{"id":338958,"date":"2025-08-12T17:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T17:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/338958\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T17:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T17:07:11","slug":"sky-sports-launches-multiview-in-revamp-of-premier-league-coverage-premier-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/338958\/","title":{"rendered":"Sky Sports launches \u2018multiview\u2019 in revamp of Premier League coverage | Premier League"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sky Sports is to give its viewers the opportunity to watch four Premier League<\/a> games at once this season, introducing a \u201cmultiview\u201d feature to accompany a record number of live matches in the top flight.<\/p>\n

The initiative, which echoes the NFL\u2019s \u201cred zone\u201d coverage where the pictures shift to where the action is, forms part of an expanded offering by Sky<\/a> as the broadcaster seeks to hold off the challenges of piracy and adapt to a changing media environment.<\/p>\n

Multiview will be used when Sky has the rights to show as many as five games at a time. This will mostly be on Sundays as a result of rescheduling for Thursday European fixtures. With one main match and three smaller screens lined up alongside, one commentary team will move across all the games. Each of the matches will also be broadcast individually on different channels. The format may also be used for coverage of the Women\u2019s Super League this season.<\/p>\n

Sky\u2019s director of football, Gary Hughes, said the service would offer viewers more choice. \u201cThe question for us has been how can we enhance what we\u2019ve got? And how can we utilise the new rights?\u201d he said. \u201cHaving four simultaneous games, we might even have five on some midweeks, means it\u2019s just the best way we can offer the best use of the assets that we\u2019ve got. There could be some chaos to it, but that\u2019s the beauty of having all those games at once.\u201d<\/p>\n

The broadcaster also announced it had recruited Mark Chapman as a presenter for its league coverage, with Chapman joining Kelly Cates in working for both Sky and the BBC\u2019s Match of the Day this season. There will also be a new analysis show on Sunday nights, presented by Jamie Carragher, and a wide-ranging reboot of Sky Sports<\/a> News which will bring the return of the formerly cancelled shows Goals on Sunday and the Sunday Supplement. Roman Kemp will host a show on the channel on Friday evenings.<\/p>\n

Sky will show a minimum of 215 live Premier League matches this season as it enters the first of a new four-year \u00a36.7bn rights deal. It comes into effect amid a decline in the value of sports rights across Europe, and ubiquitous online piracy.<\/p>\n

Sky Sports has also recruited Mark Chapman as a presenter for its Premier League coverage, joining Kelly Cates in working for Sky and the BBC\u2019s Match of the Day this season. Photograph: Richard Sellers\/PA<\/p>\n

The company reported a doubling of financial losses in its most recent accounts, but Jonathan Licht, Sky\u2019s chief sports officer, said Sky Sports was a \u201cgrowth business\u201d, with record audiences recorded in April when Rory McIlroy won the Masters<\/a>. He said new developments in its programming would give non-subscribers a chance to \u201creappraise\u201d the brand. Licht called on tech companies, who are increasingly interested in sports rights, to \u201cget the right side\u201d of the issue of piracy.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI think it\u2019s everyone\u2019s responsibility,\u201d he said. \u201cI think we certainly look at big tech to take that on and we look at the government to help. There is a feeling that if certain players were minded to do more, they could do more. If these players are going to want to be global sports players, they\u2019re going to have to try and get the right side of piracy. It is a serious issue, it\u2019s value destructive so we take it seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sky Sports is to give its viewers the opportunity to watch four Premier League games at once this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,4884,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-338958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115016895353032866","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}