Bad news for SPL Footie Fans
 

The early details of Sky Sports TV schedule is in:
http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12942,00.html

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Looks like Sky are moving the SPL games to SS4 and SS4HD.

So no watching SPL teams in HD on Cable, if that is what anyone was planning.

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Before anyone reads too much into this and starts slagging Sky off with regard to conspiracy theories....remember there is still a lot of International Cricket during these schedules into August/September....and this will always get the SKYSPORTS1 & 2 HD coverage rather than the early SPL games. There is no doubt the SPL will be back on SKYSPORTS1&2 HD when the cricket is over

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I wish it was back on ESPN

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And the moon is really made of cheese

It was obvious from the second that agreement was made with VM that sky would have contingency plans in place, I said then that they would make more use of Sky sports 3 and 4 in hd. Plus they have increased the cost of sky sports by £3.00 from September which should cover any shortfall due to the price implemented by Ofcom

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/10472058.stm

Sky are the dominant provider when it comes to sport and they intend to stay that way.

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Sky know cable has a stronghold in Scotland. Thats why the Rangers European games were on Sky1 when virgin and sky had a fall out. No doubt this is to noise up Scottish Virgin Customers

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We shall see.

So you think they would banish the England cricket internationals to SKY SP 3 & 4 in favour of SPL games ???? Not on your nelly. Of course there still may be some SPL games on 3 or 4, but after the cricket has finished there will be games back on 1, more likely 2 when they fit in with the schedule

I maintain my initial thoughts.....but at the end of the day, SKY are entitled to schedule the SPL or anything else where ever they see it fits their business model, just as VIRGIN will fit channels into whatever package they see fits the business and what possibly will generate the most income/profitability for them....its the way business works you know. ;)

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I agree.

My point was that Vm made a big song and a dance about getting Sky sports 1 and 2 in HD, Its obvious to anyone not involved in the negotiations that sky had a obvious route to go to reduce the impact of those negotiations and yet again put a spanner in the works

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mmm i look a bit more into the sale of vmtv more you will find there more to it that movies hd and red button sky psorts 1 2 hd is coming form ofcom but what is coming form the vmtv sale ;)

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The SPL games were on SKY Sports 3 last year anyway so no real change here.

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Prey tell more Andrew....

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I still think sky sports 3 and 4 hd will appear.

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I'll be amazed if they did, Sky's latest ad campaign highlights how the entire Sky Sports Collection (including SSN) are exclusively in HD on Sky.

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It's the same arrangement as last year. ESPN have 30 SPL games.

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Very true. SKY have the 4 Old Firm games. Whilst I remember the SPL games being shown on SKY Sports 3 last year, I think the 4 Old Firm games were shown on either SKY Sports 1 or SKY Sports 2. Can anyone else remember this?

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Yeah, old firm games were normally shown on SS1

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Lets remember that you can still watch these channels(sky sports 3,4) on Virgin. So, instead of seeing them in 80% HD on Sky, you get to see them at 60% HD on Virgin, due to the superb upscaling of the Virgin boxes.

How many people have said " watching a football match in SD ruined the game for me. It would have been a lot better if it was in HD"?

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Who'd want to see the misery on the fans faces, in a half empty stadium, in HD clarity when Kilmarnock play St. Mirren on SS4 HD anyway? :LOL:

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think thats bad, wait till you hear the vuevuezalaz:shocked:

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ive only got the sports channells for the spl
so yes this is pretty bad news for me i wish espn would take all the spl games then i wouldnt need sky sports