Sky Sports Premier League Football 2013 Promo - It is time yet?

Sky Sports Premier League Football 2013 Promo - It is time yet?

Sky Sports will show 116 live FA Premier League matches for the next three years, more than any other year.



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Premier League in your home for free for first time in 20 years as ESPN air Manchester City v Fulham on Freeview

Premier League in your home for free for first time in 20 years as ESPN air Manchester City v Fulham on Freeview

Fans will be able to watch a Barclays Premier League match for free for the first time ever next month.

Broadcaster ESPN have announced that their flagship channel will be free-to-view over the weekend starting Friday, February 3.

As a result, people who just have basic Freeview, of which there around 10m in the United Kingdom, will be able to watch Fulham's trip to Manchester City on Saturday, February 4.

This will be the first time that a Premier League match has been made available for free.

Viewers will also be able to watch matches from Serie A and the Bundesliga, while basketball, tennis and UFC will also be screened during the four-day period.

"Millions of UK fans have already discovered the great range of great sport ESPN offers – from the Barclays Premier League to Serie A, to cricket, darts, motorsports and UFC," said ESPN vice president Jeroen Oerlemans.

"This is a great opportunity for us to introduce that to millions more and let them sample the programming ESPN has on offer."

Nokia's new Lumia smart phone will sponsor the weekend.

Live Premier League Football matches on Sky 2011/2012

Confirmed live Premier League fixtures for 2011/12:
AUGUST

Sun 14: Stoke v Chelsea (1.30pm)
Sun 14: West Brom v Man Utd (4pm)
Mon 15: Man City v Swansea (8pm)
Sat 20: Arsenal v Liverpool (12.45pm)
Sun 21: Bolton v Man City (4pm)
Mon 22: Man Utd v Tottenham (8pm)
Sat 27: Aston Villa v Wolves (12.05pm)
Sat 27: Liverpool v Bolton (5.30pm)
Sun 28: Man Utd v Arsenal (4pm)

SEPTEMBER

Sun 11: Norwich v West Brom (1.30pm)
Sun 11: Fulham v Blackburn (4pm)
Mon 12: QPR v Newcastle (8pm)
Sat 17: Blackburn v Arsenal (12.45pm)
Sun 18: Tottenham v Liverpool (1.30pm)
Sun 18: Man Utd v Chelsea (4pm)
Sat 24: Man City v Everton (12.45pm)
Sun 25: QPR v Aston Villa (4pm)
Mon 26: Norwich v Sunderland (8pm)

OCTOBER

Sat 1: Everton v Liverpool (12.45pm)
Sun 2: Bolton v Chelsea (1.30pm)
Sun 2: Tottenham v Arsenal (4pm)
Sat 15: Liverpool v Man Utd (12.45pm)
Sun 16: Man City v Aston Villa (1.30pm)
Sun 16: Newcastle v Tottenham (4pm)
Sat 22: Wolves v Swansea (12.45pm)
Sun 23: Man Utd v Man City (1.30pm)
Sun 23: QPR v Chelsea (4pm)
Sat 29: Chelsea v Arsenal (12.45pm)
Sun 30: Tottenham v QPR (4pm)
Mon 31: Stoke v Newcastle (8pm)

NOVEMBER

Sat 5: Newcastle v Everton (12.45pm)
Sun 6: Wolves v Wigan (1.30pm)
Sun 6: Fulham v Tottenham (4pm)
Sat 19: Norwich v Arsenal (12.45pm)
Sun 20: Chelsea v Liverpool (4pm)
Mon 21: Tottenham v Aston Villa (8pm)
Sun 27: Swansea v Aston Villa (1.30pm)
Sun 27: Liverpool v Man City (4pm)
Mon 28: Stoke v Blackburn (8pm)


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Sky Sports price increase by £3 pm from Sept 2010

According to reports, as part of its annual priceing review, Sky Sports package will be increasing.

The cost of receiving Sky Sport 1 and Sky Sports 2 will increase by £3 per month from 1st September 2010.

Sky Sports 3 and 4 are "bonus" channels for those who subscribbe to both 1 and 2.

Sky are saying that this is due to the fact that the are showing more live sport then ever before, and 115 live Premier League games with the return of Monday Night Football.



There hsa been no word yet about increases for other packages - but generally every Spetember Sky increase their prices by £1...last year one or two packages prices were reduced.

There are also rumours that this autumn Sky will be reviewing and changing their HD channel policy.


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Sky Sports pay increase from Setember?

The price of Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 2 is due to increase by £3 per month from September 2010. Sky are saying that this is due to the increase in the amount of Premier LEgaue games that hey are covering for the next three years, with the return of Monday Night Football on the satellite broadcaster.

The cost of watching Premiership football matches is set to plunge for sports fans willing to sign up with BT, but will rise for customers of Sky after the satellite broadcaster tried to wrongfoot its rival today by increasing its prices. The move means BT is likely to make a loss on providing sports coverage.

Tomorrow BT will announce the prices it will charge customers of its broadband TV service BT Vision for Sky's main sports channels. The head of its retail business, Gavin Patterson, previously pledged that it would offer Sky Sports 1 and 2 – plus rival ESPN – for under £20 a month, well below the £26 a month which satellite users must fork out.

BT's new prices are based on a deal struck with regulator Ofcom back in March, which ended years of wrangling between the company, Sky and Virgin Media and introduced reduced wholesale prices for Sky Sports 1 and 2. Ofcom demanded that Sky drop its prices by more than 20%. But it also linked the wholesale price it must charge its rivals for Sky Sports 1 and 2 with the price the broadcaster charges its own customers. Sky's rivals assumed that was designed to protect the satellite company from being undercut by other broadcasters. But in a dramatic move Sky revealed that it would actually increase its retail prices, which means its wholesale prices will increase accordingly.

BT was taken utterly unawares and the move is likely to mean that it will lose money on every customer it signs up to sports packages on BT Vision. BT said: "We are proceeding as planned and will deal with the issue of Sky's wholesale pricing in due course. It's surprising that Sky are raising prices for their customers just when we're about to enter the market. This will only make our prices more attractive and so could drive customers to our door," he added.

Rival Virgin Media is understood to be unaffected, as it has already signed a separate deal with Sky.

Sky is increasing the retail price of Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 2 by £3. Under the complicated wholesale pricing mechanism set out in Ofcom's ruling, this means that the wholesale price of Sky Sports 1 increases from £10.63 a month to £13.42, Sky Sports 2 rises from £10.63 to £13.34 and both channels together rise from £17.14 to £19.07 per month.

For Sky's retail customers, meanwhile, it means that from 1 September the cost of a basic subscription plus Sky Sports 1 or 2 will increase from £26 a month to £29 a month. The cost of a basic subscription plus all its sports channels will increase from £35 to £38 and the cost of all its sports plus its six entertainment bundles will rise from £41 to £44 per month. The cost of its top-end package – including movies – will increase from £48.50 to £51.50.

Sky had originally intended to inform customers of the price increase in letters to be sent out from 23 July. But as BT had decided to make such a fuss about its new prices, it is understood to have brought its plans forwards. The reason for the price increase is that Sky will be offering more games come the next Premiership season, which starts in mid-August.

The regulator's review of the UK's pay-TV market dragged on so long that one of the original complainants – Setanta – went bust during the process. The Premiership games it acquired were picked up by ESPN, but under the deal Setanta originally struck it lost one package of matches from next season. Those matches were picked up by Sky and it now has 115 games, compared with the 92 it showed last season. That is roughly five out of every six games to be played next season.

A spokesman for Ofcom said the regulator had always recognised "that retail prices would change in the future".

"That is why we set a fixed margin between Sky's retail prices and wholesale prices," the spokesman said. "This means that if Sky's retail prices change, then its wholesale prices will move by a fixed amount. Our decisions will therefore deliver competition, choice and innovation in the pay TV market, regardless of changes to Sky's retail prices."

The above is taken from The Guardian - _http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jun/30/sky-raises-prices



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