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    Sky Sports to launch new European football channel

    Sky Sports is launching a new channel dedicated to European football for next season - Sky Sports 5.

    The Telegraph can reveal the broadcaster has expanded its empire of channels to seven following the swathe of new rights it has acquired in recent months.
    Despite losing Champions League football to its arch-rival BT Sport from the season after next, Sky Sports will show more matches than ever in the coming seasons.

    Next term, 600 of those will be European games, and will include fixtures from the Dutch Eredivisie after it signed a four-year deal to broadcast the competition.
    Sky Sports 5, free to existing Sky Sports subscribers, will also be the home of qualifying matches for the European Championship, Spain’s Primera Liga and the Copa del Rey among others.

    The channel will launch on Aug 12 but can be activated by viewers from Thursday and will feature a nationwide marketing campaign starring Sky Sports ambassador David Beckham.

    Sky Sports’ managing director, Barney Francis, said: “Sky Sports 5 takes our unrivalled live football coverage to the next level offering more European football than ever before. There’s never been a better time to be a Sky Sports customer.”
    Sky Sports 5 is only the second new channel to be launched by the broadcaster since 1999, the other being Sky Sports F1 two years ago.
    This year has seen Sky Sports bounce back strongly from BT Sport’s shock £897 million capture of the exclusive rights to European club football from next summer.

    The rights they have retained or acquired include the 2017 British & Irish Lions Tour to New Zealand, PGA Tour golf, Indian Premier League cricket, and Top 14 and Super League rugby.

    BT responded by wrapping up the rights to Britain’s pre-Wimbledon grass-court tennis tournaments.

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    We’re launching Sky Sports 5 - a brilliant new channel dedicated to European football.

    At Sky we never stand still. We’re always moving forward, innovating our products and services and improving what we do - that’s why we’re launching Sky Sports 5 - a brilliant new channel dedicated to European football.


    Sky Sports 5 will be dedicated to showing the following (amongst others):

    · Spanish La Liga

    · New Dutch Eredivisie

    · Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland , Scotland, Wales & European Qualifiers

    · Champions League (2014/2015)

    When will Sky Sports 5 launch?

    · Sky Sports 5 will appear on screen on the 12 June 2014 and will be visible in the EPG as channel number 407 for HD and 451 for SD.

    · From the 12 June we will show promo ads on Sky Sports 5 which will talk about the benefits of the channel.

    · The first live football broadcast on the channel will be on the 12 August when the Champions League Super Cup Final, will be shown.

    · Customers with Single and Dual Sports will automatically get this new channel as part of their sports subscription at no extra cost.

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    Virgin Media have also confirmed they will be carrying this channel in HD.

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