Re: Sky sports red button
 

They can't afford it.

They can't afford it. The license fee is not there just to pay for cricket coverage, it's got a whole empire of Managers and Consultants and on-air Talent to support.

Re: Sky sports red button - doesn't work on Sky News Multiscreen either
 

This Red Button story is getting worse

I've just tried to get Sky News Multiscreen & no matter how hard I press the Red Button - No multiscreen shows up :-((

what is going on ?

there's an election on after all - why can't they enable Red Button on Sky News for the election at least

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I don't follow this - "They Can't Afford It" !!!!

but they CAN afford vaste unbelievable salaries for talking heads - armies of BBC presenters receive £££££££ - what was Jonathan Ross on - over a £million a year ? ?

Is that a good use of Licence payers money ????

why not just get some new talent in at normal salaries - like we all get - and then use the 10s of £millions freed up to show the programmes we all want - such as free-to-air Cricket

Re: Sky sports red button - doesn't work on Sky News Multiscreen either
 

Did anyone say it would show up? It's not as simple as VM enabling it. First they have to agree a price with Sky to allow them to do so; and if Sky don't want to sell it, there's nothing VM can do about it.
What's not to follow? Sports coverage is available to whoever offers the most money, and ITV4 and BBC can't get near Sky's offer. Not everyone would agree that sacking the entire BBC and turning the channels over to Cricket coverage would be a good thing - some even like JR, and may even think he's worth the money:rolleyes: "Talent" won't bother showing up for the salary levels we get - nor would you, if you could get a better deal elsewhere.

Anyway, even 10s of £millions would only pay for a couple of day's worth of sports coverage, and I presume you'd want more than that.

PS I bet the armies of talking heads on Sky News multiscreen receive £££££££ as well.

Re: Sky sports red button
 

The BBC did once upon a time show at least the main cricket world cup tournament. If they can show the football world cup they have no excuse not to show the Cricket world cup.

Since we pay this TV tax to the BBC we are entitled to watch the programs we want.

Re: Sky sports red button
 

the BBC get the football worldcup because its a "protected event" meaning it HAS to bee broadcast on free-to-air TV. You can bet if it wasnt protected $ky would have snapped it up ages ago.

If you think the cricket worldcup should also bee protected then i suggest you petition your local MP and maby contact OFCOM to make the suggestion....

Re: Sky sports red button
 

Hm this thread seems to be going off topic LOL;) the main point of it was to suggest that as vm customers pay the full wack for sky sports,the full content should be available not from the BBC but from sky sports itself.

Cricket i used as an example as i used to sub to sky sports only for the cricket,nothing else the red button issue is a big for me as for my old sub of £20 monthly i should have comprehensive coverage,which thanks to skys use of the red button i find out i have not,and i cannot get sky direct so cannot change suppliers!

Now i have dropped sky sports and will use radio and highlights on channel 5 in the summer,and sky will get not one penny more from me either for sports or basic channels as i have dropped to the M tv package,greedy sky can do one.

Re: Sky sports red button
 

The red button is coming to sky sports for vm customers in april

Re: Sky sports red button
 

Can you substantiate that rumour?

Re: Sky sports red button
 

I received this as part of an email from a friend who received it from virgin media "However, Virgin Media customers who subscribe to Sky Sports will be heartened by the fact that the cable company hinted that the Sky Sports red button services will be launching on the platform "soon.""

Hope this answers your question

Re: Sky sports red button
 

I am not following this at all

currently I have on my TV the Highlights of the South Africa v WI Cricket World Cup match

It's not on Sky - it's on the BBC RED BUTTON ! ! ? ? ?

If the BBC have a Red Button that works - why have we been told for months and months that the 'software code ' has to be written to get the Sky one to work

surely if the BBC one works happliy on Highlights the software must be in the V+ box & we could have seen the 2 recent Cricket World Cup matches that started on the Sky Sports Reb Button

Re: Sky sports red button
 

I take it you've never used Sky Sports Red Button on Sky? It's much more than a video stream, believe me!

Re: Sky sports red button
 

I can, this is a non confidential portion of an email to me from an executive director of VM, with Neil Berkett copied in:

"Dear Mr Wilkinson

Thank you for your email. I apologise for the delay in getting back to you.

We have also announced that we will be adding 'red button' interactivity on the Sky Sports channels. That should come by April."

regards

John.

Re: Sky sports red button
 

I confirmed this the other night

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Not really, your quote says soon. That isnt the same as April.

regards

John

Re: Sky sports red button
 

i doubt very much we'll get the whole red button shebang, we will get the video streams though just not the interactive content because lets face using interactive on any vm box is painfully slow.

i remember when vm introduced the red button on bbc just before the european championships in 2004, if you wanted to watch the other game via red button, press it and it would take a half a year to load. (felt like it to me)