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On opening day of EPL Sky Sports 1 will be FREE to every home in UK. Sky Sports 1 will be free and all content will also be shown on Pick TV. This has just been announced on Sky Sports News
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BT Vision pay-TV viewers could lose Sky Sports after broadband switch
Thousands of BT Vision pay-TV customers face losing their Sky Sports channels from this weekend, as the telecoms company gears up to launch its own sports services ahead of the new Premier League football season. The move, part of the ongoing battle between BSkyB and BT prompted by the telecoms company's aggressive move into TV sports rights, provoked outrage from BT customers on its website community forums. BT is to make its two new BT Sport channels, which will air programming including live Premier League football and Premiership rugby, available to BT Vision customers on digital terrestrial television. In doing so the channels it currently runs in the DTT slots – Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 2 – will now only be available to BT Vision TV customers who live in an area that has its top-level Infinity broadband service, if they agree to sign up to it. BT Vision has 810,000 pay-TV subscribers, with analysts estimating that up to 30,000 also pay for Sky Sports. It is estimated that perhaps half of those 30,000 do not have a contract for BT Infinity broadband and could be affected. "Launching a new sports channel and extra live TV channels has meant we have had to make some changes to the way we deliver different programming," said a spokeswoman for BT. "Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 2 will now be delivered over our Infinity fibre-based broadband." BT has written to BT Vision customers who have Sky Sports and live in an area that is covered by its fast broadband service, telling them that they have to subscribe to it or they will not be able to watch after this weekend. "BT are using this as a sneaky way to get people to upgrade to Infinity, I think it will fail," said one disgruntled customer on a community forum on BT's website. Another said that they felt it was a "ruse" to get people to upgrade to Infinity: "BT will soon stop supplying Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 2 channels on BT Vision via your aerial if you live in an Infinity area. If you don't upgrade to Infinity they will cease your subscription to those channels." A spokeswoman for BT Vision said that it is trying to minimise the number of customers affected. For those who have Sky Sports but do not live in an area covered by BT Infinity and want to keep watching it has developed a "new technology" to stream the channels over slower broadband. BT is offering such customers BT Sport for free to try and stop them defecting to Sky. The spokeswoman admitted that there is a "small number" of customers who will simply be cut off from receiving Sky Sports. "A minority of customers who do not have a fast enough copper broadband connection, will lose Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 2 this summer," she said. "We will be giving these customers free BT Sport as well as six months' free broadband." http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013...-tv-sky-sports |
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My Grandparents been approached over the phone to take BT Infinity and get Sky Sports through it. It's not a good deal.
Sky tried making out that there's a "brand new" look to football next season. It was exactly the same, apart from their Saturday game is now 5.30 (the worst slot for football). and Carragher will join Neville on MNF, which will be a disaster. |
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we can look forward to more great sayings like the following "Whenever we play Chelsea, we always seem to get penalties that aren't given, but we don't cry too much about what happened." |
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Media Boy, you say that VM will see SS1 on Sky2, what do you mean by that.
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Carragher is awful, agreed. |
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don't know why anyone is surprised about sky raising the sky sports prices when they paid over 2 Billion for the football was no way prices was not going to go up
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uch to charge their customers taking some profit themselves. So buying direct from Sky ie as a Sky customer will always be cheaper unless Virgin are prepared to sell them on the cheap(take a loss on them) which isn't likely,is it? Mind you didn't BT take a loss on providing BT Vision customers with Sky sports 1&2 a year or 2 back? |
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alot of u will be suprised about carragher he will make a good pundit just like gnev
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- Most of TV viewers are watching Strictly/X Factor. - Broadcasters know this slot is badly watched so Sky will put it's 3rd/4th pick of the weekend in it (SS1 & 2, MNF), unless there is European commitments in the following mid-week. - People are usually out/men let their wives have the remote. I agree 12.45pm is bad slot, but only logistically, that I don't get to see many. They can be good games. Che 3 - 5 Ars for eg. And derbies get this slot a lot due to police instructions. |
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