Sky sports red button

I see sky are up to their old tricks again,i pay a lot of money as does anyone with sky sports i subscribe primerily for the cricket coverage the football being a bonus,i like to watch my team essex play,what have sky done well some of the first 40 over matches of the new season including the essex one are on via the red button only.

True on the main sky sports two channel they will be showing the world 20/20cup, so have put domestic cricket on the red button interactive after starting it for an hour on sky sports two. Our money is as good as sky sports own customers it really needs something doing about it.

Its only the fact i cannot get sky that stops me form switching tv services,what was that, that jeremy darroch said this week about the consumer being well served.

[Robbie G]

It is annoying that we pay the same-ish as Sky customers for a significantly poorer service. It may never be resolved though, Sky and VM are separate and distinct at the end of the day. Whilst it's hard for VM customers, robbing Sky of all their USPs seems to fly in the face of capitalism.

Originally Posted by Robbie G

It is annoying that we pay the same-ish as Sky customers for a significantly poorer service. It may never be resolved though, Sky and VM are separate and distinct at the end of the day. Whilst it's hard for VM customers, robbing Sky of all their USPs seems to fly in the face of capitalism.

Yes captialism can be a good thing providing innovation and investment,but that does not help anyone paying the same price as skys own customers for a much poorer service that seems to fly in the face of fairness,particularly when you are not able to switch providers to benefit.

What is the point of subscribing to see one team or the other and finding it on sky sports red button service, might as well junk the subscription and save the cash.Although i do not think the sporting bodies have thought of that.

It may of course never be resolved you are correct time to ditch sky sports methinks and listen to essex coverage via essex radio i will be squids in.

Jeremy Darroch can poke his sports channels where the sun does not shine.

[Robbie G]

Originally Posted by richard1960

Yes captialism can be a good thing providing innovation and investment,but that does not help anyone paying the same price as skys own customers for a much poorer service that seems to fly in the face of fairness

I agree, but since when was life fair?

I think fairness in the context of consumerism is a hinderance to a free market, not an enhancement of it.

Originally Posted by Robbie G

I agree, but since when was life fair?

I think fairness in the context of consumerism is a hinderance to a free market, not an enhancement of it.

I think you and i will both have to disagree!

I have now cancelled my sky sports sub and excercised my ultimate right as a consumer ie to not pay for an inferior service instead i will watch the cricket highlights package on channel five in the summer,listen to england matches in radio five live sports extra and county cricket live on radio essex without paying sky a penny.

Its just not worth the hassle of paying for something i am thinking i am getting ie comprehensive cricket coverage to find out i am not.

[RamJet]

I've sadly had the same problem since I signed up with VM

I'm not going to ditch Sky Sports on VM - Media Boy had a flash on his thread that Sky & VM were in discussion about red button sports channels being enablated - hopefully soon !

I'm going to keep pressing that red button until they listen and it begins to work >>>

the thing is though the red button feature on sky sports is meant as a selling point ,it gives sky customers an advantage over other providers ,in other words if you want the red button feature then buy sky

Originally Posted by martyh

the thing is though the red button feature on sky sports is meant as a selling point ,it gives sky customers an advantage over other providers ,in other words if you want the red button feature then buy sky

As already explained on here i CANNOT get sky,so therefore cannot buy it! as much as i would like to.! perhaps jeremy darroch could get me an installation. Unique selling points are all very well but vms subs are the same as skys for sky sports. Before any other smart alec suggests switching.

So i would expect to be able to get accesss to what i deem to have paid for.

Originally Posted by richard1960

As already explained on here i CANNOT get sky,so therefore cannot buy it! as much as i would like to.! perhaps jeremy darroch could get me an installation. Unique selling points are all very well but vms subs are the same as skys for sky sports.

So i would expect to be able to get acces to what i deem to have paid for.

out of interest why can't you get sky , i do take your by the way ,it's just the way buisness operates ,if i was that bothered about sports i would probably be miffed aswell as i am a stickler for getting what i pay for

Originally Posted by martyh

out of interest why can't you get sky , i do take your by the way ,it's just the way buisness operates ,if i was that bothered about sports i would probably be miffed aswell as i am a stickler for getting what i pay for

Hi i am in a flat and sky did try an install once i took three days off work at one stage three different people turned up on different days (had to keep on re-booking) result still no dish all three sky installers said i would need a pole for the dish to be sitting on,and asked me to have a fourth appointment after taking a previous three days off work i gave up.

And what annoys me most is i pay or rather did pay £20 a month for ss on vm i have little interest in football so just for cricket that was/is a lot and the key to my subscription of content is under red button.

But there you go i have now saved the cash and will rely on highlights on channel 5 and radio coverage for my sport,that is though part of the danger of sporting bodies going only the pay tv way on all platforms key content may be lost,or if you are on bt vison top up tv that content may not be at the moment available to you at all.

[RamJet]

This is where 50 years of so-called consumer protection means nothing at all, zero, nil, zilch, rien

what happened to all those fair carriage provisions for cable viewers ? ?

the Red Button is part of the channel & flat owners and all of us should get it as being part of the deal

if one accepted the other argument that would mean that Sky could - say transmit only the Right Hand Side of the screen and still charge the full rate via VM ie choose not to supply some part of the channel at their miserable whim

bring on those politicians asking for my Vote - I will be extracting a binding undertakuing from each of them to bring in Legislation to protect flat owners from Red Button withdrawal as the price of my Vote

[neilo]

I think Ofcom have forced Sky to offer red button on Sky Sports 1 and 2 whenever their recent report on Pay TV kicks in.

So when that happens, no doubt your cricket will be on the interactive services on Sky Sports 3 or 4.

[sakiblateef]

I just subscribed to sky for this very reason. I'm looking forward to the up coming twenty 20 world cup at the end of this month and I don't want the hassle of missing matches due to them sticking it on the red button like they did last year to a few matches.

Also I'm paying a lot less than I would on VM for them with the added advantage of HD.

[RamJet]

i'm going to keep on pressing the red button til they listen and enablate for the Cricket Sports channels

OR why why can't ITV 4 make a counterbid for the domestic cricket Tests and ODIs and T20 fixtures and show it on freeview - they've made a great fist of the IPL cricket

then we can use their red button - they won't be miserable like the Sky lot

[sakiblateef]

The BBC should be showing majority of the Cricket fixtures including the world cup tournaments. After all we do pay a license fee to view those channels and what they currently show on their channels do not justify the cost of the license fee which keeps rising every year.