NOW TV F1 Season Pass
Discussion
I'm with Virgin, we signed up in October last year at £49 pm for BB and TV (no land line) with BTsport HD and Eurosport HD. Sky sports channels are all there but never available unless we upgraded, for some reason all the Sky sports SD channels appeared yesterday, inc F1 and I can watch em???
Wife checked our account and no mention of changes or change of our monthly price. Anyone else had this?
Wife checked our account and no mention of changes or change of our monthly price. Anyone else had this?
Chris77 said:
I'm with Virgin, we signed up in October last year at £49 pm for BB and TV (no land line) with BTsport HD and Eurosport HD. Sky sports channels are all there but never available unless we upgraded, for some reason all the Sky sports SD channels appeared yesterday, inc F1 and I can watch em???
Wife checked our account and no mention of changes or change of our monthly price. Anyone else had this?
I'll be checking when I get home. Wife checked our account and no mention of changes or change of our monthly price. Anyone else had this?
Virgin have previously done offers where they have given free access to Sky channels for a weekend. I've not seen any announcements recently though.
playalistic said:
8V085 said:
I received an email today from NowTV, 16.99 for 3 races Australia, Bahrain and China.
Do you have a link for that? I have searched and can't find the offer mentioned on the website anywhere.That said, while doing a quick search I found this
https://www.hotukdeals.com/vouchers/one-month-sky-...
You get one month for 20gbp, not 16.99gbp as the custom deal but still 13.99 cheaper than usual. There might be some cashback in the usual places to take it down even further.
r11co said:
Chris77 said:
I'm with Virgin, we signed up in October last year at £49 pm for BB and TV (no land line) with BTsport HD and Eurosport HD. Sky sports channels are all there but never available unless we upgraded, for some reason all the Sky sports SD channels appeared yesterday, inc F1 and I can watch em???
Wife checked our account and no mention of changes or change of our monthly price. Anyone else had this?
I'll be checking when I get home. Wife checked our account and no mention of changes or change of our monthly price. Anyone else had this?
Virgin have previously done offers where they have given free access to Sky channels for a weekend. I've not seen any announcements recently though.
TheLimla said:
Quick question about nowtv, can you only watch f1 when it streams live or can you watch at your convenience like bbc iplayer programmes?
You can only watch it as it streams live. However, Sky will usually repeat the race at least once later in the day, and some of the early starting races will be repeated more than once. For example todays Australian GP will be repeated at 12:30, 17:00 and 20:00, but you don't get the pre race build up and the post race discussion (with the exception of Ted's Notebook, which is shown after the replays as a separate programme). Having put up with probably the crappiest commentary and presentation of an F1 race since the ITV days, I'm quite relieved I didn't commit to a £150 NowTV season pass. I think I'd rather avoid the result and watch the C4 highlights package than listen to another three hours of Crofty, Brundle and Ted trying to work out how a driver who pits under VSC leapfrogs one who didn't. For quite some time, they believed it was because it was quicker to drive through the pit lane on the limiter, with a stop for tyres, than it was to drive along the start/finish straight at VSC speed. I'd expect it from Crofty and Ted, but Brundle should be better than that.
eAyeAddio said:
8V085 said:
If Sky had a dedicated motorsport channel with F1, IndyCar and Nascar I'd be happy to pay premium.
Yes please. I'd sign up in a heartbeat......HardtopManual said:
Having put up with probably the crappiest commentary and presentation of an F1 race since the ITV days, I'm quite relieved I didn't commit to a £150 NowTV season pass. I think I'd rather avoid the result and watch the C4 highlights package than listen to another three hours of Crofty, Brundle and Ted trying to work out how a driver who pits under VSC leapfrogs one who didn't. For quite some time, they believed it was because it was quicker to drive through the pit lane on the limiter, with a stop for tyres, than it was to drive along the start/finish straight at VSC speed. I'd expect it from Crofty and Ted, but Brundle should be better than that.
I would also rather watch the C4 highlights than Sky F1 coverage, especially next year,as I am sure there will still be a highlights show for each race.
I’ve ditched Sky totally as I was basically only there for certain sports and the rest of the family didn’t watch it at all.
A bit weird now, especially as I still have the box hooked up for the free channels, to see ‘what we could’ve won’ all the time.
But I have a lot more free time at weekends now as live sports take a looong time to watch.
Would take up a Now package but they are currently too close to the cost of the Sky alternative for me.
After another year of losing customers, I hope Sky may be forced to be reasonable.
A bit weird now, especially as I still have the box hooked up for the free channels, to see ‘what we could’ve won’ all the time.
But I have a lot more free time at weekends now as live sports take a looong time to watch.
Would take up a Now package but they are currently too close to the cost of the Sky alternative for me.
After another year of losing customers, I hope Sky may be forced to be reasonable.
Why do people keep trotting out that Sky are losing customers? They're not. They've added customers every year for about the last four years. This is one of the reasons why they're moving away from 50%+ discounts for leavers and those coming back. Not only does it devalue the product it upsets loyal paying customers. If Sky are gaining customers month on month and Churn is down to low levels (11.2%) they don't need people who won't take Sky unless they get a 50% discount. There are plenty of new customers taking packages that make up for that. Believe me when you tell someone at Sky 'I'm going to cancel!' they hear it many times a day and it doesn't strike fear into their hearts!
Mobile is going strong with 9% of all handset sales being through Sky and they already have nearly half a million Mobile customers. For a service less than a year old.
https://www.skygroup.sky/corporate/investors/rns/2... is the latest article and the most recent figures. The main one being in the first half of the 2018 tax year '365,000 new customers to 22.9 million; 2 million products added to 61.7 million and 20 million pay as you go buys in six months, up 8%'
Remember Sky is not just UK based anymore and they're expanding aggressively in Germany/Austria and Italy and are introducing OTT on Demand services in Spain too. Sky are not 'losing customers', nor are they 'losing money'. They're doing very well, hence Fox's desire to take them over, Disney's desire for Fox for Sky's European penetration and expertise in broadcast in Europe, somewhere Disney have been historically weak and why Comcast, owners of NBC, Universal and many others have also tabled a bid. Sky are a company on the up and they've bucked the trend for years now.
Mobile is going strong with 9% of all handset sales being through Sky and they already have nearly half a million Mobile customers. For a service less than a year old.
https://www.skygroup.sky/corporate/investors/rns/2... is the latest article and the most recent figures. The main one being in the first half of the 2018 tax year '365,000 new customers to 22.9 million; 2 million products added to 61.7 million and 20 million pay as you go buys in six months, up 8%'
Remember Sky is not just UK based anymore and they're expanding aggressively in Germany/Austria and Italy and are introducing OTT on Demand services in Spain too. Sky are not 'losing customers', nor are they 'losing money'. They're doing very well, hence Fox's desire to take them over, Disney's desire for Fox for Sky's European penetration and expertise in broadcast in Europe, somewhere Disney have been historically weak and why Comcast, owners of NBC, Universal and many others have also tabled a bid. Sky are a company on the up and they've bucked the trend for years now.
Edited by MissChief on Monday 2nd April 01:06
MissChief said:
Why do people keep trotting out that Sky are losing customers? They're not. They've added customers every year for about the last four years. This is one of the reasons why they're moving away from 50%+ discounts for leavers and those coming back. Not only does it devalue the product it upsets loyal paying customers. If Sky are gaining customers month on month and Churn is down to low levels (11.2%) they don't need people who won't take Sky unless they get a 50% discount. There are plenty of new customers taking packages that make up for that. Believe me when you tell someone at Sky 'I'm going to cancel!' they hear it many times a day and it doesn't strike fear into their hearts!
Mobile is going strong with 9% of all handset sales being through Sky and they already have nearly half a million Mobile customers. For a service less than a year old.
https://www.skygroup.sky/corporate/investors/rns/2... is the latest article and the most recent figures. The main one being in the first half of the 2018 tax year '365,000 new customers to 22.9 million; 2 million products added to 61.7 million and 20 million pay as you go buys in six months, up 8%'
Remember Sky is not just UK based anymore and they're expanding aggressively in Germany/Austria and Italy and are introducing OTT on Demand services in Spain too. Sky are not 'losing customers', nor are they 'losing money'. They're doing very well, hence Fox's desire to take them over, Disney's desire for Fox for Sky's European penetration and expertise in broadcast in Europe, somewhere Disney have been historically weak and why Comcast, owners of NBC, Universal and many others have also tabled a bid. Sky are a company on the up and they've bucked the trend for years now.
Very interesting but how’s the F1 subs (which I was referring to) going?Mobile is going strong with 9% of all handset sales being through Sky and they already have nearly half a million Mobile customers. For a service less than a year old.
https://www.skygroup.sky/corporate/investors/rns/2... is the latest article and the most recent figures. The main one being in the first half of the 2018 tax year '365,000 new customers to 22.9 million; 2 million products added to 61.7 million and 20 million pay as you go buys in six months, up 8%'
Remember Sky is not just UK based anymore and they're expanding aggressively in Germany/Austria and Italy and are introducing OTT on Demand services in Spain too. Sky are not 'losing customers', nor are they 'losing money'. They're doing very well, hence Fox's desire to take them over, Disney's desire for Fox for Sky's European penetration and expertise in broadcast in Europe, somewhere Disney have been historically weak and why Comcast, owners of NBC, Universal and many others have also tabled a bid. Sky are a company on the up and they've bucked the trend for years now.
Edited by MissChief on Monday 2nd April 01:06
I’m guessing not great and detect a softening in prices which will need to continue to get me back.
swisstoni said:
Very interesting but how’s the F1 subs (which I was referring to) going?
I’m guessing not great and detect a softening in prices which will need to continue to get me back.
While the majority of customers take the full sports package, they won't particularly care if you watch the F1 channel or not.I’m guessing not great and detect a softening in prices which will need to continue to get me back.
Will there be a highlights deal? I'm absolutely sure there will be. It's just a question of when and on what channel.
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