with Sky Sports will be able to receive the new channel - Sky Sports 5 - as part of their sports package, at no extra cost, and as a further bonus they can also get two years’ free Sky Broadband Unlimited. Sky Sports 5 will screen over 600 live European football matches next season featuring some of the best players, the best teams and the best competitions. Sky Sports 5 will be the seventh channel from Sky Sports and will be the home of European Qualifiers, UEFA Champions League, La Liga and Copa del Rey for Sky Sports viewers, plus a host of other European football programming including Revista De La Liga and Champions League Weekly.

Sky Sports are launching a new channel, Sky Sports Five, the first channel dedicated to European football. The channel will show more than 600 live matches

For the first time Sky Sports will also offer exclusively live coverage of Holland’s top division Eredivisie. The new 4-year deal announced today will bring live matches each week to Sky Sports 5, enabling viewers to follow the domestic campaigns of the Netherlands’ top teams including Ajax, Feyenoord, FC Twente and PSV Eindhoven.

Sky customers will be able to register for Sky Sports 5 from June 12 via red button, online and by calling Sky. In a further bonus, Sky Sports customers can also get two years’ free Sky Broadband Unlimited worth £7.50 a month. This, Sky’s best ever broadband offer, means people could save up to £330 – and get the great value of Sky’s totally unlimited broadband with no usage limits and no extra download charges.

Barney Francis, Managing Director of Sky Sports said: "Sky Sports 5 takes our unrivalled live football coverage to the next level offering more European football than ever before. There’s never been a better time to be a Sky Sports customer and with two years’ free totally unlimited broadband, we offer the ultimate package for sports fans."

Sky ambassador David Beckham added: "Some of my greatest playing moments were on the European stage with Manchester United, playing in El Clasico for Real Madrid and captaining England in Euro qualifiers. Sky Sports 5 will offer all the drama and excitement that European football has to offer and I’ll certainly be gripped."

 

More competition is good methinks.

 

got rid of sky sports ages ago ,dont watch a lot of boxing but they started putting the good bouts on pay per view,phoned them and said im paying for sky sports not the not quite top sky sports

 

I was wondering why the share price fell 10p overnight!

I see this as a direct response to the launch of BT sport last year which is free to broadband customers renewing their contract. Since the launch BT has accumulated around 84% of the Broadband market share. They've also won the rights to all UCL coverage from 2015 for 3 seasons.

Sky had to make some kind of move and this seems to be it. I fully agree- competition can only be good for the consumer.

 

Is it good for the consumer though?
May well be for Sky customers.

Is it another attempt by Sky to grab customers from BT or VM.

I'm with VM and have Sky Sports, but who's to say they'll be able to offer SS5 without another price hike.
Will have to wait and see on that one, but, I can foresee a long convoluted exchange between Sky and VM on this one.

Not bothered myself, as I don't make a point of watching Euro Football, so probably wont make that much of a difference, but, it could for plenty of others.

 

Am I reading this right, basically all they are offering in addition to now is god awful Dutch football alongside la liga & European matches but all housed under a new name?

Hardly setting the world alight is it?

 

It looks that way.
Seem to be moving them all onto one channel.
I think it also includes Euro Qualifiers.

 

More smoke and mirrors from Sky.

 

Watch our bills creep up a few quid to pay for this **** despite their already generous profit margins. ****s.

 

I am having their upgrade today. Its "free". I still reckon a letter will soon be received concerning the overall cost of each persons sky package.

 

It looks as though it will also be included in VM TV packages for free as well.

 

There will be some cost to the users eventually though. The bastards. Honestly I may have to consider taking Sky out. I can afford it, I just don't want to. It is now scandalous the monthly bill I get.

I feel a Mr Tiote sky dish ripping moment on the horizon.

 

Don't subscribe to SkySports, that's what the fecking Internet is for.

 

I've only got council telly. Always stream matches I don't go to, quality is quite good now.

 

Streams are ten times better now I have to say. I love most sports is my problem. My good lady would testify to this. I couldn't be hacked with trying to hunt them all down online. Plus its all the other stuff I like too.

Sky is a great service, the price is **** though.

 

ive just done what i do every year, cancel at the end of the season, wait until october when an offer comes through the letterbox for half price whatever for 6 months. no point in having sky sports during the summer IMO.