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This thread will be updated every Friday to show all Live football matches that are available to freesat customers, as well as a pick of highlights shows & other sports coverage. All information on here will come from my knowledge and the TV & Satellite listings magazine.
Before anyone says, I know many of these will be available on freeview & all will be on subscription services, but I have freesat and I am simply posting what is available to viewers with this service.
Firstly, here are all of the live matches available to freesat viewers over the coming week, including some big European semi-finals:-
Friday 26th April
Scottish Premier League
Ross County v Dundee United
19:35 KO
BBC ALBA
Saturday 27th April
Welsh Premier League
Bala Town v Connah's Quay
15:45 KO
S4C (English commentary is available if you set your boxes first language to Welsh. There is a vidiprinter at the bottom of the screen updating scores from all professional UK leagues.)
Tuesday 30th April
UEFA Champions League Semi Final 2nd Leg
Real Madrid v Borussia Dortmund
19:30pm (19:45 KO)
ITV/ITV HD
Thursday 2nd May
UEFA Europa League Semi Final 2nd Leg
Chelsea v FC Basel
19:45pm (20:05 KO)
ITV/ITV HD
Thursday 2nd May
UEFA Europa League Semi Final 2nd Leg
Benfica v Fenerbahce
20:05 KO
ITV4
As well as Live football, there are also many of the usual highlights shows to look out for. These include Match of the Day and The Football League Show, on Saturday from 22:30pm on BBC1/BBC1 HD. Match of the Day 2 is on the same channel on Sunday, starting at 22:25pm. The Bundesliga highlights show is also on Monday at 23:05pm on ITV4.
Finally, a look at a few other sporting events for the week. The World Championship Snooker continues every day, coverageof each session is usually from 10am/1pm/7pm on BBC1/BBC2/BBC Red Button.
The IPL also continues every day, with coverage from 11am (some days) & 3pm every day.
That's it for this week, I hope you enjoy the sport.
Before anyone says, I know many of these will be available on freeview & all will be on subscription services, but I have freesat and I am simply posting what is available to viewers with this service.
Firstly, here are all of the live matches available to freesat viewers over the coming week, including some big European semi-finals:-
Friday 26th April
Scottish Premier League
Ross County v Dundee United
19:35 KO
BBC ALBA
Saturday 27th April
Welsh Premier League
Bala Town v Connah's Quay
15:45 KO
S4C (English commentary is available if you set your boxes first language to Welsh. There is a vidiprinter at the bottom of the screen updating scores from all professional UK leagues.)
Tuesday 30th April
UEFA Champions League Semi Final 2nd Leg
Real Madrid v Borussia Dortmund
19:30pm (19:45 KO)
ITV/ITV HD
Thursday 2nd May
UEFA Europa League Semi Final 2nd Leg
Chelsea v FC Basel
19:45pm (20:05 KO)
ITV/ITV HD
Thursday 2nd May
UEFA Europa League Semi Final 2nd Leg
Benfica v Fenerbahce
20:05 KO
ITV4
As well as Live football, there are also many of the usual highlights shows to look out for. These include Match of the Day and The Football League Show, on Saturday from 22:30pm on BBC1/BBC1 HD. Match of the Day 2 is on the same channel on Sunday, starting at 22:25pm. The Bundesliga highlights show is also on Monday at 23:05pm on ITV4.
Finally, a look at a few other sporting events for the week. The World Championship Snooker continues every day, coverageof each session is usually from 10am/1pm/7pm on BBC1/BBC2/BBC Red Button.
The IPL also continues every day, with coverage from 11am (some days) & 3pm every day.
That's it for this week, I hope you enjoy the sport.
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Sunday 28th April
Blue Square Bet Premier Play-Off Semi Final 2nd Leg
Newport County v Grimsby Town
16:00pm (16:30 KO)
S4C
English commentary is available by same method as mentioned in 1st post.
Thank you indeed, my good sir, for providing this public service for it is appreciated.
Yes please mods, could you please pin this thread
I'm really pleased about the BSP Play off Semi Final, it's the only domestic play off on FTA TV. If a Welsh side gets to the final, I really hope S4C can attain the rights for that too. I know it's ambitious, but it's a surprisingly good league that picked up a strong following a few years back on Setanta. I'd love to see more BSP on FTA channels in future.
And for snooker fans like me, from tonight - BBC2 shows an hour of evening snooker at 7pm - so BBC2 should have one table on and for an hour BBC Red Button should show the other table - then at 8pm it will switch to the table that was on BBC2.
Firstly, I only pick a few other sports and highlights each week so do miss occasional events. Regarding the snooker, however, I would strongly agree with you to check the red button if you can't see it on TV, as it's usually on.
Ronnie O'Sullivan's game is a repeat of last years final with Ali Carter and begins today at 14:30pm live on BBC1 HD.
Finally, more good news! ITV4 have decided to show both legs of the FA Youth Cup final, after th ratings success of the Semi's. Here are the 1st leg details:-
Monday 29th April
FA Youth Cup Final 1st Leg
Norwich City v Chelsea
19:45pm KO
ITV4
Enjoy it, should be a very good game.
...which I am watching right now!
Likewise, very much hoping an English team makes the final.
It's a shame there's not a lot of football on free TV next week due to football league play off's, but the big cup finals & internationals the following 2 weeks more than make up for it!
News has just broken that S4C have not been able to get Welsh language rights for the Conference play off final, unfortunately.
...and indeed they have, coadyltfc, and Chelsea will now be travelling to Amsterdam for the final. It was a good game and best goal goes to David Luiz.
Although it's a disappointment about Wrexham vs. Newport match, at least there's the FA Cup Final to look forward to.
Yeah, there's 5 finals on freesat before the end of May, with England v Ireland at the end of the month. The Confederations cup then runs through much of June, so it's looking good for football fans this summer!
For those who still have a Sky dodgibox and FTV card - LiverpoolFC TV has Arsenal vs Liverpool U21s tonight at 18.15. Motors TV has World Endurance Championship from Spa Francorchamps from 13.00 tomorrow.
I've mentioned the greyhound racing on my past thread a few times, a good watch. Regarding your second point, you need to post that in the Freesat from Sky section of the forum, as that information can't be used by freesat users.
The BT sports channels will be fully encrypted and a subscription will have to be paid to view them. However, they will be marketed separately by BT and will not be bundled up and offered by Sky along their sports channels, i.e. more like Setanta and less like ESPN.
Saturday 11th May
Welsh Premier League
Bangor City v Bala Town
14:00 KO
S4C
Saturday 11th May
The F.A. Cup Final
Manchester City v Wigan Athletic
15:15pm (17:15 KO)
ITV/ITV HD
Sunday 12th May
Scottish Premier League
Motherwell v Ross County
16:05 KO
BBC ALBA
Monday 13th May
F.A. Youth Cup Final 2nd Leg
Chelsea v Norwich City
19:45 KO
ITV4
Wednesday 15th May
UEFA Europa League Final
Chelsea v Benfica
19:45 KO
ITV/ITV HD
In addition to these live games, the penultimate Match of the Day & MOTD 2 take place, with some decisive games in the race for Champions League Qualification & Premier League Survival. It is also the penultimate Bundesliga highlights show next Monday, with similar places up for grabs.
In other sport, the final IPL group games are completed next week, deciding who qualifies for the play offs.
I hope you enjoy some of the big games this week & I'll be back with another post next Friday or Saturday.
Friday 10th May
F1 Spanish Grand Prix practice 1
8.55am - 1035am
BBC2 (HD)
F1 Spanish Grand Prix practice 2
1.00pm - 2.45pm
BBC2 (HD)
Saturday 11th May
F1 Spanish Grand Prix practice 3
9.55am - 11.10am
BBC2 (HD)
Saturday 11th May
F1 Spanish Grand Prix qualifying
12.10pm - 2.15pm
BBC1 (HD)
Sunday 12th May
F1 Spanish Grand Prix race
12.10pm - 3.15pm
BBC1 (HD)
and for Rugby League fans
Saturday 11th May
Challenge Cup 5th Round Live
Huddersfield Giants v Leeds Rhinos
12.15pm - 4.35pm
BBC1 (HD)
Cheers Mickey, I completely forgot about the F1 this week! Great weekend added to the FA Cup Final.
They should have made this a pay extra on the freesat free time box, they could have nicked even more sky broadband customers then!
ITV HD/ITV4
French Open - 26th May to 9th June
BBC One HD/BBC Two HD
AEGON Championships (Queens) - 10th to 16th June
AEGON International (Eastbourne) - 17th to 22nd June
Wimbledon - 24th June to 7th July
I know, I can't wait for it! The French Open coverage was excellent on ITV4 last year, I hope it will be of a similar quality again.
I'm a bit worried about Wimbledon now the BBC Red Button is single stream, which presumably means there will only be 2 courts shown live on TV? The rest will be online, like the snooker was at times in the last fortnight.
I know, it may be possible & would seem sensible for BT as there's no risk of freesat taking their broadband & phone customers obviously. Just seems like they could gain an even greater advantage over Sky here!
No chance - BT are using the address a Sky subscription card is linked to to confirm that the customer has indeed got the requisite BT broadband requirement to avoid fraudulent attempts to use other peoples BT broadband accounts so virtually no chance of anything other than Sky subscribed homes for the "free" version.