topic Unwatchable golf in What's On

Poor sports commentary

Patches11 — Fri, 29 May 2026 13:38:23 GMT

Hasn't sky really gone downhill dramatically, poor poor pundits on football, Neville carragher and that Micah, the ad break "don't go away" and it's just ONE ad, keeping players waiting. Been doing that for weeks.

no Europe for another year, and with the old firm bias on and off the pitch, it'll be last choice for next week.

cant watch darts now, unless on mute, with the drunks.

what have they done with golf, its like Chinese water torture, you can't sneeze without the thought of of a ad break coming up, and the moaning drone of a yank. Ewan you left in time.

and tennis, no French , no Australian but still full price, but hey three weeks on grass, but bbc as well.

snooker commentary is just as bad, but not on sky.

and there's there the flaming e-mail, we are all not Gen Z mentality, yapping all day, ADD the landline option.

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Re: Constant reboots

TimmyBGood — Fri, 29 May 2026 08:13:52 GMT

@Patches11

By how much would you like your Sky Sports subscription to increase so that they can outbid their competition for rights to European soccer or overseas Grand Slams?

Realistically, Sky UK is now a tiny regional platform in a world of global streamers.

Re: Constant reboots

Daniel0210 — Fri, 29 May 2026 08:15:18 GMT

@Patches11

If you no longer feel its value for money then so long as you're not in a discounted minimum term contact Sky to give 31 days notice to cancel.

If you have 'in contract' discounts you may not be able to remove them, because the discounts were provided on the understanding you’d be paying for the full period. Also make sure cancellation of a certain add-on doesn’t cancel another part of a discount.

You may be able to remove it via this link which includes a message option (usually available between 9am & 7.30pm) or by calling using the number that should appear.
https://www.sky.com/help/articles/change-your-package-2-t2#downgrade

Re: Constant reboots

Patches11 — Fri, 29 May 2026 12:33:05 GMT

Very tiny. Too dear enough

Runaround

Patches11 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 18:11:22 GMT

It doesn't help sky, when you get the runaround. Treating customers like a gym membership.

tried to watch the golf, as no French open, and all you get is the yank, couldn't wait long enough for the add breaks, no football till August, trump soccer is off, be great if you can switch off and on, as they are charging £30 for nothing

Re: Runaround

Daniel0210 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 18:29:48 GMT

@Patches11 wrote:

tried to watch the golf, as no French open, and all you get is the yank, couldn't wait long enough for the add breaks, no football till August,

The World Cup starts in less than a week - on BBC and ITV

be great if you can switch off and on, as they are charging £30 for nothing

We have already said it you don't find the package value for money then see if you can cancel it.

Re: Runaround

TimmyBGood — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 08:28:24 GMT

@Patches11 wrote:

tried to watch the golf, as no French open,

Rights owned by TNT

and all you get is the yank, couldn't wait long enough for the add breaks,

Probably the global feed provided by the venue

no football till August, trump soccer is off,

In the UK the FIFA World Cup is a 'protected' event which has to be on free-to-air channels: that's a long-standing political decision.

You perhaps aren't grasping the nature of the planet-wide sports business: Sky cannot just turn up with a camera crew anywhere on the planet and demand entrance...

Unwatchable golf

Patches11 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 18:55:38 GMT

Thanks. Sky. With five hours of live golf, I'm watching columbo and old episodes of doctor at large, to avoid the ads