Another Sky Price Increase

[Morningside]

I understand that Sky is good for sports but apart from that who bothers with it these days?

[Leicester Loyal]

Morningside said:

I understand that Sky is good for sports but apart from that who bothers with it these days?

It's not even that good for Sports, a lot of the Prem is now on BT Sport. I only catch England cricket, the occasional Championship game and sometimes the Darts (as well as Super Sunday obviously). It's getting very pricey though, if you're not in a contract with a good deal it's mega expensive.

[bad company]

Morningside said:

I understand that Sky is good for sports but apart from that who bothers with it these days?

Me. When I last renewed they were highly competitive for broadband and landline. That’s not looking like the case now.

[youngsyr]

Morningside said:

I understand that Sky is good for sports but apart from that who bothers with it these days?

I'm paying £33 a month for Sky Q 2tb with 3 mini boxes, no movies or sport.

Basically I use it as a media server where I can watch live, streamed or recorded tv on any one (or all) of 4 TVs around the house, all with the same user interface, including voice search.

[MissChief]

bad company said:

I gave up Sky tv ages ago but still have their phone & broadband packages. I’m paying £35 monthly for Fibre Max, Line Rental and Anytime Extra which includes call charges to landlines and mobile numbers. Looking at the website the monthlies are due to increase to £39 in April but I haven’t been notified yet.

Presumably with that increase I’ll be able to break the 18 month contract I entered into a year ago.

As long as you notify Sky of your intention to leave they'll waive the early termination charges and you can approach a new provider. Don't ask Sky to cancel, you could be without service for up to 2 weeks, maybe more. Approach your new provider and ask them to take over your service.

[Zippee]

Mentioned on the other sky thread but I phoned up today to cancel and got this deal for 18 months;
superfast b/band which includes line rental
Ent pack
HD
Evening & weekend calls
Free upgrade to sky q with a 2Tb box.

£36 pcm for 18 mths

[anonymous-user]

My ‘contract’ was up last month, so they hiked it from £60 to £69
I cancelled the sports as never watched it, reduced to 50
Now they were going to increase that to 53.50
(Most must wish they had a 7% raise this year)
Cancelled kids tv as never used by grandkids -
Now £49,50 (plenty of children’s tv not to watch on my Amazon prime or youtube anyway)

I’m sure that when they bump up the price, they must lose most of their rip off gain through rationalisation !

[rscott]

Leicester Loyal said:

Morningside said:

I understand that Sky is good for sports but apart from that who bothers with it these days?

It's not even that good for Sports, a lot of the Prem is now on BT Sport. I only catch England cricket, the occasional Championship game and sometimes the Darts (as well as Super Sunday obviously). It's getting very pricey though, if you're not in a contract with a good deal it's mega expensive.

There are 200 Premier League games which can be televised this season and no broadcaster can have rights to more than 148 of them (Premier League decided this to try and maximise revenue).

Sky got 128, BT 52 and Amazon 20 . Under the last deal, Sky had 126 and BT 42. So yes, BT have more games than before, but still way less than Sky.

[Leicester Loyal]

rscott said:

There are 200 Premier League games which can be televised this season and no broadcaster can have rights to more than 148 of them (Premier League decided this to try and maximise revenue).

Sky got 128, BT 52 and Amazon 20 . Under the last deal, Sky had 126 and BT 42. So yes, BT have more games than before, but still way less than Sky.

I didn't realise Sky had just as many as before, that surprises me. It felt like they had less because Boxing day and another round of fixtures was given to Amazon, so there was none on Sky those weekends.

[bad company]

Leicester Loyal said:

I didn't realise Sky had just as many as before, that surprises me. It felt like they had less because Boxing day and another round of fixtures was given to Amazon, so there was none on Sky those weekends.

That means that if I wanted all of the football I’d need to subscribe to Sky, BT and Amazon.

[Flumpo]

bad company said:

Leicester Loyal said:

I didn't realise Sky had just as many as before, that surprises me. It felt like they had less because Boxing day and another round of fixtures was given to Amazon, so there was none on Sky those weekends.

That means that if I wanted all of the football I’d need to subscribe to Sky, BT and Amazon.

I would much rather it went ppv and you could watch ANY game you wanted. I know the fa have always objected as it might impact gates.

But I’m not convinced it would and a lot of people would just watch it again when they got back.

[rscott]

bad company said:

Leicester Loyal said:

I didn't realise Sky had just as many as before, that surprises me. It felt like they had less because Boxing day and another round of fixtures was given to Amazon, so there was none on Sky those weekends.

That means that if I wanted all of the football I’d need to subscribe to Sky, BT and Amazon.

You can blame the Premier League for that - they set a condition that no one broadcaster could have all the games, which meant you'd need at least two subscriptions.
At least the Amazon games were all in one month so would only cost £6 to get them.

[MissChief]

rscott said:

bad company said:

Leicester Loyal said:

I didn't realise Sky had just as many as before, that surprises me. It felt like they had less because Boxing day and another round of fixtures was given to Amazon, so there was none on Sky those weekends.

That means that if I wanted all of the football I’d need to subscribe to Sky, BT and Amazon.

You can blame the Premier League for that - they set a condition that no one broadcaster could have all the games, which meant you'd need at least two subscriptions.
At least the Amazon games were all in one month so would only cost £6 to get them.

The EU actually, as it was anti-competitive in their eyes.

Let us not forget that when Sky did have all the football some of the games were behind a Prem Plus additional subscription.

[Leicester Loyal]

They should do a Prem only package, I know theres been talks of it happening recently. I'd pay £15 a month for all the premiership games, I don't want any of the other bullst that comes with Sky Sports tbh.

[swisstoni]

Leicester Loyal said:

They should do a Prem only package, I know theres been talks of it happening recently. I'd pay £15 a month for all the premiership games, I don't want any of the other bullst that comes with Sky Sports tbh.

Have a look at Now TV. I ditched Sky a couple of years ago and have bought weekend passes for when I really want to see something. There are usually discounted offers available online.

[bad company]

Leicester Loyal said:

They should do a Prem only package, I know theres been talks of it happening recently. I'd pay £15 a month for all the premiership games, I don't want any of the other bullst that comes with Sky Sports tbh.

I dumped Sky tv and bought a Now tv box. There 2-3 matches per season I’m happy to pay for so I just ‘buy’ those.

[rscott]

Leicester Loyal said:

They should do a Prem only package, I know theres been talks of it happening recently. I'd pay £15 a month for all the premiership games, I don't want any of the other bullst that comes with Sky Sports tbh.

They've been offering individual sports channels for a couple of years now - £18 a month for a single channel (31 day contract) . Not great value compared to £23 a month for all channels on an 18 month term.

You still need the base pack though.

Best deal seems to be the bundle of Sky Sports, BT Sport and the base pack for £47 a month.

[anonymous-user]

I haven't had Sky for about six years now, I can honestly say I do not miss it for one second. My parents are paying nearly £100 a months for their package and they don't even have Sky movies or the F1 Channel. In actual fact they admit they spend more time watching programs via my Netflix account, than they do via Sky.

When I go to vist them and flick through the sky channels it just seems to be the usual Pawn Stars, Dog the bounty hunter, Ice road Truckers, Wheeler Dealers, Impossible Engineering, CSI SVU, Lovejoy, reruns of 90s EastEnders etc. rubbish that I get on Freeview anyway.

I have a smart TV with freeview, iPlayer, ITV Catchup etc. and a Netflix account and never feel like I can't find something to watch. I really don't understand how Sky is even still going with the prices they charge.

[Flumpo]

Leicester Loyal said:

They should do a Prem only package, I know theres been talks of it happening recently. I'd pay £15 a month for all the premiership games, I don't want any of the other bullst that comes with Sky Sports tbh.

Do you mean just the perm Chanel 402?

That’s what I have for £12 a month, I think it’s £18 but I cancelled that and got offered all sports cha for £20. Refused and eventually got offered 402 for £12.

[bad company]

I gave up on Sky tv some time ago and replaced with Freesat, Now tv and recently Netflix.

I still use Sky for phone and broadband though and managed to negotiate the following in spite of the recent price rise:-

Line rental
Anytime calls to landlines and mobiles
Fibre max

£37 per month. Sound reasonable?