Live Streaming Sky Sports 5 announced that they would be launching Sky Sports 5, on 10 June 2014. The channel was the seventh Sky Sports channel to launch and specialise in broadcasting European football, including UEFA European Championship qualifiers, La Liga and the Eredivisie. Sky Sports 5 appeared on the Sky EPG as channel 407 on 12 June 2014. Sky Sports 5 launched on 12 August 2014. The first match broadcast on the channel was the 2014 UEFA Super Cup. Beginning in 2016 Sky Sports 5 would air WWE programming including WWE Raw and WWE SmackDown. Sky Sports 5 airs a mixture of sports, but mainly football and WWE programming. Sky Sports is a group of sports television channels operated by the satellite pay-TV company Sky plc. Sky Sports is the dominant subscription television sports brand in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It has played a major role in the increased commercialisation of British sport since 1991, sometimes playing a large role in inducing organisational chan...