I noticed this, very annoying

Thanks for that. The reason I binned sky was not mainly the cost but in protest at missing so many games because they kept moving my clubs games to evening kick offs. (not a problem this year as we were relegated) at my age I am off to bed at 9 30pm not travelling 10 miles to watch a game.

So it's a channel that only shows simulcasts, which is only available if you already have all the other channels? Eh? Doesn't that make it completely redundant?

Just spoke to Sky and was extremely disappointed to hear that if I keep Cricket and RL ( the 'Action and arena' package ) my Sky Sports subcription cost goes down from £22.50 to £22! Even though I've ditched the super-expensive soccer. Fantastic saving of 50p per month!

I think, from what I can figure out, the difference is that on the Main Event channel it only shows the game and not all of the build up, after match interviews etc..

that's strange I had the full pack and when I changed it it went down to £18 for the action and arena channels and today I got a email to confirm it

I thought it was £18 for one channel, then an extra £4 for a second channel.
So to get SS Action and SS Arena, it would be £22?

Tbh even if it's £22 a month, I still don't see how people can gripe at it being too expensive considering you'll get at least 8 games of rugby for that each month.

If you subscribe to Movies and Box sets and also want sports before they changed it, you ended up with all sports for £18. Now you only get 1 package for that. Great way for Sky to make extra money.

I think this bit hits the nail on the head as sky don't do anything to make it cheaper for people, it's in their eyes another way to sneak in a price hike without it seeming as such, after all how many times can they send that letter saying due to an increase in programmes and UK call centres blah blah blah !!!

Did anyone receive any info from sky about these changes as I didn't all I see is a change of channel names and for me a loss of my series links, and yesterday a loss of the hour before the match as I'd hit record on the main event channel. ?

My dad didn't receive any notification from Sky regarding the changes. Luckily I knew the channels were changing and let him know but I didn't have any idea that existing customers would automatically start paying more. My dad was annoyed that first of all Sky did not inform him of the changes, and two, the put our bill up without asking if we wanted to keep the changes.

Sky are becoming a joke in terms of how they treat their customers. And the re-branding of the sports is stupid. No need for so many channels. Have one Rugby, Football, Cricket and then a regular Sky Sports for everything else if changes are needed.

Why have Main Event, Premier League, Football, Cricket, The Open, F1, Action, Arena and News. Bloody hell. Football having TWO channels is stupid. There are no games at the moment? It's just rehashed programmes like PL 100 etc. Not getting your money's worth.

I gave up Sky completely a few years ago because their call centre operator so annoyed me. I had to contact them to cancel my father,s contract because he had died. I was informed by the phone monkey that because it was his contract my father had to cancel the subscription. After I explained that unless they had a medium working for them that would be difficult and that the direct debit had been cancelled, I suggested that they might like to contact him to sort out the problem. In the mean time I took the opportunity to get rid of my own subscription. I cannot say that I have really missed it.