The Sky at Night

I rang Sky the other day to ask about how much it costs to have Sky Sports etc. installed into the pub.  Now Sky base all their charges on your pub's rateable value so bearing in mind my rateable value has gone up to £49,000 from £29,000 the previous year I thought this could be interesting.

After checking a few details the very nice Scottish sales lady quoted me for a minimum 12 month contract a cool £1040.59 per month for the base package. Yep the base package. For that sort of dosh you would think they could call it something better than base. 

So what does the base package get me? Well you get all the usual crap but as for the important stuff, you don't get Sky Sports 2, ESPN, or any Euro sport channels and no 3D.  Which I'm sure as a lot of you sports fans would know, is pretty useless, as an example the Champions league match between Barcelona and Real Madrid, which is a great game to watch is broadcast on Sky Sports 2, but don't be disappointed on Sky Sports 1 is Masters Tennis and if that didn't bring in the crowds how about the British Rally Championship on Sky Sports 3.

Right to get the full package called Sky Ultimate its going to cost a bit more dollar, add £210 more a month.  Yep a total of £1250 quid a month! £1250? Yes £1250 a month.  That's a whopping £15000 a year... man I've gotta sell some beer to cover that cost.

The main draw is football and that is only played Saturdays, Sundays, Mondays and sometimes on a Wednesday, so you have 3/4 occasions to make the money and when a Monday night game is Newcastle v Blackburn it ain't gonna get the lads trotting my way.  So it's a no brainer for me, it just doesn't add up.  Shame.

(all prices quoted do not include VAT so slap on 20%)

The nice Scottish lady did add that the ultimate package did include all the adult channels tho...