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Sky Television could sell its loss-making RugbyPass rugby news site to World Rugby as part of negotiations with the rugby body, it is understood.
Sky announced on Monday evening that it was in “advanced discussions” with World Rugby over a wide-ranging deal that would see it secure the rights to screen World Rugby’s premium competitions, including the men’s 2023 Rugby World Cup, “over multiple years”.
Good, because Spark Sport is terrible.
Former chief executive Martin Stewart said in 2019 that the acquisition would let Sky “reach beyond New Zealand borders and open up significant opportunities for the company and its partners”.
But Sky wrote down the book value of goodwill in the business by $27.5m to $11m in the wake of the Covid pandemic and last year agreed to sell the streaming business of RugbyPass to Premier Sports for $813,000.Didn't know that.
RugbyPass still offers news, views and statistics about the game, including a system that ranks players and teams, with some of its content behind a paywall for which it charges subscribers US$1.99 month.
Their "news" is avarage, their stats are unreliable and their ranking system is a joke.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/129321437/sky-tv-could-sell-rugbypass-to-world-rugby
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@Stargazer For a NZ “owned” business their “news” is pretty anti NZ a lot of the time.
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@Nepia its the justin marshall approach, they feel the only way they'll be taken seriously is if they make it completely and painfully obviously they are not bias...to the point of becoming ludacris
also explains the waffling gibberish on the rare occurrence they do have to side with the AB's
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@Kiwiwomble said in Sky TV:
@Nepia its the justin marshall approach, they feel the only way they'll be taken seriously is if they make it completely and painfully obviously they are not bias...to the point of becoming ludacris
mos'def.
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@Stargazer For a NZ “owned” business their “news” is pretty anti NZ a lot of the time.
How many of their contributors are Kiwis though? I only read some of their articles (those that are posted here) but I don't recognise the names of the main "journalists". They are likely based all over the world.
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@Kiwiwomble said in Sky TV:
@Nepia its the justin marshall approach, they feel the only way they'll be taken seriously is if they make it completely and painfully obviously they are not bias...to the point of becoming ludacris
mos'def.
holy shit that is absolutely 100% top shelf foruming.
I'm nominating this shit.
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@Kiwiwomble said in Sky TV:
@Nepia its the justin marshall approach, they feel the only way they'll be taken seriously is if they make it completely and painfully obviously they are not bias...to the point of becoming ludacris
mos'def.
He's in my top 5 rappers so you get a like. (I don't even know any of Ludacris stuff sorry @Kiwiwomble).
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@mariner4life said in Sky TV:
@Kiwiwomble said in Sky TV:
@Nepia its the justin marshall approach, they feel the only way they'll be taken seriously is if they make it completely and painfully obviously they are not bias...to the point of becoming ludacris
mos'def.
holy shit that is absolutely 100% top shelf foruming.
I'm nominating this shit.
Chur bro... I was worried it might be too subtle for most.
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The price of Sky Sport is going up again. It will be $42 from 1 February 2024.
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@Stargazer said in Sky TV:
The price of Sky Sport is going up again. It will be $42 from 1 February 2024.
On the face of it not bad.
We dumped Foxtel a few months ago as it was like $110 to get sport (need apl these other packages to access sport so fuck them). No rugby.
And it was that "cheap" because I was an existing customer.
Of I want to sign up and get sport it was $140.
If I want sport on Foxtel will sign up to Kayo if I feel the need.
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@Stargazer said in Sky TV:
@booboo The $42 is only the sports part of my subscription. It comes on top of the rest (including the compulsory starter package, without which you can't get the sports package). A total of $88 per month.
I cancelled my terrestrial sky a while ago when I was busy. I watched a game a weekend basically, and went to a game every second weekend. I loved footy, but justifying 20-40 dollars per game to watch got hard. Cheaper to go to the pub or a mates place!
That said, I did switch over to Fanpass, which became SkySportNow and is a solid product. Still not nearly as good as DAZN or other streaming services, but a step up on teh pile of steaming shit Sky used to serve.
