February 25th, 2009 by BGonaSTICK
Easy. You just get a very large pair!
The commentary for the Chelsea V Juventus game this evening was pants.
I couldn’t believe my eyes when the largest pair of undercrackers on Earth appeared on set for the intro. Even funnier when three Romanians crowded into them to watch the game! What’s wrong with a sofa guys?!
Not that you’re the slightest bit interested, but the channel was CT2 on 1° West - 12687 V 27500 3/4.
February 19th, 2009 by BGonaSTICK
London’s Financial Times newspaper has published a topical piece on the all-powerful BSkyB, in which it points out that:
“In spite of charging almost £50 a month for a full package of channels, the satellite broadcaster is still signing up new customers at a healthy rate.”
This is even more scary when you realise that large numbers are currently taking up what looks like a very attractive offer for BSkyB’s high-definition service (Sky HD box for £49, free installation and £30 M&S vouchers) - even though this will currently cost them an extra £9.75 a month!
The FT goes on:
“Clearly, the public is willing to pay for distraction from the misery of the slump.”
“Sky must be confident that this trend will continue”, although concerns that BSkyB’s share price (when compared to other media stocks) is now at a 5-year high.
“That puts the uptrend since October in jeopardy. In fact, on a longer-term view, the shares’ multi-year bear market remains intact. This suggests that we may be in for further aggressive downside before too long”
So who’s signing up for this not-so-cheap little luxury? Who can actually afford £60 a month for TV and still pay all other the bills? Are people conning themselves that they’ll be saving money by staying in and staring at the box every night?
Search me!
Not the time to be investing all those ’saved expenses’ in BSkyB shares either, I think.
February 7th, 2009 by BGonaSTICK
Those filthy rich folks at Sky continue to buy up just about whatever they want with the acquisition of the TV rights to five of the six match packages auctioned off by the Premier League.
Live transmission rights to the 138 eligible games (Saturday 3p.m. kickoffs are excluded from the sale to help prop up gate receipts) are divided into six sub-packages, and the European paper-pushers have decreed that no one broadcaster should be allowed to buy the lot.
So to make it fair, Setanta get to show one or two of the games that nobody wants to watch anyway.
The deal will run from next season (2010/11) until 2012/13, when BSkyB will buy them again.
At least the Premier League didn’t have to suffer the indignity of having to sign over the rights to the Walt Disney Company’s sports broadcaster ESPN.
Apparently, they considered a bid, but thought better of it at the last minute. And no, I’m not going to make any comment about their derisory offer being ‘Mickey Mouse’.
Easy. You just get a very large pair!
