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SKY Coverage

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about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Junior82 wrote:
For all you Sky subscribers, here is how sky treats midweek football in the UK:
 
  •  DIPSET

    11 January 2012 10:12PM

    F**k Sky Sports.

    You bombard us with adverts about how brilliant and far reaching your live football coverage is within our shores.

    And yet on a day when there was a league game that could have a direct effect on whom might might win the damn thing, my viewing options on your "4 dedicated sports channels" were...

    1)Carp Fishing...Ooh excuse me, 'EXTREME' Carp Fishing
    2)A Spanish cup game
    3) And last but not least, your ubiquitous late nite "special" - **PGA GOLF**

    (4) Was gonna have a moan about your Netball coverage and the missus is probably gonna get mad about this , but, phwooarrrr, some of the ladies from *Northern Thunder and Yorkshire Jets* are definitely on point !! lol

    Regardless, COYS!!!!

    (sauce: http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/jan/11/tottenham-everton-premier-league)
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    One assumes this was a game that Sky UK had the rights to and then didn't screen? Or did one of the Sky competitors have it?
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    about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
    ahmad wrote:
    Or Sky could do it themselves? Unless there is some reason they can't legally. But they have iSky?
     
    iSky gives you on-line access to anything on the channels you subscribe to for no additional cost. I wish I'd remembered this for the Dunedin game, when I was at a hotel not carrying SS3... d'oh! Could have watched it on-line legally. (I waited for the delayed coverage on SS2 at 8am the next day.)
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    about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
    SKY just decided that tennis is more important than the football, so changed their schedule 15mins before their advertised live coverage of the A-League was scheduled to start to delay it by half an hour. f**k you Sky, f**k you.

    Yellow Fever - Misery loves company

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    about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
    shot for the heads up patrick

    just went and checked, and surprised that my booked recording of the live programme had automatically been updated, at least they get that right
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    about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
    patrick478 wrote:
    SKY just decided that tennis is more important than the football, so changed their schedule 15mins before their advertised live coverage of the A-League was scheduled to start to delay it by half an hour. f**k you Sky, f**k you.

    In all fairness the tennis was  on first, and most kiwis wouldnt give anymore of a sh*t for a non Phoenix A-League game than they would for whats on at the moment.
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    about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
    AJ13 wrote:

    patrick478 wrote:
    SKY just decided that tennis is more important than the football, so changed their schedule 15mins before their advertised live coverage of the A-League was scheduled to start to delay it by half an hour. f**k you Sky, f**k you.
    In all fairness the tennis was� on first, and most kiwis wouldnt give anymore of a sh*t for a non Phoenix A-League game than they would for whats on at the moment.


    This time I understand why they are showing tennis instead. If they had advertised that the game would be delayed on the guide earlier (as there was a high chance of tennis coverage going late) I would be more okay with it, I had to change plans at the last minute because I was counting on live TV coverage.

    Yellow Fever - Misery loves company

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    about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
    in this instance I feel sorry for sky, they planned to play both the tennis and a-league live, due to one going over time the a-league was delayed and you still moan.???

    Queenslander 3x a year.

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    about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
    SiNZ wrote:

    ahmad wrote:
    Or Sky could do it themselves? Unless there is some reason they can't legally. But they have iSky?

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    iSky gives you on-line access to anything on the channels you subscribe to for no additional cost. I wish I'd remembered this for the Dunedin game, when I was at a hotel not carrying SS3... d'oh! Could have watched it on-line legally. (I waited for the delayed coverage on SS2 at 8am the next day.)


    I've been in this situation before, and was subscribed to iSky and can confirm the following:

    • You need to sign up to Sky Multi-Room to get Sports on iSky
    • Watch your data caps. iSky chews through your data in no time and leaves you with either a big big at check out, or no data on your vodem if you are using that
    • Is quite unreiable if you are on a mac

    Central Hawkes Bay Nix
    and tragic follower of Charlton Athletic 
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    about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
    I though most ISP's zero rated i sky. But yeah, the other two points stand true.
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    about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
    Junior82 wrote:
    I've posted a while back about being able to purcahse good quality internet feeds for specific games or leagues.  I would pay money and tricks for this.
     
     
     
     
    Me also!
     
    But hope is on the horizon.
     
    Google recently bought You Tube and have created a branch called You Tube TV. They have negotiated rights with some Movie/TV production companies to broadcast movies etc on You Tube TV. The word now is that the next step will be to move into sport...with football high on the list. So its highly probable that your scenario of pay to view for individual high quality games WILL happen one day.
     
    Google is one of the worlds largest and richest companies.....they would piss all over the likes of Sky etc when it came to buying rights.
     
    When this happens we can all happily dance on Sky's grave.
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    about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
    It seems logical doesn't it, in these days of being able to download individual apps and services rather than getting a whole package of stuff of which you only need a fraction?

    I see on our SONY Bravia (Nix sponsor plug#1) that we recently got there is also SONY internet - which I haven't actually connected up to see what it is.

    In terms of Sky not wanting to lose revenue, you could also look at it that people like Ahmad and I don't want to pay mega bucks for lots of sky channels that we won't use, but would pay a disproportionately greater amount for selected products.

    "Phoenix till they lose"

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

    Genuine opinion: FTFFA

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    about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
    mikecj wrote:
    • You need to sign up to Sky Multi-Room to get Sports on iSky


    They've recently changed this and you only need to subscribe to sky sport to get it on isky.
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    about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
    patrick478 wrote:
    SKY just decided that tennis is more important than the football, so changed their schedule 15mins before their advertised live coverage of the A-League was scheduled to start to delay it by half an hour. f**k you Sky, f**k you.
    ....AGREE...., watching tennis with 4 no names playing doubles... LOOKING AT THE SIZE OF THE CROWD at the tennis most Aucklanders thought the same...put the tennis on delay...it had only been for hours,...... will now only get worse when THE Rugby and League start next month
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    about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
    I had recorded the Melbourne game on Mum's telstra recording thing (T-box?). Went to watch it this morning, most of it was tennis then missed the last 20 of the game coz the recording had stopped =(

    End of an era.  Vinnie - It's over.

    If anyone cares for my inane babbling follow @iluvnix17 on the Twitter.

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    about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
    On my Vodafone mobile internet stick, it chews up data. I watched a game and it took about 1.5gigs, which is about $40 of the $50 plan.

    Central Hawkes Bay Nix
    and tragic follower of Charlton Athletic 
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    about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
    shouldn't- check with Voda- Isky is supposed to be unmetered on Voda, Orcon...and a few others...


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    about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
    Just got iSky up and running, watching CCM vs Newcastle. Am very impressed with the quality. Will only have to watch other streams when Sky are not showing the games live now.

    Yellow Fever - Misery loves company

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    about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
    Vodafone homeline broadband is unmetered. Mobile Broadband is not.

    Central Hawkes Bay Nix
    and tragic follower of Charlton Athletic 
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    about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
    patrick478 wrote:
    Just got iSky up and running, watching CCM vs Newcastle. Am very impressed with the quality. Will only have to watch other streams when Sky are not showing the games live now.
    Snap.Not too shabby

                                                                            COYN    

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    about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
    how does andrew dewhurst get to commentate the tennis to by the way?
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    about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
    George Kostanza wrote:
    how does andrew dewhurst get to commentate the tennis to by the way?

    Probably due to his football expertise.

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    about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
    ahmad wrote:
    George Kostanza wrote:
    how does andrew dewhurst get to commentate the tennis to by the way?

    Probably due to his lack of football expertise.


    Fixed.patrick4782012-01-15 00:35:55

    Yellow Fever - Misery loves company

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    about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
    ChopperHarris wrote:
    patrick478 wrote:
    SKY just decided that tennis is more important than the football, so changed their schedule 15mins before their advertised live coverage of the A-League was scheduled to start to delay it by half an hour. f**k you Sky, f**k you.
    ....AGREE...., watching tennis with 4 no names playing doubles... LOOKING AT THE SIZE OF THE CROWD at the tennis most Aucklanders thought the same...put the tennis on delay...it had only been for hours,...... will now only get worse when THE Rugby and League start next month


    Yeah that was a joke. My exact words when I saw it were "who gives a **** about tennis doubles!?" and then yes, I made a point about the size of the crowd as well, about 30 people...Ridiculous stuff from Sky and I ended up not watching the game because of it.

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

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    about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
    If Sky were to add another sports channel, Sky Sport 4, most of these issues would simply go away and Sky could make all their potential viewers happy.

    Yellow Fever - Misery loves company

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    about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
    Hard News wrote:
    There were two New Zealanders playing in that match though. 
     
    Who ??  Bertos and Brown ??
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    about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
    George Kostanza wrote:
    how does andrew dewhurst get to commentate the tennis to by the way?


    He MC's at the Breakers too.

    Three for me, and two for them.

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    about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
    Cause Dewhurst is a freelancer. The likes of Katsanos as an example is a Sky employee...

    Granted there are a thousand better people than Dewhurst. His voice is better for radio.

    Grumpy old bastard alert

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    about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
    Gold Coast V CCM game tonight delayed till 2am tomorrow.  Not sure why they are showing cricket highlights when they could put the game on (still delayed) at 11:30pm after the Aussie NBL match. Golf and Aussie open tennis on the other sport channels.

    And what is this they may not show the All Whites game.  Get on twitter http://twitter.com/skysportnz  facebook  http://www.facebook.com/skysportfootball   and email to ask https://skytv.custhelp.com/app/ask


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    about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
    GCU v CCM is in doubt because of the weather in Aussie, so might be a moot point if it gets called off.
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    about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
    possibly, but still get in touch with them and tell them how much we want the All Whites on tv.


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    about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
    I highly doubt that they will not show the All Whites game, in the past thru have secured coverage very late but they always seem to show them. Especially with it being a home match, they will probably send their own crew there.

    Yellow Fever - Misery loves company

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    about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
    Jeff Vader wrote:
    Cause Dewhurst is a freelancer. The likes of Katsanos as an example is a Sky employee...Granted there are a thousand better people than Dewhurst. His voice is better for radio.



    He was pretty bad for the tennis, at one point he said 'it's been a great match between these two sides'. Stick to football.....
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    N-Bomb wrote:
    Jeff Vader wrote:
    Cause Dewhurst is a freelancer. The likes of Katsanos as an example is a Sky employee...Granted there are a thousand better people than Dewhurst. His voice is better for radio.



    He was pretty bad for the tennis, at one point he said 'it's been a great match between these two sides'. Stick to football.....


    Please don't.
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    about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
    Sky needs to look at transferring Mel as a marquee broadcaster.

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    about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
    Not so sure we love Mel for her broadcasting skills...coincidentally, there's was talk of starting a YF campaign to bring Mel for a game at the RoF at the end of last season, but it just petered out in the end.
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    el grapadura wrote:
    Not so sure we love Mel for her broadcasting skills...coincidentally, there's was talk of starting a YF campaign to bring Mel for a game at the RoF at the end of last season, but it just petered out in the end.

    You know there are solutions out there for this sort of thing now don't you?

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    el grapadura wrote:
    Not so sure we love Mel for her broadcasting skills...coincidentally, there's was talk of starting a YF campaign to bring Mel for a game at the RoF at the end of last season, but it just petered out in the end.


    Mel >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Dewhurst

    Yellow Whever Whanganui

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    el grapadura wrote:
    Not so sure we love Mel for her broadcasting skills...coincidentally, there's was talk of starting a YF campaign to bring Mel for a game at the RoF at the end of last season, but it just petered out in the end.
     
    I was in for it, then out, then in, then out, then in, then out and then it was pretty much over.
     
     

    How's my driving? - Whine here

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    Hard News wrote:
    el grapadura wrote:
    Not so sure we love Mel for her broadcasting skills...coincidentally, there's was talk of starting a YF campaign to bring Mel for a game at the RoF at the end of last season, but it just petered out in the end.

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    I was in for it, then out, then in, then out, then in, then out and then it was pretty much over.

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    You lucky bastard, I've dreamed about that exact scenario with Mel for ages.

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