SKY Coverage

Keen again to subscribe now.

Me too. Now that League is over I guess they need something to fill the schedule.

Could have just said that to begin with tbh, even if it wasn't true.

Just got back to NZ after spending 10 days in the Gold Coast, and I have to say, I love FoxSports. They show so much football, and combined with ESPN I could see myself sitting down just watching the TV all day, revelling in the great coverage that they provide.

Take a leaf out of Fox's book Sky!

 

I dont know if qualifying for the World Cup will do it even. The Kiwi league team won their world cup, and they still get second rate coverage behind the rugby.

Bollocks they do.  All their NRL games are live (or 2 hours delayed when two NRL games clash).  Plus there are a few U20 games Live.  Plus the Super League games Live.  That is not 2nd rate. 2ndBest2009-10-09 13:31:43

Maybe i don't watch sky sport enough then.. sorry, i stand corrected :P

Well, having stayed in a motel for a week with only the UHF channels, I can say Sky Sport still sucks donkey dicks.

They had replays of golf, some random tennis event in Thailand, and some MotoGP stuff on, while the LIVE A-League games got relegated to Sky 3.

I had a wander around the bars where I am staying in Auckland, none of them had Sky Digital to display on their TVs, so suffice to say, A-League will get sweet f**k all coverage around New Zealand as long as Sky keeps off-loading it onto Sky Sports 3 channel.

I know there are a lot of business who still only display Sky UHF channels.

A lot of hotels carry SS2 - City Life Auckland, Sebel Suites, Quaywest... are places I usually stay.

Heritage hotel had SS3 last year in December I believe. Watched Nix vs CCM on it while I was staying.

They didn't when I stayed there - forgot to add them to SS2 carriers, but they're the same group as City Life. I usually stay in the Towers wing rather than the hotel wing, so perhaps they're different.

SiNZ2009-10-09 16:01:45

Has the coverage improved over there?

It sure has, we used to get phoenix and one other game. Now I think were getting almost every game each week? maybe every game

Every game has been live pretty much, a few exceptions when there were rugby finals being played and the odd game was played delayed.

Otherwise, looking much better from Sky TV. Still not showing the intros and outros that they provide on Fox... those bits are good to watch.
But the games are definitely on to watch.

Coverage is very decent nowadays. Still probably not as good as Fox .. But from what we were getting its a vast improvement.

What is annoying though is NO analysis on EPL games or Phoenix games. Half time with that annoying music is, well, annoying!

I'm in the kitchen during half time so its not so bad but I see your point.

Has anyone got an August SKY Guide yet?  Be keen to know what's lined up in terms of live coverage of games not featuring the Phoenix.  First game is next Thursday at 9.30pm - Heart v Mariners, followed by games at 10pm and midnight Friday, 10pm Saturday and 5pm Sunday.

 

from the latest Listener

Thursday at 9.30pm - Heart v Mariners = yes

games at 10pm = no

and midnight Friday = Perth v NQF = yes,

10pm Saturday and 5pm Sunday = not in that Listner

Thanks tigers.  Can't see the 5pm Sunday game getting on live with so much league and rugby on at that time...I guess Melbourne v Sydney (undoubted game of the round) on Saturday at 10pm will be unlikely too, although the All Black test is at 7.35pm that night, so no 10pm rugby game.

I finally managed to get my wife to move to Wgn from Chch..I AM NOT going to go thru that again...!!!!

Actually why would you bother.. its watching the Nix at Westpac Stadium that gives me the most pleasure

I still fondly remember "The Big Match" on Sundays... sigh

highlights. channel. c**ts.

what about those 3/4 channels they used for the winter olympics ?

surely SKY could get ONE of these back to show HAL games for a few weeks.

It will all depend on potential advertising revenue to justify such a thing.

Now if Hyundai and Volkswagen could put aside their differences and get together for the sake of NZ football,
(not to mention target a healthy, growing sector of the NZ sports market basking in the All Whites afterglow).....
with a bit of help from Macdonalds, Export 33, Sony,Quantas, Westfield and the other recognised A-League and NZ football sponsors we could have that channel.

Would take a concerted effort from Sky marketing  to develop the package..or are they just order takers??, ...
plus input from NZ Football... what marketing expertise do we have on board??...
step right up Mr (ex Sony) Glading! ...

...and Ropata's your Mums bro.

All 5 games appear to be on Sky - though 3 are delayed; 2 by a whole night. Paulinho2010-07-29 09:44:09

sooo glad I cancelled sky early last season when A-League was ripped off, same thing this year. 

Just do what I did, cancel sky, get larger broadband allowance and watch all games live

Anyone know if SBS show games? Lonegunmen2010-07-29 10:08:17

Just got the SKY guide for August.  From what I can see, eight of the 20 A-League games in August are live, including all three Phoenix games.  The rest are all delayed by up to a day, but some as little as an hour. liverpoolfan12010-07-29 10:21:04

Talk about useless.  Hopefully when the NRL and whatever else is done then we'll get all games live except in very exceptional circumstances.

I can certainly understand if there is live sport on all 3 channels that they have to shift the A-League a little. It's annoying but an all-Oz NRL clash would rate vastly superior to an all-Oz A-League match.

Does anyone reckon a 'football channel' would be a viable option for Sky?

Yes. Show some European leagues, and NZFC

..I should stop dreaming right?

I actually don't mind too much on how many they are covering. think its quite positive. I mean realistically, only the true fans are going to wanna see games like fury vs marriners every week live. I don't mind the delays as I'm sure the games won't be getting too many views.

I would like them to show more GCU games, plus planes and raw seeing as they do have kiwi players. But overall they just gotta give us nix coverage.

And I really think what they should do is get a really good pregame show for the nix, because thats really where the football fans will be watching. That'd be the best option in my opinion

August and September are the two months I blow my interweb allowance for the month.

Another roadblock t a football channel I suspoect is that rights for overseas football are probably a lot higher than rights for overseas Rugby.  We'd love a channel with Bundesliga, Primera, Serie A and the Championship but the rights to them would probably cost more than the the entire Rugby Union rights for the world cost them and that includes them financially bankrolling SANZAR.

Can't believe how 1 year has gone so fast and we are talking about the same topic.

Foxtel has all the games live over here, no delay. Sky will come good in October like last year. At least they showed the Boca game live.  Answer is to increase your internet download to 30 gig and tune in to Iraq goals.