Sports fans currently unable to watch games on TV being urged to save up to £25 a month by amending packaged deals with BT Sport and Sky
Sports fans currently unable to watch games on TV are being urged to save up to £25 a month by amending their packaged deals with BT Sport and Sky.
They can simply ask Sky to suspend its sports offer until live action returns to our TVs.
BT Sport has a more confusing approach – often bamboozling viewers with a choice of a ‘credit’ back for lost viewing – which includes a further choice of opting to donate the payment to the NHS, or spending the money on a different entertainment package instead.
Just champion: Viewers are being urged to press pause to save £25 a month on TV sports deals
Rory Stoves, of comparison website uSwitch, says: ‘It is nonsense if people are paying for live sports they can no longer view.
‘Some providers are being a bit naughty if suspending payments is not done automatically. But if you visit a provider website it should be easy to pause and shouldn’t affect the price for the rest of your bundle.’
For £23 a month Sky customers get all eight of its dedicated sports channels. On its website – and app – there is a page that allows you to press ‘pause’.
When live sport returns, you can start where you left off with the same contract time left from when the account was suspended. BT offers a ‘credit’ equivalent to the sum you might have spent watching sport.
The BT Sports package usually costs £25 a month. Via BT’s website, you can choose how to have the cost taken off your bill.
At the moment, you decide if you wish to have two months of ‘credit’ spent in other ways or added to your account for future viewing.