SKY Coverage

What sort of cricket did they cover?

Not that Georgie Pie Super Bore?

It's a shame that the few ppl who seem to be in charge simply promote their own interests instead of being professionals and provide a balanced coverage of sport in NZ

I also tried in vain to listen to Nix coverage on Radio Sport on the way to the Spectators Pub in ChCh. The cricket game was between Central Stags and Otago Volts played in Napier. Two bottom teams, and according to the cricket admin, a "smattering" of fans attended the rained out game:

http://www.cdcricket.co.nz/new

So the question arises - will someone write to the Radio Sport and give them bollocking, or do I have to do it myself?

We have all the evidence to show they were not looking after the majority of the sports fans in NZ that evening.

Fudgeing Sky. They televise the WeeNix game and have half an hour of interviews and build up. Which is good. But why the fudge don't they do this for Phoenix A League games?

Edit: okay, maybe not half an hour - more like 10 minutes. But still....

Also I note that Piney is commentating this game

Piney, in his first 3 words spoken, has already done better than Dewhurts and De Dong combined.

do you mean between the two games?

If so I would imagine they had all the people there so put them to some use instead of just sitting around waiting for the main game.

maybe NZF paid for it?

(yes this was tongue in cheek)

Did Piney commentate the Nix game yesterday?

He did the weenix game with De Jong, but Dewhurst came back on for the A League game.

you mean Sky's Strike Force One?

Sky really need to put the double D's out to pasture.  Get Gorden Glen Watson and Piney in pronto.

That would be the dream team. Piney for play by play and GGW to be the colour commentator?

Dewhurst is Skys version of Ron Burgundy?

Could do worse than asking Paul Ifill to help.

He would do better than Ned Zelic, easily....

Racist.

Disliked Zelic when he started but I must admit he's grown on me and I quite enjoy his passion now.

Interesting article this week about Phoenix TV ratings on Fox Sports across the ditch compared to other sides:

http://footballcentral.com.au/phoenix-sparking-deb...

"Central Coast Mariners have only averaged just over 4000 more people watching their matches within Australia so far this season, even though the large majority of their fanbase lives within Australia and therefore has access, logistically at least, to Fox Sports. Melbourne City have only averaged 12,000 more people watching their matches over the last three seasons, and Perth Glory have only averaged 7,000 more.

If you add in the Phoenix fanbase watching matches on Sky TV in New Zealand, the Phoenix actually have had more people watching their matches this season than Central Coast or Perth do, and if you exclude the matches in which the David Villa circus was in town for, Melbourne City only just scrape ahead of the Nix by 2,000 people. For cities the size of Melbourne and Perth compared to Wellington, this is incredibly poor – or to turn the figures on their head, the Phoenix are more in demand per capita than most."

- And Tony Veitch has been talking through his arse on Radio Sport about Nix viewing figures on Sky in NZ when they've actually often been excellent this season:

"Tony Veitch claimed that ratings within New Zealand are through the floor for Phoenix games. When the Phoenix won their first ever game in Melbourne against Victory earlier this month, it was the second highest rated live sport event shown on Sky Sport that day, behind only the Cricket World Cup match between England and Sri Lanka. It rated above both ANZ Championship netball and Super Rugby. If anyone considers this to be “through the floor”, then the ratings that other sports get must be absolute rock bottom (which they aren’t).

Despite this, there have been no accusations aimed at these three clubs about having to raise the number of people watching their matches on Fox Sports, and rightly so. It is not any of these clubs fault that their viewership is low, just as it is not the Phoenix’s fault. Clubs can offset their ratings for a short period of time by signing high profile guest players like David Villa for Melbourne City, but these higher ratings will drop away as soon as the player leaves, as shown above. Overall, the league as a whole needs to grow it’s viewership base, otherwise Fox Sports will stop investing the millions of dollars that keep the league running. This isn’t something that a single team is at fault for or can fix, yet there is a big deal being made out of how poorly Wellington rates on TV despite the viewing figures not actually being that poor."

isn't that Patrick's article?

So throng don't put ratings up for the sport pop up channels.    At least over 11k were watching Aleague highlights. http://www.throng.co.nz/2015/03/tv-ratings-22-march-2015/

Most watched on SKY Sport 1

1. Super Rugby Post Game: 24,800 (8:05am – 8:15am)
2. ANZ Netball: 21,060 (2:20pm – 3:50pm)
3. ANZ Netball Post Game: 20,390 (3:50pm – 4:00pm)
4. Sport 365: 18,060 (1:30pm – 1:55pm)
5. Super Rugby: 14,910 (6:05am – 8:05am)

Most watched on SKY Sport 2

1. NRL Pre Game: 25,130 (5:30pm – 6:10pm)
2. NRL: 17,570 (6:10pm – 8:10pm)
3. Super Rugby Replay: 16,580 (11:30am – 1:30pm)
4. NRL Highlights: 11,310 (4:30pm – 4:55pm)
5. NRL: 9,930 (8:30pm – 10:25pm)

Most watched on SKY Sport 3

1. ICC World ODI QF H/L: 41,890 (10:30am – 11:15am)
2. Sports Extra: 30,130 (8:50am – 9:00am)
3. Sports Extra: 29,960 (11:20am – 11:30am)
4. ICC World ODI QF H/L: 29,050 (8:00am – 8:50am)
5. The Cricket Show: 15,170 (11:30am – 11:55am)

Most watched on SKY Sport 4

1. ANZ Netball Post Game: 53,540 (8:40pm – 8:50pm)
2. ANZ Netball: 52,470 (7:10pm – 8:40pm)
3. ANZ Netball Pre Game: 23,450 (7:00pm – 7:10pm)
4. Fox Sports News: 18,730 (9:00pm – 9:25pm)
5. Hyundai A-League Highlights: 11,280 (11:30pm – 11:55pm)

Sky boiled my piss a bit last night - still had at least 15mins of scheduled programming, and they were just about to go down to Tara Rushton (Homer Simpson drooling.jpg) but Sky instead shut it down (Gordon Ramsey angst.gif). 

And to make it worse it was a pop-up channel, so there was actually nothing else on afterwards at all.

Also looking at the ratings it amuses me that NRL pre game got more than the game. Ps ratings are clearly flawed.

Hopefully, part of the current negotiations mean that we will see that additional content and some of the other panel shows... whether from FOX or FTA - as those shows are a big part of building an audience/fan base. For the whole league, not just the top team (that's us lol). 

Though F1 has all the extra coverage this year before the sessions and people are moaning on twitter that it is too long...

think the point is that it's too long for people who record it on mysky. Can sympathise with that. Sounds like they need to split pre race stuff up from the actual race. 

Kind of like baseball tonight has the buildup in MLB, so you can choose to record that if you want, or you can just record the game (only for sky to end the recording in the top of the 8th inning - but that's a whole other complaint)

The people I saw complaining was when it was live :P

To be fair that race did feel long. Boring and long.

I've been to Melbourne a few times, both have their benefits. You need to have good access to a big screen and commentary to really be able to follow it live - unlike football where you have an overview of the entire field.

This year was 5th at F1 -  Covered G/Stand, head set with commentary, big screen and #F1 live sector timing on phone.

But you are right, football, seeing all the action live in front of you is hard to beat.

It's a shame Kangaroo TV didn't really take off. But yes, paying extra for grandstands is a must, I like the final corner because you can go to the pit bar for the start and then get back to your seat for the race. Haven't been for a few years unfortunately. Keep meaning to go to a race outside of Australia, but can never get the itinerary to work when I'm traveling.

Much like watching the Nix taking corner kicks, then.

A bit off topic but does anyone possibly have anywhere on their hard drives videos of old football kingz matches ive scoured the internet for anything football kingz match related and all i have found is that video of that george goutzulous (sorry for spelling) crazy goal that he scored from outside the 25 yard. Sky needs to make a doco on the football kingz or replay some of their games on sky for the footbal fans!

Just got Sky TV put back on this week for the A-League, ASB Premiership, Euro Championship qualifiers etc.

Only $39 / month including Sky Sport !!!

Plus free My Sky + for a year.

You can get Sky Basic plus Sport for only $39 / month by phoning this marketing company who work for Sky:

Phone 0800 475 988

You might have to keep phoning back until someone answers (what I did) and can also leave a message for them.

Probably better to phone on a week day too.

Only a six month contract but you get the reduced price for one year.

In other words you can terminate it after six months or if you want, carry on getting the reduced price and free My Sky + for one year. 

(You probably will have to give Sky TV some notice before they will disconnect you)

Note that you can't get this offer by phoning the standard Sky TV numbers, only the number above.

Offer open to anyone who has never had Sky or (like me) has not had Sky TV in the last 60 days (minimum period of 30 days notice plus 60 days with Sky disconnected)

Offers which the marketing company has going:

Free My Sky + for a year with all offers:

Sky Basic = $29 / month

Sky Basic + one premium channel package (e.g. Sport or Movies) = $39 / month

Sky Basic + two premium channels = $49 / month

Hey Pete.

Where did you find out about this promotion. I called the number and the answering machine mentioned "icon" sky promotions.  I tried to google it but no dice. It seems like it could be a bit dodgy to me. Any feedback on how it worked out for you?