Fuck Prime Tv

[sAsLEX]

When you're next on the bike see all those thousands of car drivers around you? They'd rather see brad pitt or whatever on a sunday night - you're in a minority and minority programming don't generate bling for TV companies.

Good on ya prime for lubing it up and slotting it in.

I turned on the tv on Saturday morning.

On 1 Maori programming
On 2 Maori programming
On 3 Maori programming
On Maori Tv......well they hadn't started for the day yet

Some minorities get all the resources and bling

[The_Dover]

yeah, and what are the chances of a hungover maori being out of bed until saturday afternoon..........

isn't friday dole day?

[sAsLEX]

yeah, and what are the chances of a hungover maori being out of bed until saturday afternoon..........

isn't friday dole day?

Get Govt money on a Thursday morning.

[L.L. Cool M]

I'm quite surprised at the responses to this, and I fully support the original poster's opinion. As far as I'm concerned Prime can piss off and then SKY can buy the rights. Then we would get it live and no doubt the qualifying too. Just as what happened with F1 when it moved from normal tv to SKY. Having to avoid all media everywhere to not hear the results beforehand (especially given the magnitude of the race) is a huge nuisance and difficult.

As my friend says about this:
It's like with Prime...
"man, I hate the fact that that guy keeps kicking me in the guts"
and you guys are all:
"Ha! Just be happy he's not kicking you in the face!"

Frankly, that just doesn't work.

["D" FZ1]

There is almost no point in putting it on the next day. For those of us that are really into it, especially when it is down to a nail biter finish like this one, there is no way you can get through the day on Monday without some tossa who doesn't give a shit about it telling you what happens. A big thumbs down to Prime. It is bad enough having delayed coverage all year but with the championship coming down to the last race they should have made the effort to put it on Sunday night

[Nutter34]

How many of you have joined the MOTOGP website and watched it live?

I have and with the exception of the last race, have never had any issues. Even then, the first thing I did the next day was watch the race on the net...
I have several mates that watch it live too.

Paying them has been well worth it....

[Deano]

As far as I'm concerned Prime can piss off and then SKY can buy the rights.

Sky didn't want the rights as I understand it - not enough people wanting to watch it to justify the $$$.

[L.L. Cool M]

Sky didn't want the rights as I understand it - not enough people wanting to watch it to justify the $$$.

But more people wanted to watch World Superbikes?

Maybe it was cheaper for the Superbikes, but... you get what you pay for.

["D" FZ1]

Unfortunately you need a high speed broadband connection to be able to watch it on the internet. I can't get broadband where I live. I know someone who watches it at a friends house but even then it doesn't always work. They were all sitting round in the middle of the night to watch the last race and it didn't work.

[DEATH_INC.]

Prime get it as part of the foxtel deal(at least I'm pretty sure they do).....this is why ya see fox news for the rest of the night.....and every other night. So just stop whinging and enjoy what ya do get, or would ya rather they drop it completely?

[SlowHand]

Most internet connections cant handle the jandel and give it to you so its a waste of money.

Delayed and delayed a day are slightly different things though.

AHHHHHHHHHH!

IT'S JANDAL!!!! D-A-L!!!

I'll be watching on interweb.. Hopefully. Wheres that house owner..

[McJim]

We could all club together - sell our houses, wifes, children, cars, tvs and computers and set up our own motoGP team then we'd never miss a race and never have to whinge about telly in NZ ever again.

Job done.

Alternatively (since Prime TV won't listen to you) I'll come round to your house, render you unconcious, change all the clocks in your house, put a little sticker with the word "live" on the top right hand corner of your telly and wake you up when coverage is about to start.

Don't thank me - I'm just that kind of guy.

[Mr Skid]

AHHHHHHHHHH!

IT'S JANDAL!!!! D-A-L!!!

I'll be watching on interweb.. Hopefully. Wheres that house owner..

Don't fret little one - there's a UK11 out there with Mr AsLEX's name on it.

Any chance of a rift to the house in question?

[McJim]

AHHHHHHHHHH!

IT'S JANDAL!!!! D-A-L!!!

I'll be watching on interweb.. Hopefully. Wheres that house owner..

Don't fret little one - there's a UK11 out there with Mr AsLEX's name on it.

Any chance of a rift to the house in question?

What's with the Flip-Flops fellas?

[Hoon]

Those complaining obviously haven't been watching motogp that long and need a history lesson I think. Let me tell you a story from "The Chronicles of Kiwibiker".

In the beginning there was Motogp. This was shown live and replayed on Sky and all were happy. EDIT corrected thanks Gav

Then one day Sky lost the contract to MotoGP and stopped showing it altogether. No amount of wailing from the people could change this. Now MotoGP was no longer viewable on any New Zealand TV except as a summary on Shell Helix sport many weeks later. There was much sadness in the land of Kiwibiker.

This lead to the Dark Ages where the only way one could watch a MotoGP race was by live webcast or by downloading a 250MB video that was posted by KB members who had paid access to the motogp site. Not everyone could manage this download so there was much swapping of CDs and MotoGP nights where fans would gather together to watch the race. Times were grim.

Then out of the blue Prime TV came along and purchased the MotoGP rights much to everyones suprise. The races were now shown the same or following evening. All were happy again and much goodwill and praise was given to Prime from the citizens of Kiwibiker. Peace and happiness returned to Kiwibiker and they lived happily ever after!

So although I agree that it would be nice to have live motogp, I would still refrain from shitting on the hand that feeds us as things could be a lot more worse than it could be better.