Sky to launch all-subs Sports channel

http://www.a516digital.com/2016/03/sky-launches-new-sports-channel-for-all.html

Presumably it will be run on a "shop window" basis, showing enough to get you hooked but not enough that you won't subscribe to Sky Sports.

My feeling is that this will become the new home of WWE programming. Pro Wrestling may have been a premium or semi-premium product for Sky at one time, but right now, it doesn't have the selling power it once did, especially with WWE Network being available in the UK.

Someone doesn't want their Xtra "X" to die.

It never did die. Not online anyway.
http://www.skysports.com/watch/sky-sports-xtra




Probably because most wrestling fans have grown up since 1992.

Maybe an attempt to appeal to UEFA ahead of the Champions League bidding by providing an outlet for 'free' matches with a wider subscriber base than BT.

Though unless they are available to non-subscribers with FTV cards then they aren't really 'free' are they?

And VM or Freeview?

Err, you make it sound like a fad that people go through. I don't think that's actually the case.

I guess this is where the Sky1 simlcast of random F1 races will end up on.

If Sky show some meaningful regular content on it, then it'll be more use than BT Sport Showcase

I haven't much cared for it since the Attitude era but I know people who enjoy it just as much as when they were younger. It might not be as popular as it once was but there's still a sizeable following.