Free Sky Sports for a day Saturday 17th August.

Sgt Pepper 64

Guess this is because of the competition of BT.
Only problem is Jamie Carragher!

Sky Sports will launch its biggest ever season of Premier League football by offering free live action from the first day of the season for every home in Britain.

From August, Sky Sports viewers can enjoy more live Barclays Premier League matches than ever before. There will be 116 live fixtures on Sky Sports featuring the big head to heads and every club at least five times across Saturday evenings, Sunday double-headers, Monday nights and bank
holidays.

To celebrate the first day of the Premier League season and Sky Sports’ new line up of football, programmes from Sky Sports 1 will replace the regular programming on Sky 2 (on Sky and other pay TV services) and Pick TV (on Freeview and You View) on Saturday 17th August. The takeover means millions of home viewers can enjoy a live Premier League match, a Football League fixture, plus a host of other football shows at no cost.

The free day will include the brand new show, ‘Saturday Night Football’, for Sky’s 5.30pm Saturday evening Premier League fixture. The show is part of Sky Sports’ new look ‘weekend of football’ which also includes the new pairing of Jamie Carragher and Gary Neville for ‘Monday Night
Football’ and a new Saturday schedule running from Soccer AM all the way through to extended evening highlights of all 3pm matches

http://corporate.sky.com/investors/press_releases/2013/free_day_of_sky_sports_to_kick_off_biggest_ever_football_season

AlanS181824

Sgt Pepper 64 wrote: »

Guess this is because of the competition of BT.
Only problem is Jamie Carragher!

Sky Sports will launch its biggest ever season of Premier League football by offering free live action from the first day of the season for every home in Britain.

From August, Sky Sports viewers can enjoy more live Barclays Premier League matches than ever before. There will be 116 live fixtures on Sky Sports featuring the big head to heads and every club at least five times across Saturday evenings, Sunday double-headers, Monday nights and bank
holidays.

To celebrate the first day of the Premier League season and Sky Sports’ new line up of football, programmes from Sky Sports 1 will replace the regular programming on Sky 2 (on Sky and other pay TV services) and Pick TV (on Freeview and You View) on Saturday 17th August. The takeover means millions of home viewers can enjoy a live Premier League match, a Football League fixture, plus a host of other football shows at no cost.

The free day will include the brand new show, ‘Saturday Night Football’, for Sky’s 5.30pm Saturday evening Premier League fixture. The show is part of Sky Sports’ new look ‘weekend of football’ which also includes the new pairing of Jamie Carragher and Gary Neville for ‘Monday Night
Football’ and a new Saturday schedule running from Soccer AM all the way through to extended evening highlights of all 3pm matches

http://corporate.sky.com/investors/press_releases/2013/free_day_of_sky_sports_to_kick_off_biggest_ever_football_season

Eh, this is grade and all but we're not in Britain.... Are you sure this'd apply to us as well?

killbillvol2

Sgt Pepper 64 wrote: »

Guess this is because of the competition of BT.

Hardly much competition - BT will show the same crappy games that Setanta and ESPN used to show. (Setanta are showing the BT games here).

Hogey007

killbillvol2 wrote: »

Hardly much competition - BT will show the same crappy games that Setanta and ESPN used to show. (Setanta are showing the BT games here).

they're not actually, bt got the 12:45 saturday morning slot as far as i know. much better than espn's 5:30 slot.

Sgt Pepper 64

AlanS181824 wrote: »

Eh, this is grade and all but we're not in Britain.... Are you sure this'd apply to us as well?

Yes it does “It’s our biggest ever season of Premier League football and we’re inviting over one million Irish households to enjoy the opening day,” says Sky Sports managing director Barney Francis.

http://sport.ie.msn.com/soccer/day-of-free-premier-league-coverage-for-sky-subscribers-as-battle-lines-drawn-with-bt-1

hufpc8w3adnk65

Ya all the 12:45 KO's on sky are football league not the premiership

killbillvol2

Hogey007 wrote: »

they're not actually, bt got the 12:45 saturday morning slot as far as i know. much better than espn's 5:30 slot.

The time might be different. Sky will still have all the biggest games.

Morf

killbillvol2 wrote: »

The time might be different. Sky will still have all the biggest games.

BT have a number of "first choice options" for a weekend of games. Last season Sky had all of them. I can't remember the exact number.

hufpc8w3adnk65

Morf wrote: »

BT have a number of "first choice options" for a weekend of games. Last season Sky had all of them. I can't remember the exact number.

Is BT free in Ireland?

mikeym

MrMac84 wrote: »

Is BT free in Ireland?

No its only free to BT Uk broadband customers.

hufpc8w3adnk65

I can see BT bombing here so like ESPN and Setanta!

Hogey007

MrMac84 wrote: »

I can see BT bombing here so like ESPN and Setanta!

espn was grand for us in ireland on sky because it came free with the sports package.
pity it wasn't a similar deal with BT, can't see myself parting with €17 a month on top of the sky subscription for setanta/bt, i doubt many people will but won't get into that here, seeing as this is a bargain alert topic and there's probably a thread elsewhere on BT.

tony1980

What is the problem with Carragher? I think himself and Neville will make great entertainment, far better than Andy Gray and Richard Keyes anyway!!

Bubonic

How do you get BT here? Is it on satellite?

Morf

Bubonic wrote: »

How do you get BT here? Is it on satellite?

It comes as part of the Setanta premium package. They haven't announced if the monthly price for this will rise or not. The annual price will stay the same but most people didn't seem to know there was an annual price for Setanta.

Hogey007

Morf wrote: »

It comes as part of the Setanta premium package. They haven't announced if the monthly price for this will rise or not. The annual price will stay the same but most people didn't seem to know there was an annual price for Setanta.

i checked their website earlier and it's half price for 2 months (8.50 euro per month) so then it'd be €17. they couldn't possibly try charge anymore than that. i think they'll struggle at €17, i mean people have other ways of watching these matches, err, down the pub i mean

vicwatson

LOL - switched on to PICK TV on Freesat and what's on? An ad for BT Sport !!

Anyway, Freesat channel 144 for those interested.

galait

killbillvol2 wrote: »

The time might be different. Sky will still have all the biggest games.

Complete Rubbish

http://www.bt.com/sport/

"38 exclusively live Barclays Premier League matches, including 18 top picks no longer available on Sky Sports. BT Sport will also be exclusively showing the first match of the season on 17 August."

Buttynic

I wonder if your with UPC will you get the free day on Sky Sports ?

eamonnq

Bubonic wrote: »

How do you get BT here? Is it on satellite?

Yep, you might need to rescan your box (depending on your box type!!;) ) but you should be able to pick it up

killbillvol2

killbillvol2 wrote: »

The time might be different. Sky will still have all the biggest games.

galait wrote: »

Complete Rubbish

http://www.bt.com/sport/

"38 exclusively live Barclays Premier League matches, including 18 top picks no longer available on Sky Sports. BT Sport will also be exclusively showing the first match of the season on 17 August."

We'll see when the schedules are out.

lertsnim

Buttynic wrote: »

I wonder if your with UPC will you get the free day on Sky Sports ?

Yes. On Sky 2. I doubt it will be free on Pick TV via satellite. European rights holders would have a fit.

Pick TV on Freeview in the UK will definitely have it.

McGeough123

Just checked the TV listings for Saturday, and it's not on Pick TV.

Muahahaha

Just as an aside- are those streaming service for Sky Sports still on the go ? I subscribed to one last season (think it was First Row Sports) but after a month the sub got cancelled by them. Luckily I'd paid through Google Wallet so got a full refund.

Now that the season is upon us I'm wondering is there similar services out there ?

bluesfan

McGeough123 wrote: »

Just checked the TV listings for Saturday, and it's not on Pick TV.

Checked on DigiGuide and according to that Pick TV this Saturday from 10am to 8pm is the same schedule as Sky Sports One

Kristopherus

Muahahaha wrote: »

Just as an aside- are those streaming service for Sky Sports still on the go ? I subscribed to one last season (think it was First Row Sports) but after a month the sub got cancelled by them. Luckily I'd paid through Google Wallet so got a full refund.

Now that the season is upon us I'm wondering is there similar services out there ?

Have a look at the last few pages of the Liveonlinefooty thread in the Soccer forum.

paddy147

Sgt Pepper 64 wrote: »

Guess this is because of the competition of BT.
Only problem is Jamie Carragher!

/corporate.sky.com/investors/press_releases/2013/free_day_of_sky_sports_to_kick_off_biggest_ever_football_season

Calm down calm down...:pac::pac::D

mickey1985

Dont forget Swansea Man Utd match on sky 2 for free this evening!!

Tinie

What is free today? just checked sky sports 1 and its not free.

Justin10

Tinie wrote: »

What is free today? just checked sky sports 1 and its not free.

Go to Sky 2 and you can view Sky Sports 1

Tinie

Rochey18 wrote: »

Go to Sky 2 and you can view Sky Sports 1

Oh right >.<

cheers

PerrinV2

Man I can't find this anywhere,Pick TV has some dog show on and there is no Sky Sports 2 on the channel list

locustfurnace

PerrinV2 wrote: »

Man I can't find this anywhere,Pick TV has some dog show on and there is no Sky Sports 2 on the channel list

Yep, same here...

adrian522

PerrinV2 wrote: »

Man I can't find this anywhere,Pick TV has some dog show on and there is no Sky Sports 2 on the channel list

Not sky sports 2. sky 2.

Xenji

Unfortunately Pick TV on Freeview in Ireland is not showing Sky Sports today.

PerrinV2

Sry ya,anyway sky 2 is blocked out,don't think it'll be available on freesat,rights issue as some1 mentioned earlier

Alpha Dog 1

Sky sports is on sky channel 121. It's free for today for customers with the entertainment pack .
Super, will keep me out of of the pub for the United game.

OldRio

Xenji wrote: »

Unfortunately Pick TV on Freeview in Ireland is not showing Sky Sports today.

Incorrect.
I am watching pick tv (sky sports) on freeview at the moment.

Del007

what number is picktv?

OldRio

Del007 wrote: »

what number is picktv?

Pick TV is on freeview terrestrial TV Channel 11. The signal is received via your TV Aerial. (Broadcast from N. Ireland) It is showing Sky Sports at the moment.

Pick TV on satellite is not showing Sky Sports.

Xenji

OldRio wrote: »

Incorrect.
I am watching pick tv (sky sports) on freeview at the moment.

Meant to say Freesat

whitebriar

OldRio wrote: »

Pick TV is on freeview terrestrial TV Channel 11. The signal is received via your TV Aerial. (Broadcast from N. Ireland) It is showing Sky Sports at the moment.

Pick TV on satellite is not showing Sky Sports.

Pick tv showing sky sports via an aerial is also available free to viewers in south Wicklow and co wexford from the preseli transmitter in Wales.
I'm watching it now in Arklow.

Charlie19

Thanks OP

I should of had a look in BA yesterday.

tomslick

It was great to get the football for free yesterday. They should do this every week ;-)

Patty O Furniture

It was basically a carbon copy of BT Sports coverage last w/end as that was free as well, although i cant remember what was on, all i remember seeing was Michael Owen was on & his horse also won that day too

mp3ireland2

Darn pity I didn't see this thread before the weekend! Living in Scotland now so don't look at this as much as i used to