On Sat night, I decided to sign up for the Hatton - Mayweather fight on Sky 
TV, this cost me £14.99. I was really annoyed when I found that the programm 
that I paid for was littered with advertising breaks, surely if we are 
paying out extra for special events such as this, we shouldn't have to put 
up with advertising?

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<Freddie>
<Mon, 10 Dec 2007 09:58:41 GMT>
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> On Sat night, I decided to sign up for the Hatton - Mayweather fight on Sky 
> TV, this cost me £14.99. I was really annoyed when I found that the programm 
> that I paid for was littered with advertising breaks, surely if we are 
> paying out extra for special events such as this, we shouldn't have to put 
> up with advertising?
> 

The money they make from the adverts will probably more than cover the 
amount of money they will lose from viewers who wont be paying for 
anymore PPV events .

Sky arnt stupid .


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www.krustov.co.uk

"Freddie"  wrote in message 
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> On Sat night, I decided to sign up for the Hatton - Mayweather fight on 
> Sky TV, this cost me £14.99. I was really annoyed when I found that the 
> programm that I paid for was littered with advertising breaks, surely if 
> we are paying out extra for special events such as this, we shouldn't have 
> to put up with advertising?
>

You get adverts on subscription channels! If the ads happened between rounds 
you should think your self lucky. I've seen footy in Germany with Ad breaks 
during the match!

"John Russell"  schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
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> You get adverts on subscription channels! If the ads happened between 
> rounds you should think your self lucky. I've seen footy in Germany with 
> Ad breaks during the match!


Maybe, but that certainly was not a live game then.

"Andreas Kaspers"  wrote in message 
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>
> "John Russell"  schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
> news:475d6ed8_2@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com...
>> You get adverts on subscription channels! If the ads happened between 
>> rounds you should think your self lucky. I've seen footy in Germany with 
>> Ad breaks during the match!
>
>
> Maybe, but that certainly was not a live game then.

Oh, your so wrong! Live it was. How can you sell ads if people  know they 
happen before, after and in the  break of a match? Force people to watch  30 
second ads during the match and they can't be avoided, and you can charge an 
an arm and a leg. It's the only way for non subcription TV to generate the 
revenue to outbid satellite/cable for decent soccer!

"John Russell"  schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
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> Oh, your so wrong! Live it was. How can you sell ads if people  know they 
> happen before, after and in the  break of a match? Force people to watch 
> 30 second ads during the match and they can't be avoided, and you can 
> charge an an arm and a leg. It's the only way for non subcription TV to 
> generate the revenue to outbid satellite/cable for decent soccer!

That´s odd. I´ve been living in Germany for 39 years now, I am a footy 
maniac and watch almost all the games on TV and I have never seen an advert 
during a live game (apart from the half time intervals of course). Well, 
maybe the majority of the games were just too boring and I nodded off whilst 
sitting in front of the telly. Who knows! ;-))

Honestly, I doubt that you were watching a live game on a German TV channel.

Cheers,

AK

"Andreas Kaspers"  wrote in message 
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>
> "John Russell"  schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
> news:475e6ecb$1_4@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com...
>> Oh, your so wrong! Live it was. How can you sell ads if people  know they 
>> happen before, after and in the  break of a match? Force people to watch 
>> 30 second ads during the match and they can't be avoided, and you can 
>> charge an an arm and a leg. It's the only way for non subcription TV to 
>> generate the revenue to outbid satellite/cable for decent soccer!
>
> That´s odd. I´ve been living in Germany for 39 years now, I am a footy 
> maniac and watch almost all the games on TV and I have never seen an 
> advert during a live game (apart from the half time intervals of course). 
> Well, maybe the majority of the games were just too boring and I nodded 
> off whilst sitting in front of the telly. Who knows! ;-))
>
> Honestly, I doubt that you were watching a live game on a German TV 
> channel.
>
> Cheers,
>
> AK
>

The one I watched on Bavarian TV would go to adverts as soon as the game 
stopped due to a foul, and they would hope to get back before the free kick 
was taken. When you  think about it so much time is wasted in football they 
might as well  fill that time with adverts.

"John Russell"  schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
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> The one I watched on Bavarian TV would go to adverts as soon as the game 
> stopped due to a foul, and they would hope to get back before the free 
> kick was taken.

Ah, Bavarian TV, and I thought we were talking about Germany. ;)

Ok, I am still surprised that regional stations do this but obviously I have 
no reason not to believe you. This is actually quite interesting to know. 
Ta!

AK

"Andreas Kaspers"  wrote in message 
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> "John Russell"  schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
> news:475d6ed8_2@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com...
>> You get adverts on subscription channels! If the ads happened between 
>> rounds you should think your self lucky. I've seen footy in Germany with 
>> Ad breaks during the match!
>
>
> Maybe, but that certainly was not a live game then.
>

When i was on holiday in Turkey a couple of yrs ago, they had 5 seconds 
budweiser,coke,ford etc comercials during times the bal was out of play, 
ball rolled out for a throw in *swooosh* "New Coke Zero..  blah de blah. 
blah"*swoosh*  game back on

got very fkn frustrating but you got used to it