Sky Sports 5

"Sky today announces good news for millions of its customers ahead of the new football season with confirmation that Sky Sports is to launch the first-ever television channel dedicated to European Football.

Sky customers should visit www.sky.com/2yearsfree on June 12 to activate Sky Sports 5 and register for two years’ free Sky Broadband Unlimited.
Sky Sports 5 will screen up to 600 live European football matches next season featuring some of the best players, the best teams and the best competitions. Sky Sports 5 will be the seventh channel from Sky Sports and will be the home of European Qualifiers, UEFA Champions League, La Liga and Copa del Rey for Sky Sports viewers, plus a host of other European football programming including Revista De La Liga and Champions League Weekly.
  For the first time Sky Sports will also offer exclusively live coverage of Holland’s top division Eredivisie. The new 4-year deal announced today will bring live matches each week to Sky Sports 5, enabling viewers to follow the domestic campaigns of the Netherlands’ top teams including Ajax, Feyenoord, FC Twente and PSV Eindhoven.

Sky customers will be able to register for Sky Sports 5 from June 12 via red button, online and by calling Sky. In a further bonus, Sky Sports customers can also get two years’ free Sky Broadband Unlimited worth £7.50 a month. This, Sky’s best ever broadband offer, means people could save up to £330 – and get the great value of Sky’s totally unlimited broadband with no usage limits and no extra download charges."

The first question is why? no one gives things for free.

OK and the answer is simple...  BT Sports has a contract for the next couple of years to show the champions league and Sky Sports don't, so how do you stop a mass exodus? simple, offer something so that people stay such as live coverage of Holland's top division etc...

Sounds good right? No? Oh you don't have the sky package. 

So in that case how does this help you?

The simple answer is we shall see. 

Will all the paid sites that stream sky sports also include this channel?

And the reason that some paid sites lost a a few points in my reviews, was because of lack of content compared to other websites.

 For example the website footyreport did really amazing on the review but one of my only complaints was that games that where not on Sky Sports, BT Sports and ESPN you couldn't see, however on sites like plus1hd you can.

With this addition (if they add it) it will level the playing field between these services, and make some websites a much better option for some people... Either way we will have to wait and find out.