Effective from tomorrow you can suspend your subscription to Sky Sports FOC.

Needs to be done online and Sky will automatically restart your subscription when there is something to watch.

Did mine over the phone today!

Anyone got sky sports and hasn’t don’t it, they will pause your subscription until sport comes back on. 0344 824 4450. Automated service. 2 mins. When asked say remove sky sports and they will then say do you want to pause sky sports.

and you still get the channels, which is nice.

So the sports channels stay on showing all the repeats they have been showing?

Why the need to phone up then?.. why can't they just automatically amend everyone's account that has the sky sports package on it?

Have paused ours, but used the number on the Warrington Guardian Web Site. Tried 0344 824 etc. but kept getting cut off.

I used this number 0800 151 2747 and spoke to human. If there's no live sport come June, Sky will then automatically re-apply the pause.

Does that include Sky Sports Arena which is still showing N.R.L. albeit behind closed doors?

Yep, done mine. Thanks for the heads up gents.

How does it work if you get it through Virgin?

Cheers for this - worked well for me. I'm on Sky VIP so only took two mins too.

You can also do it on sky.com/shop/sports/pause

Have 'paused' mine and was told that it will automatically start again once live sport is back on.

Still makes me wonder that, if they can automatically switch it back on, why couldn't they automatically switch it off, without the need for a phone call, in the first place?

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Because they're a business and will make money off the people that don't bother pausing it. A lot of people either won't know about it or don't bother ringing up, sneaky way to keep their money flowing.

Spot on.

Will be interesting to see what they class as the return of live sport too??... some obscure golf tournament in the US, that only one man and his dog are bothered about?

Quote ="Dita's Slot Meter"Spot on. Will be interesting to see what they class as the return of live sport too??... some obscure golf tournament in the US, that only one man and his dog are bothered about?'" Some people are never happy. Sky are under no obligation to give people this for free, but are, for as long as there's little or no live sport on - technically there's still live sport on now - NRL games. BT Sport is offering the same deal: https://sport.bt.com/news/bt-sport-and- ... 4436646620 but aren't exactly advertising the point. I say good on Sky and BT etc for doing it straight away like this.

Quote ="Dita's Slot Meter"Spot on. Will be interesting to see what they class as the return of live sport too??... some obscure golf tournament in the US, that only one man and his dog are bothered about?'" Some people are never happy. Sky are under no obligation to give people this for free, but are, for as long as there's little or no live sport on - technically there's still live sport on now - NRL games. BT Sport is offering the same deal: https://sport.bt.com/news/bt-sport-and- ... 4436646620 but aren't exactly advertising the point. I say good on Sky and BT etc for doing it straight away like this.

Well I’m getting a massive discount on my Sky package, I’m not sure if you would lose that if you pause something and then maybe lose it when it all starts again.

I ditched it years ago, saving £100 per month.
It just goes to show how much I watched.
SL/decent prem league games/2-3 golf tournaments
I was paying for stuff I've zero interest in, RU, tennis, darts, US sports, F1 etc.
Happy days

I've paused, but the March payment went through at usual full price. I could watch the NRL games over the weekend, but expect the Sky Sports channels to be blocked in April, when the next payment is due.

Quote ="matt6169"Some people are never happy. =#FF0000Sky are under no obligation to give people this for free, but are, for as long as there's little or no live sport on - technically there's still live sport on now - NRL games. BT Sport is offering the same deal: https://sport.bt.com/news/bt-sport-and- ... 4436646620 but aren't exactly advertising the point. I say good on Sky and BT etc for doing it straight away like this.'" They are if they aren't broadcasting what the customer has paid for. Not SKY's fault, not the customers fault. everything must halt.

Quote ="matt6169"Some people are never happy. =#FF0000Sky are under no obligation to give people this for free, but are, for as long as there's little or no live sport on - technically there's still live sport on now - NRL games. BT Sport is offering the same deal: https://sport.bt.com/news/bt-sport-and- ... 4436646620 but aren't exactly advertising the point. I say good on Sky and BT etc for doing it straight away like this.'" They are if they aren't broadcasting what the customer has paid for. Not SKY's fault, not the customers fault. everything must halt.

I think they are missing a trick I'm a Sky customer but only a basic package without Sports. IMO they should automatically suspend the cost for those existing premium customers and give it away for a limited period whilst they show classic re runs to their other subscribers say on a month by month basis. It might help keep viewing figures and advertising revenue up temporarily and tempt new customers when the world of sport returns to some kind of normality