Champions league on SKY?

Dcully

Lads i know this possibly should be on the tv forum but i thought id get a quicker answer here.
Last year was first year without sky sports and tbh i missed it in a big way for the footie.
Im probably gonna order it today by phone and should be viewable in a short while,anyways i heard something bout Champions league on sky sports this season.Is this true ?
I only opting for sky sports 1 and extra option but maybe CL games r on 2 or 3?
Ive checked the sky site and done a search here on boards but came up with nothing.
Again sorry for slightly O/T .

Helix

sky will be showing 14 champs league group matches every match week

so im presuming itll be on a seperate digi channel

Dcully

I ordered Sky 1 and 3 packge today and lady on phone assured me CL matches will be on SP1 ,she said its an interactive service too.
Hope she is correct.

uRbaN

in fiarness, sky do have the most comprehensive coverage by far. They certainly have the resources to provide the best possible football coverage and analysis. Sometimes though, doesnt it aggravate you when its 0-0 between sunderland and say WBA and they come out with tripe like "tensely poised" etc. Words can paint a pretty picture, but my major bone of contention with sky is its too PC...no slander...all games are great...
you need a bit of a maverick like dunphy to call it as he sees it...to berate, criticise, slander and annihilate where necessary.
gwan rodney

Mossy Monk

Originally posted by Dcully
I ordered Sky 1 and 3 packge today and lady on phone assured me CL matches will be on SP1 ,she said its an interactive service too.
Hope she is correct.

she lied. Sky Sports 2 will have a game while the rest will be on Sky Sports Xtra through an interactive service (i saw this on Sky Sports News). all Saturday lunch time games in the Premiership will also be on Sky Sports 2. i don't know how much extra it is to get Sky Sports 2 on your subscription but i think it's worth it

BKtje

dont suppose you can get the 'interactive' channel with ntl?
Am assuming not as well, its not interactive

kmart6

Yeh the CL matches are goin to be on Sky Sports 1 and there will be 14 more matches shown on the Sky Interactive with the live match shown on wedensday night

DMC

And Sky will show all other games on Tuesday night, bar the two ITV get to show.

Mossy Monk

Originally posted by kmart6
the CL matches are goin to be on Sky Sports 1

notice the channel in bold text. it is not going to be on Sky Sports 1

SPORT: Champions League Football
Channel: Sky Sports 2
Date: Tuesday 16th September 2003
Time: 19:00 to 23:00 (starting in 29 days)
Duration: 4 hours.
(Champions League Match - Live)
The start of the 2003 Champions League. Match TBA.

Excerpt taken from DigiGuide - the world's best TV guide available from http://www.digiguide.com. Copyright ©1999-2002 GipsyMedia Ltd. Information copied from DigiGuide cannot be re-distributed, sold or used without prior written consent from GipsyMedia Ltd. All rights reserved.

the same again for Wednesday

jongore

On Tues SKY will show 6 games live. (ITV have 2)
On Wend they will show all 8 live.

Too choose which game you want to watch you will need to be able to go interactive.

The games will be shown on the existing SKY Sports channels but they don't say which ones so they can be on any of 1/2/3/X. If you want to be sure of seeing them you'll need to order all the SKY SPORTs channels.

Mossy Monk

Originally posted by jongore
The games will be shown on the existing SKY Sports channels but they don't say which ones so they can be on any of 1/2/3/X. If you want to be sure of seeing them you'll need to order all the SKY SPORTs channels.

if you want to see Skys CL coverage you will need Sky Sports 2 for their main game and Sky Sports Xtra for all the others