Sky Football First - Not on SS1? What was Sat night's full game? - Virgin Media TV and Phone

ArrGee · 19-09-2004, 16:02

Mmm, after setting my DVD recorder to record the match last night, I was instead greeted with three hours of golf.

I thought $ky were meant to have all the Premierships games on SS1. Even today, Chel$ki's game is on SS2 .

No red button, now no footy! Guess I'll have to get SS2 as well now

19-09-2004, 22:51

yeah i think they had footy on ss2 as well last year for the odd game? get all 4 channels, if your into footy its the best option.

TomMartin · 20-09-2004, 20:14

ryder cup is going to get more viewers than football first . same reason that the beeb put their highest rating shows on bbc1 .

ArrGee · 22-09-2004, 07:59

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Originally Posted by TomMartin

ryder cup is going to get more viewers than football first . same reason that the beeb put their highest rating shows on bbc1 .

How difficult is it to have Ryder Cup on SS2 and let everyone know ? That's what they do with the Champions League, and that rates higher than anything on that night (well certainly higher that the results thing that is on SS1 & SSN at the same time).

Also I thought SS3 was the bonus channel to deal with this type of thing.

Once upon a time (two/three years ago). All Premiership was on SS1. England games & FA Cup on SS2 and Ireland/Scotland games on SS1/SS3. Other one-off events just went on the channels with free capacity.

Used to be very frustrating as I had onDigital without SS2 for a while and missed out on some England games. Nowadays I haven't got a clue which channel is showing what until the day itself. The recent Ireland game moved from SS3 to SS1(red button) to SSX within a week according to http://www.skyprogrammeinformation.co.uk/ . Apparently it is still on SS1(red button) according to the home page!!!

19-09-2004, 16:02	#1
ArrGee Forum Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: East London (ex C&W) Services: VM(Phone,V+ TV XL, 10MB BB), DTT(ex-OnDigital), DVD/HDD Posts: 870	Sky Football First - Not on SS1? What was Sat night's full game? Mmm, after setting my DVD recorder to record the match last night, I was instead greeted with three hours of golf. I thought $ky were meant to have all the Premierships games on SS1. Even today, Chel$ki's game is on SS2 . No red button, now no footy! Guess I'll have to get SS2 as well now

19-09-2004, 22:51	#2
monkey75 Posts: n/a	yeah i think they had footy on ss2 as well last year for the odd game? get all 4 channels, if your into footy its the best option.

20-09-2004, 20:14	#3
TomMartin Forum Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Manchester Services: Sky+ NTL3Mb ... is 10Mb coming tho ? Posts: 848	ryder cup is going to get more viewers than football first . same reason that the beeb put their highest rating shows on bbc1 .