Sport on TV Sports packages and costs
Sky Sports covers a huge amount of sporting programmes. However, you don’t have to sign up to Sky to watch its coverage. Virgin Media also offers all the Sky Sports channels, which you can add to your existing service for an extra monthly fee..
The table below shows which broadcasters offer which premium sports channels:
| Sports on Digital TV: | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Digital TV |  British Eurosport |  ESPN |  Sky Sports |
| Freeview | No | No | No |
| Freesat | No | No | No |
| Freesat from Sky | No | No | No |
| Top Up TV Anytime | No | Yes | Yes |
| BT Vision | No | Yes | Yes |
| Sky | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Virgin Media | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Sky vs Virgin vs the rest
Sky and Virgin dominate the field when it comes to sport on TV. Although BT also has a large non-live selection of football matches and golf events.
Not sports-mad? You may find the basic channels provide enough content already, with events such as the football World Cup, European club football, Formula 1 motor racing, Six Nations rugby, Olympics and Tour de France cycling all available free of charge on Freeview and Freesat.
For more information about standard TV packages with each provider, see our guide to digital TV options.