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    Default Winter Olympics Pay TV costs - -a tale of 2 countries

    Am across the ditch in NZ at the moment and noticed that SKY NZ were also doing the 4 extra pay TV channels for the winter olympics. The big difference between them and the Foxtel ones, is that while Foxtel are charging poor mugs $65 for the priviledge of receiving them, SKY are providing them free for those already subscribing to the standard sports package.



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    Yep already found this out. Maybe no one in NZ would have paid for them, not worth the effort.
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    I just can't get into it. How do you top Bradbury?

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    if u have a prem package, is it still $65?? have seen the ad's just never looked at them... are fuctel going to charge me to watch it?
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    Quote Originally Posted by z1gg33 View Post
    are fuctel going to charge me to watch it
    you betchya but you gotta order it first

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    why pay to watch private school kids do backflips at daddy's ski lodge?
    iam a bogan

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    Foxtel gave it to me as a sweetener when we got our IQ2

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    Great!

    I would love to see fox loose money on this

    Looks like Seven has lost big time with the tennis


    * By Holly Byrnes
    * From: The Daily Telegraph
    * January 28, 2010 12:00AM

    Tennis ratings

    Source: The Daily Telegraph

    FORGET Lost the US drama, Channel 7 could rename its Australian Open coverage this year, Lost: The Missing Audience Numbers.

    In a crisis for the network not the sport, Seven has shed more than four million viewers nationally, according to ratings data by leading media analyst, Steve Allen.

    Allen's Fusion Strategy figures, based on the OzTam ratings survey, revealed the official broadcaster has seen its audience drop by about 40 per cent year-on-year - with the Australia Day comparison declining by more than half.
    I hate wall to wall sports. As if anyone would take weeks out of there lives and glue themselves in front of the TV to watch some twit chase a ball around
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    I do sometimes watch the tennis, but didn't much this year, the thing that pisses me off most about the 7 coverage is the constant promos they run for their 'after the tennis' this show returns or this great new show starts etc.

    Fair enough run promos during the ad breaks, but don't have them on constantly during the actual coverage.

    I don't watch home and away normally, so why would I need/want to hear one of the woodies telling how exciting it will be when it returns.............after the tennis.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mudcrab View Post
    I don't watch home and away normally, so why would I need/want to hear one of the woodies telling how exciting it will be when it returns.............after the tennis.
    lol..... thats so true.

    I watched a bit of it, and hated how the commentators go on about absolutely nothing. sure they have to fill the blanks, as do all commentators, but it struck me this year, about all the BS they go on with.... sorry op OTT..

    geez that sucks having to pay extra.... not sure if I will or not...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fernbay View Post
    Great!

    Looks like Seven has lost big time with the tennis
    ha ha sucked in. Teach them for putting out shoddy coverage. I mean for gods sake, why delay it into Qld by 1 hour? What possible benefit does that achieve?.. also Adelaide by 30 mins.

    Seven needs to realise that there are several other methods for watching it live, legal and illegal, and people are increasingly using those methods.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fernbay View Post
    Great!

    I would love to see fox loose money on this
    I think thats why they are charging for the privlege of watching it. I know that I'll be grabbing what I want to see of other sources.

    Quote Originally Posted by Fernbay View Post
    I hate wall to wall sports. As if anyone would take weeks out of there lives and glue themselves in front of the TV to watch some twit chase a ball around
    I dont mind it if I know whats coming on when. Thats what pisses me off about the olympic coverage, you have no idea whats going to be on when. All I want to see is the Ice Hockey (and generally only games involving Sweden, Canada, Russia) but I know that on Channel 9 I would have to watch the whole damn coverage to see it (and only get highlights).
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    The full programme has been posted on the foxtel site..

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    Nice (still not paying that much for it), I laughed when I saw Channel 9's listing



    Oh dear just read their write ups on sports, entertaining yes, factual no, embarassing for whoever wrote it, definately.
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    I also only want to watch the hockey but from watching the pathetic coverage from the last 3 or 4 winter olympics, all you get is figure skating every night, delayed by half a day. Whoop-de-f$#@ing-doo...

    Play the bloody lot or let someone else have it. SBS didn't mind picking up the Ashes coverage and making 9 look like fools...

    As for the f0xtel coverage, sorry - not getting any $ from me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by roguefan99 View Post
    Thats what pisses me off about the olympic coverage, you have no idea whats going to be on when.
    That's the most irritating bit.. i remember during the Beijing Olympics, you would just get into some really exciting event and the coverage would be yanked across to some crapola boring event, just because some Aussie had come 57th.
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    I reckon its a certain cure for insomnia! I wont be watching it or paying for it. If its on nine then how can foxtel claim ONLY ON FOXTEL AND AUSTAR? Do they ever care about false and misleading advertising?

    Personally I cant wait for it to start only so the ads on austar/foxtel to "sign up now for it" to stop. But knowing those bastards theyll keep plugging it to the last day

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    Foxtel are freaking out that they are going to make a massive loss, putting the foxtel logo and the olympic rings and the terribly intrusive red button order icon on all channels is a sure sign things are not going as planned, they will have less than 5000 poor saps willing to throw away $65 by the time they open. Perhaps in America they would sell lots of subscriptions but Aussies dont give a rats about snow sports!

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    with how crap Seven's coverage looked (full of delays, self promos and ads), no wonder nobody watched.

    As for our (NZ), 'free' Olympic coverage on Sky, I guess that is Sky's business model, they so far haven't charged any extra for special events.

    But our coverage is SD, bunged on the end of a transponder. You get it in HD and pay for the privilege

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    And then to think that once upon a time Olympic sports were all amateurs, there was no profit to be made and it was all fta.
    Capitalism has really raised it's ugly head and with better technology available we should get better viewing but this is not necessarily happening.
    For example the multiple terrestrial channels would be an ideal opportunity to show multiple sports that are taking place simultaneously, but no. We get reruns of other (older) shows or sitcoms instead.

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