Sky Launches Sky Sports 5 - Real World Football - FM24/25 Update

Slashman X

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Sky today announces good news for millions of its customers ahead of the new football season with confirmation that Sky Sports is to launch the first-ever television channel dedicated to European Football.

Customers with Sky Sports will be able to receive the new channel - Sky Sports 5 - as part of their sports package, at no extra cost, and as a further bonus they can also get two years’ free Sky Broadband Unlimited. Sky Sports 5 will screen up to 600 live European football matches next season featuring some of the best players, the best teams and the best competitions. Sky Sports 5 will be the seventh channel from Sky Sports and will be the home of European Qualifiers, UEFA Champions League, La Liga and Copa del Rey for Sky Sports viewers, plus a host of other European football programming including Revista De La Liga and Champions League Weekly.

For the first time Sky Sports will also offer exclusively live coverage of Holland’s top division Eredivisie. The new 4-year deal announced today will bring live matches each week to Sky Sports 5, enabling viewers to follow the domestic campaigns of the Netherlands’ top teams including Ajax, Feyenoord, FC Twente and PSV Eindhoven.

Sky customers will be able to register for Sky Sports 5 from June 12 via red button, online and by calling Sky. In a further bonus, Sky Sports customers can also get two years’ free Sky Broadband Unlimited worth £7.50 a month. This, Sky’s best ever broadband offer, means people could save up to £330 – and get the great value of Sky’s totally unlimited broadband with no usage limits and no extra download charges.

Barney Francis, Managing Director of Sky Sports said: "Sky Sports 5 takes our unrivalled live football coverage to the next level offering more European football than ever before. There’s never been a better time to be a Sky Sports customer and with two years’ free totally unlimited broadband, we offer the ultimate package for sports fans."

Sky ambassador David Beckham added: "Some of my greatest playing moments were on the European stage with Manchester United, playing in El Clasico for Real Madrid and captaining England in Euro qualifiers. Sky Sports 5 will offer all the drama and excitement that European football has to offer and I’ll certainly be gripped."

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11061/9342982/sky-sports-launches-sky-sports-5-a-new-channel-dedicated-to-european-football

alilane4

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10 Jun 2014 10:04:59

As a Sky customer this sounds good. However don't BT no have the rights for France, Germany & Italy?

Slashman X

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10 Jun 2014 10:21:05

What time do Eredivise matches kick-off. Isn't it usually 2:30 GMT? Does that mean Sky Sports 5 will be exempt from the "no football on Saturdays between 2:45 and 5:15" rule?

King Luis

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10 Jun 2014 11:49:41

By Slashman X | On 10 June 2014 - 11:21 AM

What time do Eredivise matches kick-off. Isn't it usually 2:30 GMT? Does that mean Sky Sports 5 will be exempt from the "no football on Saturdays between 2:45 and 5:15" rule?

Thats only a EPL rule, doesn't apply to other nations i don't think.

tmatthew

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10 Jun 2014 11:53:06

Applied to a Madrid-Barca game last year.

alilane4

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10 Jun 2014 11:54:43

Yeh I think it's only our own country we don't have the rights for Saturday 3pm k/o games.

Slashman X

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10 Jun 2014 12:03:50

Nope, the rule is that no football can be broadcast on UK TV between 2:45 and 5:15 on a Saturday. Hence why Sky Sports missed the first 15 mins of a Classico last season

Slashman X

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10 Jun 2014 12:18:37

Eredivise matches are usually on Sunday's at half 2, not Saturday, so not an issue then

VP.

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10 Jun 2014 13:45:25

The rule is there to make people go to the games, rather than stay at home I believe.

King Luis

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10 Jun 2014 14:30:06

Yeah its a complete bullshit rule though, its not the fact you can sit at home and watch games that puts people off going.

Slashman X

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10 Jun 2014 15:13:30

Love that Ireland gets 3pm Prmeiership games free-to-air yet England doesn't \o/

Shola

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10 Jun 2014 15:38:14

And look how amazingly well the Irish game has developed!

Slashman X

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10 Jun 2014 19:29:49

Irish League runs through the summer so don't get your point

Number 1

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10 Jun 2014 19:31:30

This is going to look really pointless when the Champions League moves to BT in 2015.

hammer9

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10 Jun 2014 22:32:57

brilliants!

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10 Jun 2014 22:37:29

By Slashman X | On 10 June 2014 - 14:03 PM

Nope, the rule is that no football can be broadcast on UK TV between 2:45 and 5:15 on a Saturday. Hence why Sky Sports missed the first 15 mins of a Classico last season

Sky should do what Swedish TV does to go around advertising restrictions and technically broadcast from a different nation.

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