EPL on Sky Germany 2010/11

Manc-Red · 30-12-2009 1:59am #1

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 · 30-12-2009 9:52pm

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 · 30-12-2009 10:31pm

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 · 31-12-2009 7:22am

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 · 31-12-2009 9:08pm

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 · 31-12-2009 9:11pm

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 · 31-12-2009 9:14pm

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

Manc-Red · 31-12-2009 9:19pm

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 · 03-01-2010 8:14pm

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 · 03-01-2010 8:18pm

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

snaps · 04-01-2010 1:07pm

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

MisterAnarchy · 04-01-2010 3:01pm

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 · 04-01-2010 3:42pm

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 · 04-01-2010 5:52pm

sky.de and ebay.de

Superfin · 05-01-2010 3:49pm

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 · 11-01-2010 2:48am

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 · 12-01-2010 12:21am

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

kaisersose77 · 12-01-2010 8:54am

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 · 12-01-2010 10:56am

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 · 12-01-2010 11:54pm

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 · 13-01-2010 8:49pm

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 · 05-02-2010 3:17pm

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 · 05-02-2010 3:27pm

blocparty wrote: »

any update on this?

no replys to any of my emails

Headshot · 20-02-2010 1:10am

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

Manc-Red · 20-02-2010 10:01am

Spanish & Austrian also Live on Sky De

Headshot · 21-02-2010 7:46pm

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 · 21-02-2010 7:49pm

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 · 21-02-2010 7:51pm

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 · 11-05-2010 10:39am

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 · 11-05-2010 11:42am

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 · 11-05-2010 1:01pm

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.

EPL on Sky Germany 2010/11

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