PRICING DETAILS OF the Sky’s new ‘Sports Extra’ package, which includes BT Sport and Premier Sports, have been released.
It was confirmed earlier this month that Sky Sports would take over as the exclusive distributors of both BT Sport and Premier Sports in Ireland — meaning Eir Sport customers will lose access to the BT Sport package.
The change comes into effect on 1 August, with further details announced today.
The new ‘Sports Extra’ pack on Sky includes six sports channels; BT Sport 1, 2 and 3, ESPN and Premier Sport 1 and 2, and will be available to new and existing Sky Sports customers from next Thursday for an extra €10 a month (for the first six months and €20 thereafter).
Non-Sky Sports customers can avail of the subscription for €17 a month at the start (and €34 after the first six months), with viewers in Ireland able to access Premier League, Champions League, Europa League and Heineken Champions Cup coverage under one subscription.
For Sky customers at the minute, basic Sky TV costs €37 and Sky Sports is €40.
The new pack will allow fans to watch every single live Premier League game — a record 233 — with BT showing 52, Premier Sports with 53 including exclusive Saturday 3pm kick-offs, and Sky screening the remaining 128.
Former Liverpool star and Sky Sports football analyst, Jamie Carragher, and Ireland and Leinster legend and BT Sport Rugby analyst Brian O’Driscoll launched ‘Sports Extra’ in Dublin today.
Find out more here.
- Updated 16.03
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So that’s over 150 a month for any kinda sky package that has sports in it. I’ll stick to my android box for now thanks.
@Sean D: I currently have Sky Sports for €72 p/month, the BT will add €20 = €92. Still extortion but not near your €150.
@Greenhall Motors Ltd: he’s likely adding 50 extra for broadband
@Sean D: I have sky and broadband and once I add all the sports il be paying €115 PM, il just cancel the sports in January anyway and see if I get an offer if not il just wait for next summers half price offer
@Colm Connolly: yere all forgetting about the hd. And in sixth months time when it all goes up again. Plus factor in the movies the kids and the discovery package plus multi room. Well over 150
@Sean D: I have the hd pack year round I just ring every 6months threaten to cancel it and I get it at a knock down price everytime, I dont pay for kids channels discovery pack or multi room, I have the app on my phone and tablet and if I want to watch something on a TV without the box I use a hdmi into my laptop and run the sky app
Anyone paying over 150 is crazy I also dont have the movie channels I tend to get them for a few months added with the sky sports deal ,I usually get it added for about €4 a month on top of the sports half price
@Colm Connolly: I do exactly the same. You should be getting at least 20% off once you threaten to cancel you subscription. Cancel the lot..: they will be quick … all of them are the same. They have discounts the can apply immediately,
@Sean D: SHUSH Why do people keep talking about these openly. Look what happened the Chorus dodgy boxes
@Colm Connolly: How do people get those offers?? I cancelled sky twice both times they said fine and canceled , and only once in 20 years was I offered a deal, sky sports half price and they phoned end of May!!! I kid u not…
Gawd be with the days of watching The Big Match for free while having Sunday dinner
@Richard O’Brien: when the hell was that ?
@Colm Connolly: hmm not 100% sure but Nikki Lauda and Nelson Piquet were dominating F1
@Richard O’Brien: I’ll be doing it this Sunday on the Sunday Game
@Pat Andrews: ‘The Sunday Game’ and ‘The Big Match’ are 2 different telly shows
@Pat Andrews: but enjoy regardless.
@Colm Connolly: down to the pub after mass. Kicked out at 2 for holy hour so home for the dinner
@Richard O’Brien: and Nelson Pillar was in O Connell Street
@Richard O’Brien: well considering to most ITV has never been free in Ireland and the big match was a highlights show it’s not quite the same as actually watching a live game
@Colm Connolly: the big match or the match as it later became in the late 80s / early 90s showed a live 3pm game every Sunday from the old first division. It wasn’t a highlights programme and was free to air via UTV. It all changed with the introduction of the premier league so enough with the sarcastic comments Colm, you clearly don’t know what you’re talking about.
@Rob Bulman: thank you Rob
@Rob Bulman: RTÉ showed live game every Saturday at 3 for ages
@Dougal67: late 80s into the 90s with the bould Johnny Giles giving expert commentary
Well my season Ticket to Connacht Rugby for €240 a year… It is in 3D, realistic sounds, bar on premise…
Comes with a bonafide excuse ‘I have to go for a few pints with the lads after the game…
@Cowboy Paddy: That’s great.
I wonder when they will realise its high prices that has created the ‘need’ for this whole illegal streaming services thing…. surely if prices were more affordable, more people would subscribe legally and their sales figures be higher? (& as would their advertising revenues too due to larger markets?)
@Barry Ringwood: there were tinkers long before sky sports came on the scene
@Barry Ringwood: @Barry Ringwood: if they dropped their prices to that level, they’d go out of business over night, with the billions clubs demand they pay for live game tv rights. Too many mediocre footballers being paid exorbitant, 6 figure per wk salaries and somebody has to foot the bill for that…. In this case the average wage fan. If people simply cancelled their subscriptions en masse, the whole system would collapse and reform, but alas fans are happy to keep getting stiffed by providers with these stupid prices
@Barry Ringwood: And now you have hit the nub of the problem…. why do you think that Sky “tolerate” the dodgy boxes? In this day and age, do you not think that they could identify who is using them and clamp down?
The dodgy box “subscribers” are already included in viewer numbers for the advertising pitch.
Eventually, some day soon, when they reach saturation, they will make moves to shut down the illegal subscriptions and the hope is that they will become legal subscribers
That can stick it where the sun does not shine!
Sky is way overpriced imo when compared to what you get with Netflix, for example, or Spotify. And now that sport is split between Sky and BT, it’s terrible value.
They thrive on people’s loyalty/unwillingness to go without..
@Gary Donlan: at least Netflix is only €11, but you get what you pay for? Same old sh*te on it for years. They made a big hullabaloo about getting Friends which has been flogged to death for 25 years on satellite and free to air. They emailed me two years ago about a great movie just added, Gladiator!! Made in 2000 and been seen umpteen times on free to air as well.
@Gary Donlan: and this is all thanks to the EU competition laws that were meant to create value but have actually led to segmentation if the market!
@joe: nah, in fairness it’s more down to stupidity of fans continuing to pay inflated fees and subs while epl players, clubs and TV providers make record profits and revenues off the back of them, season after season
@Paul Shepherd: Don’t know what you do be watching but everything i’ve watched on it so far this year has been newly made. A lot of it by their own production team. Its great value.
This is exactly why i cancelled sky tv in full two weeks ago. Having the pay a sports subscription and then pay a second amount for the same sports just isnt worth it. I’ll do without or find other ways to watch
That’s seriously good value, an extra €10 for all those games, fantastic, well done sky and BT.
@Alan Brazil: trolling on a sunny afternoon
@John O Reilly: it’s €50 per month to watch almost every game of the premier league, Rugby champions cup, you almost have access to all sports, how is that trolling?
BO’D's Liveroool career seems to have slipped under the Radar. When did he come in, under Houiller or Evan’s. ?
So BT buy the rights to the games so SKY buy the rights to broadcast BT. The only competition SKY now has is from illegal streams. That cant be right.
Get Itv for free and la Liga games. Best league in the world over the last 20 years by a distance. Hopefully just a blip this year with Lady luck smiling on the epl sides. El premiership way way overhyped and rotten to the core with money. Give me technique any day over the likes of hoofball and set piece football played by the likes of da pewel.
Bring back Grandstand on Saturday
Two fingers
And four letters for sky
IPTV
4 letters to SKY…..IPTV…..€10 a month for everything
IPTV it is so….. If only RTÉ was that easy to dodge.
Bad article should give you the total costs all in for all sports channels per year
ha ha and they wonder why ppl watch it on android box or iptv idiots, you get more games in US for better price than you get in Ireland and UK what a joke,and in the US it’s not just one game on a Saturday it’s every single match to watch
This the reason why people have Android boxes. High prices. Simple.
BT rugby coverage is cringeworthy. Won’t miss it.
Lads if ye have a smartphone and your TV has screen mirroring just simply open up a link on the phone and it will appear on yer TV don’t mind paying that money for sky that’s a session gone every month
A season ticket for Shamrock Rovers €200 for the year. Stick your Sky Sports where the sun don’t shine and take your barstools with ya.
We have to pay to listen to Spitty Carragher
Heading to canaries tomorrow. Bein sports is the main provider to the islands. Think it’s like €1100 per YEAR for a pub. Which was €100 less than what I was paying sky a MONTH in a pub. Ie €1200 a month in a quite pub. But choice of 16 channels and 5 matches at 3pm on a saturday. Far superior service by bein also heard rumours of likes of Amazon and netflix going down the route of sport suppliers. Hope they go ahead with it.
Could be worse, you could have Eir And essentially be paying for freeview…..
I get all the sports I need from Poland and at a fraction of the cost. And legal too. Sky is a rip off.