I rang the Sky customer care today - they didn't seem to have a clue about the launch of additional Eurosport channels. When I pointed out that their rival Media Virgin already done that, they were like - you don't need those channels as you would have all the coverage on BESP1 & 2 + on BBC. I disagreed. They repeated that I would not need any extra channels - all the events will be covered (BS!), our conversation went on these lines for a good while and eventually I gave up.
Why am I not surprised that they were clueless?
But, they didn't know who they were up against! Good on you for standing up to them!
I had a look at the broadcasters page on the Olympics website and, if it is completely accurate (which it isn’t, as it doesn’t mention the extra linear channels being available in Ireland), then it is only a select few countries that are getting extra linear channels:
Channels | Countries |
Just Eurosport 1 and 2 | Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, Georgia, Greenland, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malta Moldova, Montenegro, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine, Vatican |
Eurosport 1, 2 and 4 | Turkey |
Eurosport 1, 2 and 5 | Norway |
Eurosport 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 | Austria, Germany, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, UK |
Not sure why Turkey and Norway have strange combinations.
An update on my updates post from last week.
The day after I posted that comment, I noticed a change to the Player. You know how I was explaining that the details about the recording were now permanently displayed in the top left-hand corner when watching in full-screen, and how they were overlapping with the new Tech Box. Well, now it has been changed so that the details only appear when you bring your mouse over the video.
Also, this morning the 30 second adverts returned to the start of the On Demand videos.
These developments have started me wondering if somebody from Eurosport is reading this thread.
And if they are, then PLEASE let us all have the extra linear channels (preferably forever!)
CaroLiza_fan