Last night (31/1/07 ) sky were to have shown the newcastle v villa game,but they changed it to the L/Cup semi-final.This lost me alot of money as approx 30 people had arranged to come to my club to watch the newcastle game.Should i contact sky and claim for loss of earnings?
2007-01-31 23:05:03 · 15 answers · asked by paignton sportsman 2 in Sports ➔ Football ➔ Other - Football
Sky had already paid for the rights for all four games of the semi-finals, so they had the right not to show the Newcastle game. It's bound to be in their terms & conditions. No one goes to Paignton anyway. Torquay are going down!
2007-01-31 23:30:43 · answer #1 · answered by Sluugy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You would lose any claim.
They have every right to change games and due to circumstances (the fog on Merseyside) the Carling Cup got knocked back and therefore the second leg of the second semi-final was due to take place on the same night as a live Premiership game. They then switched their live Premiership game to Tuesday night and West Ham v Liverpool.
They have the rights to a certain number of games each year and as long as every team is shown three times live then they can pick n choose what other games to show, and on those rare occasions they have to change their live programming, they are allowed to under the terms of the current contract.
2007-02-01 09:25:18 · answer #2 · answered by NM 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope! the Carling cup has been set to be on sky sports for at least a week. And surely if you were a good club you would have had a bar full of spurs and arsenal fans.
2007-02-01 08:07:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sky had every right to cancel that match - the L/C match was obviously going to attract higher viewing figures and it is agame that has to be broadcated!
How would you like it if Newcastle reached the L/C semi final and it was not shown on TV because Wigan were playing Villa!
2007-02-01 07:16:26 · answer #4 · answered by the southern dandy 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Damn right you should !
If Spurs played Arsenal in a league match and it was Newcastle and Villa in the re-scheduled semi do you think they would drop the North London derby ?!
Not on your nelly ! They would have shunted one of the games on to another one of their channels.
2007-02-01 12:14:58 · answer #5 · answered by Flying Scotsman 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you could have a go mate.u would have thought they would have put one on sky sports 1 and the other on sky sports 2 instead of bowls or whatever it was that was on at that time!!!!!!!
2007-02-01 09:09:53 · answer #6 · answered by witty1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You mean you expected people to pay to see that bunch of losers or were you expecting people to drown their sorrows over the inept performances that both of those teams have put in over the last few years. You should have put the match on and shown your customers what real football is.
2007-02-01 07:12:49 · answer #7 · answered by speyhawkzamek 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
You can try but I am sure they will have some stupid wording in their contract saying something like 'programmes are subject to change without notice'
Good luck. They deserve to be kicked up their backsides.
2007-02-01 07:09:49 · answer #8 · answered by footynutguy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it was on sky sports 2
2007-02-01 12:22:22 · answer #9 · answered by MITCHELL B 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sky rob everyone who is prepared to fork out fortunes for repeats. Watch all the football online for free !!
2007-02-01 08:24:03 · answer #10 · answered by chillipope 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋