Your view: do TV sports packages cost too much?

I refuse to pay the large monthly cost of a Sky package as I only want to watch the matches my team are in. I would welcome a 1 club package that showed every game, but that’s highly unlikely to happen, so I’ll buy the 1 day Now card for a big game and use other means to watch most games for free.
The only way to stop the price hikes is to cancel subscriptions then neither Sky nor BT will have the money to pay such vast sums for the licences and the clubs won’t get so much to pay inflated wages. Again a lot of people won’t cut off the sport they love, so we continue to get ripped off.

I have to say that fopball (that’s NOT a spelling mistake!) Cricket and Rugby, are of little interest to me at all, yet I have to ‘suffer’ subsidising the interests of others. That’s to some extent ok, except in the case of Fopball, which rakes in far too much money due to the ‘battles’ between networks to televise it live, and it looks like the 1st division clubs, get the lion’s share of this income. There’s far better things programme-wise which this amount of money could and should be spent on, as long as it isn’t game, celebrity and soap type programmes. I would be more than happy if the availability of this ‘sport’ LIVE, was only pay to view, and the broadcasters can only base what they offer to pay for showing it LIVE, is from the money paid by those who actually watch it.

I have had several emails from Sky telling me to activate Sky Sports 5. When we checked it some time ago, it worked so we ignored the emails.

Now if we select Sky Sports 5 there is a message to “press the red button to upgrade your subscription to receive this HD channel or call 08443 41161”

It is supposed to be part of the Sky Sports package but Sky seem to have a very underhand way of getting you to activate it and con you into signing up for their broadband at the same time.

Doing a search on the internet found a lot of disgruntled comments. Here is one I found:

“Had a bit of a Twitter conversation going on today, and Sky initially seemed surprised that I’d lost the picture – but then directed me to the website that has the ‘Add SS5 and redeem offer’ and ‘Add Sky Sports and redeem offer’ buttons. So I asked which one to select in order to NOT redeem the offer, and was told that I could send them a private message and they can then make the arrangement to NOT give me the broadband.”

There doesn’t seem to be anything on this channel that we would watch so will not bother activating it. But that is not the point. We are paying for this channel AND they are about to put the price up.

and indeed they have. £4 a month in my case from Sky.
they have a captive audience and unless we leave in droves things will just get even more expensive.