Sky Sports

[Old Geezer]

Sky has not reported a single Wasps re-signing as fr as I can see.  Is this the influence of the Wasps hating Stuart Barnes? Incidentally and not connected, I deplore his total adulation of the All Black cheats even when they are clearly not the best team in the World!!!!

[BG]

Are you referring to their website or TV programs. I don't watch/read either but I would understand their reluctance to report on EPL matters when they don't have the rights to it. I wonder if they plan to bid for the rights for EPL when hey come up for renewal. Apparently BT didn't take up their option to automatically renew their current deal.. I wonder if BT are planning on offering a lot less (if at all) for the next rights.

[Old Geezer]

I am referring to the website.  Well, I suppose I think they are a sports reporting news service and note that they have reported many other Premiership re-signings and pieces of news, including the Saracens drama.  to a certain extent I can understand them ignoring on TV channels what they don't have the rights to cover but even then that it doesn't make their TV channels a proper rugby journal.  Newspapers cover the lot without rights so why not a TV rugby journal?  I think my view is logical although perhaps a bit naive!!!!

[DGP Wasp]

Sky Sports are a bit of a joke. Anyone ever watched Sky Sports News during Olympics or football World Cup where they don't have the rights to the only sporting event anyone in the world is talking about and try desperately to fill their 24/7 schedule whilst trying to pretend the scraps they have the rights to are still more important.

[Skippy]

Can’t help but get the feeling that the two ‘Ss’ are merely the bookends to the perfect description of their 24/7 content.

[Shugs]

Ha! Got it now. But spent a good 15 minutes trying to work out why "port" could be viewed as derogatory.

[westwaleswasp]

BBC do the same, and BT. Nobody apart from them at the game gives two tosses about the first round of the FA cup between non league clubs,   but it mysteriously used to make its  way to the top of the sports news agenda. BBC promote their RL way out of proportion too. Wimbledon always used to shoot tennis to the top before the other majors sank it back down to just before ' and finally',  whilst when they lost F1 the sport disappeared off the face of the planet for a couple of years. BT had not heard of cricket until they nabbed the Australian rights. The real difference with Sky is when they do have it and big it up you get Barnes, who ruins it anyway. He should open a wind farm and stop phoning the commentary in from 2002.

[matelot22]

Ha! Got it now. But spent a good 15 minutes trying to work out why "port" could be viewed as derogatory.

Please share the secret as it's driving me mad now! Can't think of anything........

[RogerE]

Ha! Got it now. But spent a good 15 minutes trying to work out why "port" could be viewed as derogatory.

Please share the secret as it's driving me mad now! Can't think of anything........

Glad it's not only me then

[Skippy]

Scraps

[matelot22]

Scraps

Ah, thank you!