New Freeview TV Channel: Sommet Sports

Their response would be "its free, stop complaining"

the logo isn't usually that big and is usually transparent

Has there been any update on their promise of free live streaming?

Well, I exaggerated for effect. But the live game this morning......stuck out like a sore thumb.

It can also vary a bit I've realised. on the football games they're usually not as transparent/virtually not transparent at all because there is the sentanta logo behind it. whereas on the afl it's very transparent.

Ive never noticed, maybe it differs depending on how you're receiving the channel? For me its always been small and transparent. At home and at work.

Sommet have England v Moldova and Germany v Austria as a double header starting at 6.45am on Saturday

They've been having some issues lately. Last two games I watched on Sommet the commentary was delayed about 1 min

Sommet now on the Vodafone (Telstra Clear) T Box Freeview lineup.

Sommet Sports coming to Freeview Satellite some time:

Jo Marshall

Sommet have just announced on their Facebook it's definite they are coming to Freeview satellite soon (will be able to use a Sky dish):

Sommet Sports October 11

Sommet Sports will be going on the Freeview Satellite platform. We will be able to give you a launch date soon.

Huge weekend of UEFA World Cup qualifiers on Sommet and ESPN:

Saturday 12 October

0300-0445 Germany v Austria (Replay of last round)  Sommet Sports

0515-0715 England v Moldova (Replay of last round) Sommet Sports

0745-0945 England v Montenegro (Live) Sommet Sports

0855-1100 Spain v Belarus (Live) ESPN

1115-1300 Holland v Hungary (Delayed) Sommet Sports

1540-1730 Germany v Ireland (Delayed) Sommet Sports

1700-1900 Spain v Belarus (Replay) ESPN

2130-2330 England v Montenegro (Replay) Sommet Sports

2330-0120 Germany v Ireland (Replay) Sommet Sports

7.45 am England v Poland (Live) Sommet Sports

Sommet replies about scheduling changes at times:

Andrew Yip Is there a reason why, sometimes scheduled games listed on the freeview guide is incorrect? I find it quite annoying when I am expecting a soccer match, but then it is something completely different October 8 at 9:30pm

• Sommet SportsAll LIVE events are on time. We have problems if the LIVE events over run and also if the content that we are receiving is delayed. We have one channel and we are trying to please as many sports fans as possible October 8 at 10:03pm

Sommet Sports website will be up and running soon they say - they will be streaming their broadcasts there apparently:

Sommet Sports The website will be up very very soon as we can now load the EPG to it. We are just getting some of the info loaded.

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MORE FOOTBALL COMING TO SOMMET AFTER CHRISTMAS:

Sommet's new website is up and running with lots of new features incl. programme schedules, sports news etc.

No streaming of the channel yet though.

Check it out here: http://sommetsports.co.nz/

Football that Sommet covers includes:

• Scottish FA Cup
• Argentinean League
• German FA Cup
• Chinese FA Cup
• Chelsea TV
• Football League & League Cup 2012/13, 2013/14 & 2014/15
(excluding the Football League Highlights, The Football League Cup Final and The Championship Play-off Final in each season)
• The UEFA Europa League 2012/13, 2013/14 & 2014/15
• The Bundesliga 2012/13, 2013/14 & 2014/15
• The FA England home internationals 2012/13, 2013/14 & 2014/15
• The FA Community Shield 2012/13, 2013/14 & 2014/15

Luigi Cisaria

• • Sommet Sports We will start after Christmas on the other competitions.

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I asked them on twitter if they planned to show the Australia v Costa Rica game on the 19th November. At the moment they don't plan too but if there is enough demand, they will look into getting them. So if your on Friendface, wanna post a msg asking them to get the rights? Would think Carlos & Kenny might be chances to play.

Well, roll on Sommet going to satellite, because I just picked up a Freeview box and I was too broke to spring for an aerial as well (or to risk trying it with my existing bunny ears). But while I'm waiting, Cue TV (coming out of Invercargill!) has a weekly Bundesliga highlights roundup, in English.

I can't pick up sommet on my freeview aerial. I hate these guys and hope they go under. 

hahaha that is hilarious Tegal - you know what you could get sky and gain all the access you wanted.

Yeah, I'm amazed to see anything on Invercargill TV apart from "Interesting Rocks of the Hokonui Plains" and Tim Shadbolt's open-mike poetry yelling.

Sommet is not perfect but they do show quite a lot of football...and given that Sky are only showing selected EPL tv am more than happy to carry on watching, In fact if they stated showing the darts then I would probably can the sky sports altogether. Its a real shame that Sky didnt try to get the championship and Npower leagues to show as there is a lot of decent football there and not everybody supports the show pony teams of the EPL

Whats the point of having a site and saying a start time if its NOT the right Fing time .....Muppets

Sommet have just announced on their facebook page that they will be available on Freeview satelitte from early next year. They will also be available on Sky channel 67. This is great news as people who have mysky will now easily be able to record stuff on sommet.

Excited!

Sky will all over that like white in rice. With their coverage and their own, PLP will die

... wow, a bunch of whiners on the Sommet FB page complaining about the wait (Sommet says it's waiting for space on the satellite), and even some whining that Sommet will be available on SKY, because they hate SKY more than they like Sommet.

god people are retarded it's television not world hunger!

Beats the zero they show now.

Does it? I dunno. Sky were terrible at guessing what games I wanted to watch. I'm good at choosing that with 100% hit rate. I don't miss sky's premiere league coverage at all, especially with plp's new high bit rate stream.

To be honest the sooner the a-league offer a direct stream package the better. I like not having to worry about recording stuff and not being tied to a single location.

Sky need to do what Foxtel have been doing for years and show ALL PL games live using their viewers choice thing... the platform/technology is the same, they're just taking the piss really - kinda served them right they lost it but as a fan I'm spewing.

I go back to this. I can watch no games on sky or some games on sky. Some games are better than no games every single time.

I've seen mixed messages about if you can record viewers choice games, and to be honest, it ties me down to a physical address. I like catching games at work out of the corner of my eye, or when i'm on holiday.

I find Sky very poor value. I'm not interested in anything on sky other than the A League, the FA Cup, and Champions  League on ESPN, all that for $95 a month :P

I'd happily pay another $100 a year to PLP to secure these 3 events.

Sounds like Al Jazerra sports have rebranded, they offer everything you might want, other than the A-league, sadly.

http://www.en.beinsports.net/

All that content for 13 USD a month. They do have streaming.

It's a bit of a divide you see that the problem as Sky not having premier League, when i see the opposite - Sky have stuff i'd like to watch, but just don't justify paying a stupid amount of money for, for 8-16 hours a month of programming.

Hopefully sky will wake up and start selling streaming only subs, or get forced to drop all their bundled channels in pricing like cable companies are being forced to in the US.

PLP and Sky discussion can go in the PLP and Sky threads, please try to keep discussion in here around Sommet.