Sky Sports Revamp

At the moment it's on Sky Sports 5, but I think all of the Sky Sports channels have Ireland versions now, so it doesn't really matter which one (from a technical point of view) it's on. Repeats are scheduled for the UK during the opt, so Ireland doesn't lose any live content. That's probably the real reason it's on SS5.

I supppse the question would be that if subscriptions were segregated by sport, you would want the 3pms available only to those taking the football package, and conversely you wouldn't want those only taking football to lose out. However, given that no live football can be shown in England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland at 3:00pm, presumably one of the two football channels would be taking Soccer Saturday and one will be carrying repeats - and the latter would be where the 3pms would be.

So how are they gonna fit long names on the EPG for the channels? It will be an abbreviated mess if they keep Sky Sports in front of everything. Will they do the same as Sky Movies and drop the movie tag in the names, leaving it as just Sky Football, Sky Tennis etc.?

'SSports Cricket'
'SSports Prem'
'SSports Racing'

Ect?

Well, they've managed to get Sky SpN HQ HD in...

Yeah, and that makes total sense and looks fine on the EPG...

The relaunch would be the perfect time to relaunch SSN without the HQ nonsense.

Sky S Cricket
Sky S Tennis
Sky S Prem
Sky S Racing
Sky Sports Now (replacing Sky Sports News HQ, or just remove the HQ)

How do they fit the movie channels on the EPG?

Sky Premier
Sky Hits
Sky Family
Sky Disney... etc.

Sounds like a much better description for the promotional tool/part time sports info channel than the current moniker.

Mixed thoughts, as an existing Sky Sports subscriber. Zero interest in football, avid rugby fan and varying interest inbetween.

Obviously anything that reduces the cost of TV sports overall has to be a good thing - take the European rugby games currently split across 2 subscriptions for a case in point (I'm VirginTV with inclusive BT Sports so not a massive issue), although whether BT could cover the same quantity of games as BT & Sky combined I'm not sure.

But I still don't buy into dedicated channels per sport. As it is, F1 is often simulcast on SS1, and there are many occasions when (mainly football or European rugby weekends) single sports spill onto multiple channels. I wouldn't want to see that lost.

Jury's out for me...

Off topic for this thread, but the EPCR are seemingly looking at reverting back to a single pay TV partner next time around - well documented that it was the deal nobody wanted, of course!