Getting rid of Sky Sport 101

chopah

theprof

I wonder if TVNZ will continue to pick up these smaller sports and add it to their free online platform? I'm surprised that TVNZ can afford to do it and not charge for the service. Unless of course no-one else is bidding for these sports???

advert revenue

Cricket should always have some free to air. It’s designed for advertising. 

I think Sky is less likely to go after A-League rights if they already have the EPL. That way they get football fans subscribing without paying for rights to both. They do a similar thing with cricket.

Sky are tightening their belt and dropping sports, axing channels, reducing the number of new movies on their movie channels (with a ridiculous number of repeats) etc. due to the huge expense of their Optus D2 satellite prematurely going out of service in May next year.
On top of that, the replacement Optus D11 satellite is way behind schedule in construction, meaning Sky will have to fork out lots of dollars for temporary use of another satellite.
Two changes of satellite  = big financial hit to Sky.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/sky-tv-forced-to-move-to-new-satellite-option-sooner-after-supply-issue/ZKN3OZABPNAHVLHF25UIGUTHYI/
Technicians may have to adjust some customers' dishes early next year:
https://www.thepress.co.nz/business/350383092/unexpected-satellite-issues-main-risk-brighter-sky-tv-outlook
"Sky had been planning to migrate customers to a new, more capable satellite, Optus 11, late next year, but the launch of that satellite has been delayed until at least 2027 due to manufacturing issues.

The developments mean Sky will need to change satellites twice in just a few years.

Moloney said it was possible its technicians would need to visit a small number of homes early next year and adjust satellite dishes to ensure they could get a sufficiently strong signal after Optus D-2 was turned off.

One of the options Sky was looking at might mean it needed to make more use of software compression to deliver some programming, she said.

Sky might not need to visit any homes, depending on the outcome of tests, Moloney said. “We'll know more on that in the coming couple of months.”

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Last month's Sky notification on its satellite problems to the NZX:
https://www.nzx.com/announcements/436387
A 2020 report from Sky on their future satellite plans which have now been somewhat disrupted:
https://www.sky.co.nz/-/mk_pressrelease_0207
Freeview share the same current Optus satellite as Sky so there must also be uncertainty about the continuation of Freeview's satellite capability.
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A big part of Sky's costs consists of securing satellites.
They paid out $NZ 200 million to Optus for a ten year satellite deal 2021-31:
 https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/sky-tv-pays-200m-to-renew-satellite-deal/ADM7ZQOEZZMCJCK6JFZKFAGJEQ/

and yet they are adding ultra hd to the rugby!!!

theprof

and yet they are adding ultra hd to the rugby!!!

it won't just be rugby - it's just that is the first cab off the rank.

Big Pete 65

Sky are tightening their belt and dropping sports, axing channels, reducing the number of new movies on their movie channels (with a ridiculous number of repeats) etc. due to the huge expense of their Optus D2 satellite prematurely going out of service in May next year.
On top of that, the replacement Optus D11 satellite is way behind schedule in construction, meaning Sky will have to fork out lots of dollars for temporary use of another satellite.
Two changes of satellite  = big financial hit to Sky.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/sky-tv-forced-to-move-to-new-satellite-option-sooner-after-supply-issue/ZKN3OZABPNAHVLHF25UIGUTHYI/
Technicians may have to adjust some customers' dishes early next year:
https://www.thepress.co.nz/business/350383092/unexpected-satellite-issues-main-risk-brighter-sky-tv-outlook
"Sky had been planning to migrate customers to a new, more capable satellite, Optus 11, late next year, but the launch of that satellite has been delayed until at least 2027 due to manufacturing issues.

The developments mean Sky will need to change satellites twice in just a few years.

Moloney said it was possible its technicians would need to visit a small number of homes early next year and adjust satellite dishes to ensure they could get a sufficiently strong signal after Optus D-2 was turned off.

One of the options Sky was looking at might mean it needed to make more use of software compression to deliver some programming, she said.

Sky might not need to visit any homes, depending on the outcome of tests, Moloney said. “We'll know more on that in the coming couple of months.”

                                  ___________________________________________
Last month's Sky notification on its satellite problems to the NZX:
https://www.nzx.com/announcements/436387
A 2020 report from Sky on their future satellite plans which have now been somewhat disrupted:
https://www.sky.co.nz/-/mk_pressrelease_0207
Freeview share the same current Optus satellite as Sky so there must also be uncertainty about the continuation of Freeview's satellite capability.
                ___________________________________________________________
A big part of Sky's costs consists of securing satellites.
They paid out $NZ 200 million to Optus for a ten year satellite deal 2021-31:
 https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/sky-tv-pays-200m-to-renew-satellite-deal/ADM7ZQOEZZMCJCK6JFZKFAGJEQ/

It's important to note this is linear only - a lot of the content will still be available on demand or via instant replay for the nSB and Pod.

Thing is, now Discovery are showing a lot of their programmes on TV 3, TVNZ & TV3 have better programmes on their on demand service than they show on TV. Sky are really determined to lose customers aside from this satellite issue. They have milked it for all it's worth for the last 20 years and now cry the pauper. Perhaps the rather large investment they agreed with the NZRFU could've helped ($400 Mill?). Meanwhile, They generously try and skimp on their A League input with a minimal amount. (<5 Mill?) My figures might be wrong but the point is that right now the chickens are coming home to roost. The still ongoing issues with their "new" white box that no one is interested in etc.