Sky Sports 5 to Launch

[Dagenham Rover]

Showing just European football

http://www.sportsmole.co.uk/off-the-pitch/news/sky-launches-new-sports-channel_159163.html

[Tazemma]

Pre emptying the anticipated charges for sky sports 5 in two years time where we will have to pay yet more money to subscribe to watch the champions league.

[coventryrover]

oh joy..yet more football on tv, just what we need

[RedJ]

Pre emptying the anticipated charges for sky sports 5 in two years time where we will have to pay yet more money to subscribe to watch the champions league.

Aye we will, because it'll be on BT Sport I think 2015/16, as will the Europa League.

I think that's exclusive as well but don't quote me on that.

[vietaff]

Pre emptying the anticipated charges for sky sports 5 in two years time where we will have to pay yet more money to subscribe to watch the champions league.

Aye we will, because it'll be on BT Sport I think 2015/16, as will the Europa League.

I think that's exclusive as well but don't quote me on that.

This is correct from the 2015/16 season for 3 years. Presently BT Sport is free to BT Broadband customers, £12 if not. SKY are trying all they can to get the business hence 2 years free broadband BUT any customer who signs up for it will then have to pay BT to watch football an SKYs astronomical prices.

It's all going to change, the new bidding rights for PL football is in Feb 2015, BTS cash flow is over 3bill where as SKY'S is 1.2b....ou do the maths. In 5 years time BT will overtake sky and allow family's to watch all football at an affordable cost

NB/ these are my views and my views only

[Filo]

Pre emptying the anticipated charges for sky sports 5 in two years time where we will have to pay yet more money to subscribe to watch the champions league.

Aye we will, because it'll be on BT Sport I think 2015/16, as will the Europa League.

I think that's exclusive as well but don't quote me on that.

This is correct from the 2015/16 season for 3 years. Presently BT Sport is free to BT Broadband customers, £12 if not. SKY are trying all they can to get the business hence 2 years free broadband BUT any customer who signs up for it will then have to pay BT to watch football an SKYs astronomical prices.

It's all going to change, the new bidding rights for PL football is in Feb 2015, BTS cash flow is over 3bill where as SKY'S is 1.2b....ou do the maths. In 5 years time BT will overtake sky and allow family's to watch all football at an affordable cost

NB/ these are my views and my views only

And you have no connection with BT at all, right?

[vietaff]

Pre emptying the anticipated charges for sky sports 5 in two years time where we will have to pay yet more money to subscribe to watch the champions league.

Aye we will, because it'll be on BT Sport I think 2015/16, as will the Europa League.

I think that's exclusive as well but don't quote me on that.

This is correct from the 2015/16 season for 3 years. Presently BT Sport is free to BT Broadband customers, £12 if not. SKY are trying all they can to get the business hence 2 years free broadband BUT any customer who signs up for it will then have to pay BT to watch football an SKYs astronomical prices.

It's all going to change, the new bidding rights for PL football is in Feb 2015, BTS cash flow is over 3bill where as SKY'S is 1.2b....ou do the maths. In 5 years time BT will overtake sky and allow family's to watch all football at an affordable cost

NB/ these are my views and my views only

And you have no connection with BT at all, right?

No, I'm purely giving some free information 😃

[Rios]

Splitting some of the European football off is quite devious.  Sky are currently forced by regulations to allow other platforms to carry Sky Sports, but most of them don't bother with SkySports3 and 4 and carry just 1 and 2 where most of the popular stuff is.  Splitting it off will hurt those other platforms as they'll either continue to cover 1&2 or have to carry all five at a higher cost.

Oh and no dominant player ever gives an "affordable" product.  Sky has abused that position for a while, but BT will be no different.

[Filo]

These are supposed to be alright if you want to get all the sports channels for the one off price of the box

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00CI7O8G0/ref=pe_294751_49913961_em_1p_0_ti

[Rios]

These are supposed to be alright if you want to get all the sports channels for the one off price of the box

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00CI7O8G0/ref=pe_294751_49913961_em_1p_0_ti

Comparing pay-tv to illegal streams (which this box does) is hardly a fair comparison!  Or legal.

[GazLaz]

Hope you are on good commission Simon!!

[vietaff]

Splitting some of the European football off is quite devious.  Sky are currently forced by regulations to allow other platforms to carry Sky Sports, but most of them don't bother with SkySports3 and 4 and carry just 1 and 2 where most of the popular stuff is.  Splitting it off will hurt those other platforms as they'll either continue to cover 1&2 or have to carry all five at a higher cost.

Oh and no dominant player ever gives an "affordable" product.  Sky has abused that position for a while, but BT will be no different.

What about BTproviding BT Sports free to their BB customers? In 2006 sky were advised they couldn't have the full rights to all live premier league games, so they approached Setanta and said if we get you curstomers will you show games on your platform, this was to make sure that no other company had access to the rights and sky would remain the dominating force. The games thatSKY allowed Setanta to show were the piss poor ones yet £10-£12 a month was payable. BT have presently 38 live games per season with 19 top picks, so already BT is way ahead of Setanta and ESPN for game quality and as I said these are FREE to all BT broadband customers. BT will make watching football more affordable, but until prices are announced for the champions league games on BTTV this won't be seen.

[Filo]

Splitting some of the European football off is quite devious.  Sky are currently forced by regulations to allow other platforms to carry Sky Sports, but most of them don't bother with SkySports3 and 4 and carry just 1 and 2 where most of the popular stuff is.  Splitting it off will hurt those other platforms as they'll either continue to cover 1&2 or have to carry all five at a higher cost.

Oh and no dominant player ever gives an "affordable" product.  Sky has abused that position for a while, but BT will be no different.

What about BTproviding BT Sports free to their BB customers? In 2006 sky were advised they couldn't have the full rights to all live premier league games, so they approached Setanta and said if we get you curstomers will you show games on your platform, this was to make sure that no other company had access to the rights and sky would remain the dominating force. The games thatSKY allowed Setanta to show were the piss poor ones yet £10-£12 a month was payable. BT have presently 38 live games per season with 19 top picks, so already BT is way ahead of Setanta and ESPN for game quality and as I said these are FREE to all BT broadband customers. BT will make watching football more affordable, but until prices are announced for the champions league games on BTTV this won't be seen.

Having football with multiple providers does n't make it more affordable, it makes it more expensive

[Rios]

Splitting some of the European football off is quite devious.  Sky are currently forced by regulations to allow other platforms to carry Sky Sports, but most of them don't bother with SkySports3 and 4 and carry just 1 and 2 where most of the popular stuff is.  Splitting it off will hurt those other platforms as they'll either continue to cover 1&2 or have to carry all five at a higher cost.

Oh and no dominant player ever gives an "affordable" product.  Sky has abused that position for a while, but BT will be no different.

What about BTproviding BT Sports free to their BB customers? In 2006 sky were advised they couldn't have the full rights to all live premier league games, so they approached Setanta and said if we get you curstomers will you show games on your platform, this was to make sure that no other company had access to the rights and sky would remain the dominating force. The games thatSKY allowed Setanta to show were the piss poor ones yet £10-£12 a month was payable. BT have presently 38 live games per season with 19 top picks, so already BT is way ahead of Setanta and ESPN for game quality and as I said these are FREE to all BT broadband customers. BT will make watching football more affordable, but until prices are announced for the champions league games on BTTV this won't be seen.

BT have worded this very carefully.  They announced this season that it will be free again this season for BT Broadband subscribers.  That doesn't mean it will be like that indefinitely, indeed once saturation/stalemate is reached between them/sky/talktalk/etc there will be no need to entice non-existent customers and will then switch to monetising the customers they have.  The saddest bit of all this is that many smaller ISP's have been hoovered up (even o2 recently) due to it being non-profitable... the lack of choice in a few years will be stark and mirrors the supermarkets gradual destruction of the high street.

Filo's right, multiple suppliers costs the customer a lot more money.  Splitting the rights brings more money to the FA, PL, Eufa, etc.  That money has to be recooped somewhere and it won't be by giving stuff away to the proles.