SKY Coverage

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Stefan, I just thought of a slogan for your Flag...

Deaker de Files Football Fans with repeats.

Proud to have attended the first 175 Consecutive "Home" Wellington Phoenix "A League" Games !!

The Ruf, The Ruf, The Ruf is on Fire!!

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Stefan wrote:

I have grown quite attached to Iraq Goals.

Same here, time to up the internet allowance I think.

You know we belong together...

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Iraq goals just grabs feeds from Justin TV and other sauces. i recommend using www.myp2p.eu and using some of the other links, they have better quality sometimes.

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UberGunner wrote:

Iraq goals just grabs feeds from Justin TV and other sauces. i recommend using www.myp2p.eu and using some of the other links, they have better quality sometimes.

Totally second this. www.myp2p.eu is brilliant. Not just for football either, if there are other sports that take your fancy.

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Junior82 wrote:

RedGed wrote:

scribbler wrote:

[QUOTE=Daikiwi]A mate of mine just got back from Gold Coast and watched Fox Sports, which owns Sky in NZ.

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I think Fox Sports in OZ is a subsidiary of News Limited.
News Limited, through another subsidiary,have the biggest share(44%)of Sky Tv in NZ.

Which is great, actually, because once we have our Wellington Phoenix banner sorted we could keep contributing money and, before you know it,YF could buy the other 56% of SkyTV off the rest of those shareholders, take over the Board and run Sky TV the way it should be run!..

..and this thread would be renamed " SKY ownage - OFFICIAL"

nice UberG .. ahead of the pack ...as usual

So does that mean Scribbler could still spank someone?

Only if John Key loosens up the rules following the overwhelming YES vote in the smacking referendum.

(Backstory - I said if Fox owned Sky - Daikiwi's belief - we could ask them to spank the idiots who've been ignoring the A-League. Or we'd find plenty of volunteers. Including me!)

scribbler2009-08-22 11:51:52

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

This could be the news we've been waiting for!!!!

TV Guide (Week Aug 29th- Sept 4th).

SS3: Thurs 3rd Sept, 9.30pm. Melbourne Victory v Newcastle Jets. (live)

Sky's first, live (non-Nix) A-League game?!!

Someone on this site earlier suggested Sky would have to honour committments to August sponsors (for the endless golf and kayaking repeats in place of live A-League?) and no changes could happen until September.

Maybe someone who gets SKYWATCH could look to see if the Melbourne/Newcastle game is scheduled as 'live'.

If not, then this is a late change even though I suspect that times for the whole A-League season would have been given to Sky well before this SKYWATCH want to print.

Maybe I'm misreading the situation, but I think Sky may have finally caved to pressure from so many quarters - including YF and Tony P - over their scungy treatment of the A-League.

If so, this is very good news.

(The next night SS2 has the Nix/Adelaide game live at 7.30pm, but that was expected.)

scribbler2009-08-22 15:22:22

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scribbler wrote:

This could be the news we've been waiting for!!!!

TV Guide (Week Aug 29th- Sept 4th).

SS3: Thurs 3rd Sept, 9.30pm. Melbourne Victory v Newcastle Jets. (live)

Sky's first, live (non-Nix) A-League game?!!

No it's not - we've had two other non-Nix games live. Don't forget Sky said we would get two live games a week, but reneged on that this week.

I will believe we have good news if the other three games are either live or their delayed coverage is a matter of hours instead of days.

Edit:

Week 1 - Melbourne v Central Coast was live on Thu.

Week 2 - Central Coast v Newcastle was live on Fri.

Week 3 - no non-Nix games, but Adelaide v Gold Coast was only delayed by 3.5 hours

SiNZ2009-08-22 16:06:09

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

PS Too soon to be able to scroll far enough ahead on the EPG for the whole weekend, but Week 4 has Adelaide v North Queensland delayed by 3 hours only. The question is whether this is the same deal as this weekend, where we get a reasonable delay only at the cost of a live match.

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

scribbler wrote:

Junior82 wrote:

RedGed wrote:

scribbler wrote:

[QUOTE=Daikiwi]A mate of mine just got back from Gold Coast and watched Fox Sports, which owns Sky in NZ.

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nice UberG .. ahead of the pack ...as usual

So does that mean Scribbler could still spank someone?

Only if John Key loosens up the rules following the overwhelming YES vote in the smacking referendum.

(Backstory - I said if Fox owned Sky - Daikiwi's belief - we could ask them to spank the idiots who've been ignoring the A-League. Or we'd find plenty of volunteers. Including me!)

Scribbler, We don't need John Key's say-so between consenting adults, so if 89% or more of us agree...all those in favour say "Aye"......those against....(none?)...Carried!

Spank away.

Improving,,on the up, a work in progress from Italiano and the Nix. Bring on the bathroom bling in '24! COYN!

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Thank you, RedGed for that vote of confidence. Democracy is a fine thing, second only to a winning football team.

I will spank them with pleasure, providing those being spanked cooperate by first pulling their executive heads out of their executive @rses.

(typo edit)

scribbler2009-08-23 10:34:40

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

So, can anyone tell us about what coverage we have to look forward to this coming weekend??

No Ashes this weekend so I expect some coverage!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe_B5CzbTJo - Caceres winning penalty v Perth - footage from the Fever Zone

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Looking at the EPG, the Friday night game is delayed three hours. Nix live. One of the Saturday games is on Monday lunchtime. No sign yet of the other two matches - presumably will appear when the EPG allows Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday next week to be displayed.

So, another week where the promise of two live matches is broken and the usual several day delay on the others.

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

So much for a minimum of two LIVE games a week.

Can't see how people can explain that one away, when it was promised by Sky's Head of Communication.

All Aboard the Phoenix/ All Whites Bandwagon!!

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Only the Nix game live this weekend, mostly due to Air NZ Cup, Cricket, NRL and Tri-Nations.

BUT 5pm Sunday on Sky Sports 3 instead of showing Newcastle v Gold Coast they have

Uipm Modern Pentathlon Highlights, Rugby: This given sunday, Blackcaps on tour

So instead of back to back A-league games on a Sunday afternoon they decide to show highlights and 2 filler programmes instead.

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

What's showing on Friday night at 10pm that we can't have that game on?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe_B5CzbTJo - Caceres winning penalty v Perth - footage from the Fever Zone

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

2 NRL games and Black Caps at a guess

www.kiwifromthecouch.blogspot.com

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

bopman wrote:

2 NRL games and Black Caps at a guess

Hope not.

1 fair enough, but do we really have the market to be showing 2 Australian league teams playing each other at the same time on 2 different channels?!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe_B5CzbTJo - Caceres winning penalty v Perth - footage from the Fever Zone

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Steve-O wrote:

bopman wrote:

2 NRL games and Black Caps at a guess

Hope not.

1 fair enough, but do we really have the market to be showing 2 Australian league teams playing each other at the same time on 2 different channels?!

Yes

www.kiwifromthecouch.blogspot.com

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

bopman wrote:

Steve-O wrote:

bopman wrote:

2 NRL games and Black Caps at a guess

Hope not.

1 fair enough, but do we really have the market to be showing 2 Australian league teams playing each other at the same time on 2 different channels?!

Yes

So we have enough NRL fans to justify having 2 games on at once, even though neither are the Warriors (who get crowds of about 15,000)?

If they chose the most important of the 2 matches and put that on, I couldn't see many NRL fans complaining that the other game wasn't on, put it that way.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe_B5CzbTJo - Caceres winning penalty v Perth - footage from the Fever Zone

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Steve-O wrote:

bopman wrote:

Steve-O wrote:

bopman wrote:

2 NRL games and Black Caps at a guess

Hope not.

1 fair enough, but do we really have the market to be showing 2 Australian league teams playing each other at the same time on 2 different channels?!

Yes

So we have enough NRL fans to justify having 2 games on at once, even though neither are the Warriors (who get crowds of about 15,000)?

If they chose the most important of the 2 matches and put that on, I couldn't see many NRL fans complaining that the other game wasn't on, put it that way.

Yes there is the market to justify having two NRL games on at once, guessing again I would imagine the NRL would rate at least double the A-League. Especially when you are two weeks out from finals and both games have a direct bearing on the finals, Broncs v Cowboys and Panthers v Eels.

As Hard News says though, the NRL has been given the opportunity to grow a profile over the last 20 years which the A-League hasn't got. That is the way it is though and Sky would be daft to drop one of the games.

Actually as I think about it more, what it could be is the 2nd NPC game plus an NRL game and cricket. If there are two games on Friday night they will have them both live at 7.30 then one replayed at the end of the other on one of SS1 or 2 so people can watch both games back to back.

www.kiwifromthecouch.blogspot.com

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

scoop wrote:

So much for a minimum of two LIVE games a week.

Can't see how people can explain that one away, when it was promised by Sky's Head of Communication.

Sad thing is I doubt anyone from Sky will explain this SHlT anytime soon.

You know we belong together...

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

I'm sure we'll all be told we're lying by the completely neutral Bxela...

How's my driving? - Whine here

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Hard News wrote:

I'm sure we'll all be told we're lying by the completely neutral Bxela...

I like tautologies because I like them.

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Bxela implanted this weird chip in my brain; now I can't stop extolling Sky.

I like tautologies because I like them.

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

I went dicksmith and baught this cord which i can connect to my laptop and tv and i already had a wire for the sound, and i have been watching the goals on tv.

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Greek-Boi wrote:

I went dicksmith and baught this cord which i can connect to my laptop and tv and i already had a wire for the sound, and i have been watching the goals on tv.

Tell me more about this wire.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe_B5CzbTJo - Caceres winning penalty v Perth - footage from the Fever Zone

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

For f**ks sake, Sydney FC vs Central Coast Mariners is supposed to be on Sky Sport 3 from 11 AM right now, yet they are still showing the f**king CURLING!!!

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

At home after a dentist appointment, thought I'd watch the A-League match...

Today's 11am three day delay of Central Coast v Sydney is not on. They have curling on instead. After the curling finishes, they will show a rugby league 40/20 entertainment programme.

Just spoke to sky who said, sorry the curling is live so gets preference. I pointed out that live games do not get preference when they're football and asked if that was the case why has the match been replaced with rugby. She said try the other channels, so I did - rugby SS1, rugby SS2 and rugby SS h/l....

And she couldn't tell me when the football had been moved to.

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Grrrrr...!

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

DKP22 wrote:

For f**ks sake, Sydney FC vs Central Coast Mariners is supposed to be on Sky Sport 3 from 11 AM right now, yet they are still showing the f**king CURLING!!!

Phone and complain. They're really f**king us around now.

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SiNZ wrote:

At home after a dentist appointment, thought I'd watch the A-League match...

Today's 11am three day delay of Central Coast v Sydney is not on. They have curling on instead. After the curling finishes, they will show a rugby league 40/20 entertainment programme.

And she couldn't tell me when the football had been moved to.

Deary me, it just gets worse doesn't it?

I think she missed the words "...when it suits us." after telling you about live sport getting preference.

Rugby on the other THREE channels at the same time??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe_B5CzbTJo - Caceres winning penalty v Perth - footage from the Fever Zone

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

The football has just appeared on the EPG for 7pm instead.

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Funny how they had no problems rescheduling the LIVE curling on because of those long-term commitments they have to advertisers, etc....

But I guess curling is one of the biggest sports in the world, so it's understandable...

el grapadura2009-08-25 12:12:47

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

curling.

...but that's still inexcusable. Fecking Sky.

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el grapadura wrote:

Funny how they had no problems reschduling the LIVE curling on because of those long-term commitments they have to advertisers, etc....

But I guess curling is one of the biggest sports in the world, so it's understandable...

Indeed. Lets have the native Sky correspondants come explain that one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe_B5CzbTJo - Caceres winning penalty v Perth - footage from the Fever Zone

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

el grapadura wrote:

Considering the Live curling replaced a delayed game they squeezed in, with no advertising or sponsors, it actully makes sense.

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What, so now they're 'squeezing in' coverage of A-league, despite the commitment that they'd show the matches delayed if they couldn't screen them live?

Whatever. But golf replays make it in easily. God forbid they renege on the commitment to golf in favour of LIVE sport.

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

according to the sky watch the original programming for 11 am toda was

ss1-BOP vs Waikato replay

ss2- NRL replay

ss3 - Nix vs Roar replay

curling was on live from 9 am till 11am then 1 pm till3pm on ss3 today

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Im gonna presume the curling was part of the Winter Games, think the contractual obligations they would have with the games and the government (who have sponsored the games) mean they have to show the whole event. Just guessing though