Re: Sky season preview ? : Sat Feb 06, 2016 8:35 am  

Sky have put all their channel budget into Formula 1 and all their profits into Premier League football clubs.

What we're left with is a bit of darts, fishing, netball, the bore fest of gridiron (I'd rather do the ironing!), the odd bit of rugby league because they probably feel they had to even if they don't want to, Scottish and Dutch football, then Premier League football and a huge souped up Formula 1 channel.

Sky Sports News spend 75% of their time talking about football, then fill in other sports where they feel like it. (talkSPORT are even worse for that, they spend about 95% of their time talking about football).

They've ditched/lost the NRL, the NBA, the Champions League, they're losing rugby union by the year...but most of all I wish they'd lose us too.

I want is taken up by another channel who'd be serious about properly promoting our game again. Sky did do a good job for us for a while but they've ditched us for Formula 1 and we won't be getting that airtime back. We're now on a par with field hockey!

Re: Sky season preview ? : Sat Feb 06, 2016 8:55 am  

BuckleyStreetWire wrote:

Sky have put all their channel budget into Formula 1 and all their profits into Premier League football clubs.

What we're left with is a bit of darts, fishing, netball, the bore fest of gridiron (I'd rather do the ironing!), the odd bit of rugby league because they probably feel they had to even if they don't want to, Scottish and Dutch football, then Premier League football and a huge souped up Formula 1 channel.

Sky Sports News spend 75% of their time talking about football, then fill in other sports where they feel like it. (talkSPORT are even worse for that, they spend about 95% of their time talking about football).

They've ditched/lost the NRL, the NBA, the Champions League, they're losing rugby union by the year...but most of all I wish they'd lose us too.

I want is taken up by another channel who'd be serious about properly promoting our game again. Sky did do a good job for us for a while but they've ditched us for Formula 1 and we won't be getting that airtime back. We're now on a par with field hockey!

who the hell is their that would do a good job for us not the BBC they can not afford it and the other channels dont care leave has it is and hope it sorts it self out

Re: Sky season preview ? : Sat Feb 06, 2016 8:49 pm  

headhunter wrote:

FYI, RL was the only sport covered by Sky that didn't have a "Your home of.." marketing campaign when they were running them in 2014 and last year. They had "Your home of netball", "Your home of women's golf", "Your home of rugby union" (despite the fact that the only RU rights they hold are for obscure European club matches) but no mention of RL, the sport that they have broadcast consistently for over 20 years.

Incorrect.

Ref the 'quality of viewer' argument, why do you assume that the marketing departments of 'prestige' brands are willing to pay more?

Re: Sky season preview ? : Sun Feb 07, 2016 5:05 pm  

Ganson's Optician wrote:

Incorrect.

What exactly is incorrect?

Re: Sky season preview ? : Sun Feb 07, 2016 6:45 pm  

BuckleyStreetWire wrote:

Sky have put all their channel budget into Formula 1 and all their profits into Premier League football clubs.

What we're left with is a bit of darts, fishing, netball, the bore fest of gridiron (I'd rather do the ironing!), the odd bit of rugby league because they probably feel they had to even if they don't want to, Scottish and Dutch football, then Premier League football and a huge souped up Formula 1 channel.

Sky Sports News spend 75% of their time talking about football, then fill in other sports where they feel like it. (talkSPORT are even worse for that, they spend about 95% of their time talking about football).

They've ditched/lost the NRL, the NBA, the Champions League, they're losing rugby union by the year...but most of all I wish they'd lose us too.

I want is taken up by another channel who'd be serious about properly promoting our game again. Sky did do a good job for us for a while but they've ditched us for Formula 1 and we won't be getting that airtime back. We're now on a par with field hockey!

Oh look, an RL fan with a huge, paranoid chip on his shoulder.

Get a grip for christ's sake. Sky just paid a record amount for rights to show RL and are now showing more live games than ever before.

We've lost Boots N All but no one really cares if they're honest, do they? I know I dnn't.

Re: Sky season preview ? : Sun Feb 07, 2016 9:10 pm  

loiner81 wrote:

Oh look, an RL fan with a huge, paranoid chip on his shoulder.

Get a grip for christ's sake. Sky just paid a record amount for rights to show RL and are now showing more live games than ever before.

We've lost Boots N All but no one really cares if they're honest, do they? I know I dnn't.

It's not about having a chip on the shoulder. Boots N All was our sports only magazine show. Rugby union have one on Sky Sports despite the fact that they don't even own rights to their domestic league anymore. The highlights show has been reduced to a bargain basement production and no full games are repeated anymore. Do you realise what a pathetic amount of our sport this leaves on the Sky schedules? This despite the viewing figures for Super League games dwarfing those of other sports shown on their channel (including RU). That should have been rewarded with an increase in coverage, it instead has had the opposite effect - I really, really think people should be a little more worried about that than they appear to be.

Re: Sky season preview ? : Sun Feb 07, 2016 9:49 pm  

JonB95 wrote:

It's not about having a chip on the shoulder. Boots N All was our sports only magazine show. Rugby union have one on Sky Sports despite the fact that they don't even own rights to their domestic league anymore. The highlights show has been reduced to a bargain basement production and no full games are repeated anymore. Do you realise what a pathetic amount of our sport this leaves on the Sky schedules? This despite the viewing figures for Super League games dwarfing those of other sports shown on their channel (including RU). That should have been rewarded with an increase in coverage, it instead has had the opposite effect - I really, really think people should be a little more worried about that than they appear to be.

What were the viewing figures for Boots N All versus other sports magazine shows?

Boots N All was total crap and i'm glad it's gone.

If it means Sky will show more live games (which they are doing) then i'm very happy with that. I very, very rarely watched Boots N All, I pretty much always watch live games when i'm not at one.

Live sport is where it's at, if you want pointless, mind numbing chatter to replace your Boots N All then go follow Rod Studd on Twitter.

Re: Sky season preview ? : Sun Feb 07, 2016 9:53 pm  

JonB95 wrote:

The highlights show has been reduced to a bargain basement production and no full games are repeated anymore.

There's really no need for repeats in 2016 with Sky+ and Tivo available to all Sky Sports subscribers.

How many repeats are there of other sports games, have any of those been affected?

Re: Sky season preview ? : Mon Feb 08, 2016 12:20 pm  

loiner81 wrote:

What were the viewing figures for Boots N All versus other sports magazine shows?

Boots N All was total crap and i'm glad it's gone.

If it means Sky will show more live games (which they are doing) then i'm very happy with that. I very, very rarely watched Boots N All, I pretty much always watch live games when i'm not at one.

Live sport is where it's at, if you want pointless, mind numbing chatter to replace your Boots N All then go follow Rod Studd on Twitter.

It was total crap for the last few years, sure, but that was probably done on purpose so that Sky could phase it out without anyone really caring or noticing. I really don't think there is anything to celebrate about less and less of our sport being on our flagship broadcaster. Other sports get more than just the live action coverage, I see no reason why we are being treated differently. Lest we forget that Sky have the rights to show a Championship game live every week but refuse (despite being happy to show RU Championship games that draw pitiful viewing figures). They also dropped their coverage of the NRL, Varsity game and all internationals (this is just from the top of my head). Seriously, how sparse does the coverage have to become before it concerns you?

Re: Sky season preview ? : Mon Feb 08, 2016 12:30 pm  

I would have liked to have seen a programme going down the route of SKY's Fantasy Football Club, having some legend ex pro's on telling tales and some special guest segments. Get the legends' 1 to 13 's from players they played with back in the day obviously mixed in with highlights from the previous weekends games and previews of upcoming events. Boots n' All had just run its course but i see no reason why we couldn't have a new show going in a new direction without the usual Eddie, Stevo etc.. too of course.