What the year opens
What twelve months includes, in full
Printing a channel count costs a seller nothing, and no buyer can check it, which is exactly why every one of them leads with the figure. This page does the opposite job: what a twelve-month term opens, heading by heading and country by country, with the thin parts pointed at instead of tucked away.
The plan you pick sets a ceiling on simultaneous screens and touches nothing else. All three open the identical 28,000+ live channels and the identical 300,000+ films and box-set episodes. Live television is sorted twice over: into eight headings, running from sport down to a grouping given over entirely to Ultra HD, and then again into country blocks — Europe first, North America and Australia after it, then roughly a hundred more. About a week of forward listings comes with it, and catch-up on the bigger channels. None of it triggers a second charge later in the year. Everything sits inside the €59 annual figure.
Committing a year on the headline number is how households end up disappointed
Twenty-eight thousand is a marketing number, and marketing numbers are assembled to impress rather than to withstand inspection. Three routine techniques account for most of the inflation across this market. A single feed listed once per quality level counts four times over. A national channel existing in a dozen regional editions arrives as a dozen separate lines. And blocks of foreign-language feeds get bolted on for bulk, on the safe assumption that almost nobody paying in English will ever open them.
Read that as a disclosure rather than an accusation pointed somewhere else: this list is put together the same way every list on sale is put together. The remedy is not swapping one number for a smaller and more virtuous number. It is refusing to make a twelve-month decision on the total at all. Three questions decide whether a year here is worth committing to. How big the list is does not appear among them:
- Does your own country arrive whole? Every seller manages the main nationals. One list separates from another on whether the smaller sister channels came too, whether the right regional variant is present, and whether your local news is on it.
- Is the sport you care about live at the advertised figure? Inflation surfaces under this heading before any other, and it is the usual hiding place for an upgrade tier nobody mentioned at the start.
- Is there anything in the listings? A list this large only becomes navigable because something tells you what is on. Take that away and the year buys a wall of names.
Working through all three is unglamorous. Write down the dozen channels whose absence you would notice, check them against the headings below, and put that list to the desk for written confirmation ahead of the term. It answers the question far more honestly than any paragraph composed by whoever ends up collecting the money.
Heading by heading, what the year covers
Eight live headings, each one included whole, on every plan. Counts drift a little week to week as feeds arrive and leave; the underlying shape holds steady.
The heading most sellers detach and charge for twice. Here it is inside the annual figure and stays there: domestic match nights, the continental midweek fixtures, the fight cards ordinarily sold one evening at a time, and no tier hovering above whichever plan you chose.
Channels organised by theme that run around the clock regardless of who is watching, and alongside them a library that waits for you rather than the other way round. New titles land every week, plenty of them at Ultra HD, and nothing anywhere across the twelve months is charged per title.
Complete runs stacked in order for households that watch that way, alongside whatever is being discussed at work this week. Episodes join the rows as a season goes out, so nothing has to be bought an instalment at a time.
Hand the remote over and walk out of the room: cartoons, the channels made for under-fives, and enough family cinema stacked up that the nightly argument about who gets the tablet largely stops happening.
Coverage that keeps going whether or not anything has happened, with regional bulletins and opt-outs carried intact, so the news you get is the one for where you actually live, not a national edition put together for somebody four hundred miles off.
Quietly where an annual figure earns itself back. Wildlife, science, history and true crime running as live channels, with thousands of on-demand titles underneath them that would take rather longer than twelve months to work through.
Built for the hours when the set in the corner is functioning as a radio. Charts at one end and classical at the other, concert recordings in between, and genre streams that keep going with nobody choosing anything.
A few hundred channels that are genuinely Ultra HD rather than merely described that way, with a sizeable chunk of the on-demand library at the same quality. The number sits here on purpose: standard definition, upscaled and given a 4K badge, is among the things households most often pay a full year for without ever noticing.
Commit a year to something this large with no listings attached and the purchase turns into a search problem. Turning a column of names into something a household can settle down in front of is the entire job of the electronic programme guide, and it arrives with the subscription instead of appearing as a line item on top of it.
What the listings actually contain
Schedules travel with the channels. For each one you get whatever is playing at this moment, the programme queued behind it, and about a week of what comes after — every entry carrying a title, the times it begins and ends, and a sentence saying what it is. Apps lay this out as a grid: hours across, channels downward, the same gesture any set-top box has asked for since the nineties. The one departure is reach. This grid runs across every country block the term unlocked, not a bundle somebody assembled on your behalf.
What it gets used for, day after day, is thoroughly unglamorous. Establishing what time something really starts where you happen to be sitting. Tapping a reminder, if the app runs to one. Working out which of four feeds listing the same fixture opens with coverage instead of a studio. And now and then stumbling into a programme you had no reason to expect — about the one advantage a schedule still holds over an endless row of thumbnails.
Why the clock sometimes looks wrong
Your device clock is what the grid gets drawn against. That is working as intended, and it still confuses people, because a foreign channel then displays its evening translated into your hours rather than its own. If instead the entire grid is wrong by one consistent amount, the cause is an offset or region control buried in the app rather than the subscription behind it. Thirty seconds of work, and somebody will point you at the right menu in whichever player you ended up with.
Going back a day or two
Rewind through the grid until you reach yesterday, pick the programme, start it. On channels that support the feature there genuinely is no more to learn than that. How far back it stretches is a sliding window of a few days, which puts a Monday night within reach on the Wednesday. Nothing about it resembles an archive, and buying a year in the belief that it is one would be a mistake.
Where it exists at all is uneven, and that belongs on the record before a term begins rather than after. The large national channels and the main subscription ones usually have it. Niche feeds and most of the international list usually do not. The app matters too, since some surface the feature cleanly and others bury it several menus deep. If this is the main reason you are subscribing, mention it at the very start and you will be steered towards a player that handles it well.
A second index runs beneath the headings, this one geographical, and a single payment lights up all of it behind one set of credentials. You do not pick a territory when the term begins. Paying a local figure does not buy a local selection. And no group of channels is fenced off for whoever spends more. That is why households who have relocated make up such a large share of the subscriber base: nothing forces a choice between the Dutch shelf and the Irish one, so nobody in the house has to give up either.
United Kingdom & Ireland
Terrestrial families with their digital offshoots, the subscription film and sport tiers, news running right through the night, and the free-to-air entertainment layer underneath. Regional variants survive rather than being flattened into one line, so a household in Scotland reaches the correct opt-out. The Irish block sits immediately beside it — second channels and the Irish-language service included — because households there already watch across both, and separating them would be an invented distinction.
The Netherlands, Belgium & Germany
Public and commercial nationals from all three, the regional windows sitting beneath them, and the German-language entertainment and film tiers that a fair slice of the Low Countries watches anyway. Dutch and Flemish variants stay separate instead of being merged, which matters a good deal more than it sounds when the evening bulletin is the whole reason somebody subscribed.
France, Spain, Italy & Portugal
The southern blocks in full: national broadcasters, the regional services beneath them, film and series tiers, and the sport channels carrying domestic football. Households in this group tend to keep the longest favourites lists of anybody, because one country supplies the news and another supplies most of the rest.
The Nordics, Poland & central Europe
Danish, Swedish, Norwegian and Finnish nationals, the Polish blocks a great many households across the continent now want, and Czech, Austrian and Swiss feeds beside them. This is the part of the list described as niche by everybody who does not need it and as the entire reason for subscribing by everybody who does.
The United States & Canada
The American shelf opens as one piece: nationals, local affiliates carrying market news and weather, business, general entertainment, sport and film, and a long tail of lifestyle and faith feeds. Canada sits alongside with English-language nationals, specialty entertainment and sport, provincial news and the French-language services, so most of what a Canadian package treats as a paid extra is simply already present.
Australia and everywhere else
Australian free-to-air networks with their multichannels, the subscription tier, and state-by-state news variants. Then roughly twenty thousand more, filed country by country: the Middle East, southern Asia, the African markets, Latin America and across the Pacific. One household treats that remainder as the entire reason for paying; the next never opens a single feed in it. Neither is charged a different amount.
Lists in this market are never fixed, here or anywhere else. Channels come and go and get renumbered from one week to the next, which is why nobody publishes 28,000 individual names: such a document would be out of date almost immediately, and a bad thing to base a year on. When your decision comes down to one specific channel, put the question to us and the reply is a plain yes or no, accurate as of today.
Three things the year does not include
Said plainly, and said near the top, because a page listing nothing but strengths is an advert dressed as a guide.
The extra tiers add screens. They do not add channels.
One screen or three, the library sitting behind the login is identical. Nothing is held back for a sport add-on, no channel pack appears halfway through, and nobody messages in month six suggesting an upgrade. There is also no stored card with a renewal date pencilled against it, because there is no stored card.
- Around 28,000 live channels, European and English-language alike
- 300,000 or so films and complete series, restocked every week
- Live sport and the pay-per-view nights, already inside the year
- True 4K next to Full HD and HD, never SD stretched to fill a screen
- A guide that works, with catch-up across the busier channels
- Servers built for peak load, published uptime of 99.9%
- Smart TVs, Apple TV, a Fire TV Stick, iPhone, Android, Mac and PC
- The login lands within minutes of the funds clearing
- One charge for twelve months — nothing is ever taken automatically
- Refund terms written out and readable before you commit
Nothing else needs buying after the subscription
Whatever you already own will do. A television bought any time in the last decade, the stick plugged into its side, a tablet, a handset, whichever laptop happens to be nearest. Put the login on every one of them if it suits you — what the plan limits is how many play together, not how many devices hold the details. Nothing is rented out, no box is added to the total, and there is no deposit to leave behind.
What people ask before committing
Three messages, one chat window, and the year is under way
There is no contract to sign, no account to create and no direct debit to authorise. You say how many screens the household needs, the desk sends the total, and the login comes back in the same thread. What begins there runs for twelve months and then simply stops.
Put the hard questions before you subscribe
Twelve months is long enough that guessing is a bad idea. Open a chat and ask the difficult things first: what the year actually carries, what happens if you want a different number of screens in March, what month twelve looks like, and how you stop. Use whichever of these two apps is already on your phone.
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Pick the number of screens, settle the year in one go, and read the login back in the same chat a few minutes later. Card, PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay or cryptocurrency — and once it clears, nothing of yours stays behind on file.
- The figure is published before anything is asked of you
- One charge for the year, never taken automatically
- Card, PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay or cryptocurrency
- The login arrives minutes after the funds clear
- Around 28,000 live channels and 300,000 on demand
- Live sport and the big fight nights carry no surcharge
- Up to 4K on Firestick, smart TVs, Apple TV and phones
- A named person to chase the day something stops working
≈ €4.92/mo · one charge · it lapses at month twelve unless you ask for another year
Keep reading
The published prices
Three annual figures, one payment apiece, identical content on all of them, and the same number quoted next year.
See pricing →Getting it running
Device by device, what the line has to carry, and the buffering fix that works nine times in ten.
Read the setup guide →Everything else
Committing, starting, changing plan, renewing and stopping, each answered in a short paragraph.
Open the FAQ →What a subscription covers
The longer treatment: what a term includes, what it never includes, and precisely where the edges sit.
Read the guide →Country by country
What subscribing looks like from each market covered here, with the local figure printed beside it.
Compare by country →What subscribers report
Which compliments recur, which complaints recur, and the routes by which either one arrives here.
Read the reviews →