Sky TV motorcycle racing coverage?

**LBD** · 18th May 2009, 02:36

I reckon SKY needs to go back to live broadcasts for bike racing....not so I can watch, it but so I don't offend 1/2 the KBers for starting a thread about the results before you get to watch the races 1/2 a day behind the rest of the world.....sorry

**cc rider** · 18th May 2009, 03:57

We just had the GP on. About 11pmish I think, our time. That was on FTA TV. The fracken cricket was on ONE HD our 'new' digital sports station.
Aust is changing to digital TV from analogue or some such crud.
We don't get any WSBK on regular TV & GP is never the whole race.

I have a mate who tapes them all (whole) for me - yea!

Enjoy the race everyone

**101bob** · 18th May 2009, 07:25

Sky said bah bahh bahh fuk the bikes for the cricket ?

Hello Bryan

Thank you for your email.

The weekend is always a very hectic time for sports scheduling due to so many live events coming through and in the case of this weekend, it directly resulted in live events running across all three of our sport channels within the time that the French MotoGP event was due to air live.

On SKY Sport 1 we had live international cricket from 12:40am this morning whilst on SKY Sport 2 we had live EPL coverage from midnight, later followed by another live EPL fixture from 1:55am. On SKY Sport 3 we had live cricket from Sunday 17th May 10:20pm all the way through to this morning 6:30 am.

We understand that television viewing is subjective and any decision we take is never done so lightly but we do have to try and cater to all sporting codes that we have rights to. Unfortunately this will please some customers while frustrating others. Despite this we hope you enjoy the rest of the MotoGP season we have to offer.

Please feel free to contact SKY Television Customer Services on 0800 759 759 for further information, alternatively please respond via return email and we will endeavour to reply within 24 hours.

With kind regards,

Fima

my reply to sky
I can understand you put live cricket on, but the ppl that watch motorcycle racing don't really care about cricket 2 - 3 matches live ,Why show 3 live cricket matches when there is 2 games of league on you delay one? If you don't want to show the motorcycle racing live give to some one who can? I don't think sky realizes how many ppl follow motorcycle racing

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...ad.php?t=99479

Bryan

**cc rider** · 18th May 2009, 14:33

Originally Posted by 101bob

Sky said bah bahh bahh fuk the bikes for the cricket ?

Hello Bryan

Thank you for your email.
..........
Please feel free to contact SKY Television Customer Services on 0800 759 759 for further information, alternatively please respond via return email and we will endeavour to reply within 24 hours.

With kind regards,

Fima

my reply to sky
I can understand you put live cricket on, but the ppl that watch motorcycle racing don't really care about cricket 2 - 3 matches live ,Why show 3 live cricket matches when there is 2 games of league on you delay one? If you don't want to show the motorcycle racing live give to some one who can? I don't think sky realizes how many ppl follow motorcycle racing

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...ad.php?t=99479

Bryan

Well done Bryan.

Wish I had Sky -I love ripping new ones.

CC

**scracha** · 18th May 2009, 18:12

Originally Posted by Hitcher

There's no apostrophe in homos.

Sorry, "rugby and cricket loving pedantic homos"

**chrispy121** · 18th May 2009, 19:27

so I got the wsbk live last night on the web streaming live for free!
I am thinking of ordering the streaming for motogp then cancelling my Sky sport subscription as all they have is cricket and rugby.
they have a rugby chanel why cant they have a motorsport channel I would pay the extra for it so I can ge things live

**EJT** · 18th May 2009, 21:02

Still waiting to see when they will have the highlights on at a reasonable time. It is not on tonight.

**chrispy121** · 18th May 2009, 21:12

worldsbk.com you get get all of the races replayed on the net

**steve74** · 19th May 2009, 17:17

haha, i wish i had a nice responce like bryan.

I got this crap.

Thank you for your email.

Due to the very fluid nature of sport, changes can occur for many reasons such as change in start times, durations of live events, cancellations, postponements, technical faults, taped events not arriving on time or faulty when received as well as changes received on a daily basis from either the host broadcaster or supplier of events sent through to us via satellite feed.

Thank you again for your feedback, and while we are aware of the inconvenience that can be caused when programmes are not played out accordingly, we certainly do our utmost to keep these changes to a minimal wherever possible

Rest assured your feedback has been registered with our Sports Department.

Please feel free to contact SKY Television Customer Services on 0800 759 759 for further information, alternatively please respond via return email and we will endeavour to reply within 24 hours.

What a load of shit!!

**steve74** · 19th May 2009, 17:24

From Bryans responce:

Originally Posted by 101bob

" we do have to try and cater to all sporting codes that we have rights to"

so they tried by showing 4 games of cricket and no motorcycle racing!!

yeah right!!! , I hope they TRY harder next time!!

**chrispy121** · 19th May 2009, 23:03

guys think about this there was about 15 cricket game on last week most of them covered by sky and two major Bike racing events that happen every two weeks and they delay those because they could not move obne cricket game when they have the other 14 live to air.

thats how they balance things out?

I had sky ring me today and ask me if I wanted to add the rugby channel I asked if this call was recorded ( most call centres are) and let them hve it with both barrels asked about a motorsport channel to their reply we always have live motorsports on sky sport.

I then asked if they could also cancel subscriptions as well as adding the rugby channel. I then cancelled my sky sport subscription after telling them I was paying for live sport and no getting it when I can pay no money and get it off the internet live.

I was phoned about 15 minutes later asking why I cancelled my response was bring back live bike racing and I will renew my subscription

**robboh** · 19th May 2009, 23:51

Ive just been complaining on FaceBook about exactly the same thing!!!

And not only have they delayed the WSB twice in 2 weeks, but they also chopped the first 7 or 8 laps off of the 125's in MotoGP this week.

All for damned LOCAL Indian cricket ffs!!! As far as I can tell, it wasnt even international cricket, but some local league in India, with invited international cricketers as guests, or captains, or something equally daft.

They ALSO did the same thing to F1 qualifying last race, and did a number of times last year for F1 races and bike racing.

And what was it each time?? Cricket!!! And come to think of it, AGAIN, it was some damned match that NZ wasnt even playing it (I think INDIA v's Sra Lanka or something similar).

Makes me wonder about WHO is manning the timetabling for Sky.

**robboh** · 20th May 2009, 00:14

My email to sky...

To whom it may concern,

I am getting somewhat concerned regards the recent programming changes where motor racing, and motorcycle racing have been significantly delayed from live coverage, seemingly to enable the live presentation of yet another indian cricket game.

The WSB have been delayed 2 weeks running. The French MotoGP this week was also delayed AND the first 5 - 7 laps of the race were missing from the 125's. Qualifying for one of the F1 races was also recently delayed. And finally, I can remember sitting up last year waiting for a F1 race, and watching the cricket extending on, and the F1 getting smaller. I ended missing that race altogether as it wasnt replayed at a time suitable for me to watch it.

In short, I am getting to the point where I am seriously considering canceling my Sky subscription, or at least the sports component. You advertise these events as LIVE, which does not appear to have been the case of late.

While I understand occasional programming scheduling conflicts, I also perceive somewhat of a partiality to cricket over-riding other sports. Interestingly, every time that one of the motor-races has had delayed coverage, that I can recall, it has been due to cricket. Conversely, I dont really recall seeing any delayed cricket matches while working through the MySky EPG.

Please note that I subscribe to the Sports component on Sky, only for motor racing (MotoGP, WSB, F1). I have no interest in rugby, cricket, etc etc etc. If I am not getting live racing, then I will go and get it elsewhere. The only saving grace at present is the fact that MySky enabled me to record / watch those races at a later date.

Please keep in mind that, internationally, F1 and MotoGP actually have far larger audiences than just about every other sport.

Regards

**Prof - R** · 20th May 2009, 00:33

well the week almost over & only getting to watch the replay of the wsbk now only 00:30am its really shocking the things sky tv doing

**Kendog** · 20th May 2009, 06:42

You lot sound like a bunch of Coro Street/Eastenders fans.

For what I would call a minority sport in NZ, I think the Sky coverage is pretty good. To show all the Moto GP classes including each race build up is better than they do for rugby (how often do you see the curtain raiser game?)

Other than accidentally finding out the result I have no issue with delayed coverage, most of the live times I am sleeping anyway so I tape it and watch it the next day after work.

Originally Posted by Prof - R

well the week almost over & only getting to watch the replay of the wsbk now only 00:30am its really shocking the things sky tv doing

What about all the coverage they had on Monday morning?