Sky Sports + channel launch date & channel number?

[Super+Anthony]

Yes not perfect by any means. Goes on top of all the current issues that Sky need go fix

Freezing and pausing of Sky stream home menu

Black screens

Pixelations issues on several channels

 When turning on stream for the first time each day and getting please wait

[PhilHampson-Sky]

Apologies if this has already been said recently.

Whilst I find Live coverage quite good, it is still Catchup which is so very poor.

They do provide Catch-up streams which, accepting the inserted Ads, do seem to work well but there are so few and they are all way too late.

The night matches ALL need to be available for us to stream the following morning.

The technology is there so Sky, why don't you do it, like other providers do ?

[stubie]

Think Sky missed a trick not snapping up football rights for Serie A and Ligue 1

Would have come cheap and topped up the new + channel nicely

[d2h]

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@stubie wrote:

Think Sky missed a trick not snapping up football rights for Serie A and Ligue 1

Would have come cheap and topped up the new + channel nicely

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@stubie 

For what reward though? People are already subscribing for Premier League and EFL. Would Italian and French league football add subscribers to make the outlay worth it? The Premier League and EFL are enough to maintain subscribers but European league football has always been worthless in the UK market beyond acting as filler for second-tier pay broadcasters and free-to-air. After losing the National League, TNT Sports had no choice but to renew Serie A, on a reduced scale, as their football coverage is now sparse outside of European weeks. 

I actually think the Bundesliga will be at the risk of being chopped once that contract ends. 

[nolte]

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@stubie wrote:

Think Sky missed a trick not snapping up football rights for Serie A and Ligue 1

Would have come cheap and topped up the new + channel nicely

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I'm not sure cheap is the right word..

Maybe the leagues themselves thought the offers from uk broadcasters didn't value the rights as highly as they do.

I would imagine that they had a minimum in mind that they would not accept offers below that

[MarkGoldsmith]

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@nolte wrote:

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@stubie wrote:

Think Sky missed a trick not snapping up football rights for Serie A and Ligue 1

Would have come cheap and topped up the new + channel nicely

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I'm not sure cheap is the right word..

Maybe the leagues themselves thought the offers from uk broadcasters didn't value the rights as highly as they do.

I would imagine that they had a minimum in mind that they would not accept offers below that

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I'm pretty sure thats the case, in particular with Ligue 1, who have instead launched their own subscription based app. Its possible if the app subscriptions don't bring in the kind of revenue to Ligue 1, that the sports broadcasters were offering, they may be inclined to reneogiate either later in the season or at the end of the season with broadcasters.

[IanGil]

These foreign leagues who have now gone down the Streaming App route are complete idiots, cutting off their noses to spite their faces. France, Portugal, Ireland, and Italy to an extent. None of them in real time and inferior picture quality. It's what you get when you ditch satellite for broadband (a bit like the many issues here flagged up about Sky Sports + App). I've ditched DAZN because they dropped their Sky channel in preference to a streaming app only. Apart from UEFA Competitions matchdays, TNT/Eurosport will have six channels to fill now, with Ligue Un gone and most of the Serie A games gone too. I know Premier Sports, who have La Liga, will be adding at least one new channel in due course, hopefully a UHD one, although their two existing channels both have very good quality pictures for live football. They are taking on a whole lot more live rugby union very shortly. Always happy to pay for top quality football/satellite pictures, but not via second-rate streaming apps on tabĺets/honestly.

[TimmyBGood]

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@IanGil wrote:

It's what you get when you ditch satellite for broadband (a bit like the many issues here flagged up about Sky Sports + App). 

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Continental Europe does have the advantage of holding a big enough potential market for SES to consider it worthwhile commissioning and launching new orbital broadcast capacity: that looks increasingly unlikely to happen for UK/RoI, given a satellite has the same fixed costs whether it's serving 12 million or 120 million households.

[Harryj]

As far as i am concerned Sky sports + is useless, it pauses and stops and tbh it's completely unnecessary, as I said in a previous post, it dilutes the coverage

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[Simon+E]

The highlights sections for football and tennis have been removed, and there was previously  a section for other sports.  These were useful, but seem to have been removed since the weekend.