EPL on Sky Germany 2010/11

Manc-Red

Sky secures exclusive rights to all Barclays Premier League matches until 2013

* From next season, Barclays Premier League's top games available exclusively on Sky
* Sky secures all rights to TV, internet and mobile services
* More than 130 HD games per season

Munich, 9 December 2009. In the middle of the highly exciting "finals days" on Sky, subscribers can take delight in more good news. During the next three seasons, Sky will show all the important games of one of Europe's top leagues live and exclusively.

Of the collective 380 league games Sky will broadcast up to five per matchday. The high-quality live programming will be complemented with weekly highlights programmes and the magazine "Premier League World". In addition, the goals of the top stars from Britain will be shown on Sky in brilliant HD quality. Just under half of the league's games are produced by Barclays Premier League in HD. Sky will be showing a large number of these matches on Sky Sport HD.

Carsten Schmidt, Chief Officer Sports, Advertising Sales & Internet: "Securing the Barclays Premier League rights is the perfect Christmas present for all Sky subscribers and another good reason for choosing our product. The new three-year contract is an excellent complement to our high-quality football content, which includes the Bundesliga, the UEFA Champions League, the UEFA European League as well as the DFB Pokal and the FIFA World Cup 2010."

Premier League Chief Executive, Richard Scudamore: "We are extremely happy to have concluded a deal with Sky for the next three seasons. Their commitment to HD quality broadcasting and multi-platform broadcasting means Barclays Premier League fans in Germany will have all the best match action available to them in the best and most accessible ways possible."

Sky has secured the exclusive internet and mobile rights along with the TV rights in Germany and Austria. On sky.de, the Barclays Premier League is and remains an important part of the largest offer of sports video content on the internet.

byte

Interesting. I had read before that Sky DE had put EPL games on the back burner, in favour of more Bundesliga games.

Wonder how the EPL rights are faring out elsewhere around the globe. We already know that Canal+ in Scandinavia have lost the rights, unless they buy packages off the new rights holders.

I would be curious to see if Al Jazeera would snap up rights out of Showtime's hands in the East.

I'd expect Sky Italia to remain as is. Unless Berlusconi does someting...

Manc-Red

Canal + is a superb package, I'm watching the Utd game Live now & it has to be the best picture (sd) out there, Sky Ger is a close second - But for sheer qty of games the loss of Canal + will be kick to the teeth....

Lets hope Sky Germany give us more 3pms & mid-week options

snaps

Abu Dubai sports consortuim won the middle east, but they dont actually have any channels to show them on! Same as whats happened in Scandinavia.

byte

snaps wrote: »

Abu Dubai sports consortuim won the middle east, but they dont actually have any channels to show them on! Same as whats happened in Scandinavia.

Presumably, the Abu Dubai crowd that won the ME rights will resell, similar to what the Scandi crowd are supposedly going to do.

Manc-Red

byte wrote: »

Presumably, the Abu Dubai crowd that won the ME rights will resell, similar to what the Scandi crowd are supposedly going to do.

Please god its to Canal + & not Viasat though, can't get that signal

byte

Oh, yeah, never thought of that. Maybe the rights end up being shared between both...

Manc-Red

byte wrote: »

Oh, yeah, never thought of that. Maybe the rights end up being shared between both...

Interesting times ahead, but I can't complain I suppose - I've watched every game that Utd have played in Live with the change I made to the system in the summer.

Lets hope it keeps up for the next 3 years too.

Bodhisopha

Sky Germany? Did Sky buy out Premiere?

I have fond memories of Premiere, back in the good old days when i had it. Now i have nothing. :mad:

Manc-Red

Yes Sky took over Premiere, superb little package it was.

snaps

they are doing an 8 month prepaid hd system for 199e if u can get ur your hands on one?

MisterAnarchy

Manc-Red wrote: »

Of the collective 380 league games Sky will broadcast up to five per matchday.

I'm pretty sure this means up to five matches per round of fixtures not all 5 on one actual day.
E.g They will show 2 matches on a Saturday,2 on Sunday and one on Monday when possible.

Superfin

snaps wrote: »

they are doing an 8 month prepaid hd system for 199e if u can get ur your hands on one?

Where did you see this offer?

snaps

sky.de and ebay.de

Superfin

snaps wrote: »

sky.de and ebay.de

Would that humax box and german sky card work over here?
Presuming I got it delivered to a German address for starters.....after the 8 months what then?

Would the card work on the Azbox?

snaps

Superfin wrote: »

Would that humax box and german sky card work over here?
Presuming I got it delivered to a German address for starters.....after the 8 months what then?

Would the card work on the Azbox?

You buy another sub after the 8 months!

I think the box and card are paired!

twig

Would sky germany be worth getting? value for money? Are much of the sports channels english commentary?

kaisersose77

I wouldnt get a sub for them until the season starts and theres confirmation that the matches are in English.

They made a similar annoucement a few years ago saying they were going to show every EPL match and lots in HD. They ending up showing basically whats on sky sports and maybe 1 3pm match every weekend. The reason for this was because they got the rights to the bundesliga back at the last minute as the rights holders went bankrupt/collapsed.


Sky italia i think have all the EPL matches on their sky calcio channels and the last time I saw them there was just the italian audio channel.

snaps

Ive emailed an Italian seller in Italy that sells Sky Italy boxes/prepaid HD cards to Germany. 700e delivered to Germany. Ive asked if he can do the same to Ireland. Im awaiting a reply

byte

snaps wrote: »

Ive emailed an Italian seller in Italy that sells Sky Italy boxes/prepaid HD cards to Germany. 700e delivered to Germany. Ive asked if he can do the same to Ireland. Im awaiting a reply

Hm, that price sounds much more reasonable than what I see on UK stores.

It'll be interesting if he responds.

Manc-Red

kaisersose77 wrote: »

Sky italia i think have all the EPL matches on their sky calcio channels and the last time I saw them there was just the italian audio channel.

100 % English Audio this season & 16:9

blocparty

snaps wrote: »

Ive emailed an Italian seller in Italy that sells Sky Italy boxes/prepaid HD cards to Germany. 700e delivered to Germany. Ive asked if he can do the same to Ireland. Im awaiting a reply

any update on this?

snaps

blocparty wrote: »

any update on this?

no replys to any of my emails

Headshot

is it just bundesliga and EPl that is on sky germany folks ?

Manc-Red

Spanish & Austrian also Live on Sky De

Headshot

Manc-Red wrote: »

Spanish & Austrian also Live on Sky De

somthing to think about for next season

I do like my bundesliga and la-liga, pity no Serie A

Manc-Red

Headshot wrote: »

somthing to think about for next season

I do like my bundesliga and la-liga, pity no Serie A

Once I have Premiership I'm a happy camper, me.

Headshot

Manc-Red wrote: »

Once I have Premiership I'm a happy camper, me.

yap the EPL is a big one for me too

munchkin_utd

I thought I'd put an update here on the current state of play!

ALL premiership games on Sky DE do indeed have English commentary. Well...... I cant confirm for next year but I have had it for the past 2 seasons and that's the case!

re HD. Sky sport only has 1 HD channel at the moment, so if Bayern Munich is playing at the same time as a premiership team for example, then theres no HD premiership, otherwise there very often is.
According to press releases theres more sports HD channels on the way so this conflict of games should be less of a problem.

As a bonus, ALL champions league games on both Tuesday and Wednesday are shown. The home team always has commentary in their language available with german as the other language if its a big game, or for lesser games (no german at all) and the second commentary is the away team language.

Bonus 2 is that old Firm Derbys in Scotland are also shown. I suspect this is a cynical ploy by sky to ensure that Irish pubs cant show Scottish football without a commercial licence.
BTW. Sky have been very active in the past 6 months, ringing and chasing irish pubs into getting a commercial Sky DE licence even if they only have a UK/ IRL sky box, because Sky DE has the pub rights for the premiership etc. in Germany.

As a side issue, Sky Germany are pushing Sky+ HD boxes since about a week ago for the very first time.

Oat23

I've never seen Spanish football live on Sky Germany. Is this starting next season?

Excellent package BTW. Every single game from the Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga shown live. Europa League, Champs League, DFB Pokal and Premiership. Will be renewing come the end of my sub.

stesaurus

snaps wrote: »

Ive emailed an Italian seller in Italy that sells Sky Italy boxes/prepaid HD cards to Germany. 700e delivered to Germany. Ive asked if he can do the same to Ireland. Im awaiting a reply

Wow would be very interested at that price. Heard anything more? Any chance you could pass the details on and I could ask an Italian friend of mine to contact them, maybe they'd be able to respond better to Italian.

CircusIntro

What the

Oatesy23 wrote: »

I've never seen Spanish football live on Sky Germany. Is this starting next season?

Excellent package BTW. Every single game from the Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga shown live. Europa League, Champs League, DFB Pokal and Premiership. Will be renewing come the end of my sub.

Just a bit off topic , Just noticed you have a Hamburg Scarf in you sig ,

What are your thoughts on this

http://sport.stv.tv/football/135231-celtic-greeted-with-no-surrender-banner-in-hamburg/

I have travelled all over Europe for the more than 10 years supporting Celtic and I was at the game in question , I have to say the atmosphere in the stadium that night was pure poison, The Club Managment should have been sanctioned by UEFA for allowing such a provocative display take place, I for one was ecstatic that Fulham are playing in the Final to-morrow night

munchkin_utd

Oatesy23 wrote: »

I've never seen Spanish football live on Sky Germany. Is this starting next season?

Excellent package BTW. Every single game from the Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga shown live. Europa League, Champs League, DFB Pokal and Premiership. Will be renewing come the end of my sub.

Spanish?
There was spanish a couple of years back on premiere (now sky germany). Also was italian football and last year even big games in Holland were available.
All now are gone!

The only upside is that seeing as Roy McElroy is doing so well in the Golf, maybe I will watch some of that seeing as i am paying for it. Commentary almost always available in english, or whatever they speak in America :P

Oat23

CircusIntro wrote: »

What the



Just a bit off topic , Just noticed you have a Hamburg Scarf in you sig ,

What are your thoughts on this

http://sport.stv.tv/football/135231-celtic-greeted-with-no-surrender-banner-in-hamburg/

I have travelled all over Europe for the more than 10 years supporting Celtic and I was at the game in question , I have to say the atmosphere in the stadium that night was pure poison, The Club Managment should have been sanctioned by UEFA for allowing such a provocative display take place, I for one was ecstatic that Fulham are playing in the Final to-morrow night

(Not the right section but it would be rude not to answer)
I've been asked this many times, football fans outside of Germany seem to judge HSV fans off this incident and it's not really fair(it's happened on this site too). There's this affiliation with Rangers which apparently means we have to hate Celtic too(which I don't). Deep down no HSV fans have anything against Celtic, and I know alot of those 1,000 or so fans in that section didn't know how serious/hurtful it was.

Everyone needs to move on, it happened in November. Worse has happened!. The songs coming from the Celtic support weren't all that nice afterall. Yes, Celtic win fan behavior awards, but they aren't all angels. It's the same with every club in thw world, there's always a few c**ts.

Pal

Take it to the football forum please.

Oat23

Pal wrote: »

Take it to the football forum please.

I acknowledged it was the wrong forum, no need to beat us with the mod whip :rolleyes:.

skinny6781

just on http://liveonsat.com and it looks like sky germany has a load off the 12.45 and 3pm kick off on the premiership , can anyone confirm you can get this in ireland (how to get it ?)and most off all is there english commentry ??

Oat23

skinny6781 wrote: »

just on http://liveonsat.com and it looks like sky germany has a load off the 12.45 and 3pm kick off on the premiership , can anyone confirm you can get this in ireland (how to get it ?)and most off all is there english commentry ??

Yes, there is English commentary. Usually there is English commentary on their Champions League/Europa League coverage when an English team is involved too.

To get it you need a dish pointed at 19.2E and you need to get a Sky Deutschland card.

skinny6781

Thank you ,
is the commentry in english in all the game or just big one do you know as dont want to spend 1000 euro on a card for it this not in english,

do you know anyone who supplyes these cards ???

Oat23

skinny6781 wrote: »

Thank you ,
is the commentry in english in all the game or just big one do you know as dont want to spend 1000 euro on a card for it this not in english,

do you know anyone who supplyes these cards ???

Yes english is on all matches. They used the European premier league feed last season. No Andy Gray from what I remember which was f**king awesome.

I get my card from a friend in Germany so I wouldn't know who supplies them. Maybe Marconi Digital does.
I know liveonsat do in their shop but be aware that liveonsat's card doesn't include the Bundesliga channel that shows all the bundesliga games from the top 2 divisions live. I don't know if that is of any interest to you though. I'm sure someone here would know more satellite websites than me that could let you know what places sell them.

Manc-Red

Oatesy23 wrote: »

Yes english is on all matches. They used the European premier league feed last season. No Andy Gray from what I remember which was f**king awesome.

I get my card from a friend in Germany so I wouldn't know who supplies them. Maybe Marconi Digital does.
I know liveonsat do in their shop but be aware that liveonsat's card doesn't include the Bundesliga channel that shows all the bundesliga games from the top 2 divisions live. I don't know if that is of any interest to you though. I'm sure someone here would know more satellite websites than me that could let you know what places sell them.

Its a very good package, their currently on 1 HD Sport Channel which may be a hassle due to there prioritizing of German League on it - if your an EPL fan.....

Commentary is from the world EPL feed & picture on SD Channels is very very good.

Little bit pricey - but if you have the dough the package that is much better is Sky Italy. Serious amount of live EPL on it & again all in English too.

Oat23

Sky Sport HD2 launching soon mate, possibly at the start of August. Saw it on an advert a few weeks ago. Should be good to go!

Manc-Red

Oatesy23 wrote: »

Sky Sport HD2 launching soon mate, possibly at the start of August. Saw it on an advert a few weeks ago. Should be good to go!

Ye Boy Ya Oatesy!

Great news

Oat23

Manc-Red wrote: »

Ye Boy Ya Oatesy!

Great news

13th of August is the launch date. I couldn't remember what date the ad said and it was bothering me so I had to go on the hunt for it .

http://www.sky.de/web/cms/de/abonnieren-paket-infos.jsp?selectedArea=hd

snaps

Oatesy23 wrote: »

13th of August is the launch date. I couldn't remember what date the ad said and it was bothering me so I had to go on the hunt for it .

http://www.sky.de/web/cms/de/abonnieren-paket-infos.jsp?selectedArea=hd

Just in time for the EPL!

Canal+ Finland will be sharing coverage with MTV3, with a launch of a new HD channel.

Also we may be in luck with TV2 sports Norway and their weaker transponder, if rumors are right they are actually launching EPL channels and not using their current sport channels?

Oat23

snaps wrote: »

Also we may be in luck with TV2 sports Norway and their weaker transponder, if rumors are right they are actually launching EPL channels and not using their current sport channels?

Lj's has the TV2 EPL channels listed as TV2 EPL1, TV2 EPL2 etc and no transponders listed yet. So it's possible. It'd be great if they were new channels on a stronger tp.

settopbox

Sky germany will have a dedicated hd channel for 3 pm kickoffs I hear with english commentary also.

I reckon the norweigean channels will be on the wide signal so we should get them also.

Nova sport have hd also on 23 east with hd coverage for the 3 pm stuff, pretty sure its english too.

snaps

Sky sports HD2 and a few others now with test card on Astra 19.2 10773.25 H 22000 2/3 DVBS-2 8PSK

Manc-Red

settopbox wrote: »

Sky germany will have a dedicated hd channel for 3 pm kickoffs I hear with english commentary also.

I reckon the norweigean channels will be on the wide signal so we should get them also.

Nova sport have hd also on 23 east with hd coverage for the 3 pm stuff, pretty sure its english too.

Norwegian channels are on the K1 beam which I'm getting on a touch & go on my 88cm. 1m should be no issue at all.

snaps

Manc-Red wrote: »

Norwegian channels are on the K1 beam which I'm getting on a touch & go on my 88cm. 1m should be no issue at all.

I cant work this K1 beam out. The Transponder of TV2 HD where TV2EPL 3 is, I can get no problems at the moment, but rain, she's gone. (10.841V)

TV2EPL 1+2 Transponder is very strong indeed (10.934V)

Canal+HD/Canal+Sport HD no signal whats so ever (10.934H)

irishchris

snaps wrote: »

I cant work this K1 beam out. The Transponder of TV2 HD where TV2EPL 3 is, I can get no problems at the moment, but rain, she's gone. (10.841V)

TV2EPL 1+2 Transponder is very strong indeed (10.934V)

Canal+HD/Canal+Sport HD no signal whats so ever (10.934H)

hi mate

i have same problem. i have no problem getting tv2 epl 1/2/3 but cannot get canal+ nordic film hd or sport hd on same transponder here in west ireland!!