Sky Sports customers will be able to pause their subscriptions during the current coronavirus-enforced live sports blackout, while pubs and other businesses will not be charged for their subscriptions “until a live sport schedule returns,” Sky Ireland have confirmed. Virgin Media confirmed to The Irish Times that businesses who receive their Sky Sports package through Virgin will also not pay until live sports returns. They also said that they are speaking to Sky about what can be done for regular household customers who receive Sky Sports through Virgin Media. Depending on a Sky customer’s contract, most do have the option to remove the Sky Sports package and then re-apply it whenever they wish. For Eir Sport it’s another €500 per month, meaning that over a year a large pub will be forking out more than €30,000 to show all available live sport.

Source: The Irish Times March 17, 2020 18:44 UTC