Sky changes

 

Sky have no idea the number of football followers there are in this country, do they UberGunner?
For everyone of us that posts on here regularly there's another 500 football fans in the silent majority who could be voicing their displeasure or taking action if they knew what Sky may be intending.

Time to make match day banners.

according to fifa we have 218557 recorded players + officials. then theres people like me who don't play etc I could say atleast 500000 people in NZ that are keen on football...

Minorities always have the biggest say do they not get that .

a channel dedicated to football on here could happen I mean they don't use like 3 of the channels anyway.

Mate i'm goig to ring up Radio Sport tomorow morning have a bitch a bout this. anone who cares to join me. the more the beter. 

Good luck with that.

Doug Golightly is employed by Sky, from memory he produces the Sky Sports magazine.  Although he does have Elrick on which might make him sympatheticc.

What.The.F..k

Online Petition...
And Piney should be up for the Commentary!

[/QUOTE] Frankie Mac [/QUOTE]

Fair enough Frankie, but I guess it depends on how they arrive at those statistics.

If you've got numerous daily rugby viewing options, including...

a dedicated rugby channel that has to be subscribed to separately,
most major international matches,
Super15 and ANZC, plus every All Black game,
 and several locally-sourced, rugby expert panel shows,
 pre-match and post-match shows, the majority of which are broadcast at peak viewing times,  plus numerous replays
grass roots and historic match replays,
 and huge sponsorship and advertising tie-ins to boot

Verses...

little local coverage and no locally sourced football shows
some All Whites coverage
some (not all)  live HAL matches, many delayed and played at non-peak, early morning times or week day slots (when most are sleeping or working)
occasional and random EPL excerpts,
"days-later" replays and highlights
 ESPN with occasional Serie A, Spanish and scattered MLS Football and Soccernet.
no dedicated channel and
bugger-all sponsorship and marketing...

its guaranteed to be a self-perpetuating fact that more NZers will watch rugby!


RedGed2009-07-25 01:56:08

do a facebook petition,  it worked for me when i started the save the green recycling bin.
got 10000 signatures for that, just need to inform everyone of the page etc.

I don't mind starting one but not sure with wording etc...

the bigger the voice the bigger the impact!!!!!

Yes they do. It's called 'thesilverfern.co.nz'. It's supposed to be about all sport but its 95% rugby dominated. There are a handful of football supporters there. If you posted about this stuff there you would get a few 'poofball' insults and possibly someone complaining about how all 'sokkah' players are wussie divers.

So will they cut the netball too? No one really watches that..

The answer is money.
Sky need to make it and Football in NZ does not, at the moment attract the money that Rugby does. Petitions and well worded e-mails to the Sky big wig will be a good start; send me e-mail adresses and I can begin typing, albeit very slowly

I want this. I mean, seriously, I really do.

I love watching repeats of great games again and again and again, even if I already know the result.

Question though, do rugby channel subscribers have to also subscribe to Sky Sports? (or the Golf Channel, with a few other assorted sports thrown in).

I ask because I would imagine if they did do a football channel (please!), I would instantly sign on, but I don't want all the golf.

and tennis. yawn.
mikecj2009-07-25 09:38:52

Sky wont create any more channels until the Optus D3 Satellite goes up later this year. And even then those new channels will only be viewable on a MySkyHDi (or in houses that don't have Multiroom but do have the Dual Facing LNB - that bit at the end of the Satellite Dish arm)

And Freeview is not a broadcaster, it is never going to be one either. Freeview is a platform to allow TVNZ, TV3, CUE and any other channel to broadcast on it. The option here is for Yellow Fever to start its own channel and broadcast on Freeview and charge Sky to carry it.

The head of Sky is an American who loves his golf. That is why you get every little tournament from around the world in HD when there could be better thing on.

Well thank god they made room for the Vibe channel just in time hey?

All very interesting, thank you.

and I know that Sky probably just pay to carry Vibe, I was just being hillariously funny............

Man it is going to suck not having any warmup to the NIx matches. Love the warriors, they have it so good. On a Sunday you get, The Footy Show (Usually live) Followed by the Sunday Roast. Folowed by the Toyota Cup (U22s) Folowed Gameday (Half an hour build up) Followed by the Warriors match. Then later on you get 40,20 (an hour review of the games) and then monday night WIth fox sports wrap up. Great Coverage.

Surely the nix deserve better than just the game.

I have little knowledge now of tv in NZ as we download or stream everything that we watch.  However I see that TVNZ has a sports channel on Freeview.  This would seem a good alternative to Sky for Phoenix and a league games if the "worst" happens and they decide the audience is just not big enough.  Things are changing in broadcasting all the time and for "vocal minority" sports like football a move away from Sky might be the best thing.

F@@K. Just got sky two weeks ago specifically for the Phoenix/A league.  This better not be true.

I forgot to mention, the TVNZ Sports Extra channel on Freeview is being taken off the air by the end of the month i believe. This is so TVNZ can carry 4 different versions of TV1 with the only difference being the Adverts they broadcast.

f**k you sky, time to cancel if true....


been paying for the rugby & golf channels 1,2,3 for no reason

its at the point where instead of paying for sky you can just have purchase a decent internet plan and then watch anything on the net considering most sport, tv and movies are on their if you know where to look,

I know everywhere to look, but 10gb doesn't go far in a month between 3 people

And it goes nowhere between 5 people.

but if you dont have the sky costs you can increase that amount.

i have 40gb, so i'm good. 

Let's not forget the big problem here, guys.

thats all good, but HN started all this with his "sources" .we dont KNOW jack is happening to football on sky.

My sauces are impeccable.

Aye - Tomato, Steak and the concoction McDonald's apply to Big Macs!! :-))

I'm well aware what a Jackanape is.

The only reason I'm not shopping my source is that they have a profile in the game that could be impacted.  They were concerned by these plans and asked that it be communicated to the New Zealand football fanbase.

So is there anything that can be done about it?