Call to split up Sky TV

hmmm, a few sky employees commenting on this article I take it?

Sky TV is the biggest rip-off - nothing but repeats, more commercials than free-to-air tv, and $10 more for HD..?! stick it sky

Get your feet on the ground,720,000 dont have a choice

It's about time

It's about time something was done, I can't afford Sky so I think this would be a great idea. It would be great to see Soccer and Motorsports on free-to-air, I could live with the ads. Prime are screening a few of the Euro 2008 games live but it would be fantastic to see the EPL and F1 without having to pay for it!!! This government won't do anything about it but the next one will, lets hope this works so we can enjoy more fantastic events

About time. Sky has screwed us for too long with it's over price crap programmes. If they did not have the sport and a few documentaries no one would use them. Give back the major games to the people, brake the monolopy and then maybe we will get some decent programmes for our money.

No TV station should be allowed to buy any sport and not show it live, if they don't show it live then it should be given to another station. The problem with free tv is they put so many ads in the programme and then its not live and frustrating to watch. But Sky is a rip off compared Australian Foxtel and BSKYB in England their services are far,far better than NZ,Sky will tell you it's size of the population but thats crap it just means their profit will be smaller.So pull your socks up Sky and stop ripping off Kiwis, make the service so good that households really WANT to buy it not because they have to!

This is a poor excuse for a flailing broadcaster to mask the fact they're losing to a privately owned enterprise. Rather than crying to the Government and nationalising or litigating Sky, they should introduce their own Pay-TV service and compete with Sky which could eventually (should the service succeed) present competition to Sky and market competitive prices for the average Joe.

In my business I get to visit a lot of homes and everywhere I go the reception for Prime TV is substandard, certainly nowhere near the quality of TV1, the only homes where it is any good are where the people have Sky as well - which begs the question, since Sky own Prime - are they doing this deliberately in the hope people will subscribe to Sky? Certainly it is one of these reasons rugby is rapidly falling from popularity in NZ, if you can't even get a decent picture why bother?.

If TVNZ get to show sport, they will fill the space with so many ads that you will end up getting one hour of sport and about two hours of ads.

Imagine going to a movie and every 5 minutes ads apeared. That would be fustrating, but the affect would be even more fustrating if a LIVE sport event was being shown and this occurred.

No, I dont mind paying to watch un-interupted sport.

Truly pathetic TVNZ, does not the fact that 720,000 households subscribe to Sky, tell you something about the standard and quality of programming you offer. Who the hell wants to watch a movie, or live sport, that is interrupted every 7 minutes by commercials? TVNZ and TV3 both continually saturate there programming with lame game shows, pathetic reality shows about fat people or tired talent shows and any other cheap knock off of equality lame overseas programs. I for one am more than happy to pay $64 a month for the wide selection of quality programs I receive on Sky, rather than the dumbing down of the population with the rubbish the networks push out. You can watch more intelligent documentaries on the History Channel, in one day, than you will find on one of the networks channels in one month. Tells you something about the target audience TVNZ and TV3