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over 13 years ago

Two games on tonight, how many showed live? 0

Seems the Rugby Awards is more important, what is also broadcast live on the Rugby channel at the same time. You would think the people who are actually interested in this would be the ones who pay for the Rugby channel. Could they not allow people to watch it via the Rugby channel for free?

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over 13 years ago

Two games on tonight, how many showed live? 0

Seems the Rugby Awards is more important, what is also broadcast live on the Rugby channel at the same time. You would think the people who are actually interested in this would be the ones who pay for the Rugby channel. Could they not allow people to watch it via the Rugby channel for free?



You guys get a poor deal with sky.
Both games live in Oz.

If you are old and wise you were probably young and stupid

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over 13 years ago

Leggy wrote:

Two games on tonight, how many showed live? 0

Seems the Rugby Awards is more important, what is also broadcast live on the Rugby channel at the same time. You would think the people who are actually interested in this would be the ones who pay for the Rugby channel. Could they not allow people to watch it via the Rugby channel for free?



You guys get a poor deal with sky.
Both games live in Oz.
Im paying $73 a month for Sky and getting only half the games. For $20 I can get 350 gigs more bandwidth and find dodgy streams to watch everything live. It is starting to be hard to justify watching the A-League legally.
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over 13 years ago

Leggy wrote:

Two games on tonight, how many showed live? 0

Seems the Rugby Awards is more important, what is also broadcast live on the Rugby channel at the same time. You would think the people who are actually interested in this would be the ones who pay for the Rugby channel. Could they not allow people to watch it via the Rugby channel for free?



You guys get a poor deal with sky.
Both games live in Oz.
Im paying $73 a month for Sky and getting only half the games. For $20 I can get 350 gigs more bandwidth and find dodgy streams to watch everything live. It is starting to be hard to justify watching the A-League legally.


What package do you get for $73 per month?

If you are old and wise you were probably young and stupid

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over 13 years ago

Leggy wrote:

Leggy wrote:

Two games on tonight, how many showed live? 0

Seems the Rugby Awards is more important, what is also broadcast live on the Rugby channel at the same time. You would think the people who are actually interested in this would be the ones who pay for the Rugby channel. Could they not allow people to watch it via the Rugby channel for free?



You guys get a poor deal with sky.
Both games live in Oz.
Im paying $73 a month for Sky and getting only half the games. For $20 I can get 350 gigs more bandwidth and find dodgy streams to watch everything live. It is starting to be hard to justify watching the A-League legally.


What package do you get for $73 per month?
Basic & Sports.

http://www.skytv.co.nz/Default.aspx?tabid=973

Apart from my flatmates addiction to Cartoon network, nothing that can't be replaced with bandwidth.
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over 13 years ago

A great point was raised by Brockie on twitter today, why hasn't Sky implemented the Red Button service that allows viewers to choose what they want to watch when there is more than three channels of sport to view. They can surely do it, because Foxtel iQ and MySky are exactly the same thing, just with different names.


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over 13 years ago

People might not choose to watch the Rugby awards if you gave them a choice.

Poor from sky but we football followers should not be surprised.

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over 13 years ago

Leggy wrote:

Leggy wrote:

Two games on tonight, how many showed live? 0

Seems the Rugby Awards is more important, what is also broadcast live on the Rugby channel at the same time. You would think the people who are actually interested in this would be the ones who pay for the Rugby channel. Could they not allow people to watch it via the Rugby channel for free?



You guys get a poor deal with sky.
Both games live in Oz.
Im paying $73 a month for Sky and getting only half the games. For $20 I can get 350 gigs more bandwidth and find dodgy streams to watch everything live. It is starting to be hard to justify watching the A-League legally.


What package do you get for $73 per month?
Basic & Sports.

http://www.skytv.co.nz/Default.aspx?tabid=973

Apart from my flatmates addiction to Cartoon network, nothing that can't be replaced with bandwidth.



It looks pretty much the same as here. We may have a couple extra sports channels but as mentioned elsewhere we have the 'red' button which we can use usually for Sat/Sun night for the EPL and have a choice of which games we want to watch.
I think the cost is about $83 per month but we get all A league game live and football coverage is excellent.

If you are old and wise you were probably young and stupid

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over 13 years ago · edited over 13 years ago · History

Interesting that a central regional 7s tournament is LIVE on the highlights channel this afternoon, along with 3 other live sports. Yet A league was delayed last night for an awards ceremony that was on 2 channels.


Allegedly

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over 13 years ago

Tegal wrote:

Interesting that a central regional 7s tournament is LIVE on the highlights channel this afternoon, along with 3 other live sports. Yet A league was delayed last night for an awards ceremony that was on 2 channels.


Yep, they constantly tell us (and UFC fans) that the highlights channel can't be used for technical reasons, but this really does just make it appear to be lies.
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over 13 years ago

I refuse to believe that Sky would take their customers for a ride when there is no competitive alternative on the market.

Three for me, and two for them.

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over 13 years ago

Club World Cup Final is being shown on the Highlights channel.

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over 13 years ago

Which again raises the question, why can't they show other sport (not just the A-League) on the highlights channel when all three other channels are full? Starting to get sick of this.


Yellow Fever - Misery loves company

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over 13 years ago

patrick478 wrote:

Which again raises the question, why can't they show other sport (not just the A-League) on the highlights channel when all three other channels are full? Starting to get sick of this.

I sent an email off again on Friday, they will probably just fob it off again and say 'look out for more use of the highlights chan in Jan' again
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over 13 years ago

It's a load of BS. I agree about the red button thing. So simple but SKY don't seem to give a shit.



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over 13 years ago

From their point of view, why go to all that trouble when its generally only 'soccer' that misses out. 


Allegedly

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over 13 years ago

Tegal wrote:

From their point of view, why go to all that trouble when its generally only 'soccer' that misses out. 

Think of all the extra Lawn Bowls they can cash in on tho.
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over 13 years ago

Club World Cup Final is being shown on the Highlights channel.


Really? They have it listed as being on one of the regular channels too, i booked it in not long ago.


What fucked me off last night was that they skipped the Match Day Saturday in between both games and showed some shitty crowd goes wild clip instead. Really dont know why they did this, fucking stupid.
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over 13 years ago · edited over 13 years ago · History

They are replaying the rugby world cup final on sky 1. 
FIFA Club World Cup Live
Channel: SKY Sport Highlights
Genre: SKY Sport
Description: Join SKY Sport for LIVE coverage of the final match in the FIFA Club World Cup competition in Japan. Teams TBA.Show Time: 
Today 16 Dec23:10

Also Deaks has said he has got the guy that started sky on his show today between 3 and 4.  Maybe there is an opportunity to call


 

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over 13 years ago

Yep, as expected

Thank you for your email.

It has been registered with our sports department and we regret any inconvenience. We hope that despite this you will continue to enjoy all the great programming on offer here at SKY.
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over 13 years ago

Copy. Paste. Send. 


Allegedly

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over 13 years ago

All five games this weekend are live. Guess our complaints get to take a break for Christmas.


Yellow Fever - Misery loves company

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over 13 years ago

Glad I'm not the only one annoyed with SKY.  I sent them an email a couple of weeks ago threatening to cancel my subscription and watch all my sports online.  When I get home from the pub on a Friday night I want to watch live A-league.  Seeing the highlights channel being used last night for the Chelsea game is pretty much the last straw.

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over 13 years ago

GJGoody wrote:

Glad I'm not the only one annoyed with SKY.  I sent them an email a couple of weeks ago threatening to cancel my subscription and watch all my sports online.  When I get home from the pub on a Friday night I want to watch live A-league.  Seeing the highlights channel being used last night for the Chelsea game is pretty much the last straw.


I agree. Thats an insult to the term 'highlight'
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about 13 years ago

Adelaide v Perth game on tonight is delayed until tomorrow morning.   I noticed on sky epg that there are going to be 5 sports channels.


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about 13 years ago

Adelaide v Perth game on tonight is delayed until tomorrow morning.   I noticed on sky epg that there are going to be 5 sports channels.



Yup 4:30am.... bloody stooopid
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about 13 years ago · edited about 13 years ago · History

Those extra channels look like they will used exclusively for the Australian Open, which should hopefully mean there will be room for the A-League on the other three channels.

Also, the Nix game is on the HIGHLIGHTS channel on Sunday, not on 1, 2 or 3.


Yellow Fever - Misery loves company

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about 13 years ago

Adelaide v Perth game on tonight is delayed until tomorrow morning.   I noticed on sky epg that there are going to be 5 sports channels.


2 extra channels for the Tennis. The Nix game on Sunday is dumped to the highlights channel. Can't see why they couldn't do that with tonight's game as well.
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about 13 years ago

Yeah two extra channels just for bloody Tennis...

As for three channels of Live Cricket at the same time, its a bit CRAP. I enjoy cricket as much as the next bloke, but all three Sports Channels showing the same sport is just a bit off.

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about 13 years ago

Adelaide v Perth game on tonight is delayed until tomorrow morning.   I noticed on sky epg that there are going to be 5 sports channels.


2 extra channels for the Tennis. The Nix game on Sunday is dumped to the highlights channel. Can't see why they couldn't do that with tonight's game as well.



Coverage of Nix game starts at 4:30pm and finishes at 6:55pm. 

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about 13 years ago

Adelaide v Perth game on tonight is delayed until tomorrow morning.   I noticed on sky epg that there are going to be 5 sports channels.


2 extra channels for the Tennis. The Nix game on Sunday is dumped to the highlights channel. Can't see why they couldn't do that with tonight's game as well.



Coverage of Nix game starts at 4:30pm and finishes at 6:55pm. 

To be honest, the game coverage will probably finish at 6.30pm (the usual time) and they will show the highlights of the other games in the round to fill out the time.

Yellow Fever - Misery loves company

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about 13 years ago

 promoted to the highlights channel

rojas, so special

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about 13 years ago

patrick478 wrote:

Adelaide v Perth game on tonight is delayed until tomorrow morning.   I noticed on sky epg that there are going to be 5 sports channels.


2 extra channels for the Tennis. The Nix game on Sunday is dumped to the highlights channel. Can't see why they couldn't do that with tonight's game as well.



Coverage of Nix game starts at 4:30pm and finishes at 6:55pm. 

To be honest, the game coverage will probably finish at 6.30pm (the usual time) and they will show the highlights of the other games in the round to fill out the time.


I was looking forward to a post game break down with Andrew Dewhurst, Harry Ngata and Fred De Jong.

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about 13 years ago

patrick478 wrote:

Adelaide v Perth game on tonight is delayed until tomorrow morning.   I noticed on sky epg that there are going to be 5 sports channels.


2 extra channels for the Tennis. The Nix game on Sunday is dumped to the highlights channel. Can't see why they couldn't do that with tonight's game as well.



Coverage of Nix game starts at 4:30pm and finishes at 6:55pm. 

To be honest, the game coverage will probably finish at 6.30pm (the usual time) and they will show the highlights of the other games in the round to fill out the time.
Or they'll show a Crowd Goes Wild repeat like they did instead of Match Day Saturday a couple of weeks ago
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about 13 years ago

Adelaide v Perth game on tonight is delayed until tomorrow morning.   I noticed on sky epg that there are going to be 5 sports channels.


2 extra channels for the Tennis. The Nix game on Sunday is dumped to the highlights channel. Can't see why they couldn't do that with tonight's game as well.


2 extra tennis channels available if ya got the HD access ticket.
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about 13 years ago

Adelaide vs Perth 7 hours delayed. Why bother? 4.30am.

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about 13 years ago · edited about 13 years ago · History

Round 17

Friday night Melbourne Heart v Adelaide delayed until 12:30am Saturday SS1

Saturday night Sydney FC v Wellington Phoenix live at 7:30pm SS2

Central Coast Mariners v whinging Jets delayed until 3am Sunday SS3

Perth v Melbourne delayed until 5am Sunday SS3

Sunday Brisbane v Wanderers delayed until 8pm SS2


F U sky, you've ruined my weekend


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about 13 years ago · edited about 13 years ago · History

And yet they are showing NBL and EPL on the highlights channel this weekend. This is beyond ridiculous.

EDIT: AND Big Bash! FFS.


Yellow Fever - Misery loves company

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about 13 years ago · edited about 13 years ago · History

Time to take to their facebook page like the UFC fans! GRRRRR

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