Sky to stream midweek English Football League games after new £600m TV deal

[More Bladier than thou]

Hooray, Its about time they followed the the German tv model by customers subscribing to your chosen club. Sky De have been doing this for years, works extremely well, attendances have not suffered either. Sky are going down this route because they have merged sky uk, sky de, sky it in the last year to streamline the business and this set up works well elsewhere. Don't forget that by more people accessing stream etc, the more viewers are watching and increasing the advertising revenue of both Sky and the Efl. They do well out of it, us fans can watch everything we want. Win win. This how German teams have been able to keep ticket prices so low and keeping attendances good, more revenue.

 

[zablade]

The Police will love this. Less travelling fans, less aggro.

Shame about the atmosphere though...

 

[ghandi]

The Police will love this. Less travelling fans, less aggro.

Shame about the atmosphere though...

The ELF have introduced this solely to stop all complaints about our loyalty system.

 

[YES Blade]

Didn't people say that matches being shown on Sky would kill attendances when the Premier League was first formed?

 

[Hodgesleftpeg]

The Swansea Newcastle match was shown live on Sky on Sunday at 4pm

Newcastle United away allocation was sold out..

the majority of away fans would go anyway regardless of whether it's on tv or not

 

[mattbianco1]

BUMP...

This starts this year. If we aren't being shown live on SKY, it says the clubs website can stream it. Does this mean via iFollow or free of charge?

 

[Deadbat]

So is the Boro game on or is it just when there's a full midweek programme?

 

[Reedy1889]

BUMP...

This starts this year. If we aren't being shown live on SKY, it says the clubs website can stream it. Does this mean via iFollow or free of charge?

it starts next year. http://www.skysports.com/football/n...rights-until-2024-with-more-matches-than-ever

 

[Harry's Game]

BUMP...

This starts this year. If we aren't being shown live on SKY, it says the clubs website can stream it. Does this mean via iFollow or free of charge?

Guess

It’s not going to be FOC

 

[Rusty view]

Don't worry I'll still be following a away matches via Twitter via s24su.......will it be a live feed from Sky tho or live from the ground?

S2 4SU Twitter is far better.

We have a corner........
It comes to nothing.....

I love it!

 

[Paisley Blade]

it starts next year. http://www.skysports.com/football/n...rights-until-2024-with-more-matches-than-ever

Just read that and it seems pretty clear - however, the Live Football on TV site shows our game at Boro , and all further such midweek games, as live on Sky red button ...? Somebody's got it wrong.

 

[mattbianco1]

it starts next year. http://www.skysports.com/football/n...rights-until-2024-with-more-matches-than-ever

ah FFS

 

[Hodgesleftpeg]

It starts this season via the red button

Won’t be the same amount of cameras as on a live match.. don’t expect the same coverage

 

[mattbianco1]

It starts this season via the red button

Won’t be the same amount of cameras as on a live match.. don’t expect the same coverage

I've been googling but can't find anything on it?

 

[TakeTheHighRoad]

http://www.skysports.com/football/n...mpionship-league-one-and-league-two-in-201819

"There are eight rounds of midweek Sky Bet Championship matches this season and Sky Sports Football will broadcast matches live on Tuesday and Wednesday nights.

And as part of a brand new service, Sky Sports viewers will be able to press the red button and watch live coverage of ANY of the matches being played.

That means you'll be able to watch YOUR team live when they play in midweek, no matter which Sky Bet Championship club you support."

 

[Hodgesleftpeg]

I've been googling but can't find anything on it?

I think it’s all been brought forward a year.
The games will be shown on sky via the red button

 

[Reedy1889]

http://www.skysports.com/football/n...mpionship-league-one-and-league-two-in-201819

"There are eight rounds of midweek Sky Bet Championship matches this season and Sky Sports Football will broadcast matches live on Tuesday and Wednesday nights.

And as part of a brand new service, Sky Sports viewers will be able to press the red button and watch live coverage of ANY of the matches being played.

That means you'll be able to watch YOUR team live when they play in midweek, no matter which Sky Bet Championship club you support."

'8 rounds of midweek matches'?? does this mean it's only available when all the teams are playing midweek?

 

[sufcboy95]

Surely the clubs will be getting extra money from sky each time we have a mid week game.

 

[mattbianco1]

This is showing us down for Sky Sports Red Button loads - https://www.live-footballontv.com/live-championship-football-on-tv.html

 

[More Bladier than thou]

Not sure these games are hd or not. I think its the same as sky F1 race control. They are sd as there's a few feeds on at the same time. Hopefully iam wrong because football in sd on sky looks abysmal.

 

[SUFC Guy]

Not sure these games are hd or not. I think its the same as sky F1 race control. They are sd as there's a few feeds on at the same time. Hopefully iam wrong because football in sd on sky looks abysmal.

It's disgusting that they record and broadcast in HD/UHD/4K but if you don't pay for it they rip the hell out of it to make it a very poor SD. I don't know how they get away with it.

 

[BigBed]

I would strongly urge fellow blades to pay for the ifollow stream and not the sky sports stream. Why give sky your money when the club could have it all ? The efl have realised that they are fighting a losing battle on streams so may aswell get a piece of the pie.

The club don't run ifollow, ifollow is available for many clubs, its a seperate entity, and they get the lions share of any monies, same as sky, only, you can sit in the boozer with a few pints and your mates watching sky.

 

[More Bladier than thou]

The club don't run ifollow, ifollow is available for many clubs, its a seperate entity, and they get the lions share of any monies, same as sky, only, you can sit in the boozer with a few pints and your mates watching sky.

yes I know, though when I posted that I was under the impression that you would have to subscribe to your team through your sky package like they do in Germany. Quite surprised that all games are just automatically included in your sky sports subscription anyway. Gives more value for money I suppose.

 

[Deadbat]

Said does not start till August 21st on Sky today so guessing Middlesbrough game is not on? The football on tv site is not always that reliable sadly.

 

[Berkshire Blade]

If you press the red button on sky sports channels this pops up.

Its on starting Tuesday

 

[Deadbat]

If you press the red button on sky sports channels this pops up.

Its on starting Tuesday

Cheers. Good stuff. Odd they said it was not starting for a few weeks then?

 

[Berkshire Blade]

Cheers. Good stuff. Odd they said it was not starting for a few weeks then?

Because there wasn't meant to be any midweek games already not on TV until then.

 

[10-0 win]

Away at QPR aug. 11th is live worldwide

 

[ChipButtyBlade]

http://www.skysports.com/football/n...mpionship-league-one-and-league-two-in-201819

"There are eight rounds of midweek Sky Bet Championship matches this season and Sky Sports Football will broadcast matches live on Tuesday and Wednesday nights.

And as part of a brand new service, Sky Sports viewers will be able to press the red button and watch live coverage of ANY of the matches being played.

That means you'll be able to watch YOUR team live when they play in midweek, no matter which Sky Bet Championship club you support."

Those that already cough up £'s.

 

[metalblade]

Not sure I want to see what happens at Boro