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Why is Sky not showing Steelers/Bengals this weekend ?

lasvegasman — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 08:10:41 GMT

I posted last week about Sky not showing the late NFL game on Saturday and it appears to be happening again as the Steelers@Bengals at 01.00 Sunday morning has disappeared from the TV schedules . What's going on? I thought Sky had the rights to all these games and I can;t find anyone else showing this very important game for the playoff picture in this country .

Also I have recieved two notifications about people posting replies to my question concerning last weeks game but when I look they are not there . Who removed them ?

Re: Why is Sky not showing Steelers/Bengals this weekend ?

nolte — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 10:04:56 GMT

@lasvegasman wrote:
Also I have recieved two notifications about people posting replies to my question concerning last weeks game but when I look they are not there . Who removed them ?

i don't know about one of the replies, but i remember seeing one up for a short time from a lisa or something. It had spam links to a high street shop inserted into it.

on the other query, you aren't talking directly to sky, you are only talking to other customers.

you could email viewer relations at viewerR@sky.uk to ask Sky directly

when sky announced the current deal in 2020, this is is what they said it entailed:

https://www.skygroup.sky/article/nfl-and-sky-sports-unveil-sky-sports-nfl-channel-as-part-of-five-year-partnership

Re: Why is Sky not showing Steelers/Bengals this weekend ?

Anonymous — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 13:07:31 GMT

@lasvegasman wrote:
I posted last week about Sky not showing the late NFL game on Saturday and it appears to be happening again as the Steelers@Bengals at 01.00 Sunday morning has disappeared from the TV schedules . What's going on? I thought Sky had the rights to all these games and I can;t find anyone else showing this very important game for the playoff picture in this country .

Also I have recieved two notifications about people posting replies to my question concerning last weeks game but when I look they are not there . Who removed them ?

It seems like Sky had expected to get the rights for the Steelers @ Bengals game, but were not awarded it. Or another reason is that Sky saw the start time of 1am on a Sunday morning and considered it, but decided they wouldn't get enough viewers to justify it. (This is just a guess though)

Though DAZN and Amazon Prime* are showing it.
(* UK only)

DAZN: https://www.dazn.com/fixture/ContentId:9e46r9wifyhj8iapikqw1z578/9e46r9wifyhj8iapikqw1z578/l6jlwejffsd41mcch2dvdpu7j

Amazon Prime: https://www.amazon.co.uk/placeholder_title/dp/B0DJ7Q2T9D

Why is it saying the bengals steelers game is on sky when it's not showing on tv guide

Dw26 — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 17:38:28 GMT

It's saying sky will show this game but yet it's not on tv guide

Re: Why is it saying the bengals steelers game is on sky when it's not showing on tv guide

Dw26 — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 17:39:10 GMT

Benfals steelers...NFL

Re: Why is it saying the bengals steelers game is on sky when it's not showing on tv guide

GD1 — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 17:55:33 GMT

@Dw26 Your post has been merged to this existing thread that is discussing the same topic, a new thread isn't required.

Re: Why is Sky not showing Steelers/Bengals this weekend ?

trumpton1723 — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 18:29:10 GMT

It could be another example of choice...for our benefit. I know the late game the other week was only shown on the NFL channel, and of course we've now got games on Netflix and Prime. I'm hoping it's just that the guide needs updating though as reports still suggesting it's going to be on Sky.

Re: Why is Sky not showing Steelers/Bengals this weekend ?

ozsat — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 19:01:30 GMT

Bengals @ Steelers is on DAZN's NFL Pass

Re: Why is Sky not showing Steelers/Bengals this weekend ?

jonbly+jonbly+jon — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 19:34:47 GMT

Hey, where'd my post go?

Re: Why is Sky not showing Steelers/Bengals this weekend ?

nolte — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 20:07:01 GMT

@jonbly+jonbly+jon wrote:
Hey, where'd my post go?

The forum software may filter out posts for manual approval sometimes for a variety of reasons.

It happens everyone occasionally.

Once approved, it would then appear

Re: Why is Sky not showing Steelers/Bengals this weekend ?

Fents — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 01:47:53 GMT

**bleep**. I pay for Sky for their Sports, also for Netflix & Amazon Prime. And between them (and over £150 a month) I can't even watch the Steelers Bengals game. No wonder people laugh at me when they pay £50 a year for a fire stick with everything on

Re: Why is Sky not showing Steelers/Bengals this weekend ?

Fents — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 01:54:04 GMT

Amazon aren't showing it unless you pay an extra £29.99 for the NFL pass (regardless of Prime subscription). Which I don't pay cos I pay 3 times that already for a package with Sky Sports included

Re: Why is Sky not showing Steelers/Bengals this weekend ?

Exiled-in-HH — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 07:27:54 GMT

@Fents Sky don't have the rights to broadcast every game😉

Re: Why is Sky not showing Steelers/Bengals this weekend ?

lasvegasman — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 10:19:18 GMT

I know Sky does not have the rights to every game but it definitely had the rights to this one . It was advertised on both the Sky website and was sceduled on the Sky TV guide until Friday . I am not overly bothered about this game or the one last Saturday but there is a playoff wildcard game in this timeslot next week and I would be very unhappy if that is not shown .

I have e-mailed Sky but have not had a response yet . I will update if/when I do .

Re: Why is Sky not showing Steelers/Bengals this weekend ?

jonbly+jonbly+jon — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 13:45:43 GMT

Highlights are up at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2nbP71W1UA

Re: Why is Sky not showing Steelers/Bengals this weekend ?

lasvegasman — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 16:26:24 GMT

Just to let everyone know I recieved a reply from Viewer relations today . The reply states " contactual rights " as the reason for not showing the game . Not a very satisfactory answer without any further details and poor communication to their own website which was advertising the game as still being shown as late as Friday when they should have been aware that they would not be showing the game . Hopefully there is no repeat this weekend .

Re: Why is Sky not showing Steelers/Bengals this weekend ?

nolte — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 17:01:52 GMT

@lasvegasman wrote:
Just to let everyone know I recieved a reply from Viewer relations today . The reply states " contactual rights " as the reason for not showing the game . Not a very satisfactory answer without any further details

Further details may be of a commercially sensitive nature, so would be breaching any non disclosure agreement

Re: Why is Sky not showing Steelers/Bengals this weekend ?

Samraj — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 11:43:49 GMT

Hi, everyone 👋🏽

I thought it best to communicate a message on behalf of Sky Sports for better visibility:

Unfortunately, this had to be removed from our schedules due to a contractual rights issue as we are limited to the number of games we can broadcast. Appreciate that this is frustrating and we will pass your feedback on to our Sky Sports NFL team for their awareness.

Thanks.

Re: Why is Sky not showing Steelers/Bengals this weekend ?

lasvegasman — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 12:21:09 GMT

Thank you for the reply , I appreciate the clarity . I was worried that another broadcaster had the rights like on Christmas day with Netflix . Sky does a great job of covering the NFL as well as the excellent coverage of NCAA Football and Basketball . Long may it continue .