Opinons of Sky Coverage"

It's inexplicable how they have managed to ruin a once great premium channel that was so good a mear 5 years ago. Covid is not an excuse it had nothing to do with it.

I remember the days when I didn't have sky but I wished I did. Now I only like watching it if someone else is paying for it ( like a pub)

It's truly baffling how crap they are

 

Serious question. What's the alternative? When you consider that Sky has 90% of any mainstream sport worth watching. TNT the same but in much,much smaller doses. Outside of those two things like premier sports & DAZN just show a handful of fringe sports and repeats - if your a general sports fan where else do you go?

 

I’d love to reply to this properly but would probably get a ban

 

You still have to do sky, just saying it's awful.

Get the mute button ready

 

For boxing I guess it should be dazn. Sky has hardly any boxing on it now.

Think their last ppv was khan v Brook

 

It’s because Comcast bought them in 2017 or 18, this Sky is no longer the Rupert Murdoch Sky, Comcast whole business model is essentially to cut costs and penny pinch for maximum profit, the woke cancer has allowed them to do this on steroids, does anyone actually think these women commentators and pundits and box tick presenters are earning the same money, or in boxing terms the women fighters are earning the same, the women’s football costs peanuts to show etc, it’s allowing them to cut costs significantly while simultaneously virtue signalling the far left political agenda that the blue and pink haired morons lap up.

 

I know

Sickening. Another reason I won't pay for it

 

Eubank VS Smith

 

Whilst some of what you say is undoubtedly true in how Sky panders to political correctness at every turn... Their spending has risen about 2 billion a year since Comcast came in (and that's accounts up to 2022 before inflation really kicked on).

 

What are they spending it on? An interpreter for Clinton Morrison??

 

I may be wrong here but isn’t most of that on the previous premier league rights deal, not the one just announced last month, the EFL and the F1, they are all eye watering and the previous two were re signed up to basically the end of the decade, outside of sports they will also be paying for Netflix access, Paramount and Discovery plus that’s nclided in the subscriptions, in the context of a premium pay tv service £2b a year isn’t actually that much, for context the BBC spends in the region of £1.2b a year.

 

A lot of the viewing on Sky is other peoples' content so for the budget to be £10-11 billion in the first place is staggering. As you say a lot of it is passed onto third parties for carriage fees. The figures I quoted were just the totals in their accounts between 2018 and 2022 which show steady rises rather than structural one-offs.

 

Just watched Sky's 4 mins of highlights and it looked fairly one sided with Lopez looking a clear winner.

They must have stuck to their agenda and edited out all the good work from Ortiz.

Will watch the full fight next week.

 

Ortiz a clear winner for me and I was mindful of giving him rounds just because he was better than expected.

Lopez is an unbelievable counter puncher but really struggles when his opponent fights on the back foot as he can’t cut the ring off or tee up shots.

 

FULL FIGHT! Teofimo Lopez vs Jamaine Ortiz | WBO Super-Lightweight World Championship (youtube.com)