At The Races is set to be rebranded as Sky Sports Racing after Sky strengthened its involvement in the horseracing channel by becoming the majority shareholder. Alternatively, challenge your friends in new split-screen with casual race options for more relaxed racing. People like seeing their friends and family in the paper, but how many people does one softball pitcher from Quincy know? I have tonight by someone “in the know” to not expect Sky Sports UHD in time for Friday launch of the new Premier League Season. Once you know the water temperature is not too hot, bite on the guard for proper fitting. However, you will be able to use your superfast Virgin Media broadband to access the LFC TV GO service (although please note, a subscription is required through the football club website to access it). Interestingly, his name is already off the roster on the Grambling website. Sports streaming service DAZN is edging closer to finalising a deal to snap up BT Sport in an $800m deal.
DAZN, the sports streaming service owned by billionaire Sir Leonard Blavatnik, is in advanced talks to buy BT’s sports business. Sky is scrapping its numbered sports channels and replacing them with themed offerings focused on specific sports – led by football, golf and cricket – as it combats falling viewer numbers with a branding revamp and a cheaper viewing package. BoxNation and Premier Sports are delighted to announce today we will launch an exciting new joint venture that will see both channels offered to all subscribers of each channel as part of their existing subscription. Liberty Global-owned Virgin Media has struck a new multi-year partnership with pay TV operator Sky, enabling viewers to have access to Sky channels including Sky Cinema and Sky Sports as well as making Sky’s UHD TV content, including sport and movies, available to its customers. Virgin Sources has confirmed that on Saturday the Bradford v Reading FA Cup match will be free to view for non BT Sports customers on Channel 555. Its will be called BT Sport 1 Free.
With Europe set to go head-to-head with the USA in the battle for The Ryder Cup, Sky Sports will bring 240 hours of coverage on a dedicated channel bringing viewers closer to one of the biggest events in sport. Sky Sports is creating a brand new channel for one of the biggest events in the golf calendar as the Players Championship is set for dedicated shows and 45 hours of live coverage for the first time. Virgin Media has confirmed that boxing fans will have to continue paying for BoxNation, despite rival BT recently announcing it would be bundling the channel with its sports pack from next year. Fourteen years ago I launched this site to campaign for more HD services on Virgin Media. It will probably not come as a great surprise to any regular visitors to this site but I’ve decided to no longer update the VHMD site. We have been informed that the sports channel Liverpool FC TV (544) will no longer be a free channel, nor will it be included in our packages. Sky Sports is to launch a dedicated darts channel in December as it celebrates 25 years of broadcasting the World Darts Championship.
Tony Sanchez hasn’t had a moment to catch his breath since the College World Series and MLB draft. Sky Sports has confirmed that Sky Sports 2 will be rebrand as Sky Sports World Cup on Friday 13 February for SIX Weeks for ICC Cricket World Cup. Sky Sports has confirmed that Sky Sports 2 and Sky Sports 2 HD will be rebrand on July 1st as Sky Sports Ashes and Sky Sports Ashes HD until September 1st on Virgin Media. Would holding practices and playing games in July be a violation of the Sports Season Rule? Continued that dominance once the season started. He didn’t offer up many gems, he didn’t give the manager a vote of confidence (saying that he would refrain from comment), he didn’t seem to give the average fan any reason to believe his ownership group has a clue about how to win a title (even though they hate losing, he says), he gave the current managing partner (Dave Montgomery) a vote of confidence even though Montgomery has presided over losing season after losing season and was the one who hired Ed Wade to be his GM, the same Ed Wade who lost Curt Schilling and Scott Rolen to bad trades, gave bad contracts to Pat Burrell, Mike Lieberthal and David Bell and who let the farm system virtually collapse, and, yes, he offered up a gem about the Brett Myers incident.
