The Premier League is back on August 21, and Sky is turning on a set of new sports features to go with it.
The big one is Your Multiview, which lets you watch up to four live Sky Sports events on the same screen – so a Premier League match, a Grand Prix and the closing round of a golf Major no longer means picking one and missing the rest.
Sky is also adding live scores and stats down the side of the match, cutting the delay on its streamed sport so you’re closer to live, and giving the Sky Sports app a scrollable video feed.
Some of it’s new, some of it builds on what Sky started last season. Here’s what you’re getting, where it works, and the bits Sky is quieter about.
Four Matches On One Screen
Your Multiview lets you pick up to four live Sky Sports events and watch them side by side. It’s on Sky Glass, Sky Stream and Sky Q.
You can spotlight one event to change the layout, pick which event’s audio you hear, and push any of them to full screen when it’s the one you don’t want to miss.
Football is the obvious use – those weekends when the Premier League, EFL, Scottish Premiership and Women’s Super League all kick off together.
But it isn’t just football. You could line up a Premier League match, a Grand Prix, some cricket and the final round of a golf Major all at once, if that’s your idea of a good Sunday.
We saw a version of this at the start of last season, except back then Multiview was a produced programme – Sky cut between the simultaneous matches for you, with its own commentary and half-time analysis, to make sure you caught the goals.
This time you’re the one choosing what’s on screen, which is what the “Your” is getting at. Just remember it’s four live Sky Sports events, so what you can actually put in the boxes comes down to what Sky is showing that day.
Scores And Stats Without Leaving The Match
Sports Hub is a panel down the side of the screen while the match plays, with live scores, stats, league tables, schedules, clips and highlights.
From there you can jump to another game, get to Recap, or fire up Multiview.
It’s on any time on Sky Sports Premier League and Sky Sports Football, and during selected matches on other channels. Sky Glass, Sky Stream and Sky Q again.
Clips lives inside it – an autoplay, scrollable feed of short sports videos, news, highlights and key moments, that keeps serving you more as you scroll.
It’s Sky trying to get the second-screen scrolling most of us do on our phones during a match back onto the big screen.
Real Time Comes To The Sky Sports Channels
The least flashy change is the one some of you will care about most.
Streaming lags behind a satellite or aerial signal. Watch on Sky Q and you’ll see a goal within about 8-10 seconds; on a stream you can be 30 to 40 seconds behind – long enough for a neighbour’s cheer, or a phone buzzing, to spoil it before you’ve seen it.
Sky went after this in 2024 with Live Sync on Sky Sports Main Event. That became Real Time, which Sky rolled out for the World Cup in June across the BBC and ITV coverage.
At the time it was limited to select live sport, and we said it would broaden. It has – it’s now coming to Sky Sports Premier League, Sky Sports Football and Sky Sports+.
As before, these run as separate channels in the guide, sitting above the standard ones and marked RT:
- Sky Sports Premier League HD UK RT – channel 922
- Sky Sports Football HD RT – channel 923
- Sky Sports+ HD RT – channel 925
A couple of things to know. Real Time is Sky Glass and Sky Stream only – Sky Q gets Multiview and Sports Hub but not this, which figures, since Q is coming down a dish rather than your broadband.
It also wants more from your connection. Sky recommends 40Mbps for Real Time, against 25Mbps for HD and 30Mbps for UHD. On a shakier line, the lower-latency stream has less of a buffer, so it’s more likely to stutter.
One more thing the announcement skips over. When Real Time launched for the World Cup, you couldn’t rewind live TV with it switched on – awkward for a feature built around live sport. Sky hasn’t said that’s changed, so I’d assume it still applies for now.
Team Pages, The Sports Rail And The App
The rest is smaller.
Team Pages were part of last year’s update, and they’re being expanded – live games, headlines, highlights, replays and YouTube content for your team in one place, with reminders for upcoming matches.
The Live Sports Rail has been tidied up so it’s quicker to see what’s live now and what’s coming next.
On Sky Glass and Sky Stream, all of this is held together by Sky OS, which also runs your Playlist, reminders and recommendations.
Over on the Sky Sports app, there’s Moments – a personalised vertical video feed of clips, highlights, analysis, interviews and reaction, built around the teams and sports you follow. Another short-form feed to scroll, in other words.
What NOW Subscribers Get, And When
As expected, here’s where Sky and NOW part ways a bit.
NOW Sports members are getting Multiview, for watching multiple streams at once, and Key Plays, which pulls out the big moments from a match without making you leave the stream.
Both are down as “coming this season”, with no specific date yet.
It’s a step back from where NOW was, too. Last season’s Multiview programme was on Sky’s platforms, NOW and the Sky Sports app. This year’s version lands on Sky’s own kit first, and NOW waits.
The rest of the list isn’t crossing over either – no Sports Hub, no Clips, no Team Pages, no Real Time for NOW. A lot of this leans on Sky owning both the hardware and the software, which is the same reason it can beat iPlayer and ITVX on lag, so the split makes sense from Sky’s end.
Less satisfying if you’re the one paying for NOW Sports, though.
1,500 Matches, But Not All Of Them
Sky says it’ll show more than 1,500 matches this season across the Premier League, Women’s Super League, EFL and Scottish Premiership. That’s a lot of football.
It’s still not all of it. TNT Sports has 52 Premier League matches a season, including the Saturday 12:30pm game, so you need both to watch every Premier League game – and that stays the case until the current rights deal ends in 2029.
Sky Sports is an add-on to Sky’s TV packages, from around £22 a month as things stand, though what you pay depends on the deal you find, how long you sign up for, and whether you go through Sky or someone like Virgin Media.
The usual warning holds about a two-year contract with price rises baked in.
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