Revamp of Sky Sport channels debuting Thursday on Sky.
Also, new streaming service with all nine new Sky Sport channels available.
Big announcement this week of major shake-up of Sky Sport.
Completely new channel line-up.
Nine regular sports channels (plus ESPN and ESPN2).
Including new 24 hour football channel Sky Sport 7.
24 hour sports news channel.
Starts this Thursday August 1
Sounds a big improvement, especially the new streaming service.
Streaming service still pricy though compared to Spark Sport etc.
Read about it here:
I don't understand why you are comparing the price?
2.5x the price of the nearest competitor is rather a lot.
not when there is over 2.5x the content...
But it’s still fair to compare price. 2.5x more expensive is a lot more expensive.
Spark sport probably has enough sports content for most people (particularly during EPL season), and is 2.5x cheaper than than sky’s repackaged fanpass.
Sky may have more content, but I don’t watch most of it. So why pay 50 when you can pay 20.
Realistically as subscriptions expire I’d probably switch between the services depending on what I want to watch. A bit like I do with Netflix and lightbox. But with those price points, I reckon I’d choose to subscribe to Spark more often than I’d choose to subscribe to sky’s service.
my point is it's not the same service - it's not like your comparing the same product at different prices - literally these two services have exclusive rights on content (except for NBA) so a different product. I would think you would choose based on what content you want to watch not price.
Of course price is a factor. If Spark sport were $1000 per month I wouldn’t subscribe even if I wanted to watch EPL.
I’d weigh the content I wanted to watch vs the price then compare that to the other sports streaming options content and price. Like people would do with any purchase they make.
It’s the same service, they both stream sport. Just each service has different offerings - in the same way Cadbury and Whittaker’s both sell the same product, chocolate, but in different flavours, quality and price point.
If they were both the same price, I’d likely sign up to sky’s service more often as with more content it’s more likely I’d feel like watching one of the sports they’re offering. Although I’d still sign up to spark occasionally if I felt like watching EPL or F1.
So price is clearly a factor. Like it is with any purchase of a product or service.