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SKY Coverage

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about 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Great! I am really looking forward to seeing if VDV can improve on his km travelled when he is next subbed.

"Phoenix till they lose"

Posting 97% bollox, 8% lies and 3.658% genuine opinion. 

Genuine opinion: FTFFA

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about 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Awesome.

Would prefer a 2nd espn channel though.

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about 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Does this mean, if you are too cheap to pay for HD (i.e me) the general picture quality will still be better? Champions League games look like they are coming from an old Beta tape at times
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about 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
^^ Id assume so. No way Im a paying extra for HD or any of that sh*t, its bad enough we have to pay as it is to watch domestic sport. And Sky being as sh*t as they are arent getting anymore out of me anyway...

I asked ESPN on Facebook re: ESPN2 and they said theyre wanting to break into NZ (just made it into Aus), and that theyre looking into it. I take that as meaning Sky are a bit "yeah nah" on the issue. AJ132011-03-14 07:47:42
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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
only just discovered sky sports have a football facebook page.  Not many like it, only 163.  Get in there and show sky sports you love football, maybe it will improve coverage.
 
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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
I notice that Sky Sports 3 is now HD as of recently. I guess that means when the nix end up on this channel, it will at least be in HD.
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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Im very tempted to not have sky sports for the next few months as all there is ever on is  Netball, Rugby and Golf..oh and more rugby and netball

" If you only have a hammer you tend to see every problem as a nail" - maslow

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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
EPL conclusion,champions league,they're showing the fa cup semis. Not to mention the baseball season and NBA finals!

Worst time to get rid of sky sports !

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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
paullt wrote:
Im very tempted to not have sky sports for the next few months as all there is ever on is  Netball, Rugby and Golf..oh and more rugby and netball
 
you're obviously watching the wrong channels, there is plenty of footy on, the NRL and IPL as well I think.

Queenslander 3x a year.

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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
simon_hampton wrote:
I think everyone's a little bit precious really. The reality is, the Phoenix do not get very high ratings in comparison to many other codes.
Interestingly, it sounds like they don't really know what the ratings are. From this article about plumetting league and rugby numbers...
 
 
Sky boss John Fellet dismissed the plunge, saying Nielsen's ratings calculations, which sample 1.250 viewers in 500 homes, were outdated, because they didn't cover Sky viewers with MySky boxes who are anecdotally the biggest consumers of televised sport. And he said the winter codes weren't deep enough into their season to distress Sky: "It's too early to worry: call me in six weeks."
 
I am assuming football is rated the same way. This isn't a very sophisticated means of determining how many people are watching. People with MySky are excluded altogether.
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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
theprof wrote:
paullt wrote:
Im very tempted to not have sky sports for the next few months as all there is ever on is� Netball, Rugby and Golf..oh and more rugby and netball

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you're obviously watching the wrong channels, there is plenty of footy on, the NRL and IPL as well I think.


Thats not football.

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

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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
IPL is not on in NZ this season, thank heaven. What an awful competition that is. And that's from a man who loves cricket.
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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
I think most people who love cricket are the same (that I know of).

It's those who are casual on cricket who like T20 and the IPL.

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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
someone had twittered that they really missed the IPL. Skys reply was that they were still trying to aquire the rights.
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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
I'm casual on cricket (hard not to be with the black caps form), love T20, but think the IPL is a load of bollocks.

Much prefer the NZ stuff, and would have loved to see the same format in a NZ/AU comp.

Yellow Whever Whanganui

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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Tegal wrote:
EPL conclusion,champions league,they're showing the fa cup semis. Not to mention the baseball season and NBA finals!

Worst time to get rid of sky sports !
 
Really?? I assumed they were not but I hope you are right.
 
edit - just checked and you are indeed right, bonus!
Steve-O2011-04-16 12:41:59

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

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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Everybody I know has almost died of shock at that fact too.


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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
impressed by SKY picking up the FA Cup coverage

not something I always say but "well done SKY"



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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
ESPN is going HD June 1st ..... :)

3 days too late for the UEFA Champions League final :( zonknz2011-05-05 19:26:46
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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Probably isn't actually sky's decision - but whoever's it is don't they think about anything?20 legend2011-05-05 19:40:30
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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Let's all harass Sky on Twitter to do something, innit.
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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Plus espn3.com will be on iSky available to people with multiroom and sky sport subscriptions.
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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
zonknz wrote:
Let's all harass Sky on Twitter to do something, innit.



It's actually quite good how often that works.

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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Tegal wrote:
zonknz wrote:
Let's all harass Sky on Twitter to do something, innit.



It's actually quite good how often that works.
 
It's pointless this time. Sky have no say in what happens with ESPN; they just relay the feed they're given. Sky don't even get much advice on programming changes that ESPN sometimes produce. I found that out when ESPN were listing a live England game at the wrong time and queried it - Sky can only go with whatever ESPN tell them and have no input to ESPN's schedule or decision-making process. The ESPN feed we get is the ESPN feed for the Pacific Rim - I imagine Sky NZ are a very small part of ESPN's total user base.
 
Harrassing Sky for ESPN's decisions will only make the football community look like a bunch of whingers and dilute any power of our voice when it comes to genuine Sky issues.
 
Harrass ESPN if you want. I've find they do respond sometimes to queries and complaints. Not sure it ever makes a difference to the US behemoth when a NZ viewer complains though!
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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Shouldn't be any worries about all games being live on SKY this season - the NRL wraps up the weekend before the A-League season starts.
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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
ESPN has been HD, on the Oz beam for over a year now - it's just f**ked when it's available on the same satellite already, but we end up shafted by Sky NZ with the appalling quality on ESPN.

*shakes fist*
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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Oh and can sky hurry up and get sentana in NZ already?
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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
zonknz wrote:
ESPN has been HD, on the Oz beam for over a year now - it's just f**ked when it's available on the same satellite already, but we end up shafted by Sky NZ with the appalling quality on ESPN.*shakes fist*

Really? In that case, I was wrong - harrassing is okay!
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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
zonknz wrote:
Oh and can sky hurry up and get sentana in NZ already?
 
+1000

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

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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
zonknz wrote:
ESPN has been HD, on the Oz beam for over a year now - it's just f**ked when it's available on the same satellite already, but we end up shafted by Sky NZ with the appalling quality on ESPN.

*shakes fist*


But it's not on the same satellite.

Australia has 2 satellites at the same location for TV (C1 and D3, location 156 degree).
And we use 1 satellite (D1, location 160).

That is why Foxtel (Aus) has something like 27 HD and 2 3D channels to our 8 HD and no 3D.
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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Sky NZ truly is crud. It's similar to what was available in the UK literally about 15 years ago.
 
I appreciate there are many more customers in the UK though but I think Sky NZ could be slightly better for the price, which is not far off the UK price.

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

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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
im pissed because on every sky sports channel there was f**king rugby!! I have no problem with people wanting to watch rugby but there is a f**king rugby channel dedicated to it!!  I would pefer a football channel and would happily subscribe to it in a heartbeat...f**king rugby indeed!!

" If you only have a hammer you tend to see every problem as a nail" - maslow

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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
paullt wrote:
im pissed because on every sky sports channel there was f**king rugby!! I have no problem with people wanting to watch rugby but there is a f**king rugby channel dedicated to it!!� I would pefer a football channel and would happily subscribe to it in a heartbeat...f**king rugby indeed!!


I would happily subscribe to a football channel too. But yeah, what's the point of a ALL rugby ALL THE TIME channel, if your rugby has to take up so many of the other sports channels.

Sky, if you're having trouble getting people to subscribe to the rugby channel, why not make it the only channel you can watch the rugby on!

Yellow Whever Whanganui

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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
zonknz wrote:
ESPN has been HD, on the Oz beam for over a year now - it's just f**ked when it's available on the same satellite already, but we end up shafted by Sky NZ with the appalling quality on ESPN.*shakes fist*


ESPN HD is coming June 1st. http://help.vodafone.co.nz/app/answers/detail/a_id/13302
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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
arnies wrote:
zonknz wrote:
ESPN has been HD, on the Oz beam for over a year now - it's just f**ked when it's available on the same satellite already, but we end up shafted by Sky NZ with the appalling quality on ESPN.*shakes fist*


ESPN HD is coming June 1st. http://help.vodafone.co.nz/app/answers/detail/a_id/13302
 
 
Yes we know. That's what sparked off this whole conversation topic - the 1 June date being after the ECL Final. The surprise, for me, was to find that each country that receives the Pacific Rim channel has such widely differing implementation dates e.g. Aussies having been live for over a year.
SiNZ2011-05-08 21:15:44
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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Well...I think that after this weekend that I am going to cancel Sky sports until the A league starts again...far too much rugby for me, although I have to be honest I never exoected to be able to watch Nottingham forest and swansea this morning..sky threw me a curved ball with that one!

" If you only have a hammer you tend to see every problem as a nail" - maslow

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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
All whites and champions league final - might be worth hanging on for a few more weeks..
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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
zonknz wrote:
All whites and champions league final - might be worth hanging on for a few more weeks..
 
Champions League is on ESPN though.
 
All Whites could be worth watching though.
 
And the surprise of the English Championship play offs.

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

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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Isn't ESPN part of the Sky Sports package?
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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
el grapadura wrote:
Isn't ESPN part of the Sky Sports package?
 
Not as far as I am aware - I think it comes free. At least it used to, I definitely watched it before I subscribed to Sky Sport.

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

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