Sky TV packages

[Kingman]

12 hours ago, AndyC said:

Anything good around at the moment for a current customer who's deal is about to end? 

If you're deal is about to end then just follow the cancellation process over the last couple pages. 

By all means you can ask first for a new deal but as I've said before its doubtful you will get the 50/60% off until you have the 31 Day notice pending on your account pal. 

[Kingman]

9 hours ago, V01 said:

I just took a 50% for 12 months deal that popped up in my offers after cancelling. Probably could have got 60% off if I'd been more patient.

Glad you got sorted pal.

[Genie]

I'm toying with Virgin Media after about 10 years with Sky.

Sky only offered me crappy discounts when I called them recently and all on a new 18 month contract.

VM look to have a decent package for £55 on a 12 months deal, all the channels apart from movies and sky sports (includes BT sports), 200mb broadband, line rental plus Quidco were doing £220 cashback. Its dropped to £140 now so I'm just waiting to see if it goes back up again.

Works out £36.66 a month after cashback if it goes back to £220.

[V01]

1 hour ago, Kingman said:

Glad you got sorted pal.

Upgrading to Q was tempting but the up front cost is ridiculous. 

[TrentVilla]

12 hours ago, Demitri_C said:

What deal do you get with BT?

£53 for TV, phone and BB. No Sky sports but have BT sport.

[AndyC]

12 hours ago, Kingman said:

If you're deal is about to end then just follow the cancellation process over the last couple pages. 

By all means you can ask first for a new deal but as I've said before its doubtful you will get the 50/60% off until you have the 31 Day notice pending on your account pal. 

Nice one. It's something I do every year anyway just thought there might be a deal going on to save all the hassle. Phoned today to give notice, over the phone they offered TV, fibre and phone for £43 which is not a bad start. 

[brommy]

Hi Kingman. I've been with Sky for about 18 years and only occasionally phoned them up asking for a better deal. The last time was over a year ago but I can't see anywhere on my online account that states my contract dates. My last call reduced the cost of my HD variety TV package from about £38 to about £28 for 6 months (I think) but for the last year or so I've been paying £44 per month which seems excessive for pretty basic channels from an old Sky+ box, albeit in HD.

Are any large discounts and account credit deals on at the moment or should I cancel via a live chat and hope for a 50% return offer within the 31 day notice?

Thanks.

[Kingman]

There are a number of codes going round if you can grab one online, Failing that just phone up and cancel, By all means ask what offers are available to you but it's doubtful they will give you the 50/60% off until you have activated your 31 day cancellation notice!.. 

Edited May 7, 2017 by Kingman

[brommy]

2 hours ago, Kingman said:

There are a number of codes going round if you can grab one online, Failing that just phone up and cancel, By all means ask what offers are available to you but it's doubtful they will give you the 50/60% off until you have activated your 31 day cancellation notice!.. 

Thanks. Will a 50% offer increase to 60% at some point in the 31 day notice and how long is the discount for, 12 months?

[Kingman]

10 minutes ago, brommy said:

Thanks. Will a 50% offer increase to 60% at some point in the 31 day notice and how long is the discount for, 12 months?

Yeah all deals mainly are 12 months but you can get monthly rolling contracts as well but not that common. It can vary with the % discounts from the off but the longer you leave it the more it goes up. I seen one last week with a guy leaving it go 2 weeks over the 31 days and got 75% off so just depends on what you will be happy with mate.

Edited May 7, 2017 by Kingman

[brommy]

Thanks again Kingman.

[Kingman]

10 hours ago, brommy said:

Thanks again Kingman.

No worries... Let us know how you get on pal.

[dubbs]

More of a Now TV deal than Sky but I had the 2 week Cinema trial, went to cancel online and right at the end I was offered 4 months @ 3.99 a month. Sky Cinema for a pound a week - deal!

[darrenm]

I did that now TV deal. It's on all the time I think. Compared to Netflix for £8 a month or £2 a week it's not great when you compare them.

Now TV doesn't do HD. It's all SD. You can only have 4 devices which includes streaming devices and can only make 1 change a month. This means many times you're stuck not being able to watch it if you use multiple devices or Chromecasts

And the movies are mostly generally pretty rubbish. I think it's worth it for the offer period to watch the best stuff though.

[dubbs]

I was toying with the idea of getting a Now TV box as the one I've seen in Currys is advertised as a HD box. £15 inc 2 months Cinema pass. 

[Demitri_C]

On 5/27/2017 at 10:04, darrenm said:

I did that now TV deal. It's on all the time I think. Compared to Netflix for £8 a month or £2 a week it's not great when you compare them.

Now TV doesn't do HD. It's all SD. You can only have 4 devices which includes streaming devices and can only make 1 change a month. This means many times you're stuck not being able to watch it if you use multiple devices or Chromecasts

And the movies are mostly generally pretty rubbish. I think it's worth it for the offer period to watch the best stuff though.

I agree Darren its poor deal in my view compared to netflix 

[choffer]

On 27/05/2017 at 12:39, dubbs said:

I was toying with the idea of getting a Now TV box as the one I've seen in Currys is advertised as a HD box. £15 inc 2 months Cinema pass. 

Completely off-topic but I've got the NowTV app on my TV. It's horrible. It stalls and crashes the TV every 20 minutes. I'm such a mug for continuing to pay for it. 

[dubbs]

I've had no issue with the app apart from the software on the tv crashes since Sony released yet another buggy firmware update.  The now tv box works fine. 

[Kingman]

Until 11.59pm on Thu 1 June, we've blagged Now TV newbies a one-month Entertainment and Cinema Pass* (via this link) in HD for £1. It's a big discount as it usually costs £16.98/mth. To be eligible you can't ever have had a Now TV account with your email address and bank details before. However a new email and different bank details will count as a new customer.

IMPORTANT: Once the promo month ends, you're automatically charged £16.98/mth - but you can cancel at any point during the promo and still access it till the month's up.

[Demitri_C]

 

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ky Sports to replace numbered channels and slash prices in revamp

Broadcaster to launch themed channels for football, golf and cricket, with cheapest package costing £18 a month

Tuesday 27 June 2017 14.29 BSTFirst published on Tuesday 27 June 2017 14.06 BST

Sky is scrapping its numbered sports channels and replacing them with themed offerings focused on specific sports – led by football, golf and cricket – as it combats falling viewer numbers with a branding revamp and a cheaper viewing package.

The retirement of Sky Sports 1,2,3,4 and 5 and the introduction of a new package two-thirds cheaper than current prices represents a major shakeup of the strategy that has made Rupert Murdoch’s Sky a pay-TV powerhouse.

The new offering will result in the launch of themed channels, like Sky’s existing dedicated Formula One channel, for its top-flight sports including football – which will get two channels – golf and cricket. A new channel, Sky Sports Arena, will host other content including rugby and tennis.

A key part of the strategy is that it will let Sky entice new pay-TV subscribers reluctant to fork out up to £49.50 for its cheapest sports package. The new strategy will allow Sky to charge £18 for its cheapest package – although the whole Sky Sports bundle will remain a costly option.

The cost of sports rights has spiralled in recent years with Sky paying £4.2bn in its latest Premier League TV deal – 83% more than the previous deal and almost £11m per game – while viewing has dropped significantly. 

Some analysts ascribe this drop to the rise in popularity of cheaper streaming services, such as Netflix and Amazon, which with prices starting at£8 a month may be creating an expectation among consumers that pay-TV should be cheaper.

“There are a range of reasons why Sky would be looking at such a big structural change to its pay-TV service,” said Richard Broughton, a director at Ampere Analysis.

“In part it could be a response to the ongoing question of viewing numbers to traditional pay-TV sport. There is also a demographic shift where people, especially younger groups, are reluctant to spend so much. Get reluctant to spend groups, such as millennials, in on cheap packages and look to up-sell at a later date.”

Sky has put the viewing dip over the past year down to airing more games per season, many of which feature less popular clubs, the relegation of clubs with relatively large fanbases such as Newcastle and Aston Villa, and the BBC’s live Rio Olympics coverage.

The move also ties into the aim of Jeremy Darroch, the Sky chief executive, to entice the 10m budget-conscious Freeview households to try pay-TV. 

The company has been targeting viewers who don’t have pay-TV with cheap options such as its £9.99 Now TV set-top box.

Sky’s Now TV internet service, considered a response to the challenge posed by the arrival of Netflix, broke the monthly sports subscription model on which the company built its business over more than two decades, offering sports channels on a pay-as-you-go basis for the first time. 

Now TV sports day passes have proved popular for fans looking to dip in for one-off big events (£7), but a one-off monthly pass at £34 remains a big outlay for those reluctant to sign up for traditional pay-TV packages. 

“More and more Freeview households are starting to spend on pay-TV in some way, 45% take a subscription service but it is mostly Netflix or Amazon,” said Broughton. “Reducing the monthly TV package cost could also allow them to reduce the Now TV monthly pass cost to attract more occasional viewers without cannibalising the higher-value satellite TV base.”

Sky only added 40,000 subscribers in the UK in the three months to the end of March, compared with 70,000 in the same period last year.

Broughton also suggests that by having genre-themed sports channels each will effectively act as a “profit and loss” account for the popularity of each sport and therefore what the rights are really worth to Sky.

For example, tennis is not thought to have its own dedicated sports channel in the new set-up. It is understood that the TV rights tender for the US Open and ATP Tennis Tour has just been issued. 

The new strategy could signal that Sky, which last year dropped its coverage of the US Open tennis tournament after 25 years, may have determined it will not look to offer a huge bid to renew the ATP Tennis Tour rights.

The Sky Sports Mix channel, which Sky uses to showcase sport to its wider subscriber base by offering it free to basic package holders, will be continued.

The overhaul of the sports strategy marks the latest move by the pay-TV giant to make its service as accessible and flexible as possible for viewers.

In January, the company said it is to make its full TV service of hundreds of channels available without the need for a satellite dish for the first time.

Sky said that it will launch a broadband-delivered TV service next year which will enable it to compete for 6m households of potential customers across Europe who cannot, or will not, have a satellite dish.

 

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Glad to see people are finally opening their eyes to rip off sky