British Football on the Tele: Sommet, Sky, TV One etc.

Can anyone tell me if they'll be showing Man Yoo vs MK Dons on the Comedy Channel tonight? 

Just watching the Bradford City vs Leeds United cup game on Sommet.

WHAT an equaliser for Bradofrord! Knott bad at all!

F*@# me! As I was typing... 3 goals in 3 minutes, from 0 - 0, to 0 - 1 to ten man Leeds, and now two minutes later 2 - 1 Bradford!!!

And the Bradford fans in FULL voice to the Leeds coach:

You're getting sacked in the morning

Sacked in the morning

SACKED IN THE MORNING!!!

is the mysky guide constantly wrong with sommett or something? I go through the next days programming the night before and haven't seen these games (man utd and Leeds) on there. 

I don't have sky, so not sure. The programme guide in freeview seems correct.

I looked at the Sky EPG to see if the Man U game was on (once I heard the score was 0-2) and it was advertising surfing I think.

So I left it and it wasn't till people from NZ were tweeting about their demise and commenting on the action that I actually changed the channel and it was on.

Might be worth sending sky and sommett a message then, asking them to sort their sh*t out

I think it's because Sommett change their guide at short notice, but Sky doesn't run auto updates on theirs for outside groups...

ESPNAus/NZ one has same issues at times as well.

Yeah, Sommet's Facebook page is always the best place to check.

Does anyone know why the EPL Highlights show isn't on OnDemand? I thought it  was supposed to be on there for a week. Its bad enough that its on at 11-50pm and now it seems I can't watch it on demand at a better time.

I suspect it's because they are pricks.

It's Premier League Pass you should blame - I think they dictate to TVNZ when they can show the highlights show  and how long it can be available On Demand.

They only allow TVNZ to show a live game and the highlights show to promote Premier League Pass.

PLP don't want people to be happy with what they can get for free on TVNZ but want them to subscribe.

Hence expect it to be even worse next year - eventually they'll probably not allow TVNZ to screen any games.

Heaps of internationals on ESPN and Sommet Sports the next few weeks:

Sommet Sports Tomorrow 7 am:  England v Norway live from Wembley.

(Repeated 5 pm)

ESPN:

Schedule at:

http://www.livesoccertv.com/channels/espn-australi...

ESPN 2

Schedule at:

http://www.livesoccertv.com/channels/espn-2-austra...

I'm sure it's not PLP telling TVNZ to screen it at 11.50pm on a Wednesday.

Premier League Highlights Show:

Whatever it is people should contact TV One with their opinion on this piece of scheduling nonsense here:

http://tvnz.co.nz/tvnz-corporate-comms/feedback-form-4935039

A Christchurch bloke has started a petition calling for Sky TV to spend some money on re-acquiring live EPL rights:

CHANGE.ORG

"New Zealand has such a large following of the English FA Premiership and most of them only pay a Sky subscription so they can watch the FA Premiership on Sky Sports.

Please show some loyalty to your paying customers by spending some money to show Live Premiership Football."

Sign it here:

http://www.change.org/p/sky-tv-new-zealand-sky-tv-nz-fa-premiership-coverage

You're better off recording it off the TV and watching it on a decent size TV anyway....

EUROPA LEAGUE ON SOMMET TOMORROW:

On tomorrow LIVE Europa League:

4.50am - Salzburg v Celtic
6.55am - Everton v Wolfsberg

SETANTA PLUS ONLINE FOOTBALL

One of the best legal online football providers. 

Anyone interested in more live (and On Demand) Europa League, English Championship, League One, League Two, Scottish Premier, South American comps etc. could try subscribing to Setanta Plus the online broadcast service of Setanta who provide most of Sommet Sport's football coverage.

They show other sports too.

Broadcast schedule:

http://www.setanta.com/au/TV-Listings/

You will have to use a VPN which fools the Setanta website into thinking you are in Australia (also available in much of Asia).

"Hola" is a good free VPN which you can download here: 

https://hola.org/

https://hola.org/download?list=1

Once downloaded you simply click on the tab which will be on the top right of your browser and choose the appropriate country - here, "Australia"

They are showing 24 matches live in the Europa League tomorrow:

Details of their football coverage:

http://au.setantasportsplus.com/competitions

Costs in Aussie money $16.99 / month or $169 / year

Subscribe here:

http://www.au.setantasportsplus.com/newCustomers

Depends on if they will accept a NZ credit card.

Sommet have been dropping hints this week on their Facebook that Tottenham TV is about to join their lineup.

Announcement due next week I believe.

I guess Everton TV ("Toffee TV") would have been another option but it might have been "Scouser overkill" with both Liverpool clubs on the one channel.

Don't even know if Toffee TV show entire games?

Arsenal v Spurs LIVE

TV One 5.20 am tomorrow am

DON'T FORGET TO PUT YOUR CLOCKS FORWARD AN HOUR TONIGHT CHUMS !!!!

SKY SPORT - SPECIAL OFFER

Sky are kindly offering Sky Sport for $5 for a month just in time for the new A-League season.

Conditions: Only for those without Sky Sport for last 30 days or more.

(so even if you have Sky Sport right now, drop it immediately and get it on again in last days of October and pay $5 for a month)

Offer ends 31 October

See first few pages latest Sky Watch magazine.

The $5 you pay goes to the Starship Children's Foundation.

A feast of internationals on ESPN and ESPN 2 the next few weeks:

Euro Championship qualifiers / Brazil friendlies (including Brazil v Argentina) etc.

ESPN:

http://www.livesoccertv.com/channels/espn-australi...

ESPN 2:

http://www.livesoccertv.com/channels/espn-2-austra...

For those without Sky Sport, England vs. San Marino Euro Championship qualifier is on Sommet Sport Friday morning.

Not sure where else to put this but Sommet have just announced on Facebook that they have gone bust and will cease transmission at midday today. Such a shame as they showed a lot of football we otherwise wouldn't get to see here.

https://www.facebook.com/SommetSports

PRESS RELEASE 12 December 2014 SOMMET SPORTS

As at 12.00pm today free-to-air sports channel Sommet Sports will cease transmission.
Launched 18th July 2013, Sommet Sports has delivered both live and pre-recorded sports on Freeview Channel 14, and Sky Channel 69. Funding initially understood to be available for the channel upon launch had largely never materialised and Sommet has been forced to attempt to deliver a full nationwide broadcast channel on one third of the finance.
“I am totally gutted at not being able to sustain something that we have long held a fervent desire to deliver to New Zealanders. Sommet was born from a dream to deliver free sports to all kiwis. Sadly this dream is not to be.” says Andrew Reeves, Director of Sommet Sports Ltd. “We have been blown away by the amazing support and consistently growing viewership that we gained in such a short time. We can only thank our loyal fans who have stayed with us until the end.”
“Being the ‘new kids on the block“, we also struggled to gain a strong foothold with most advertising agencies. This coupled with an acute funding shortage has left us with the sad reality of having to make the difficult call.”
“I would like to thank OMD, Spark, McDonalds, KFC and Fiat Chrysler group for their support and belief in our vision of delivering ‘Free Sports for Kiwis’ “.

News story:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/other-sports/64086066...

R.I.P. Sommet Sport

It was always going to be tough funding a free-to-air 24 hour sports channel in a small country like this.

Rights to major sports don't come cheap.

Was good while it lasted to get all the free football even if their scheduling was often haphazard.

Signs that they were struggling were there this year with reduced football coverage such as only one Premier League club channel.

I noticed thay had no Europa League games scheduled for this week when they normally carry them...

A shame there won't be much football on TV for those without Sky now...

Down to one EPL game a week on TV One and the EPL highlights at midnight on Wednesdays.

Bugger!!!!!!!!!!!!

I really enjoyed all the live Bundesliga games and highlights and shows that came with it.

Sad day indeed

I suppose those smary cnuts at Sky will be laughing about it. There was some excellent football on Sommet, including the Championship and lower leagues. I enjoyed a few of those games. Very disappointing no sponsors really got too involved.

Genuinely pissed of about this.Going to miss getting up on my days off and catching some Bundasliga or league football also no more 3Lions games :( still refuse to go back to those fudging sgark cods at sky!

Sommet Sports

December 19 at 3:49pm

"Would You Help Bring Sommet Sports Back to Life?

To Our Valued Sommet Sports Viewers.

With great sadness Sommet Sports stopped transmission last week on Friday 12 December due to lack of funding initially promised to us from financiers. ...
Sommet amazingly managed to deliver quality Sports television for 18 months on 1/3 of the funding initially assured to us.

Since our closure we have been greatly humbled by the many messages of support and dismay from viewers throughout the country who have loved watching the many sports events that we delivered FREE to all New Zealanders 24 hours a day 7 days a week.
Many have asked us to seriously consider Crowd funding. This is where the public fund a project or idea.

Well.. we have an idea.

Would you consider pledging a sum to return you sports channel to New Zealand screens?

We would love to know.

Tell us your ideas.

Would you pledge $100 donation and also receive a Sommet Sports T-Shirt?
Would you gift $50 to us for a 4GB pin drive?

Let us know your thoughts and suggestions?

Your responses could bring this idea to life. We may be the first in New Zealand to Crowd Fund an idea – your sports channel – one that YOU funded, that YOU can watch free, that YOU can be proud of.

Your opinions matter !!

Kind regards

Andrew Reeves

This is a personal initiative by the previous management of Sommet Sports Limited"

Loads of football coming up on TV One, including the Hammers vs. Chelsea game:

Chelsea v West Ham:

Live tomorrow morning 1.35 am TV One

Boxing Day Highlights Show:

Sunday 11.35 pm TV One

Spurs v Man Utd:

Live Monday 12.45 am TV One

Premier League Highlights:

Tuesday night 12.30 am 

Lloris is a beast.

HT: H Lloris 0-0 Man U 

A game of two halves.

FT: Spurs 0-0 Man U

Seems the best place to put this, been seeing this linked too on Twitter all day. Thought people might be interested in it

I need some help - so I am moving to Japan next week and am trying to figure out how I am going to watch football (English and A-League). I've just bought an iPad which is where I get lost. 

I have access to both premier league pass and to the sky go app - but assume they will be automatically restricted by geo-location right? And then I can't use google chrome with hola unblocker because Mac doesn't have flash player. 

Anyone know a way around this? Or a service I can pay for that shows all the football and can be accessed where ever in the world? I have been told Puffin web browser is great and has flash access, but then I don't know if I am able to somehow block my location so I can use skygo in Japan.

SOMMET SPORTS SEEKS YOUR DONATIONS TO START AGAIN

Just over 24 hours left for Sommet Sports' croud funding campaign on Pledge Me.

Closes 6 pm tomorrow (Friday).

If you pledge something, nothing will be debited from your credit card unless the total aimed for is raised;

https://www.facebook.com/SommetSports

"We have now managed to negotiate to get 42 hours of sport each weekend on Freeview and Sky if we reach the 300,000 target as well as the 24/7 internet channel."

- will broadcast 24/7 online

- 42 hours each weekend on Freeview and Sky

Pledge here:

https://www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/3149-sommet-st...

Watford v Middlesbrough

Streaming for free on "TAB Watch and Bet" at 11.30 pm tonight:

https://www.tab.co.nz/sport/video/

I've been enjoying the Argie football over Easter - they have heaps of the top division games with English commentaries.

On at good times too  - there was a game streaming at mid-day today. 

Lots of English Championship games streaming later this week.

On the website, on the right of where it says "Schedule" change "Select Sport" to "Football" and then click on a day to see what is streaming that day.