LONDON, May 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
From today, British EUROSPORT will join Sky Go to complete the sports line-up across all Sky Go supported mobile devices.
Coming ahead of a huge summer of sports on Sky, the addition of British EUROSPORT to Sky Go gives fans another great option for watching their favourite sports whenever and wherever they want. This summer, British Eurosport will carry live coverage of major sporting events including the French Open, the Tour De France and Le Mans, all available on the move to Sky customers through Sky Go.
British EUROSPORT, the UK arm of the pan-European sports network will join the current lineup of live sports channels, Sky Sports 1, 2, 3, and 4, Sky Sports F1™, Sky Sports News and ESPN. The channel is available to Sky customers with a Sky Entertainment Extra pack and appears in the Sports section of Sky Go, in line with subscriptions.
Offering Sky customers added flexibility and convenience, the award-winning Sky Go service continues to increase in popularity. Recent highlights include the Manchester City vs. Manchester United derby last month, with over a quarter of a million Sky customers watching the game through the app. Sky offers a number of other popular mobile apps that deliver sports content to smartphones and tablets, including Sky Sports, Sky Sports News and Football Score Centre.
More information on Sky Go is available from sky.com/skygo. For more information on Sky deals and offers please visit http://www.sky.com/shop/.
ABOUT SKY GO
Sky Go brings together online and mobile TV in a simple service for Sky TV customers at no extra cost. Available on PC, Mac, laptop, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch and selected Android smartphones, Sky Go allows Sky customers to watch channels in line with their subscription while on the move in the UK and Ireland through a 3G or WiFi connection. Each Sky home is entitled to register up to two devices, through which they can enjoy access to live channels and, for those with iOS devices, selected on-demand content.
Customers can access eight sports channels including Sky Sports F1™, EUROSPORT, and ESPN, 11 Sky Movies channels, Sky News, Sky entertainment channels, and hundreds of movies available on demand, in line with subscriptions.
On computers customers can access up to 40 live TV channels, including all six Sky Sports channels, Sky Movies, Sky News, Sky 1, Sky Atlantic, Sky Arts, MTV, Disney, G.O.LD, Nickelodeon, NatGeo, History, Eden and ESPN, supported by an extensive library of TV on demand. Sky Go is also available to non-Sky TV customers, with monthly subscriptions priced from £15-£40.
Compatible iOs mobile devices: iPhone 3GS and above, iPad 1 & 2 and iPod touch 4th generation.
Compatible Android handsets:
- HTC Desire
- HTC Desire S
- HTC Desire HD
- HTC Incredible S
- HTC Sensation
- HTC Sensation XE
- Samsung Galaxy S
- Samsung Galaxy S2
ABOUT EUROSPORT GROUP
The Eurosport Group is Europe's leading sports entertainment group. Eurosport, the n°1 pan-European TV channel, broadcasts in 20 languages and reaches 129 million homes across 59 countries. Eurosport HD is the high definition simulcast of Eurosport. Eurosport 2 broadcasts to 59 million households in 18 languages across 47 countries. Eurosport 2 HD was launched in August 2009. Eurosport Asia-Pacific reaches 17 countries in the region and launched an HD channel in September 2011. Eurosportnews is the sports news channel transmitted worldwide. Eurosport.com, Europe's n°1 online sports destination, has up to 19 million unique users per month (comScore) across an international network of sports websites in 11 languages, including Yahoo! co-branded sites in Germany, Spain, Italy and the UK. The Eurosport.com free mobile applications are available in 10 languages. Eurosport Player, Eurosport's web TV service, provides LIVE and on-demand sports to fans' PCs in 52 countries and the Player mobile application is available in up to 18 countries. Eurosport Events is the group's expert division in the management and promotion of international sporting events.
SOURCE BSkyB
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