Sky Sports are giving non-customers a day of world-class sport at no extra cost on August 16 as its coverage of the 2014/15 Barclays Premier League season kicks off with Sky Sports Open Day. More than 15 million homes with Sky, TalkTalk and Virgin Media will be able to sample all seven of the broadcaster’s sports channels to coincide with the first day of the new Premier League season, including Sky’s first televised top flight match of the season between Arsenal and Crystal Palace.
From 6.00am on Saturday, August 16, to 6.00am on Sunday, August 17, sports fans can enjoy a wide variety of live sporting action across seven Sky Sports channels, for one day only, even if they don’t have a Sky Sports subscription.
Those of you who have a Sky+ HD box and a HD Ready TV can also feast your eyes on all the day’s action by watching in stunning high-definition on Sky Sports HD channels.
Sky Sports Open Day runs for a full 24 hours across the three main , though the promotion does not apply to users of the Sky Go and Virgin TV Anywhere mobile services.
There’s plenty of world class sport to watch across the Sky Sports family of channels on Saturday, from football to cricket, rugby union to boxing.
Fans can catch a glimpse of the new-look Sky Sports News HQ, which launched on Tuesday, including the first Gillette Soccer Saturday in the new studio with Jeff Stelling and the gang, plus a chance to watch Dutch Eredivise action on Sky Sports 5, Sky’s new European football channel.
The first day Saturday Night Football of the new Premier League season sees last season’s FA Cup winners Arsenal host on Crystal Palace from 5.30pm, and fans can watch this match for free live on Sky Sports 1, now on Sky channel 402 following the recent channel realignment.
If you’re a cricket fan, catch live coverage of the fifth Test between England and India by just tuning into Sky Sports 2 (Sky 403) and with the press of a button you’ll be taken to The Oval to watch action from day two, a rare chance for non-Sky Sports customers to catch the England team play live.
Other great events on Sky Sports 1 include live football from the Sky Bet Championship with Leeds taking on Middlesbrough at 12.15pm and, later in the day, live international boxing as coverage Kell Brook’s world title fight in the USA gets underway from 2.00am (Sunday).
Rugby union fans can watch rivals Australia take on New Zealand on Sky Sports 4 at 10.30am as the 2014 Rugby Championship gets underway, while later in the day South Africa play Argentina over on Sky Sports 3.
Also on Sky Sports 4 (Sky channel 405) from 1.00pm there’s a treat for any golf fans with live European Tour action from the penultimate day of the inaugural Made in Denmark competition, while later in the day, there’s even more live golf, this time from the PGA Tour, with the Wyndham Championship.
Plus, tennis action comes from Cincinatti as the final stop on the ATP Tour before the US Open reaches the semi-final stages, live on Sky Sports 3.
To enjoy all this and many other top Sky sporting programmes, if you are a Sky or Virgin Media customer, all you have to do is simply turn to the Sky Sports channel of your choice. For any other platform, please contact your provider.
Sky Sports Open Day follows a similar promotion by the broadcaster 12 months ago as it began its rivalry with then sports broadcasting newcomers BT Sport, who offer their channels for free as part of their broadband package.
Alongside its major on-air revamp, Sky also confirmed that would overhaul its website and mobile apps ahead of the new Premier League season, while Sky’s pay-as-you-go online streaming service NOW TV is offering a Sky Sports weekly pass granting access to all of the sports channels for £10.99, for a limited period.
For details on how to subscribe to Sky Sports, visit the Sky website.
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