This thread should be renamed 'Did you see the latest large piranha alleged to have been swimming past a SKY window' ;)
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This thread should be renamed 'Did you see the latest large piranha alleged to have been swimming past a SKY window' ;)
https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/12365...-and-happiness
New CEO seems good with the media
For what it's worth.... we had sky installed in a new house here in the Far North and I asked the install man if he was very busy. Reply was that there were not enough hours in the day and he was booked up till xmas with installs. He is not involved in decoder hand ins so couldn't comment.
That does not surprise me at all.
I have previously mentioned how I live in a new development 'Green Field' area. We only have fibre in this area - a suburb designed for streaming, so you would not expect to see very many satellite dishes around given the notion: NETFLIX: Good! SKY: Bad!
Well, missusTea and I like to take young masterTea out for walks on nice evenings, taking different routes each time. Even though everyone has fibre, I am noticing a lot more satellite dishes on roofs these days. Each time I go out I notice houses with satellite dishes recently installed.
I assume Sky is doing a strong New Business drive with some competitive offers...after all, you can stream Sky TV with Vodafone TV and save $15/month already (as you don't pay a MySky fee, and can pick and drop packages each month as there is no contract term).
Note: downside of VTV us that it is not as 'live' as satellite, and also there are some channels that, annoyingly, you are not able to record. So it isn't all roses.
Using my suburb as just one example, between the increasing number of satellite dishes I can see, plus the Vodafone Broadband customers who will have VTV (I think Vodafone just send one out these days if you take a 12 month contract, Freeview comes out of the box and then it is up to you if you want to subscribe to more Sky channels)...and then the rest that will have NEON and/or Sky Sport NOW...it seems to me that Sky's penetration into households continues to deepen significantly.
Now that rugby is finished, I rang Sky to cancel my subscription, but the nice lady persuaded me to just put it on hold - I keep the Sky box and can use it to access free-to-air TV.
She reckoned that in Feb, I can re-instate my sub with whatever deal is going then. This year it was $28 per mo for just sport.
We'll see if this works..............
I don't think they would count him as a subscriber given he is no longer subscribing to any Sky bundles.
Even if they did, customers paying $0 per month would only serve to lower the ARPU figure which would not help their cause.
Sky are honest about their numbers. Don't forget Lightbox used to tout 300K+ as the number of subs they had. When Sky took over that number was slashed significantly as only maybe a third of them were actually paying subscribers.
TVNZ on Demand are showing "The Rise of the Murdoch Dynasty". I don't suppose it will be shown on Sky TV. It shows a very unflattering picture of the mogul who stops at nothing to gain power and influence over politicians, presidents, ordinary voters and prime ministers through the power of his newspapers and TV and radio stations. His editors of course all toe the party line, while influencing the outcome that Rupert decides will be best for his empire.
Sky wins back Wimbledon from TVNZ and Spark
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...ectid=12409747
Next step premier league