Sky Sports News, Sky Sports Racing and Sky Sports Mix are all provided as part of basic packages.
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,428 |
68 Facts About Sky Sports Premier League
1.
2.
In 1989, Sky Television had co-founded another sports network, Eurosport, with the European Broadcasting Union.
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,429 |
3.
At this point from 1 September 1992, Sky Sports became a monthly subscription channel and was sold either on a standalone basis, or at a reduced price if taken with Sky's movie channels.
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,430 |
4.
On 1 November 1995, Sky launched a classic sports service called Sky Sports Gold, however it was ceased broadcasting after only a year on the air.
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,431 |
5.
On 29 July 2011, it was announced that Sky Sports had acquired rights to Formula One racing from 2012 through 2018, with the BBC to share free-to-air rights to roughly half of the events and have highlights rights for the remainder.
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,432 |
6.
Sky Sports Premier League extended its contract from 2016 to last through 2024; beginning in 2019, Sky Sports Premier League became the exclusive broadcaster of all F1 races excluding the British GP which will be broadcast on the free-to-air Channel 4 .
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,433 |
7.
On 12 August 2014, Sky launched a new channel called Sky Sports 5, which would be dedicated primarily to European football, including UEFA European Championship qualifiers, La Liga, Eredivisie and others.
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,434 |
8.
On 18 July 2017, Sky re-aligned its sports channels, dropping the numbered services in favour of dedicated services devoted to their core sports properties including cricket, Formula One, golf, and two football channels, and three channels dedicated to general sports coverage.
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,435 |
Popular products
9.
Sky Sports Racing is the only channel not wholly owned by Sky, although purchased majority control of it in 2017.
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,436 |
10.
On 1 January 2019, At the Races relaunched as Sky Sports Racing; the relaunch includes wider availability and heavier integration with the remaining Sky Sports channels, the relocation of production facilities to Sky Campus in Isleworth from their former base at SIS's facilities in Milton Keynes, and availability in high-definition.
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,437 |
11.
Sky Sports News Radio was a British online radio station broadcasting sports news, results and information 24 hours a day.
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,438 |
12.
HD broadcasts of rugby league's Super Sky Sports Premier League began from the start of the 2007 season in February 2007.
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,439 |
13.
Sky Sports HD3 launched on 17 March 2008, to coincide with WWE's first UK HD broadcast.
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,440 |
14.
Sky Sports has made a number of high-profile broadcasts available on its 3D television service.
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,441 |
15.
The first sports broadcast on Sky 3D was the Manchester United vs Chelsea Premier League game on 3 April 2010.
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,442 |
16.
Sky Sports Premier League later tested 4K by broadcasting a whole week of Ryder Cup in 4K format.
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,443 |
17.
On 27 July 2022, Sky Sports launched a UHD channel for Sky Sports Main Event.
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,444 |
18.
Sky Sports will show 155 live Premier League matches this season.
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,445 |
19.
Sky Sports usually utilise a standard two-person commentary team across the Premier League coverage on bigger games, a three-person commentary team of Martin Tyler, Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher is used.
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,446 |
20.
Games that air on BT Sport, that Sky Sports show highlights clips of, across their digital and interactive platforms, feature Premier League Productions World Feed commentary.
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,447 |
21.
In 2015, Sky Sports secured rights to broadcast Major League Soccer for eight seasons through 2022.
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,448 |
22.
On 5 August 2021, Sky Sports acquired the rights to Germany's Bundesliga and Supercup for the following four seasons.
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,449 |
23.
On 21 June 2021, Sky Sports won the live broadcast rights to the FA Women's Super League for the next three seasons through to 2024.
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,450 |
24.
The presenter of the WSL on Sky Sports is Caroline Barker, and the main studio pundits are Karen Carney and Casey Stoney.
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,451 |
25.
Sky Sports Premier League was the first broadcaster to show live coverage of a complete overseas tour involving England when they toured the West Indies in 1990.
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,452 |
26.
The Kia Super League was added to Sky's coverage of Women's cricket in 2017 when it shows eight matches from the 2017 Women's Cricket Super League.
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,453 |
27.
In 2018, Sky Sports won the rights off BT Sport to broadcast all 34 games of the Caribbean Premier League from the 2018 season which continued into the 2019 and 2020 seasons.
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,454 |
28.
In 2015, Sky Sports won exclusive UK rights to broadcast the Indian Premier League for three years taking the rights from then broadcaster ITV4 and in 2018, these rights were renewed on a multi-year deal.
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,455 |
29.
In 2020, while 2021 IPL season all 60 matches shown on Sky, Sky won rights to show all games from the inaugural season of the Lanka Premier League.
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,456 |
31.
Sky Sports have international cricket rights to matches played in India, Pakistan and South Africa.
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,458 |
32.
Coverage of women's cricket on Sky Sports is presented by Nick Knight, Mark Butcher or Mel Jones alongside commentators, Charles Dagnall, Adam Collins, Ebony Rainford-Brent, Lydia Greenway and Charlotte Edwards.
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,459 |
33.
Sky Sports unveiled a new presentation team for coverage of The Hundred.
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,460 |
34.
Sky Sports Premier League holds the rights to broadcast New Zealand, Australia, South Africa tests and The Rugby Championship.
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,461 |
35.
Rugby union coverage on Sky Sports is fronted by Alex Payne, James Gemmell and Rupert Cox.
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,462 |
36.
In July 2011, Sky Sports acquired joint rights to broadcast Formula One in the United Kingdom from 2012 until 2018.
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,463 |
37.
Sky Sports has exclusive UK rights for all four majors including the US Open, The Open Championship, the PGA Championship and the Masters Tournament.
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,464 |
Popular products
41.
Sky Sports Premier League holds the rights until 2012, with BBC broadcasting evening highlights.
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,468 |
42.
Since the creation of the World Darts Council in 1992, since renamed the Professional Darts Corporation, formed when many of the leading darts players, including Phil Taylor, Eric Bristow, John Lowe and Dennis Priestley, broke away from the British Darts Organisation, the game's then sole ruling body, Sky Sports has broadcast the new organisation's main darts tournaments live, which currently includes the following.
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,469 |
43.
Sky Sports Premier League used to show the UK Open but since 2014 this has been shown on ITV.
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,470 |
44.
Sky Sports has not covered any BDO darts since the split in darts.
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,471 |
45.
In February 2019, Sky Sports announced a deal with Bellator to broadcast mixed martial arts events.
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,472 |
46.
In 2018, Sky Sports signed a four-year deal to broadcast the NBA in the United Kingdom.
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,473 |
47.
On 2 April 2014, Sky Sports signed a deal with the Gaelic Athletic Association to broadcast fixtures from both the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship and the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship .
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,474 |
48.
Sky Sports Premier League would have exclusive rights in both the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom to 14 of these matches, with the remaining six matches being simultaneously broadcast by RTE as the deal covered the years from 2014 to 2016.
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,475 |
50.
Sky Sports had been the first channel to show the Community Shield live and as with the FA Cup, Sky has not broadcast this event since 2011 after rights transferred to ITV and then BT Sport, then later back to ITV.
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,477 |
51.
Until 2022 Sky Sports held the rights to every home and away match featuring Scotland, Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland and Wales and cover every other match in the European Qualifiers except the England match which is on ITV, under this Sky Sports have highlights of England matches.
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,478 |
54.
Sky Sports was the long-time home of La Liga, the top-tier of Spanish domestic football, having broadcast the competition for 21 years.
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,481 |
55.
In 2014, Sky Sports signed an exclusive four-year deal to show live matches from the Dutch top-flight league Eredivisie.
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,482 |
56.
In 2016, Sky Sports added another competition to its schedule of live football with the addition of the Ping An Chinese Football Association Super League.
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,483 |
57.
Sky Sports was the first channel to show live rugby union every week when it picked up the rights to show the top division of England club rugby in the mid-1990s.
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,484 |
58.
In 2003, Sky Sports began its coverage of the Heineken Cup, when it outbid the previous rights holder BBC Sport with its offer of £20 million for three years.
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,485 |
59.
Until 2012, Sky aired Championship and Northern Rail Cup games on Thursdays and Sundays, until the rights for these were purchased by Premier Sports.
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,486 |
60.
The BBC and Premier Sports had signed a deal to cover the 2014 and 2016 Four Nations.
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,487 |
62.
Sky Sports Premier League was the broadcaster of ATP Tour events from 2002 until 2018, when Amazon Prime Video became the exclusive UK broadcaster, to 2022.
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,489 |
63.
Sky Sports Premier League was able to bid to regain broadcast rights to the US Open for 2023 when Amazon did not extend its contract in 2022.
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,490 |
64.
In 2006, Sky Sports began showing a replay from a match in the Elite Ice Hockey League every week.
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,491 |
65.
In 1994, Sky Sports won the contract to show fights promoted by Matchroom Sport and the two enjoyed a deal which lasted for 27 years.
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,492 |
66.
In 1989, Sky Sports Premier League acquired the rights to World Wrestling Federation, which later changed its name to World Wrestling Entertainment in May 2002 due to legal issues with World Wide Fund for Nature.
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,493 |
67.
Part of the deal with Sky stated that major pay-per-view's such as WrestleMania, Survivor Series, Royal Rumble and SummerSlam were part of the Sky Sports Box Office pay-per-view service, and that SmackDown's first broadcast moved from Sky One to Sky Sports.
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,494 |
68.
On 30 January 2014, Sky Sports announced they had signed another five-year deal with WWE, it will now continue to exclusively broadcast flagship shows in the United Kingdom and Ireland through to 2019.
| FactSnippet No. 1,253,495 |