If you're looking to catch a glimpse of your local football team playing on TV, three pubs in Oldham are now able to answer your prayers.
Proper Pubs, which runs more than 200 pubs across England, Scotland and Wales, has become the first pub company in the country to roll out Sky Q across its entire estate, giving its public houses access to a new Sky Sports+ channel and app.
This means as many as 56 pubs will be the first to install Sky Q in the north west, giving sports fans unparalleled access to their favourite, local sports teams.
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The pubs benefitting from the new deal will have a choice of up to 100 live events, including Championship, League One and League Two football so fans can watch their favourite team on Sky Sports at least 20 times this season and enjoy 50 per cent more live sport this year.
Proper Pubs say this will give venues more flexibility and choice to browse, discover and show the sport that matters most to their customers.
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Of the 56 in the region, there are three pubs in Oldham that have signed up.
These are the Bricklayers Arms on Hardman Lane in Failsworth, Cotton Tree on Ashton Road East, also in Failsworth, and Bear on the Hill on Huddersfield Road in Oldham.
Just beyond the borough, the New Inn on Mossley Road in Ashton-under-Lyne is also among the first to receive Sky Q.
The full list of pubs to install the programme in the north west is as follows:
- Tinker & Budget, Oswaldtwistle
- Gamull, Preston
- Horse & Jockey, Heywood
- Albion, Accrington
- Warners Arms, Accrington
- New Inn, Ashton Under Lyne
- New Inn, Bacup
- Waterloo, Cumbria
- Vic, Blackburn
- Beeley's Bar, Bolton
- Keg & Thread, Bolton
- Lord Raglan, Bolton
- Royal Hotel, Bolton
- Victoria, West Houghton
- Queens, Bredbury
- Royal Butterfly, Burnley
- Little Oak, Chester
- Lamplighter, Chorley
- Mitre Hotel, Chorley
- Entwistle Hotel, Darwen
- Commercial, Dukinfield
- Cotton Tree, Failsworth
- Black Bull Hotel, Haslingden
- Clock Tower, Kendal
- Canal Turn, Leigh
- Melbourne, Liverpool
- Prince George, Liverpool
- Old Millstone Hotel, Macclesfield
- Bricklayers Arms, Failsworth
- Elliots, Manchester
- Punchbowl, Atherton
- Strawberry Gardens, Manchester
- Oddfellows Arms, Eccles
- Thomas Henry, Maryport
- Bear On The Hill, Oldham
- Daisyfield, Bardsley
- Brewery Arms, Saltney
- Royal George Tavern, Shildon
- Boars Head, St Helens
- Jolly Crofter, Stockport
- Church Inn, Greater Manchester
- Royal Oak Hotel, Wallasey
- Chapel House, Warrington
- Royal Oak Branch, Warrington
- Royal Standard, Whitehaven
- Eagle & Child, Wigan
- Ellesmere, Hindley
- Honeysuckle Inn, Wigan
- Kitt Green Tavern, Wigan
- Market Tavern, Hindley
- Millstone, Wigan
- New Inn, Wigan
- Old Springs, Orrell
- Tippings Arms, Wigan
- Ukulele, Wigan
- White Lion & Railway, Wigan
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