Sky NOW TV prepares to launch in Spain
Sky is to launch its streaming service NOW TV into the Spanish market, the first territory where it doesn’t have a satellite operation.
NOW TV launched in the UK in July 2012 and versions have subsequently been rolled out in Germany and most recently Italy. It runs on a streaming box produced by Roku, in which Sky holds a small stake.
However, while the box may be a ringer for what can be purchased in the UK market, the pay-as-you-go service is likely to be missing many of the channels that can be streamed in the UK.
The Spain move marks just part of a larger pan-Europe drive. Closing its landmark multi-year pan-European deal with Sony Pictures Television on new and future Sony movies this April, Sky negotiated subscription and transactional rights to Sony movies in the territories in Europe where Sky offers traditional satellite services – U.K., Ireland, Germany, Austria and Italy. Sources say it will now seek to secure pan-European rights to at least these five territories when renewing contracts with other Hollywood studios.
The Spain launch, which Sky is said to hope to put through by the end of 2016, now signals the pay TV giant’s determination to test the waters for its own OTT video streaming operations beyond its five-territory base
Sky CEO Jeremy Darroch told Variety in March that Sky was “thinking” about going into other markets, outside its core five in Europe. “There are things like our OTT product that we are developing which we can take to other places,” he added.
Sky’s planned Spain TV launch comes as market indicators for Spain pay TV market have improved sharply in recent years. Posting second-quarter 2016 GDP growth of 0.7%, more the Germany’s 0.4% and France’s 0.0%, according to Eurostat, Spain is currently growing faster than any other big economy in Europe.
Maria Aguete, a senior analyst for IHS, said based on the company’s forecasts for Netflix in Spain, any such service could make headway. “It makes strategic sense for the strongest pay-TV operators to expand outside of their legacy market footprint by going ‘over the top’ of incumbent service providers in new markets. That said, commercial success in a new market like Spain is far from guaranteed. Local players are certain to leverage multi-play price bundling and local content rights to make life difficult for new entrants.”
Sky always operates with a strong domestic soccer anchor, Godard noted, but Premiere League soccer match rights, are already tied up in Spain with Movistar Plus. HBO announced May 26 it had pacted a carriage deal with telco Vodafone for HBO España, HBO’s own upcoming streaming service for Spain, which is due to launch by the end of the year. First run rights to current and future seasons of “Game of Thrones” and other currently airing top series at HBO are, however, also locked up in an HBO output deal with Movistar Plus.
Like Netflix, Sky can offer its original series in Spain, but Sky may well now be on the market for third-party content for Spain.
However, with Amazon Prime also looking at a Spanish launch, Aguete said was uncertain how many SVOD services the market could support, given the low pay-TV penetration in the country.
sources : various, broadbandtvnews.com/2016/08/15/now-tv-prepares-to-launch-in-spain/
How to get Sky NOW TV in Spain – How to use Sky NOW TV in Spain
I was in Spain middle of October.
Bought sky NOW Tv for my house in Spain. I paid the £10 for sky and ordered the boxes. OVER THE PHONE THE PROBLEM IS. I cannot find my sky account for my now Tv box
Could I please have a number to call to speak to someone about this?
Elizabeth Verden- Anderson
The simpliest solution would be to create a new account for that NOW TV box.
But obviously, as you will be suing it in Spain, you need some things, like a SMart DNS service, to mask the Spanish IP address, otherwise content will be blocked.
interested in getting sky tv
ok.
it would be best if you communicated via email, or via the contact forms, or call me on the phone numbers rather than on a post where everybody can see your discussions.
It would also help if you could supply me with more details what exactly you want and where you are, as you do not really give me much to work on with “interested in getting sky tv”
we are moving to spain in May. I can see that the majority of the available programs are american but are they broadcast in english or are they dubbed in spanish. If they are dubbed I wont bother getting the box
thanks
we usually go to spain for a month every year,would I be able to use my now tv stick while I’m there
Yes, under current EU rules that the UK, any pay tv service should be made available to the customer in other EU countries.
Whilst this applies for NOW TV, it will only apply for the paid content, and not the content from the PBS channels, like BBC iPlayer, etc…
You have approx 30 days use of the now tv box in another eu country. After 30 days then the box needs to be reconnected vi a UK IP address.
more here : https://www.satandpcguy.com/2018/03/30/europe-opens-up-online-pay-tv-subscriptions/