All Sky Sports articles – Page 7

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    Top Up TV enters Sky Sports battle

    2010-07-21T10:51:00Z

    Top Up TV is weighing into the battle to attract subscribers via Sky Sports as it starts offering the flagship channels from August on Freeview.

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    Virgin Media agrees Sky HD deal

    2010-07-20T12:59:00Z

    Virgin Media customers will be able to access live sports content on Sky Sports HD1 and Sky Sporst HD2 after it agreed a deal with the satellite broadcaster.

  • Darts
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    Sky to air darts in 3D

    2010-07-13T10:51:00Z

    Darts will be broadcast live in 3D for the first time on Sky Sports.

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    Sky defends sports price hike

    2010-07-01T10:40:00Z

    BSkyB has defended hiking its prices for Sky Sports packages, which it says are needed to fund the £100m-a-year extra it now has to pay the Premier League.

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    Sky warns BT: don’t pin hopes on Sports

    2010-07-01T09:54:00Z

    As BT Vision unveils its £16.99 pricing structure for Sky Sports 1 and 2, BSkyB has warned it against pinning its hopes on sport to drive take-up.

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    Sky raises prices for BT - and its own customers

    2010-07-01T09:48:00Z

    BT is to make a £2 monthly loss on its new £16.99 Sky Sports 1 and 2 package after BSkyB bumped up its wholesale prices - and what it charges its own customers.

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    Sky Sports News goes pay TV-only

    2010-06-17T10:32:00Z

    Sky is retrenching Sky Sports News as a pay TV-only channel as the broadcaster extends its strategy of charging viewers to view its content.

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    Nine in running for rights to show WRC

    2010-06-03T10:13:00Z

    Nine broadcasters including the BBC, ITV, Sky Sports and UKTV are considering making bids to broadcast the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) for the next three years.

  • Football
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    ESPN buys 41 football games

    2010-05-25T12:22:00Z

    ESPN has acquired the rights to acquire 41 international football games including World Cup friendies as it bids to rival Sky Sports.

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    BT Vision to undercut Sky Sports pricing

    2010-04-30T11:01:00Z

    BT Vision plans to undercut what Sky charges customers for Sky Sports 1 & 2 from the start of next season - despite having to pay the full rate card price while the satellite broadcaster’s appeal against Ofcom’s pay TV ruling is heard.

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    Sky v Ofcom: CAT delivers compromise

    2010-04-29T17:19:00Z

    A compromise ruling by the Competition Appeal Tribunal means BT Vision, Virgin Media and Top Up TV will have to continue to pay the full price for Sky Sports while BSkyB’s appeal against Ofcom’s controversial pay TV ruling is heard.

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    Sky Sports lines up World Cup studio in Cape Town

    2010-04-26T09:19:00Z

    Sky Sports has secured space at a dedicated studio facility in South Africa so that it can provide local coverage of the football World Cup.

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    Crucial ruling looms for firms chasing Sky Sports

    2010-04-22T09:09:00Z

    BT Vision should find out within days if it can offer Sky Sports for the start of the next football season.

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    News

    Premier League contests Sky Sports ruling

    2010-04-16T10:21:00Z

    The Premier League has challenged Ofcom’s decision to force Sky to sell its sports channels to other broadcasters at a discount.

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    ESPN production contract up for grabs

    2010-04-15T15:36:00Z

    ESPN is to end its production agreement with Sky - putting a multi-million pound contract to produce its Premier League, SPL and FA Cup match coverage up for grabs.

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    Darroch: Ofcom ruling will hit sport

    2010-03-31T12:06:00Z

    Sky chief executive Jeremy Darroch has slammed Ofcom’s pay TV ruling, claiming it has got its decision “badly wrong” and will “hit British sport where it hurts.”

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    Sky's rivals bemoan Ofcom verdict

    2010-03-31T11:06:00Z

    Sky’s rivals BT Vision and Virgin Media have voiced disappointment that Ofcom’s has not gone far enough in forcing the satellite broadcaster to slash its sports channel wholesale rates.

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    Sky ordered to cut sports prices

    2010-03-31T09:01:00Z

    Sky must offer its Sky Sports 1 and 2 channels to other broadcasters at a wholesale price set by Ofcom, the broadcasting regulator ruled today.

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    Sky broadcasts first 3D live sports match

    2010-02-01T09:04:00Z

    Football fans watched Arsenal and Manchester United kick off the world’s first live 3D sports broadcast yesterday (31 January).

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    ESPN to tackle Sky with rugby rights

    2009-12-14T11:59:00Z

    ESPN will show significantly more Guinness Premiership rugby fixtures than rival Sky Sports from next season, after picking up rights previously held by Setanta.