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A Pedant wrote: ↑Thu Mar 19, 2020 10:24 pm For those with Sky Sports, you can now pause the subscription without paying a fee or being held to any notice period, due to the lack of live sport thanks to Covid-19. Payments will go back to normal "once the action resumes".

If you subscribe directly to Sky, it's basically log in and click a button. You get the Sports elements (channels and HD cost) reduced to zero.

https://www.sky.com/shop/tv/sports/pause

o-no wrote: ↑Fri Mar 20, 2020 7:23 am Just a Q - are they still charging for the Formula 1 channel?

Smendrick Feaselberg wrote: ↑Fri Mar 20, 2020 8:10 am Need to have this discussion with Virgin Media since I have both Sky and BT Sports

Top of the JES wrote: ↑Fri Mar 20, 2020 5:23 pm BT currently refusing to reduce or suspend subscription for BT Sport customers.

o-no wrote: ↑Sat Mar 21, 2020 6:56 am

Top of the JES wrote: ↑Fri Mar 20, 2020 5:23 pm BT currently refusing to reduce or suspend subscription for BT Sport customers.

In my experience, BT are one of the scummiest companies around. Almost all their "offers" have layers of small print which mean you get stiffed after the promotional rate finishes.

As Jimbo said, I think a lot of sports subscribers are going to realise they don't miss it as much as they thought they would. The drop in income has the potential to reshape the market, especially for PL football.

Thor wrote: ↑Sat Mar 21, 2020 10:02 am I will be cancelling my Virgin subscription as soon as I’m out of contract. If Branson won’t pay his staff for 8 weeks and he’s worth 3 billion or so, he won’t be getting another penny out of me other than what I’m contracted to pay. Hopefully many more people will join me in leaving Virgin as a business due to his moral compass.

Smendrick Feaselberg wrote: ↑Sat Mar 21, 2020 11:48 am

Thor wrote: ↑Sat Mar 21, 2020 10:02 am I will be cancelling my Virgin subscription as soon as I’m out of contract. If Branson won’t pay his staff for 8 weeks and he’s worth 3 billion or so, he won’t be getting another penny out of me other than what I’m contracted to pay. Hopefully many more people will join me in leaving Virgin as a business due to his moral compass.

Branson doesn't own Virgin Media so what has this got to do with him?

Jeanluc wrote: ↑Sun Mar 22, 2020 11:54 am Been trying for 3 days - morning, noon and night to pause the subscription.

When I submit the order, I get the message "Sorry but we are having technical difficulties

Unfortunately, we have not been able to proceed with your order. Please try again later"

Not a good advertisement for a technology company