Super 6 - UK TV

[Kel]

Sky have us by the balls.

You fucking despise SKY don't you mate?

[GuyIncognito76]

So boxing fans will pay for this, I agree. Most casual fans however probably won't.

If it is true that Froch is getting a guaranteed $1 million, from Showtime, for the round-robin fights then wouldn't it have been in his, and Hennessy's best interest to "give away" the fight for "free" (that's £100,000) to a British broadcaster in the hopes of increasing Froch's UK TV profile and possibly ensuring more lucatrive offers further down the line?

Even taking the most basic of workings £100,000 is something like 7,650 thirteen pounds (This is of course before administration costs are taken into account). Also, there is advertising; they could obviously purchase commercials on SKY or Terrestial channels but they won't come cheap and if they don't advertise then buys will obviously be down. Oh, and then everybody has to divide up all the (hoped for) profits and I'm sure the people behind Prime Time will want most of that.

Anyone seriously think Hennessy and Froch are going to walk away from this deal with more that £100,000?

This is a disaster waiting to happen if you ask me.

[Kev]

So boxing fans will pay for this, I agree. Most casual fans however probably won't.

If it is true that Froch is getting a guaranteed $1 million, from Showtime, for the round-robin fights then wouldn't it have been in his, and Hennessy's best interest to "give away" the fight for "free" (that's £100,000) to a British broadcaster in the hopes of increasing Froch's UK TV profile and possibly ensuring more lucatrive offers further down the line?

Even taking the most basic of workings £100,000 is something like 7,650 thirteen pounds (This is of course before administration costs are taken into account). Also, there is advertising; they could obviously purchase commercials on SKY or Terrestial channels but they won't come cheap and if they don't advertise then buys will obviously be down. Oh, and then everybody has to divide up all the (hoped for) profits and I'm sure the people behind Prime Time will want most of that.

Anyone seriously think Hennessy and Froch are going to walk away from this deal with more that £100,000?

This is a disaster waiting to happen if you ask me.

I hope he doesn't. If the terrestial companies don't want to support one of our only two world champions, and arguably our most exciting fighter at the moment then I hope he tells them to go fuck themselves.

Why should he have to give himself away for free?

If the terrestial companies don't want them fight in America for Showtime and don't cooperate with British telly at all.

[superheavyrhun]

Problem is that Froch's success against Taylor has made him relatively interesting to an American audience, along with the American challenger, which has decided his fight will be late night in the UK to suit the American fans.

This means that audience for UK tv is going to be minimal for live coverage, and seriously devalues the proposition to tv channels in the UK. Vicious circle continues, Froch doesn't feel he gets proper money, goes onto this PPV, less people see him fight, fanbase and interest dwindles, and turns into a downward spiral. It's a sad situation for one of two legitimate British champions, but unless he deals with the mainstream networks to make it accessible to a large market, then the offers made to him will continue to go down, as the viewing figures for the PPV will not be very impressive.

[Master]

Sky have us by the balls.

You fucking despise SKY don't you mate?

You should see my bill this month close to £100 (phone, internet and tv). I will stop the sky after the Haye fight, maybe the Cotto v Pac if they have that. I may just subscribe and download the fights in future. Bring back Setanta, ESPN is crap.

[Drago]

Sky have us by the balls.

You fucking despise SKY don't you mate?

You should see my bill this month close to £100 (phone, internet and tv). I will stop the sky after the Haye fight, maybe the Cotto v Pac if they have that. I may just subscribe and download the fights in future. Bring back Setanta, ESPN is crap.

haye is box office so you can cancel now

[Master]

You fucking despise SKY don't you mate?

You should see my bill this month close to £100 (phone, internet and tv). I will stop the sky after the Haye fight, maybe the Cotto v Pac if they have that. I may just subscribe and download the fights in future. Bring back Setanta, ESPN is crap.

haye is box office so you can cancel now

I will watch the repeat a week later then cancel.

[Drago]

You should see my bill this month close to £100 (phone, internet and tv). I will stop the sky after the Haye fight, maybe the Cotto v Pac if they have that. I may just subscribe and download the fights in future. Bring back Setanta, ESPN is crap.

haye is box office so you can cancel now

I will watch the repeat a week later then cancel.

ha ha good thinking

i hate watching fights after i know the result tho same with football

[Master]

haye is box office so you can cancel now

I will watch the repeat a week later then cancel.

ha ha good thinking

i hate watching fights after i know the result tho same with football

By that time I should know if they have the Cotto v Pac fight that is the fight of the year for me.

[Kev]

Guys if you don't want to pay silly prices and have a decent computer setup that makes watching online ok then sign up to XME Forums.

It's $10 a month (£6.82 for me this month) and they cover not only every boxing and MMA event, even minor things like Green vs Simms and Thaxton Murray, but they also cover all premiership football, NFL games, and other major sporting events.

They are even developing an iphone app so you can watch straight from your iphone!

Quality is awesome, as good as Setanta's online service was and they cover absolutely everything.

Not sure how they do this without getting busted but they have thousands of members now and seem to not be bothered.

You just pay each month via paypal or $2.99 for a 24 hour trial. It doesn't automatically rebill so you need to manually pay each month but that's good if you don't want to watch anything one month, you won't get charged.

It's great, it's cheap and best of all it sticks two fingers up to these big corporations who try to rip us off with crazy ppv prices.

[Drago]

I will watch the repeat a week later then cancel.

ha ha good thinking

i hate watching fights after i know the result tho same with football

By that time I should know if they have the Cotto v Pac fight that is the fight of the year for me.

lets hope so

[The Rela]

Sky have us by the balls.

You fucking despise SKY don't you mate?

You should see my bill this month close to £100 (phone, internet and tv). I will stop the sky after the Haye fight, maybe the Cotto v Pac if they have that. I may just subscribe and download the fights in future. Bring back Setanta, ESPN is crap.

Same here, my bill was £90! They put the Hatton Pac fight and the Hatton v Urango (from 2007)! fight on the bill this month!

I thought I paid for the HAtton Urango fight, so phoned them up and questioned it. Apparently I didn't pay, so they charged me.

I said bollocks, I'm cancelling and they said you can have sky 25% off for six months. So, get it for about £20 a month now.

Will get rid of it after the 6 months. Getting rid of ESPN this month. It's utter shit for boxing.

[Master]

You fucking despise SKY don't you mate?

You should see my bill this month close to £100 (phone, internet and tv). I will stop the sky after the Haye fight, maybe the Cotto v Pac if they have that. I may just subscribe and download the fights in future. Bring back Setanta, ESPN is crap.

Same here, my bill was £90! They put the Hatton Pac fight and the Hatton v Urango (from 2007)! fight on the bill this month!

I thought I paid for the HAtton Urango fight, so phoned them up and questioned it. Apparently I didn't pay, so they charged me.

I said bollocks, I'm cancelling and they said you can have sky 25% off for six months. So, get it for about £20 a month now.

Will get rid of it after the 6 months. Getting rid of ESPN this month. It's utter shit for boxing.

They did that with me when I thought I got away not paying for a number of fights including the last fight Naz ever had. They always get you in the end. I will try and negotiate virgin cable down, but may give up boxing on TV and watch it on the Internet instead, even if it means not watching it live.

[JazMerkin]

Anyone know if this is on Virgin or just Sky?

[ryanman]

anyone that has Sky should try this. Call them up and say something like 'love the srvice, no problems, really don't want to get rid of it, but i simply can't afford it'. stick to your guns for a while and you should get anywhere up to 50% off immediately. It has worked for me and a few other friends.
Also, one friend owed them about £400. They obviously cut him off. A few months later they came to him and said if you rejoin we will drop your debt to £200.He said no.
They then said they would completely wipe his debt. He said no.
Then it was wiped debt and half price for first 6 months. He said no.
Then it was wiped debt, first 3 months free, and half price for next 3. He said no.
Then it was wiped debt, 3 months free, 3 months half price, and a free Sky+ box. He said yes.