Sky Sports 5 to launch

icdg

Strong rumours of this over the last few days but appears to have been confirmed now. Will show UEFA and continental football.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/10888216/Sky-Sports-to-launch-new-European-football-channel.html

Early rumours that this would be for Sky customers only appear to be unfounded as Sky say they will confirm availablity on other platforms closer to launch.

ftakeith

its a red button channel maybe

ziggyman17

next seasons champions league will be on sky sports 5....... If this is not included with my upc sky sports subscription, then I will be canceling sky sports, expensive enough as it is.... Ill take up the bt/setanta package instead.........

radiowaves

ftakeith wrote: »

its a red button channel maybe

Alternatively 407 for HD and 451 for SD.

From Thursday.

mikeym

ziggyman17 wrote: »

next seasons champions league will be on sky sports 5....... If this is not included with my upc sky sports subscription, then I will be canceling sky sports, expensive enough as it is.... Ill take up the bt/setanta package instead.........

If all the champions league matches are on Sky Sports 5 this means theres only one match available to cable customers per night.

ziggyman17

mikeym wrote: »

If all the champions league matches are on Sky Sports 5 this means theres only one match available to cable customers per night.

over on the upc thread, a upc spokesperson said that upc customers will be getting sky sports 5, station starts this Thursday, I would'nt have been suprised if sky pulled a fast one with upc like they did with sky atlantic....

Kensington

ziggyman17 wrote: »

over on the upc thread, a upc spokesperson said that upc customers will be getting sky sports 5, station starts this Thursday, I would'nt have been suprised if sky pulled a fast one with upc like they did with sky atlantic....

I think the days of sky pulling exclusivity stunts are over.

Competition, numerous Ofcom investigations and piracy is no doubt putting them under immense pressure, I imagine they'll be happy to get subscription money by any means they can rather than risk alienating people who can't/won't subscribe directly to sky for the content or will turn "elsewhere" as well as attempting to appease Ofcom.

Delta2113

Sky Sports 5 launches August 12th.

icdg

The confusion is over satellite customers being able to "register" for it from Thursday. which in reality is a sign up for two years free Sky Broadband. Not sure that deal even applies to ROI. Good news about UPC availability though. Unfortunately eVision subscribers are AFAIK still stuck with only the two "must-offer" channels, Sky Sports 1 & 2.

I'd imagine Sky will still show two games on the "front channels" during this last season of Champions League football, as well as the satellite red button option. Even if they didn't, cable viewers will still have access to at least two games in their basic packages from RTE/TV3 and Setanta.

delw

Wonder will sky by wire get this channel as well

mikeym

But UPC customers dont have the multi screen match choice.