Sport...Football.

[john+bem]

Rightly or wrongly...I though if you were with Sky and had the Sport Package you could select any Premier game being played....not just the Main Event or Sky Football game !   I had heard of Red Button action but unsure how this operates or if I have this option,  Help is appreciated. John

[Quoman7]

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@john+bem wrote:

Rightly or wrongly...I though if you were with Sky and had the Sport Package you could select any Premier game being played....not just the Main Event or Sky Football game !   I had heard of Red Button action but unsure how this operates or if I have this option,  Help is appreciated. John

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Hi @john+bem  you will only be able to watch the premier league game scheduled for broadcast on the SKY Sports channel live.

Highlights of other matches will be broadcast later in the evening, and using the red button feature you would be able to view/record different matches.

[oldfella]

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@john+bem wrote:

Rightly or wrongly...I though if you were with Sky and had the Sport Package you could select any Premier game being played....not just the Main Event or Sky Football game !   I had heard of Red Button action but unsure how this operates or if I have this option,  Help is appreciated. John

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Hi @john+bem 

Afraid Sky don't have rights to all Premiership matches.

There is not often a red button choice for Premier league games.

However there sometimes is for EFL games.

[john+bem]

Thanks...didn't realise that. Knew my local pub could get Forest games (on a Red Button) when they were in the lower division.   How would one know if more than one Premier game was available to the Red Button ?   all help appreciated.  John

[john+bem]

Thank you.

[oldfella]

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@john+bem wrote:

Thanks...didn't realise that. Knew my local pub could get Forest games (on a Red Button) when they were in the lower division.   How would one know if more than one Premier game was available to the Red Button ?   all help appreciated.  John

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Keep one one eye on the Home - sports - Football tab @john+bem 

[caesarome]

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@john+bem wrote:

Thanks...didn't realise that. Knew my local pub could get Forest games (on a Red Button) when they were in the lower division.   How would one know if more than one Premier game was available to the Red Button ?   all help appreciated.  John

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When Forest were in the Championship selected midweek games (and a few Sunday ones) were available via the red button that they were not selected by Sky to be broadcast. Now that Forest is in the Premiership you will no longer have the red button option as this only happens for teams in the Championship.

[john+bem]

Thanks. Will do.

[john+bem]

Oh dear. Thought I could see any game I wished.  You live and learn. Thanks.

[SKY1992bf · Accepted solution]

@john+bem  the broadcast contracts for the elf and premier league although both held by sky are separate and contain different rights 

out of the 380 games per premier league season sky can only show 128 of them

[TimmyBGood]

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@john+bem wrote:

Thought I could see any game I wished. 

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For the PL alone you'd need to be paying Sky, BT and Amazon (although all three could be viewed through a Sky Q box): that's a legacy of the last time the PL auctioned-off the UK television rights when the 200 match fixture list was split into 'packages' with the intention that no one distributor could secure them all and so become a monopoly provider.

Package A

Total matches: 32 (20 second picks, 12 fifth picks)
Matches per club: Maximum six; minimum one.
Kick-off times: 32 matches at Saturday 12.30

Package B

Total matches: 32 (15 first picks, five third picks, 12 fifth picks)
Matches per club: Max six; min one
Kick-off times: 32 matches at Saturday 17.30

Package C

Total matches: 32 (14 second picks; 18 fourth picks)
Matches per club: Max five; min one
Kick-off times: 24 matches at Sunday 14.00 and 8 matches at Saturday 19.45 

Package D

Total matches: 32 (19 first picks; seven third picks; six fourth picks)
Matches per club: Max five; min one
Kick-off times: 32 matches at Sunday 16.30 

Package E

Total matches: 32 (22 third picks; 10 fourth picks)
Matches per club: Max five; min none
Kick-off times: 24 matches at Monday 20.00 or Friday 19.30 - 20.00 and 8 matches at Sunday 14.00

Package F

Total matches: 20
Matches per club: Max two; min two
Kick-off times: All 20 matches from one Bank Holiday and one midweek fixture programme

Package G

Total matches: 20
Matches per club: Max two; min two
Kick-off times: All 20 matches from two midweek fixture programmes

For the 2022/23 season, Sky Sports  is set to show 128 matches live, while BT Sport  will show 52 matches live, including every Saturday lunchtime kick-off. Amazon Prime Video will live stream 20 matches. 

[john+bem]

Many thanks for your trouble.