In this article, we take a look at which Premier League fixtures are live on Amazon Prime, Sky Sports and BT Sport TV this week.
The Premier League is back underway for the 2023/24 season as 20 teams face a 10-month campaign to be crowned champions of England, qualify for Europe and avoid the drop.
Burnley have a tough start with the Vincent Kompany derby against Premier League winners Man City, last season’s runners-up Arsenal are at home toNottingham Forest.
The standout match of the first matchweek sees Mauricio Pochettino take charge of Chelsea for the first time with Liverpool the visitors to Stamford Bridge.
Brighton welcome Man Utd for a rematch from last month’s FA Cup Semi-Final.
Worth noting that BT Sport are rebranded and relaunched as TNT Sports, while Sky Sports have replaced veteran star Martin Tyler with Peter Drury in their commentary team.
PREMIER LEAGUE TV SCHEDULE
Friday 11th August
Burnley v Man City (8pm) Sky Sports Premier League / Main Event
Saturday 12th August
Arsenal v Nottingham Forest (12:30pm) TNT Sports
Newcastle v Aston Villa (5:30pm) Sky Sports Premier League / Main Event
Sunday 13th August
Brentford v Tottenham (2pm) Sky Sports Premier League / Main Event
Chelsea v Liverpool (4:30pm) Sky Sports Premier League / Main Event
Monday 14th August
Man Utd v Wolves (4:30pm) Sky Sports Premier League / Main Event
Saturday 19th August
Tottenham v Man Utd (5:30pm) Sky Sports Premier League / Main Event
Man City v Newcastle (8pm) TNT Sports
Sunday 20th August
Aston Villa v Everton (2pm) Sky Sports Premier League / Main Event\
West Ham v Chelsea (4:30pm) Sky Sports Premier League / Main Event
Monday 21st August
Crystal Palace v Arsenal (8pm) Sky Sports Premier League / Main Event
Friday 25th August
Chelsea v Luton (8pm) Sky Sports Premier League / Main Event
Saturday 26th August
Bournemouth v Tottenham (12:30pm) TNT Sports
Brighton v West Ham (5:30pm) Sky Sports Premier League / Main Event
Sunday 27th August
Sheffield United v Man City (2pm) Sky Sports Premier League / Main Event
Newcastle v Liverpool (4:30pm) Sky Sports Premier League / Main Event
Friday 1st September
Luton v West Ham (8pm) Sky Sports Premier League / Main Event
Saturday 2nd September
Sheffield United v Everton (12:30pm) TNT Sport
Brighton v Newcastle (5:30pm) Sky Sports Premier League / Main Event
Sunday 3rd September
Crystal Palace v Wolves (2pm) Sky Sports Premier League / Main Event
Arsenal v Man Utd (4:30pm) Sky Sports Premier League / Main Event
Saturday 16th September
Wolves v Liverpool (12:30pm) TNT Sports
Everton v Arsenal (5:30pm) Sky Sports Premier League / Main Event
Sunday 17th September
Bournemouth v Chelsea (2pm) Sky Sports Premier League / Main Event
Newcastle v Brentford (4:30pm) Sky Sports Premier League / Main Event
Saturday 23rd September
Brentford v Everton (5:30pm) Sky Sports Premier League / Main Event
Burnley v Man Utd (8pm) TNT Sports
Sunday 24th September
Arsenal v Tottenham (2pm) Sky Sports Premier League / Main Event
Sheffield United v Newcastle (4:30pm) Sky Sports Premier League / Main Event
Saturday 30th September
Aston Villa v Brighton (12:30pm) TNT Sports
Tottenham v Liverpool (5:30pm) Sky Sports Premier League / Main Event
Sunday 1st October
Nottingham Forest v Brentford (2pm) Sky Sports Premier League / Main Event
Monday 2nd October
Fulham v Chelsea (8pm) Sky Sports Premier League / Main Event
Sky Sports Premier League and Football channels are priced £18 per month combined, or viewers can pick up the complete sports package from just £25 per month.
NOW is essentially Sky Sports without a contract. Fans can pay for a day membership (£9.99) or month membership (£33.99).
Sport for £12 a month plan, sees viewers pick up to four TNT Sports channels. The Premier League, UEFA Champions League and Premiership rugby are also included along with Eurosport. However there is a time limit on this price.
If you already have BT broadband? You can add TNT Sports on Discovery+ for £20 extra each month and with no contract tie-in.
TNT Big Sport package from £35 a month – sees 4 TNT Sports channels, 11 Sky Sports, Premier League and Eurosport.
TNT VIP from £65 a month – has Sky Atlantic and NOW Entertainment, NOW Cinema, four TNT sports channels, Eurosport, 11 Sky channels, TNT Sports HD and a basic Netflix plan.
Viewers have a 18-month contract and have until August 17th, 2023 to buy it before the price rises to £18 a month.
Amazon Prime Video boasted two rounds of games prior to Christmas. Viewers were allowed to advantage of a 30-day free trial, which included free next-day delivery across the Amazon store.
Why is there a Saturday football blackout in the UK for live streams and TV broadcasts?
Since before the formation of the Premier League, Saturday 3pm kick offs have been forbidden to be televised in the UK, with broadcasters only allowed to show early and late matches on national TV.
Though the 3pm kick off is the slot in which the majority of weekend matches are played with a number of games happening at the same time, they are never broadcast live on television due to the ‘football blackout’.
The United Kingdom is the only place to prohibit the broadcast of 3pm Saturday kick offs.
The 3pm blackout is said to be tradition, with Sky Sports’ Soccer Saturday – the go to show where a panel of pundits report in-game action to viewers with none of the match footage actually being showed.
This is also why ratings for Match of the Day remain ever-popular, though numbers are made tougher to achieve due to online streams, footage of goals appearing within seconds online and highlights uploaded to Sky Sports’ YouTube just after 5pm Saturdays.
Major European leagues in France, Spain, Germany and Italy don’t observe such a blackout, and there has been sufficient evidence to prove that closed periods do not affect the outcome of lower league football match attendance.
If anything, you’re more likely to watch more Premier League games if your based in North America or Asia rather than your own country (UK), despite the England priding themselves as a nation who are the home of football.
In February 2011, Advocate General Kokott of the European Court of Justice launched an investigation into the “closed periods” and concluded that they did not affect match attendance at lower league games.
“It is, in fact, doubtful whether closed periods are capable of encouraging attendance at matches and participation in matches,” she said in a statement .
“Both activities have a completely different quality to the following of a live transmission on television. It has not been adequately shown to the Court that the closed periods actually encourage attendance at and participation in matches.
“No closed periods were adopted in France, Germany, Italy and Spain, or in Northern Ireland, that is to say, within the sphere of influence of English football.”
In 2016, Ofcom launched an investigation into the rights of televised football and surveyed football fans about whether they wanted to see a change.
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