Why does Stream record the wrong channel

[Ed.B.]

Seriously Sky, this is ridiculous. 

I've set the golf from India to 'record' via sky sports golf, but the machine has recorded Sky main event, which switched to women's cricket at about 10am, missing the crucial back nine! 

If someone tries to record the golf, record the golf channel **bleep**! Or even better, don't switch the golf for a women's cricket match virtually no one will watch!

 

[Ed.B.]

As an example of how popular the women's cricket is, there appear to be ZERO spectators in the ground for today's match. 

 

[Chrisee]

@Ed.B. to avoid this happening in tge future add the golf to your playlist from the TV guide for Sky Sports Golf not from the menus which should work.

While the match may have had few spectators in India the same is not necessarily true of the TV showing of the match in the UK. Women's sport is increasingly popular in this country. I suspect a world cup cricket match might get more viwers than a golf tour match from India.

[Ed.B.]

I'll try that next time but I'm pretty sure I did it already, because I can't think how I'd have set it to 'record' otherwise. 

As for women's sport, I'm 100% in favour of women and girls playing sport, but let's not pretend these international women's teams wouldn't lose to a decent schoolboy side (and in fact regularly do - see the Swiss women's football team or the Bangladesh women's cricket teams' recent thrashing by schoolboys), so should therefore have the equivalent amount of TV coverage. 

My company virtually begs people to take up their offer of free tickets to watch spurs women play, so that it seems the stadiums are full of people willing to pay.

Similarly, the ECB count the crowd half way through the second innings of a woman's match, whereas in reality most people are there for the men's game but arrived early. The true crowd should be counted when the first ball is bowled. 

Both these things are lies. The popularity of women's sport in the UK is a complete astroturfing exercise.