Cheapest way to watch Premier League on Sky

radderfire

radderfire

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Hi

With regards to subscribing to Sky, could someone advise me what the cheapest option is if you just want to watch Barclays Premier League Football.

Also, does anyone know the difference between the Premier League coverage offered by Sky and that from Setanta Sports?

Thanks All.
 
Do setanta still do daily subscriptions? If so, that would be cheapest.
Or, head to a pub that is showing it and drink water. even cheaper.
 
Morba said:
Or, head to a pub that is showing it and drink water. even cheaper.
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Best advice.

Given that your team (I presume you have a team to support rather than just supporting The Barclays Premiership) will be shown on both broadcasters.

Last time I used Setanta their coverage, both in terms of the picture and their pundits / general presentation, was terrible.
 
Only if you go with the XL TV package (£19.50/month). Not a bad deal considering Setanta on its own is £15 if you're after the other packages...plus you can get the Sky Sports Collection slightly cheaper if you go for XL.

Looks like it'd be £38.50 for Setanta + Sky Sports

or

£34.50 for Setanta + Sky Sports 1

That's only when you get their phone package for £11/month (includes line rental, essentially the same as BT) and you're in a cabled area. The same on Sky would be about £36 for Sky Sports Collection + £15 Setanta iirc.
 
Thanks for the responses so far, I'm looking into the options.

Can I just ask, if I wanted to only go with Sky, what is the lowest cost option that will enable me to watch premiership matches? I am trying to work out what the basic cost of being able to watch premiership matches on Sky is.

Thanks.
 
OK, fair enough, but I want to watch the matches at home ... so

What the best priced package from Sky?

What's the best priced package from Sky's competitors? E.g. I see there's also BT Vision.

I just want to watch the Premiership, I'm not that bothered about anything else.

Thanks all.
 
In order to get Premiership on Sky, you need the base package plus Sports Mix, which is about £17 + £18 = £35/mo, if you want all the available games, you'll need Setanta too which is an extra £12.99/mo = £47.99/mo or thereabouts. There is no best price package with Sky, it costs what it costs.
 
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BT Vision dont have live games as far as I'm aware, just delayed coverage. You wont find competitors as such because only Sky and Setanta hold the rights to show the games.
 
radderfire said:
Thank you, that's the kind of info I was after.

Now, does anyone have any comments on better deals from competitors, like BT Vision for instance?

Thanks.
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I believe BT vision were offering free setanta sports last month (had this same problem to solve for a friend) but I can't remember the deal, google it I suppose:)
 
bit off topic but you know when setanta took over the "6th football segment" wasn't it supposed to increase competition and drive down costs for us common folk?

this year is even more expensive as setanta is a lot more money than the £80 per season it was under sky.

I subscribe to both sky and setanta, I dont mind as I really like footy but feel abit put out atm as setanta increased the subcription by about 30% this season :/

(£10 originally to £13 now = 30%? dunno my maths is poo like)
 
Get someone you already know who has the full package to upgrade to multiroom then you can watch all the sky channels online (or find someone that already has multiroom and ask them to set you up a password).
 
Oxy said:
bit off topic but you know when setanta took over the "6th football segment" wasn't it supposed to increase competition and drive down costs for us common folk?

this year is even more expensive as setanta is a lot more money than the £80 per season it was under sky.

I subscribe to both sky and setanta, I dont mind as I really like footy but feel abit put out atm as setanta increased the subcription by about 30% this season :/

(£10 originally to £13 now = 30%? dunno my maths is poo like)
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the thing is, Sky was say £18 a month and Setanta was £10, Sky hasn't gone down despite losing games, and remember, a lot of that price is to cover everything they show, Setanta has added games and increased the price slightly. At the end of the day its not bad value but as with everything you get screwed on the extra's. In this case, you can't just pay both companies £5 a month to get the football, all the football and nothing but the football. If they offered it, I honestly think about 80-90% of their subscribers would drop all the other sports and go only footie, which would lose them a heck of a lot of money every year.

The thing that becomes a joke is, isn't it something like a billion for tv rights in the uk for a 4/5 year deal? but other countries pay a pitance, have huge viewer numbers and get every single last game in the premiership basically. If you love football and want to see the premiership the best way to watch it, ludicrously is to move to somewhere in Asia, where you can get every game, live, for next to nothing......... complete joke. This utter tripe excuse of "if all the games were live, no one would go" is ridiculous. Live and watching in your home are very very different, fans will still go, sports in other countries with full coverage of all games, for instance the USA and NFL, NHL, NBA, baseball(i never see it, is it the national baseball league so, NBL?), you can watch all the games live and they have no problems with ticket sales.

LIkewise, if they showed every single game, and charged me an extra £40 a year for a season ticket to sky to see a particular teams every last game and the teams got a significant portion the clubs would make more money, not less. Sport, not live, is just not at all the same.(not talking in person, but watching a game at a later time with hundreds of ways to accidentally see a result, or simply not bothering to watch a bad game).
 
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Volcs said:
Get someone you already know who has the full package to upgrade to multiroom then you can watch all the sky channels online (or find someone that already has multiroom and ask them to set you up a password).
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That's interesting. Got any link to this? Don't suppose Virgin Media does anything similar?
 
No idea - it's not very well publicised even when you take out the multi-room package. I think you can get the CL games on pay-per-view basis for £3 or so iirc.
 
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