General ESPN, BT, Euro, Premier and Sky Sports news - Page 427

1andrew1 · 22-04-2016, 13:23

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Originally Posted by OLD BOY

I wonder how many Now TV subscribers are Virgin Media customers seeking to access Sky Atlantic? That would be interesting to know.

Not many but will probably rise soon when the new series of Games of Thrones starts.

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Interesting to see this situation in Italy.
"The Italian competition authority has issued €66 million in fines to the Italian football league and its broadcast partners Mediaset and Sky.
Rather than awarding the rights on the basis it had promoted, the league had at the suggestion of Infront, implemented an agreed allocation between two main competitors."
This meant that broadcasters including Discovery were frozen out of package D.

Fines split:
- Mediaset €51.4 million
- Sports rights brokers Infront €9 million
- Sky €4m
- the league €2m

http://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2016/...-football-fix/

RichardCoulter · 23-04-2016, 16:23

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Originally Posted by OLD BOY

I wonder how many Now TV subscribers are Virgin Media customers seeking to access Sky Atlantic? That would be interesting to know.

I know of a fair few who have downgraded their package with VM because, as well as Sky Atlantic and Encore, Now TV also gives access to the other pay channels that they want.

VM TV figures aren't performing well, they would be even worse if the figures for downgrading were included.

denphone · 25-04-2016, 15:41

A+E Networks and BT TV extend carriage deal.

http://www.seenit.co.uk/ae-networks-...carriage-deal/

Dave42 · 27-04-2016, 15:13

got my letter about sky sports increase today going up £2.50 bye bye sky sports

telegramsam · 27-04-2016, 15:32

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Originally Posted by Dave42

got my letter about sky sports increase today going up £2.50 bye bye sky sports

My Sky Sports will be cancelled once the football season ends as usual but whether I renew again in August remains to be seen. I may just buy a Now TV box and pick and choose the games I want to watch.

Dave42 · 27-04-2016, 15:40

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Originally Posted by telegramsam

My Sky Sports will be cancelled once the football season ends as usual but whether I renew again in August remains to be seen. I may just buy a Now TV box and pick and choose the games I want to watch.

yeah probably see season out all the rises are sure making people turn to things like kodi

denphone · 27-04-2016, 16:03

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Originally Posted by Dave42

got my letter about sky sports increase today going up £2.50 bye bye sky sports

Our contract is coming to a end in a months time so we will be giving retentions a little tinkle.

smallclone · 28-04-2016, 15:51

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Originally Posted by Dave42

yeah probably see season out all the rises are sure making people turn to things like kodi

Hardly surprising really.

Just to add that Kodi is a very useful piece of software. And perfectly legal.

Gavin-D · 29-04-2016, 10:37

Price rises at BT this summer

Line rental up to £18.99

BT Sport is going up £1 to £6 - remains free for customers on BT broadband and TV contracts

The increase comes into affect on July 3rd

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/...d-tv-customers

denphone · 29-04-2016, 11:44

Line rental is becoming incredibly expensive sadly.

TonyM19 · 29-04-2016, 16:28

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Originally Posted by telegramsam

My Sky Sports will be cancelled once the football season ends as usual but whether I renew again in August remains to be seen. I may just buy a Now TV box and pick and choose the games I want to watch.

This is working for me

japitts · 30-04-2016, 11:22

Apologies for what might be a real newbie type question, but as a Bath & England rugby fan I'm toying with subscribing to Sky Sports for the Australia tour in June. I'm already on TV-XL so get most of the European and all the Premiership games included. I'm also utterly loath to line Sky's pockets anymore than I need to, for all the obvious reasons.

But what I can't get my head round..is there any logic to how Sky allocate particular sports to their channels? I've worked out that VM have one price for SS1 by itself, one for SS2 by itself and another for the pair - with HD being another level. Fine, I get that. But would paying for, say, SS1 & HD guarantee getting all the matches in a particular tournament, or is the only way of doing that, to take the full subscription? And does SS3, SS4 etc only get included with the whole package?

Sorry for what might be really basic questions - I've always avoided even looking at Sky prices but I'm just half-tempted this time round when I compare them with ticket prices that I don't bat an eyelid at (and I'm sure Sky realise that!!)

Sorry for a long post..

spiderplant · 30-04-2016, 12:34

I can't answer the allocation question, but the answer to "does SS3, SS4 etc only get included with the whole package?" is yes.

Bofrok · 30-04-2016, 16:36

According to http://www.wheresthematch.com/Rugby-Union/England.asp the Australia-England games are on Sky Sports 1.

Hopefully they won't change their schedules.

japitts · 03-05-2016, 13:41

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Originally Posted by Bofrok

According to http://www.wheresthematch.com/Rugby-Union/England.asp the Australia-England games are on Sky Sports 1.

Hopefully they won't change their schedules.

Thanks, great info - I've been on that site a wee while ago but didn't think to check.