Sky Giving Out Spoilers

Discussion in 'British Boxing Forum' started by nfc90210, May 11, 2013.


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  1. The Chosen

    The Chosen Well-Known Member Full Member

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    McDonnell was on PPV, if people had bought the PPV they'd have watched him and known the result before the Burns fight. If you didn't pay for it and was simply gonna download it afterwards then you don't have a right to argue and if you bought it but recorded it, surely it would have made more sense to watch the McDonnell fight and record the Sky bill as the McDonnell bill wouldn't have contained any spoilers for the Sky card.

    Sky haven't done anything wrong here.
     
    The Chosen, May 11, 2013
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  2. icemax

    icemax Indian Red Full Member

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    :lol:, which one are you tonight?
     
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  3. nfc90210

    nfc90210 Active Member Full Member

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    I bought the PPV. I decided to watch the Burns bill first because I was with my brother. He is a very casual fan and has no ****ing clue who Jamie McDonnell is. He does know Ricky Burns though. So, as he was in the room I made the decision to watch the Burns bill first.

    Hindsight is 20/20. If I could go back in time then I would watch the McDonnell bill first. I can't though.

    All it would have taken for Sky to placate me would be them uttering one sentence before giving out spoilers. One sentence. That's it.
     
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  4. icemax

    icemax Indian Red Full Member

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    ****Turn away now if you don't want to be offended******

    Stop being a twat, sky or any other company dont have any obligation to not report news because you haven't seen it yet
     
    icemax, May 11, 2013
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  5. assasin

    assasin Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    yeah, that can be a bit annoying. shame you didn't know the Mcdonnell fight was on first. i heard a few days ago that they were going to make sure that they finished in time for the Burns fight, so took the risk. it payed off, thank god.

    some real ****ing idiots in here. don't listen to them, nothing wrong with what you said. there's no need to be angry and rude.
     
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  6. nfc90210

    nfc90210 Active Member Full Member

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    They certainly don't have any obligation to me. However, if I was feeling especially bold, I would go as far as to suggest that it would be actually to their benefit to adopt a policy with regards to spoilers.

    From here on out whenever Sky and another channel are showing boxing cards I am going to watch the other channel's broadcast live and record the bill that Sky are showing. When I watch the Sky bill, as it's recorded, I am going to forward pass all the adverts.

    As far as I am aware, when it comes to calculating ad rates live viewers are worth more than non-live viewers. One of the reasons for the explosion in sports rights fees in the US is for that reason. Advertisers believe that people watch sporting events live and don't TIVO them in the same way they do scripted shows.

    All that said, I do realise that I am only one person and that most people don't care about Sky giving away results to cards on other networks. I could even be accused of reaching with this.
     
    nfc90210, May 11, 2013
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  7. The Chosen

    The Chosen Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Did you buy the PPV?
     
    The Chosen, May 12, 2013
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  8. Larsso

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    **** sake they hyped the fight up prior to it on ringside and congratulated McDonnell on winning a world title. They ignore it and they are biased bitter ****s who didnt even congratulate him on winning the title :lol:

    Cant win, I thought it was a decent thing to do though to congratulate him, as eddie did last night on twitter too.
     
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  9. Black_Rainbows

    Black_Rainbows Well-Known Member Full Member

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    An obligation? No.

    But it's good policy not to give spoilers.
     
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  10. Black_Rainbows

    Black_Rainbows Well-Known Member Full Member

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    I'm pretty sure I have seen the BBC give spoiler warnings for football. "If you don't want to know the result then look away now". Do they only do that when they have highlights later? I don't know.

    But anyway, it's perfectly reasonable to want Sky to avoid spoilers. Common ****ing courtesy towards fans.
     
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  11. nfc90210

    nfc90210 Active Member Full Member

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    Yes.
     
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  12. TBooze

    TBooze Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    The reason is because Match of the Day normally follows the news.

    If SKY want to give out the result to something they do not have, that is their call. In fact I would say it is a bit naughty if they did not. They gave kudos to a good achievement of another British boxer. At least they are not pretending it did not happen because it was not on SKY.
     
    TBooze, May 12, 2013
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  13. Black_Rainbows

    Black_Rainbows Well-Known Member Full Member

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    They can do that on ringside.
     
    Black_Rainbows, May 12, 2013
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  14. Solaris

    Solaris Boxing Junkie banned Full Member

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    If they failed to mention it on their live show they would have been slated and you know it.
     
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  15. doylexxx

    doylexxx Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    the 2 main events did not even clash, so there was not even a need to miss one fight FFS

    hence why this thread blows !
     
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