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Sky to broadcast its first ever free-to-air live Premier League match 17 August
Sky will broadcast its first ever free-to-air live match on the opening day of the new season amid its escalating battle with BT Sport.
As part of a revamped schedule, it will show its 5.30pm Premier League kick-off live on 17 August as well as a Football League match live at lunchtime as part of a new show called FL72.
Sky Sports 1 will shift to Sky Sports 2 for the day, allowing Sky viewers who do not subscribe to the sports package to watch for nothing...
and on Freeview and YouView services it will take over Pick TV for the day.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/jun/27/sky-free-premier-league-match?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2Fmedia%2Frss+%28Media%29
Sky will broadcast its first ever free-to-air live match on the opening day of the new season amid its escalating battle with BT Sport.
As part of a revamped schedule, it will show its 5.30pm Premier League kick-off live on 17 August as well as a Football League match live at lunchtime as part of a new show called FL72.
Sky Sports 1 will shift to Sky Sports 2 for the day, allowing Sky viewers who do not subscribe to the sports package to watch for nothing...
and on Freeview and YouView services it will take over Pick TV for the day.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/jun/27/sky-free-premier-league-match?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2Fmedia%2Frss+%28Media%29
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Also, why not just dump it on PickTV on all platforms? I'm confused?
I thought you had to have Sky Sports for Sky Sports 2?
Plus no chance anyone will watch it on Pick TV, it hardly shows the "QUALITY OF SKY"
I Copied & Pasted the quote below.
Just quoting the article...
"Sky Sports 1 will shift to Sky Sports 2 for the day, allowing Sky viewers who do not subscribe to the sports package to watch for nothing..."
I don't watch Sport !!! so it's all new to me.
But yes, SKY 2 does seem to be a better option.
Perhaps the Guardian journo got his facts wrong !!
Perhaps they don't watch Sport either !!!!!
If anyone spots a correction to the article later on please post the corrected details in this thread.
I see the article has now been corrected, to SKY 2, NOT SKY Sports 2
Just checked the article, it does say Sky 2 not Sky Sports 2.
Still odd, means its not in HD for non subscribers, so they may as well only put it on Pick TV, makes no difference to anyone!
The article clearly says:
Sky Sports 1 will shift to [highlight]Sky 2[/highlight] for the day
My quote was a direct copy & paste of the original, and I made a back-up PDF too !!!
Which I've just re-checked...
Yes, the article has been corrected.
Of course, I NOW WILL have to watch SKY 2 Football on the 17th August !!!
Or at least SKY+HD SKY 2...
In another article the author Owen Gibson, is credited as Owen Gibson, chief sports correspondent, you think he would know better !!
So I can avoid paying them £36 for the "privilege" of being on the front row with my head basically at player's knee height, like I did last season.
Shoddy Journalism, what else do you expect from the Guardian
Coffee shops;)
Because PickTV on digital satellite is on a Europe-wide beam so the overspill would intrude into other countries. It was never going to be on a free satellite channel, its why its on Sky2, which is encrypted. Also denies Freesat viewers the chance to watch.
Well it is Saturday Night. What title do you expect them to cal it/
Saturday, not quite dusk when it finishes, August-October.
Saturday, its dark, just about when the clocks change.
Saturday, its been dark, for about an hour, around Christmas.
And then kinda reverse that for the days getting longer
Yep, my thoughts exactly. In this instance I guess they've done this to protect rights than deny it to Freesat customers with Pick not being spot-beam.
I bet the football will look great on Pick TV at about 1.6Mb/s SD video, will check it out on the 17th for a nosy via DTT!!
I remember they down scaled Sky Sports News on a free weekend to a degree it looked worse than SSN SD a few years back. :eek:
Even if Sadam Hussein was in charge of a competitor to Sky , people will still have wished them just as well.
Setanta and ESPN soon fell by the wayside. BT will do so likewise and nurse a huge 100's million pound loss in the process.
For BT or anyone else to win the truly big fixtures off Sky, they are going to have to bid so much that they suffer irrecoverable losses.
In other words, the more rights they pick up, the more like Sky they will become. Which in turn will make their launch pitch look stupid on top of stomach-churning.
ESPN and Setanta didn't have the broadband & telephony offering. The situation for BT is different as they can package these with the sports channel to offer cut-price deals to customers, just as Sky have been doing for the last few years. In that respect it is a game changer.
BT will bankrupt themselves if they bid for and win the package that has Man United v Chelsea, Arsenal v Liverpool, Man United v Arsenal, Man City v Man United e.g. and the other massive big city derbies as Sky will be doing the tv rights bidding equivalent of poker's all in stake.