Advantages: 24/7 Excellent range of sports news, Soccer saturday is a godsend for football fans!
Disadvantages: There really are none unless if you do not like sport!

...If you are a fan of sport then this is a channel you need to watch. From football to rugby (league and union), tennis to formula 1, cricket to boxing and from golf to American sports like the NFL and even baseball and the NHL this channel has it all and provides news from around the world from each sport to your television screen 24 hours a day 7 days a week. An excellent layout gives you constant information via a ticker and revolving news stories at the bottom of the screen with tabs letting you know what sport the story is from whilst a strip on the right hand side of the screen displays other information like league tables in football to lists of the football clubs transfer dealings. But the main action happens in the centre of the screen with charismatic, and sometimes good looking, news anchors and reporters who perform... Read review

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Advantages: 24 hr sports
Disadvantages: hubby is addicted to the channel

...subscription costs) it was not long before Sky Sports not only picked up other sporting events e.g. FA Premier League - now the Premiership -, boxing, cricket, golf, fencing, NFL, ahh so many sports events to name! Realizing the changing customer demands and customer wants for upto date sports information Sky Sports News was launched on 1 October 1998. Programming style The smartly dressed presenters have a relaxed style of presenting the sporting news whilst demonstrating their sense of humour; they are willing to have a laugh at themselves when they make a mistake. This makes for a friendly presentation and lacks the stuffy and rigid presentations sometimes given by other channels. The actual news programmes tend to focus around Football… (ok for the hubby) during the football season lacks the same details in other sports news... Read review

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Advantages: Updated, Information, All Sports
Disadvantages: Repetitive,

...Sky Sports news is a 24 hours news facility which is dedicated to all sporting issues. The channel 405 on Sky or 83 on Freeview is presented by two presenters in each of its programmes and they take it in turn to report the latest sporting news updates as well as views and emails of the opinions on various topics. Sky Sports News - Sky Channel 405 - Freeview Channel 83 Sky Sports News is always at the forefront of breaking sports news and at this time of the year has a very strong tendency to lean towards football, but that is not to say that the other sports are ignored. What you see on Sky Sports News is a screen divided into 4 sections. There is a column to the right hand side which gives updates such as upcoming fixtures, sporting results or during transfer season, those who have come in and out of all league... Read review

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Advantages: Good structure and variety of articles
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