Winter Olympics 2018

No - you pay Sky for a package of channels. Sky then in turn pay Eurosport a commercial rate negotiated between them. You aren't paying Eurosport - you are paying Sky...

If you were paying Eurosport directly - as used to be the case with BT Sport, I could see the argument, but you aren't. You're paying Sky.



Why? Sky didn't market them to you when you signed up for Sky.

Eurosport can't force Sky to take them, Sky can't force Eurosport to give them to them... The commercial truth is probably somewhere in between.

So that means it doesn't appear on my package then (Mix). Eurosport 1 & 2 are available, but 3, 4 and 5 are greyed out.

I've got a feeling France was completely exempt from the deal.

Obviously, Mr N. And I'll just have to resign myself to Eurosport 1 and 2, plus the usual excellent BBC coverage - however, I do find both organziation behavour here, curious to say the least.

With Discovery Eurosport - they've been promoting themselves as the 'Home Of The Olympics' had a days to go counter under the DOG since well before Christmas. They start up 3 extra channels for the event, and not put them on the biggest pay tv platform in the country.

With Sky - I would have thought as soon as they found out that their sworn enemies in the pay tv/comms market Virgin Media have been 'given' 3 extra Olympic Channels, I'd have thought lines of communication would have been opened up between Osterley and Feltham, and gentle probing with both parties over cost would have taken place - for the benefit of both companines.

But I still think the very public stand off last year, is still hiding in the shadows in the background over this.

Enough. I'm off to watch highlights of the Ski Jumping Normal Hill Qualifying..

You can have Eurosport 3-5 when Virgin gets Sky Atlantic

Korean news report on opening ceremony:

I've got both SKY and BTTV so have access to the three extra channels, will probably use them if the BBC get to chatty, but feel Olympic coverage has definately taken a step back in this country with restricting these extra feeds considering what was available to us from 2012 onwards

These are effectively just red button channels given an EPG slot with the Player offering the full feeds. Similar set up to the BBC, but not across all platforms.

What is the situation with SkyQ and streaming content now - even with no linear channel if a deal was struck could live content be made available that way?

Are you talking to me James? Because I have Virgin Mix is the new name for the M+ package. Eurosport 3-5 are viewable in the Tivo guide but greyed out. Clicking on them doesn't even say I need to upgrade the package either. It just says the channels aren't available.

Interesting that Eurosport 3-5 are just direct rebroadcasts of the OBS feeds- broadcasting audio tests on all three channels right now!

Was always going to be the case - they're essentially red button channels. Suspect only Eurosport 1 will have any presentation. ES2 will probably be basically be the OBS streams but with more ads.

Still suprised they're leaving up the OBS captions and audio tests though rather than putting up their own cards during the downtime.