Now have to subscribe to Sky sports to get F1

[Some Gump]

coyft said:

Looks like Sky have moved the F1 channel and you need to subscribe to sports.

I've previously had it with the HD package for £10 a month (I think).

Amazed you've kept it for so long. Made unavailable to new subscribers >2 years ago.
Change / add a pack? new subscription, lose sports. Change broadband? same. Change address?

Sky: wkers.

[eliot]

Working fine for me and i'm a legacy HD pack user.
Sure you were looking on the f1 channel (406) not the simucast on sky sports 1?

[AlexRS2782]

If the new Sky advert, that started being shown repeatedly on nearly every ad break earlier today, is anything to go by, Sky are rebranding their sports subscription to at least 10 specific branded channels which focus on set sports (F1, Premier League, Golf, Cricket, etc) rather than the current 1-5 with various sports spread across them. So the idea is you now only subscribe to the sports you want rather than having to pay for the entire package, including stuff you don't want to watch.

Edit - found this link on the C4 F1 thread, from a reply to a poster that was asking something similar, that explains the changes:

https://corporate.sky.com/media-centre/news-page/2...

[GrumpyTwig]

AlexRS2782 said:

If the new Sky advert, that started being shown repeatedly on nearly every ad break earlier today, is anything to go by, Sky are rebranding their sports subscription to at least 10 specific branded channels which focus on set sports (F1, Premier League, Golf, Cricket, etc) rather than the current 1-5 with various sports spread across them. So the idea is you now only subscribe to the sports you want rather than having to pay for the entire package, including stuff you don't want to watch.

Edit - found this link on the C4 F1 thread, from a reply to a poster that was asking something similar, that explains the changes:

https://corporate.sky.com/media-centre/news-page/2...

Yep it's all being split up.

[Driver101]

They can't afford to lose anymore Football subscribers. The cost per viewer is already astronomical.

[eliot]

So £27 for 10 channels and the ability to buy one channel for the bargain price of £18 - hmm, I think their calculator is broken! F1 is only worth about £5 a month to me. I like the coverage, but its just not that exciting to justify spending much on it.

Will have to see if my legacy HD pack stops working or not.

[Welshbeef]

My legacy package works fine (cancelled sports a year ago in Spet and to be honest not missed it really).

If F1 stops being shown I'll switch my package to the full "variety" + box sets which I think means I'll save £10 a month all else being equal.

[Teppic]

coyft said:

Looks like Sky have moved the F1 channel and you need to subscribe to sports.

I've previously had it with the HD package for £10 a month (I think).

It's working fine for me (another Legacy HD user)

They've moved it from channel 408 to 406.

[Megaflow]

Some Gump said:

coyft said:

Looks like Sky have moved the F1 channel and you need to subscribe to sports.

I've previously had it with the HD package for £10 a month (I think).

Amazed you've kept it for so long. Made unavailable to new subscribers >2 years ago.
Change / add a pack? new subscription, lose sports. Change broadband? same. Change address?

Sky: wkers.

Mine works fine on the legacy HD.

I have also renegotiated my broadband price twice, and moved house in the last two years. Without and impact on my legacy HD.

[C70R]

Megaflow said:

Some Gump said:

coyft said:

Looks like Sky have moved the F1 channel and you need to subscribe to sports.

I've previously had it with the HD package for £10 a month (I think).

Amazed you've kept it for so long. Made unavailable to new subscribers >2 years ago.
Change / add a pack? new subscription, lose sports. Change broadband? same. Change address?

Sky: wkers.

Mine works fine on the legacy HD.

I have also renegotiated my broadband price twice, and moved house in the last two years. Without and impact on my legacy HD.

This. Sky are easy to play like a fiddle - if people aren't getting what they want, then they only have themselves to blame.

[glasgow mega snake]

eliot said:

So £27 for 10 channels and the ability to buy one channel for the bargain price of £18 - hmm, I think their calculator is broken! F1 is only worth about £5 a month to me. I like the coverage, but its just not that exciting to justify spending much on it.

Will have to see if my legacy HD pack stops working or not.

I would happily pay £18 a month for the the F1 but don't want the rest of the sky crap alongside it.

The whole idea of paying for TV and then still having adverts seems pretty weird tbh.

[ukaskew]

glasgow mega snake said:

I would happily pay £18 a month for the the F1 but don't want the rest of the sky crap alongside it.

Is that not possible?

We've got a box still wired up since cancelling 6 months ago, we don't pay anything so just get the Freeview stuff basically including HD Freeview channels. My understanding is that if I just pay £18 I'll get the Sky Sports F1 channel.

[Teppic]

ukaskew said:

glasgow mega snake said:

I would happily pay £18 a month for the the F1 but don't want the rest of the sky crap alongside it.

Is that not possible?

We've got a box still wired up since cancelling 6 months ago, we don't pay anything so just get the Freeview stuff basically including HD Freeview channels. My understanding is that if I just pay £18 I'll get the Sky Sports F1 channel.

No. You will need at least the Sky Basic package at £22 per month, before being able to buy the individual sports channels as an add-on.

So basically £40 per month to get F1. It's probably priced that way so that people see that for £9.50 extra you can get all of the Sky Sports channels, rather than one, and see the full pack as a bit more of a "bargain".

[rscott]

Legacy F1 isn't going away, panic not..

[ukaskew]

Teppic said:

No. You will need at least the Sky Basic package at £22 per month, before being able to buy the individual sports channels as an add-on.

So basically £40 per month to get F1. It's probably priced that way so that people see that for £9.50 extra you can get all of the Sky Sports channels, rather than one, and see the full pack as a bit more of a "bargain".

Shot themselves in the foot there then. Considering the package price some are paying £18 out of me for one channel would be like free money to them (when we cancelled we had just come to the end of paying £25 per month for everything, movies, sports, box sets etc).

£40 is actually more than they keep harassing us with every week to return to that full 'everything included' package, so that's not really making any sense.

I thought this might be a step in the right direction for them but apparently not.

[C70R]

I feel like a broken record here. This constant p*ssing and moaning about how the cost of Sky (and how they must obviously be evil to consider charging people for watching TV) is getting in the way of people watching F1 is dull.

Pulling your heads out of your collective backsides for more than a few moments would reveal the following (quoting myself from another thread):

C70R said:

It's costs £6.99 to watch a live race and highlights of FP/Qual via a one-day NowTV (a Sky company) pass.
This can be done on laptop/PC, Android/iOS mobile device and a whole host of connected devices (including games consoles and smart TVs).

What more exactly do you want them to do?

Edited by C70R on Thursday 20th July 12:39

[48k]

C70R said:

Megaflow said:

Some Gump said:

coyft said:

Looks like Sky have moved the F1 channel and you need to subscribe to sports.

I've previously had it with the HD package for £10 a month (I think).

Amazed you've kept it for so long. Made unavailable to new subscribers >2 years ago.
Change / add a pack? new subscription, lose sports. Change broadband? same. Change address?

Sky: wkers.

Mine works fine on the legacy HD.

I have also renegotiated my broadband price twice, and moved house in the last two years. Without and impact on my legacy HD.

This. Sky are easy to play like a fiddle - if people aren't getting what they want, then they only have themselves to blame.

Less and less so these days. The old "trick" used to be to phone them up and tell them you're cancelling all or some of your package and they would magically give you an offer for 6 months or whatever. But within the last year I've heard of several people (and myself included) where they have not magic'd up a retention offer and simply complied with the cancellation request.

C70R said:

What more exactly do you want them to do?

Stop serving online content via Silverlight.

[anonymous-user]

Just to let people know that there is a huge scam when a lady phones pretending to be from Sky offering a refund.

Clearly trying to catch people out with the new sports packages.

Sure many would not fall for this but the call sounds very professional and they have managed to target a few people.

Just a heads up.

[ClockworkCupcake]

ELUSIVEJIM said:

Just to let people know that there is a huge scam when a lady phones pretending to be from Sky offering a refund.

Clearly trying to catch people out with the new sports packages.

Sure many would not fall for this but the call sounds very professional and they have managed to target a few people.

Just a heads up.

Presumably they want your bank account details in order to process the refund?

[Adam B]

48k said:

Less and less so these days. The old "trick" used to be to phone them up and tell them you're cancelling all or some of your package and they would magically give you an offer for 6 months or whatever. But within the last year I've heard of several people (and myself included) where they have not magic'd up a retention offer and simply complied with the cancellation request.

I have HD/sports/movies/broadband/phone line with them
my last offer expired and monthly cost went from £81 to £130
canx the lot, now re-negotiated at £85

so does this sports change mean I can remove F1, cricket and golf and save something?