Sheer amount of rubbish channels on Sky

[Stuartyboy123]

Anyone else scunnered with the crap on Sky ?.. I've been a subscriber since 1990..33 years, and just woke up to the sheer amount of filler progs, ancient progs, and just rubbish content.  I reckon I watch less than 5% of available shows.

Called Sky the other day which was the first time in years, expecting to get VIP service, and a friendly Scottish voice (livingstone call centre) as previously.... instead got two Asian operators both of whom I really struggled to understand.  And let's get something straight right here, that is in no way a racist comment, I'm merely stating how the call went, it was a bit of a nightmare start to finish.  I was looking to cut my bill, the latter came back with a 16 quid pm saving.. I'm a 150 pm subscriber.  Looking to tie me in for a further 12-18 months, none of this was what I was after so rang off and decided its time to bail..

I guess Sky have outsourced to a foreign call centre, as a VIP when I've called in the past you got thru straight away to a VIP call handler, the service then was great..but not anymore.  I could go on, but just throwing this out there to see what others think.. Cheers. Stu..

[PeteRG41]

And what's your question here?

[GD1]

@Stuartyboy123  You do need to be aware that a majority of channels you see & refer to are not Sky channels as they are not owned by Sky nor run by Sky.

You have a choice of you feel your subs aren't value for money then cancel.

[TimmyBGood]

@Stuartyboy123 

Sky is not permitted to deny any legal channel* an EPG slot: the vast majority of channels are not owned by Sky, run by Sky or receive any income from Sky subscription fees. 

Discounts are almost always dependent on agreeing to a new 18 month minimum term.

*holding a UK broadcasting licence and complying with the Broadcasting Code

[Invisiblename]

@Stuartyboy123  You do know you can cancel anytime? Oh, and I renegotiated my contract only last week with a very helpful & easy to understand Sky employee - they got 10 out 10 in the customer satisfaction survey 

[Stuartyboy123]

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[Stuartyboy123]

Yea but they are on Sky, who owns them is irrelevant

[Mark39]

@Stuartyboy123 with occasional exceptions, I find I'm increasingly selecting my viewing from YouTube rather than Sky, Freeview, Netflix,or anywhere else mainstream. It's the occasional gem such as 'Billions', which keeps me as a subscriber. It's all very subjective though, obviously - one person's dross is another's must-see.

Personally, I've never had an issue with Sky customer service whether it's from Livingston or elsewhere.

[TimmyBGood]

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@Stuartyboy123 wrote:

Yea but they are on Sky, who owns them is irrelevant

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It really is relevant, though, because it means Sky can have no control over content (which is what you were complaining about) carried by non-Sky-owned channels

There's an important distinction between Sky as a broadcaster of its own channels, and Sky as the provider of a much wider reception platform and regulated EPG.

Sky has sole control of content on fourteen channels, and joint control on six more:

Sky Showcase
Sky Max
Sky Atlantic
Sky Comedy
Sky Witness
Sky Replay
Sky Sci-Fi

Sky Arts
Sky Crime
Sky Documentaries
Sky History (joint venture with A+E Networks UK)
Sky History 2 (joint venture with A+E Networks UK)
Sky Nature

Sky News

Pick
Challenge
Comedy Central (joint venture with Paramount Global)
Comedy Central Extra (joint venture with Paramount Global)
Blaze (joint venture with A+E Networks UK)
Crime & Investigation (joint venture with A+E Networks UK)

Plus Sky Cinema and Sky Sports channels

Programming on all the other hundreds of channels listed in the Sky EPG is nothing to do with Sky.

[Annie+UK]

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@Mark39 wrote:

@Stuartyboy123 with occasional exceptions, I find I'm increasingly selecting my viewing from YouTube rather than Sky, Freeview, Netflix,or anywhere else mainstream. It's the occasional gem such as 'Billions', which keeps me as a subscriber. It's all very subjective though, obviously - one person's dross is another's must-see.

Personally, I've never had an issue with Sky customer service whether it's from Livingston or elsewhere.

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Another convert 🙂 I use YouTube for 99.9% of my viewing and apart from the adverts (to expensive to pay for advert free IMO) I love the free content and lack of mainstream media mindwashing 🙂

[nolte]

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@Stuartyboy123 wrote:

Anyone else scunnered with the crap on Sky ?.. I've been a subscriber since 1990..33 years, and just woke up to the sheer amount of filler progs, ancient progs, and just rubbish content.  I reckon I watch less than 5% of available shows.

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I mean I feel watching 5% of the available content is quite a lot as there is so much available

[xenon81]

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@TimmyBGood wrote:

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@Stuartyboy123 wrote:

Yea but they are on Sky, who owns them is irrelevant

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It really is relevant, though, because it means Sky can have no control over content (which is what you were complaining about) carried by non-Sky-owned channels

There's an important distinction between Sky as a broadcaster of its own channels, and Sky as the provider of a much wider reception platform and regulated EPG.

Sky has sole control of content on fourteen channels, and joint control on six more:

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Don't forget E! and Movies24 are now Sky brands too 

https://www.skymedia.co.uk/channels/

[merv60]

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@PeteRG41 wrote:

And what's your question here?

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@PeteRG41 So what, we're not allowed to comment on here anymore? Everything has to be a question, does it? Ridiculous. Do you even know what forums are for? 

  Anyway, check the post, the very first sentence is a question ( although I did have to look up the meaning of scunnered ).

[KevNewMedia]

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[Totalwar2]

I agree there not much new content on sky platform at the moment.Sky lost quite a few programs to Disney channel which I used to watch.Then there the actors and writers strike.Which is going to delay new content.There also a problem finding new programs on sky stream.