Sky
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Official: BT and Sky agree new Sky Sports deal
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Earlier this week Sky unveiled a radical rebranding of its entire sports channel line-up which will move away from their current number-based names to new sport specific branding.
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Sky Sports: Virgin Media customers unable to subscribe to individual channels
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On Monday the UK’s largest sports broadcaster unveiled a radical overhaul which includes sport-specific channels which its own customers can sign up to individually to suit their budget and interests.
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Which of Sky’s new sports channels will BT TV customers get?
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The two firms have spent years locked in a dispute which went back and forth between regulators and the courts before they finally agreed a deal which allowed BT to offer the high definition versions of Sky Sports 1 & 2 to their customers.
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Sky confirms new flexible Sky Sports package details
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The new 10 channel line-up goes live on July 18th and will be available to existing customers for their current £27.50 per month subscription which will remain frozen for 12 months.
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Sky retains English cricket pay-TV rights but sport will emerge from behind the paywall
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The firm has emerged as the victor in the England & Wales Cricket Board’s auction of TV rights and secured live rights to international and county cricket from 2020, including every match from the new T20 competition.
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Ministers “minded to” order full probe into Sky / Fox merger
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The companies announced plans for the deal, which would see 21st Century Fox buy the 61% of Sky it doesn’t already own, last December and immediately faced opposition from media campaigners and politicians who claim it would deliver Fox owner Rupert Murdoch too much control over the UK’s news and media landscape.