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Shindig

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Topic # 87782 7-Aug-2011 07:37

Morning guys,

Just wondered what the Sky Sports NZ coverage of the English Premiership was like?
Are there live games aired Sunday morning time?

Highlights show on, stuff like that.

I went onto the Sky tv guide website, but could only see up until Sunday (of next week) at 9am.

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Reply # 502967 7-Aug-2011 12:51

Simply put its excellent.

If you follow one of the top six you are likely to be able to watch every game of the season live but I dont know about the others. The are all live, all in HD and although I watch Match of the Day instead there is a highlights package but only lasting an hour you get very little from it.

Its the only reason I have Sky.

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Reply # 503015 7-Aug-2011 16:55

Agree with the above post, it is great coverage, most of the "big four" games are live every weekend and there are usually some delayed as well. Also there is usually a 25 minute highlights package put together by Sky and run on the Sky Sport Highlights channel at 12pm every Sunday, however it isn't very good (too bias towards the games shown on Sky). There's an hour long highlights show every Monday night but, as mentioned earlier, MOTD is better.

Worth noting they only show the games, there is little in the way of pre and post match (although you could argue this is a good thing).

The only issues I have with Sky's coverage is that they don't do the Champions League as well, this is handled by ESPN who naturally ruin it with their own commentators and a rubbish scoreboard. Sky also tend not to show the League and FA Cups's until their latter stages.

Shindig

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Reply # 503223 8-Aug-2011 09:48

Thanks for the replies.
You telling me that they show MOTD on Sky Sports TV!

Really tempted to get SkySports

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Reply # 503247 8-Aug-2011 11:11

Sadly not, you have to get it from, er, other places.

Shindig

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Reply # 503268 8-Aug-2011 12:15

I got ya!

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Reply # 503454 8-Aug-2011 17:14

Shindig: Thanks for the replies.
You telling me that they show MOTD on Sky Sports TV!

Really tempted to get SkySports

I admire your optimisim

Shindig

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Reply # 503701 9-Aug-2011 09:42

And so wrong I was!

I can see now the TV schedule for Sunday.
3 premiership games is good going! And in HD.

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Reply # 504054 9-Aug-2011 20:05

Shindig: And so wrong I was!

I can see now the TV schedule for Sunday.
3 premiership games is good going! And in HD.

Yeah they usually have 3 live games on the sunday morning and then another one or two delayed.

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Reply # 504214 10-Aug-2011 09:57

And you can series link them so you'll get them all recorded as well as Premier League Review on Monday nights

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Reply # 507290 16-Aug-2011 13:22

Kind of on topic has anyone thought the 'ball flicker' is worse this year, or is it just me. (The ball flickering when its moving fast from a goal kick or similar) I have a new amp and I am wondering if it is somehow the culprit, as I used to have the MySki HD HDMI straight into the TV, but new amp has HDMI so MySky is now running through that and then on to TV. I am positive the flicker was not as visible (but havent watched a game since last season so maybe I am not used to it)

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Reply # 507297 16-Aug-2011 13:31

Just had a quick look at the qpr match and I couldnt see any ball flicker, but it was literally a quick look.

I don't have an amp, just run my sky to tv through hdmi.

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Reply # 509223 19-Aug-2011 21:22

Later in the season they generally end up having matches on Sky Sport 2 and 3 at the same time.

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Reply # 510040 22-Aug-2011 16:55

The question has been answered, but just to add that as well as a few live and plenty of delayed matches, there is also the Premier League Preview show, looking at the matches coming up, the Premier League Review show, looking at the previous weekend's matches, a Premier League World show, more about news, interviews, etc. and the EPL highlights show that Sky put together here.

There is also a weekly show called Final Score on the BBC News channel with news, highlights, etc. from EPL, the top tiers of the Football League football, and SPL.