Sports Channels General Infomation

 

Sky sports

Sky Sports is a group of British subscription sports channels operated by the satellite pay television company Sky Group and is the dominant subscription television sports brand in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Sky sports is appealing to an audience as they cover a verity of sports. They range form football, snooker, tennis, golf and f1. Sky sports is available to anyone and can give the latest news about sports and what’s happening in the world. Sky Sports averaged 933,000 viewers throughout the day which accounted for 11.7 per cent of all TV viewing. More than 14m people watched Sky Sports on Sunday, with each viewer on average watching more than 95 minutes of programming throughout the day, being for the football.

Sky sports holds channels such as Sky Sports Main Event, Sky Sports Premier League, Sky Sports Football, Sky Sports Cricket, Sky Sports Golf, Sky Sports Racing, Sky Sports F1, Sky Sports Action.

On November 1^st, 1995, Sky had launched a classic sport service called Sky sports Gold, however it was ceased broadcasting after only a year on air. In 1996, Sky had launched sky sports had launched Sky sports 3 because the original channel had been renamed to Sky Sports 1 and they also required the rights to Scottish football and the league cup. On 1 September 1997, Sky sports 2 became a full-time service.

In October 1998, Sky Sports launched Sky Sports News, a channel that covers news that are sports related, followed by Sky sports Xtra which was later was rebranded as Sky Sports 4 since 2010 and then Sky Golf since 2017.

Sky sports offer two deals £25 a month for 18 months or ££27 a month with 31 days rolling.

 

BT sports

BT Sport is available on the BT TV, Sky and Virgin Media television platforms in the UK and Sky, Eir TV and Vodafone TV in the Republic of Ireland. BT sports is the home for 52 premier league games a season, the UEFA champions league, premiership rugby and much more. BT Sport currently holds Premiership Rugby rights through to the end of 2023-2024, while ITV covers the league live as well as via highlights, with the live element coming through a deal struck in January which extends to 19 matches until the end of that same campaign. The Premiership Final, which took place on June 18 and was won by Leicester Tigers through a 15-12 victory over Saracens, secured an average audience of 946,000, 113% higher than the previous record average audience for a final, which came in 2009. In 2019 October-December, the viewers had reached up to 6 million.

BT Sport is a group of pay television sports channels in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Owned by Warner Bros. Discovery Sports Europe and BT Group, they first launched on 1 August 2013. The channels are based at the former International Broadcast Centre at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London.

To have BT sports it costs £30 a month for 18 months with 31 days rolling.