Sky Sports customers get huge boost as new streaming platform offers hundreds more live games at NO extra cost
SKY SPORTS have announced a new streaming platform which will come at no extra cost to subscribers as part of a major broadcasting change.
The new streaming service is called Sky Sports+ and will feature every EFL club over 20 times a season.
The channel will also feature every Carabao Cup game.
It comes after the EFL were given permission to break the 3pm blackout for games.
The blackout has been in place since the 1960s to protect lower league football.
The theory is that by preventing football being shown on TV on Saturday afternoons, it will encourage fans to attend lower league football in person.
But that was scrapped for the EFL after it was judged that the injection of money through a new TV deal with Sky could give lower league clubs a much needed cash-boost.
Sky’s new deal with the league means 10 matches across the three divisions will be shown every weekend, with six of them shifted to the 12.30pm Saturday slot.
The expansion to more than 1000 live games per season means fans of all 72 EFL clubs are guaranteed to be able to see their club in action at least 20 times.
Sky’s £930m five-year deal with the EFL kicks off in August, when the broadcaster will launch a new free streaming channel as part of current subscriptions.
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Sky Sports+ will offer 50 per cent more live sport and up to 100 streams at once.
It will see five Championship matches and five more from across Leagues One and Two each weekend in the current broadcasting slots.
All matches played midweek and on Bank Holidays will also be available for fans to watch.
Every Championship match will be covered by at least six cameras, with four cameras at the League One grounds and a minimum two in the bottom tier, with commentary for all matches.
Fans will also be able to follow action from the ATP and WTA tennis tours on the new streaming service as well as have access to men’s rugby Super League games.
Golf fans will be delighted to learn that they will also be able to stream the PGA Tour on the channel.
Every game from the US Tennis Open will also be streamed on the service.
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