PremPlus

PremPlus

British Sky Broadcasting
History
Launched	19 August 2001
Closed	6 May 2007
Replaced by	Primetime
Former names	Premiership Plus (to 1 July 2004)
Links
Website	www.sky.com/sports

PremPlus (originally Premiership Plus) was

, providing punditry.

History

PremPlus was launched on 19 August 2001, showing 40 pay-per-view matches from the

season. Also, from the start of 2004–05, PremPlus showed 50 live PPV matches, an increase of 10 compared to previous seasons.

Matches could be purchased simply by telephone or, in later seasons, interactively through the TV, and a season ticket for all matches in a season was available at a substantial discount.

Pre-match coverage was shown free to air, with the channel blacking out to non-paying viewers approximately five minutes prior to kick-off. The host would repeatedly exhort viewers during this time to purchase the match.

There was a PremPlus 2 channel, but was only shown on NTL. It closed when PremPlus stopped broadcasting in 2007. In 2006, PremPlus HD launched with the other HD channels on Sky. It was replaced by Sky Sports HDX when PremPlus stopped broadcasting.

PremPlus failed to live up to Sky's expectations^[

) events.

In October 2020, with football fans unable to attend matches due to the

BT Sport Box Office — additional matches that were not initially planned to be shown on TV.^[2]

References

1. ^ Sky announce Premiership Plus Channel^{[permanent dead link]} Sky press release
2. ^ Kelner, Martha (9 October 2020). "Premier League pay-per-view plan will see fans have to pay £15 to watch some games in October". Sky News. Sky UK. Retrieved 20 October 2020.