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Anyone else annoyed by ashes being on sky?
08-07-2009 11:21 AM
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After football, cricket is my most favoured of sports to watch. Now that sky have bought the rights to cricket I can no longer watch it. I have been punished by the soaring popularity of a great sport that went largely ignored until 2005. It would certainly be seen as outrageous if the football world cup (The highlight of football) was not shown on terrestrial television and yet with the nations pride at stake and the chance to win back the ashes, I can't even get behind my country in this their of need!
I could watch a live stream of it online but I have 15GB download limit so that isn't really an option.
My hatred of sky goes beyond just this and I refuse to pay a monthly subscription for tv that I will never watch.
Grrrr

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08-07-2009 11:23 AM
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One of few reasons why I'll pay Sky - to watch the cricket.
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08-07-2009 11:27 AM
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08-07-2009 11:51 AM
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08-07-2009 11:56 AM
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Quote from: jelv I used to watch the cricket a lot, but since they started only showing the highlights on television I don't follow it nearly as much.
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08-07-2009 12:01 PM
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I'm annoyed it's on Sky, but that's only because I'm not allowed it as *someone* thinks I'll watch too much sport.
As if that were possible.
I'm kept happy with TMS
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08-07-2009 12:06 PM
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Thank goodness for FreeSat - but that doesn't help with things like this.
I know many people who don't have Sky on principle for very similar reasons to me.
Subscription TV has also pushed up the price football can charge and the astronomic salaries that the top football players get.
But Santana has gone bust hasn't it ?
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08-07-2009 12:07 PM
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08-07-2009 12:09 PM
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08-07-2009 1:12 PM
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You can listen to The ashes on BBC 5 Live still (Thats a Radio Channel)
Eurosport is a Yahoo off shoot available here http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/
it is available on Top Up TV - costs
and Sky Chan 410
On Hotbird - encripted
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08-07-2009 1:39 PM
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lots of people have zero interest so why supply them with coverage they don't want?
-- if they really want it they can pay a small amount to sky
OK you guessed it, I'm not a sports fan & have never sat through a whole football match -- seems a significant proportion don't either or itv sport & setanta would have been money spinners!
Tour de France is on free to air itv3 or itv4 - I'll watch that for the scenery when its in the mountains
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08-07-2009 1:43 PM
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08-07-2009 1:48 PM
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08-07-2009 1:51 PM
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08-07-2009 1:58 PM
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but that doesn't change my view. I think it should be on free to view on both Freeview and Freesat either BBC or commercial, why can't the Beeb have a dedicated sports channel.
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