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Sky Sports project:Football, Cricket, Rugby, Golf & F1 Coverage
Sky Sports Language:UK English
Sky Sports Address:http://www.skysports.com
Sky Sports Watch Live Online TV Channels
Online Address:
http://www.justin.tv/widgets/jtv_player.swf?channel=skysportslive
http://live.skysports.com/ScoreCentre/live.html
Sky Sports Live Score Centre ?Football, Cricket, Rugby, Golf & F1 Coverage.
Live coverage of football, cricket, rugby and F1 direct from Sky Sports with scores, team line-ups, tables, photos and stats as they happen
For the channels in New Zealand, see SKY Sport (New Zealand). For the channels in Italy, see SKY Sport (Italy).
Sky Sports
Launched 25 March 1990
Owned by BSkyB
Picture format 576i (SDTV 16:9, 4:3),
1080i (HDTV)
Audience share 1.3% (1)
0.5% (2)
0.1% (3)
0.1% (Xtra)
(March 2009, BARB)
Formerly called The Sports Channel (1990-1991)
Website www.skysports.com
Availability
Terrestrial
Freeview Channel 83 (Sky Sports News)
Satellite
Sky Digital Channels 401-405, 408-409, 450
Cable
Virgin Media Channels 511-513, 516
UPC Ireland
(ex NTL Ireland) Channels 402-405 and 408
UPC Ireland
(ex Chorus Digital) Channels 60-62
IPTV over ADSL
Tiscali TV Channels 551-554
Sky Sports is the brand name for a group of sports-oriented television channels operated by the UK and Ireland's main satellite pay-TV company, British Sky Broadcasting. Sky Sports is the dominant subscription television sports brand in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It has played a major role in the increased commercialisation of British sport since 1990, sometimes playing a large role in inducing organisational changes in the sports it broadcasts, most notably when it encouraged the Premier League to break away from the Football League in 1992.
Sky Sports 1, 2, 3, and Xtra are available as a premium package on top of the basic Sky package. These channels are also available as premium on nearly every satellite, cable and IPTV broadcasting system in the UK and Ireland. Unlike the other channels, Sky Sports News is provided as part of basic packages and also broadcasts on Freeview. Sky Sports is perhaps best known for its football coverage, due to this it suffers a loss of viewers in the summer when no football is played.
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