SKY Coverage

 

It certainly can't be described by me 

But just read this in the Australian.

Fox Sports Director Soames Treffry likens soccer as a 800 pound gorilla sitting in the corner of the Australian  Sporting landscape.If he has his way the gorilla will grow into a life size King Kong.

So what Fox Sport are starting from this weekend is 11 hours of non stop live FOOTBALL.

At 1630hrs it will be the A-League games then flow onto the English Football.

Remember this doesn't include the Thursday, Friday and Sunday A -League pre- game, the game and the post game.

Plus we get ALL the Socceroos games LIVE.

Oh ,I forgot, Fox Sports FC has gone from a 60 minute show to 90 minutes

No-One stuff's football like SKY.

It reminds me when Channel 7 brougt the rights to Australian footbaal for $10 million for ten years then went out of it way to kill the sport off by not broadcasting games. 

     

This isn't going to make you guys feel any happier:

 

Saturday�s Queensland derby went live into the Americas, parts of the Middle East and Asia, plus the UK.

 

 Way to go to Sky TV.

 

That website is a classic, you get the idea that the American isn't liked!!

 

This is just astonishing.  Absolutely staggering.  The Sydney v Adelaide game won't be shown until the day before Adelaide's NEXT game on Friday 21st.

 

 

yeah but that game wont actually be shown till a week later anyways,so really theyre still a week apart and we're a week behind coverage.

 

Ive facebooked it...so now my 50 friends know...yay. But yeah this needs to go out to the public,let people kick up a fuss about skytv's shoddy treatment of the A league and of their subscribers.

 

Anyone know someone with enough money to start up a rival sports broadcaster...? Sky needs some competition...id gladly switch for some football coverage, and on principle.

 

For some to appear on there, you will need to record and broadcast it in widescreen.

 

"Thank you for your email.

Due to the very fluid nature of sport, changes can occur for many reasons such as change in start times, durations of live events, cancellations, postponements, technical faults, taped events not arriving on time or faulty when received as well as changes received on a daily basis from either the host broadcaster or supplier of events sent through to us via satellite feed.

However we thank you for your feedback which I have registered with out Sports Department regarding our schedules. I am pleased to inform you that the Brisbane Roar V Gold Coast United game will be airing at 3pm today on Sky Sports 3.

Please feel free to contact SKY Television Customer Services on 0800 759 759 for further information, alternatively please respond via return email and we will endeavour to reply within 24 hours.

With kind regards,

SKY Customer Services Team"

 

 

Well thanks a lot Sky...we'll all just take the day off school / work / uni to watch a replay of a game that we could have already seen the highlights of either online, or on Sky Sport itself!!!

 

What a load of utter nonsense.

 

Having these games delayed is bad enough, but the length of the delay is an absolute joke and seems like a deliberate ploy just to wind up football fans!

 

Incidentally, anyone know what is on instead of this weeks games??

 

DON'T FORGET TO SIGN MY PETITION http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/more-a-league-coverage-on-sky-sport-nz.html and feel free to link it on Facebook / Twitter etc etc.

 

Good stuff Tony.

 

(a) I can't believe the length of the delay in the coverage - absolutely ludicrous and a complete waste of time since nobody is going to watch 3 and 4 days later

 

and

 

(b) The only other non-Phoenix game getting shown live  is the LEAST attractive of all the fixtures for the week!!

 

I'm thinking the only way to get them to change this is just to constantly e-mail week after week!

 

Edit - just checked the Sky Guide - http://www.skytv.co.nz/tv-guide.aspx

 

On Saturday we have Golf HIGHLIGHTS on Sky Sport 3 from 7pm till 9pm - guess what's on at 7pm on the highlights channel? Yip, the SAME golf!!! So instead of showing Gold Coast v Fury at 7.30pm, we get Golf highlights + an EPL preview show. Unacceptable IMO.

 

On further inspection I see that the reason the Adelaide v Sydney game isn't on is............drum roll...........GOLF HIGHLIGHTS!

 

Hi,

 

As a new subscriber to Sky Sport, I am dismayed to find that the coverage of the football A-League is nowhere near that of last season and is, quite frankly, a disgrace when compared to the Australian coverage of that league, and even your own coverage of last season.

 

On subscribing, I was expecting to be able to see all the games live but am disappointed to see that only 2 per week (including the Phoenix games which I actually attend in any case) will be shown live and the rest on delayed coverage. The length of the delay is nothing short of ludicrous as well. Showing the games 3-4 days late is a complete waste of time, particularly as a highlights show will have aired before any of these are shown and I honestly can't imagine a single person would watch a 90 minute game 4 days after it's been played.

 

The excuses I have seen so far from Sky are no more than 'hot air' in my opinion as I have looked at the schedules for this coming weekend and I see that in the same slot where 2 A-League games could be, we have golf highlights. So, not only are highlights shows taking precedence over LIVE sport, but to add insult to injury, there are golf highlights on the HIGHLIGHTS channel at the exact same time!! I cannot think of any reason whatsoever as to why the 2 hour golf highlights show cannot be moved to the highlights channel, given that is the exact reason that channel exists?

 

I understand you may have received a sizeable number of similar e-mails lately but I hope this makes someone there realise that a number of people are unhappy about this move. The A-League has just grown in terms of the number of teams, a New Zealand team are obviously in it, and there are a number of New Zealanders now at Australian teams so there is no lack of interest in New Zealand for this. It's all very well using the argument that you are still showing and supporting the Phoenix, but completing ignoring the rest of the league does absolutely nothing to generate interest in the league overall.

 

I don't imagine that non-Warriors NRL games draw huge viewing figures so please spare me from any arguments around viewing figures.

 

I would also appreciate a reply that isn't a standard response about the "fluid nature" of sport etc etc.

 

I can only hope that the current disdain for the A-League does not continue and a more realistic and supportive stance is taken for the future or myself, and a few others, will reconsider their subscriptions to Sky Sport NZ.

 

Thanks,

 

I am pretty sure that it was not live in the UK.

 

Plus it is cheaper per month, well worth it!!!

 

Sky should be given a guest spot on Fair Go!

 

Correct - Auckland v Canterbury was on for AT LEAST the 3rd time last night, and that's only the times that I have seen it with my own eyes!

 

Surely everyone wanting to see that game has seen it already??

 

The amount of times I see '(repeat)' on screen when I am flicking through the Sky Sport channels is a farce!

 

I've had no reply or acknowledgement to my e-mail as yet by the way.

 

Again I would ask people to sign the petition in my signature, 53 signatures ain't going to cut it...

 

Why? If they are written clearly and present an argument without resorting to abuse or whatever, then I think it might cause him to realise the depth of feeling on the issue. As of right now our e-mails are probably in recycle bins throughout Sky's computer network and are never getting near the top of the chain!

 

Poor show indeed.

 

Who was it that did the article on Stuff the other day?

 

Perhaps another could be written about the contempt Sky are showing it's own customers?

 

Any new article could also mention the petition...

 

FRED WOODCOCK...Come on down!!!