Sheer amount of rubbish channels on Sky

[missmollie]

I am elderly but I'm not pretty much dead !!

we can't get virgin here and we have Netflix and prime and all the other apps. 

we just feel that the choice is not of the quality or the extent that it was. 

[ZyloKai]

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@missmollie wrote:

I am elderly but I'm not pretty much dead !!

we can't get virgin here and we have Netflix and prime and all the other apps. 

we just feel that the choice is not of the quality or the extent that it was. 

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I agree. Maybe I'm solely talking about my own experiences, and the elderly people in my life. I understand this doesn't represent all elderly people.

I actually think there's a reason for the lack of choice. Since the launch of streaming apps, Sky has lost a lost of rights to TV shows and movies, as the owners of the streaming apps want it on their platform. Sky is pretty much left with the "runt of the litter" and that's what we see on linear TV. 

[missmollie]

No offence taken. 

I agree.

[TimmyBGood]

As I've commented elsewhere, while we're all used to Sky being a longstanding and significant media player in the UK its combined six country* European user base is relatively small in global terms, and that has to be a factor when competing for content against much younger but globe-spanning streaming platforms.

*UK, Republic of Ireland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy

[Timelord2018]

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@TimmyBGood wrote:

As I've commented elsewhere, while we're all used to Sky being a longstanding and significant media player in the UK its combined six country* European user base is relatively small in global terms, and that has to be a factor when competing for content against much younger but globe-spanning streaming platforms.

*UK, Republic of Ireland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy

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Although another factor appears be Tax Credits

https://deadline.com/2024/04/fallout-renewal-tax-credits-ncis-origins-1235878231/

Interesting how Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation js still used , I thought Disney had phased that out by now 

[Stniuk]

Buy a freesat box and dump sky. You will make your money back in a few months depending on your contract cost at present. That's what I'm doing when mine runs out. 

[missmollie]

I may just try that!

[kingkenny12]

 Unfortunately I went back to sky and can't leave now until next April when I will give my 31 days notice I pay £31 a month for signature and sports and it's garbage (Removed).  The programs they show are cheap rubbish, of car boot standard. As for the sports don't make me laugh the football is rubbish it's gone so P.C with all the non sports people being brought in to run it. It's a pathetic  Box ticking excersice  from sky. You can flash through all the channels night after night you won't find anything to look at.  Most of what I watch is on YouTube now. As for this dreadful company I hope it goes under before to long and takes all the rubbish programs with it. As for me if I could get shut of it now instead of next April I would. What a complete waste of money it is. Cheap and nasty is the best way to describe it. Sky programmes.100s of channels and nothing to watch. What a mistake I made going back to this (Removed) company 😕

Moderator note: Removed inappropriate language

[Daniel0210]

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@kingkenny12 wrote:

As for the sports don't make me laugh the football is rubbish it's gone so P.C with all the non sports people being brought in to run it. It's a pathetic  Box ticking excersice  from sky. You can flash through all the channels night after night you won't find anything to look at.  

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@kingkenny12 

Everybody's viewing habits and programme likes and dislikes are different. You're entitled to your opinion. I enjoy the football coverage and F1 and find plenty of general programmes to watch without going to apps/youtube. 

[TimmyBGood]

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@kingkenny12 wrote:

 As for the sports don't make me laugh the football is rubbish it's gone so P.C with all the non sports people being brought in to run it. 

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You do know Sky doesn't actually run football?

Sky purchasing broadcast rights helps the clubs pay a proportion of those outrageous player salaries, but that's rather different...

[kingkenny12]

I am not particularly bothered who runs sky football that has nothing whatsoever to do with what I was talking about. My point was and still is the shockingly poor programs on sky. That they  show. Endless repeats second rate American rubbish and all this behind a pay wall. A big sing and dance was made of sky Atlantic my god how much has that channel gone down hill. And sky showcase they are still showing sex and the city it's been on channel 4 to name one channel..

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But it has to be said people are paying stupid amounts of cash for sky subscriptions for shockingly poor programs. More channels does not mean more quality programs in sky's case it means more poor programs for higher subscriptions.

Moderator note: Removed innapropriate remarks and can we please be nice to each other.

[TimmyBGood]

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@kingkenny12 wrote:

A big sing and dance was made of sky Atlantic my god how much has that channel gone down hill. 

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Atlantic was of course by definition the heaviest hit of all the Sky-branded channels by the Screen Actors Guild - American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and the Writers Guild of America strikes in 2023, which hugely impacted the production of new content last year for launch into this year's seasons.

Realistically there's also far more money available to the streaming services for securing talent and commissioning new material than there is in 'television' these days.

[Mr+Ramsden]

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@TimmyBGood wrote:

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Atlantic was of course by definition the heaviest hit of all the Sky-branded channels by the Screen Actors Guild - American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and the Writers Guild of America strikes in 2023, which hugely impacted the production of new content last year for launch into this year's seasons.

Realistically there's also far more money available to the streaming services to commission new content than there is in 'television' these days.

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These are both excellent points. The strikes has caused a real lack of decent US shows and its showing.

As you say streaming have more money for new commisions and this shows that eh Sky Business model could be starting to fail, they can't compete with commisions and are losing out on rights deals, so ever increasing subscribtions to basically support a diminishing content base and more and more sport doesn't work, just leads to a snowball of churn.  

[kingkenny12]

All I will say is this an awful lot of content that SKY show on their own channels is not fit for purpose it's just filler to make the quota up for that channels viewing for the day. In other words cheap rubbish. Since Comcast took over they have cut programmes and staff and put up subscriptions unbelievable people are paying more for less. As I say if I could leave my contract today penalty free I would but I will do the next best thing and just avoid watching this kind TV programming. I am so angry with myself for thinking sky's programmes had improved over the years I should have looked at trustpiolet reviews first before coming back to sky. Nothing has changed in fact it's got far worse. Roll on next April when I will be rid of this rubbish.

[MarkGoldsmith]

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@kingkenny12 wrote:

All I will say is this an awful lot of content that SKY show on their own channels is not fit for purpose it's just filler to make the quota up for that channels viewing for the day. In other words cheap rubbish. Since Comcast took over they have cut programmes and staff and put up subscriptions unbelievable people are paying more for less. As I say if I could leave my contract today penalty free I would but I will do the next best thing and just avoid watching this kind TV programming. I am so angry with myself for thinking sky's programmes had improved over the years I should have looked at trustpiolet reviews first before coming back to sky. Nothing has changed in fact it's got far worse. Roll on next April when I will be rid of this rubbish.

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Well since Comcast took over they have invested to build a massive new Sky TV and Film studio in Elstree & Borehamwood design to not only recorded films and TV programs under the Sky and Universal studio umbrella but to also lease out the studios to other production companies, so clearly they are still investing in producing new content. In fact I can recall quite a few "Sky Original" shows being part of Sky's own channels over the past 5 years after quite a period where their own shows were seemingly few and far between ( except perhaps ALOTO).