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SKY Sports News goes subscription

  • 17-06-2010 5:25pm
    #1
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭


    Oh noes! (well for them with a basic pay digital package)

    SSN is being pulled from free to view


Comments

  • #2
    FearDark
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,425 ✭✭✭FearDark


    I've never had it for free, it not a free channell on sky.


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Saturday(during the season) is the only day I'd miss it tbh


  • #4
    CR 7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,721 ✭✭✭CR 7


    FearDark wrote: »
    I've never had it for free, it not a free channell on sky.

    It definitely was. I've watched it quite a bit on a box with no additional subscriptions over the basic package.

    Pity, it provided excitement on transfer days etc.


  • #5
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Free to view is not the same as free to air, the former is where once you have paid for a package its availible, as on NTL for example. Anyway everyone will have to shell out one way or another from now on.


  • #6
    Daemos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,645 ✭✭✭Daemos


    Okay these things confuse me. I have a UPC box and don't pay for Sky Sports but still have Sky Sports News. Does this mean I'm going to lose it?


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  • #7
    Oat23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,468 ✭✭✭✭Oat23


    Park Ji Sung wrote: »
    It definitely was. I've watched it quite a bit on a box with no additional subscriptions over the basic package.

    Pity, it provided excitement on transfer days etc.

    SSN has always been a pay channel on Sky. It's not part of the sports pack, but the news pack that comes with the basic pack AFAIK. That's why you have it.


  • #8
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    That's just freeview in the UK, on Sky Digital it's currently part of the News & Sports mix


  • #9
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    DaPoolRulz wrote: »
    Okay these things confuse me. I have a UPC box and don't pay for Sky Sports but still have Sky Sports News. Does this mean I'm going to lose it?

    Yep unless you pay extra for it.

    The good news is that BBC Final Score behind the red button is bound to go big as they exploit a bigger audience. Does UPC have red button these days?


  • #10
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    You pay extra for the News pack €2 a month (most have the basic 6 mixes of which news & sports is one)


  • #11
    Gillington
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,555 ✭✭✭Gillington


    Fcukers :(


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  • #12
    Esse85
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,254 ✭✭✭Esse85


    Same sh1t every 15 mins anyway


  • #13
    Minstrel27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,818 ✭✭✭Minstrel27


    Sky Sports News has always required a subscription in this country. It is part of the News & Events package since day one and has recently also been included on the Sky Sports package.

    This move will affect Digital Terrestrial viewers in the United Kingdom only.


  • #14
    SantryRed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,224 ✭✭✭✭SantryRed


    mike65 wrote: »
    Yep unless you pay extra for it.

    The good news is that BBC Final Score behind the red button is bound to go big as they exploit a bigger audience. Does UPC have red button these days?

    :pac:

    Good one


  • #15
    Lando Griffin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,952 ✭✭✭Lando Griffin


    Is anything sacred these days?


  • #16
    byte
    Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 19,157 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    As an aside, I look forward to the Sky Sports News HD channel. should make the graphics look better.


  • #17
    Minstrel27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,818 ✭✭✭Minstrel27


    byte wrote: »
    As an aside, I look forward to the Sky Sports News HD channel. should make the graphics look better.

    A widescreen image is more important to me. It might make the video screen that bit bigger.


  • #18
    byte
    Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 19,157 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    Minstrel27 wrote: »
    A widescreen image is more important to me. It might make the video screen that bit bigger.
    Yes that too, along with HD, will give a lot more room for text and video. Sky News HD looks quite good in that regard (content aside).


  • #19
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    As was mentioned on DS, SSN acts as a 24 hr advert for Sky Sports so putting behind a wall seems foolish


  • #20
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 24,714 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Wouldn't bother me even if they put it in the skysports subscription as I dont plan on being without sky sports anytime soon. Sure half the reason to have sky at all is for the sports channels.

    As an aside I watch far too much skysports news, its my ritual in the morning eating brekkie and nearly all day Saturday. I even sit watching it in the evening if nothing else is on, though I dont do it as much as I used to.


  • #21
    Esse85
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,254 ✭✭✭Esse85


    byte wrote: »
    As an aside, I look forward to the Sky Sports News HD channel. should make the graphics look better.
    Yeah the fit birds will look even better

    georgie-thompson1.jpg


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  • #22
    JPA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,812 ✭✭✭✭JPA


    Esse85 wrote: »
    Yeah the fit birds will look even better

    georgie-thompson1.jpg


    Or not!


  • #23
    Benny Lava
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 534 ✭✭✭Benny Lava


    A few years ago, this would have been a disaster for me.

    However, with footytube it doesn't really matter.


  • #24
    Gillington
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,555 ✭✭✭Gillington


    It's purely Soccer Saturday that i'd miss


  • #25
    MisterAnarchy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,952 ✭✭✭✭MisterAnarchy


    Minstrel27 wrote: »
    Sky Sports News has always required a subscription in this country. It is part of the News & Events package since day one and has recently also been included on the Sky Sports package.

    This move will affect Digital Terrestrial viewers in the United Kingdom only.

    Correct ,it makes absolutely no difference to satellite or cable viewers .
    It is a pay channel on satellite and cable and always has been.


  • #26
    Richy06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 963 ✭✭✭Richy06


    Chorus/NTL digital is cable based and it is freeview on the basic package there.


  • #27
    Minstrel27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,818 ✭✭✭Minstrel27


    Richy06 wrote: »
    Chorus/NTL digital is cable based and it is freeview on the basic package there.

    It's not free if you have to pay to see it. Basic package is not free.


  • #28
    Richy06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 963 ✭✭✭Richy06


    Yes, but I think what most people were getting at is they regard it as free as it comes with the basic package.


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