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Sky finds new way to advertise during programmes
I have sent this to Sky's "Viewer Relations" department this evening....
Dear Sky, We get the bumpers during the ads for Ricky Gervais' appearance on the The Simpsons ad-nauseum. Every break it seems to be on... Now we get a message ON SCREEN underneath the Sky One "DOG" during all of primetime saying the same thing???? How many times do we need to be told??? Yes! We know! Ricky on Sunday on The Simpsons - WE GET IT!!!!! Turn the bloody thing off! Thanks for listening, Simon Ough A rather annoyed Sky One viewer. I sugest you do the same (just replace my name with yours *lol*) |
Sky finds new way to advertise during programmes
"Simon Ough" wrote in message ... I have sent this to Sky's "Viewer Relations" department this evening.... Dear Sky, We get the bumpers during the ads for Ricky Gervais' appearance on the The Simpsons ad-nauseum. Every break it seems to be on... Now we get a message ON SCREEN underneath the Sky One "DOG" during all of primetime saying the same thing???? How many times do we need to be told??? Yes! We know! Ricky on Sunday on The Simpsons - WE GET IT!!!!! Turn the bloody thing off! Thanks for listening, Simon Ough A rather annoyed Sky One viewer. The only thing they would care about is; "please cancel my subscription immediately. Reason for cancellation is the advertising on screen overwriting the program you are showing" -- Tumbleweed email replies not necessary but to contact use; tumbleweednews at hotmail dot com |
Sky finds new way to advertise during programmes
"Simon Ough" wrote in message ... I have sent this to Sky's "Viewer Relations" department this evening.... Dear Sky, We get the bumpers during the ads for Ricky Gervais' appearance on the The Simpsons ad-nauseum. Every break it seems to be on... Now we get a message ON SCREEN underneath the Sky One "DOG" during all of primetime saying the same thing???? How many times do we need to be told??? Yes! We know! Ricky on Sunday on The Simpsons - WE GET IT!!!!! Turn the bloody thing off! Thanks for listening, Simon Ough A rather annoyed Sky One viewer. I sugest you do the same (just replace my name with yours *lol*) I have emailed them, a very angry email. Zeetc |
Sky finds new way to advertise during programmes
"Tumbleweed" wrote in message ... "Simon Ough" wrote in message ... I have sent this to Sky's "Viewer Relations" department this evening.... Dear Sky, We get the bumpers during the ads for Ricky Gervais' appearance on the The Simpsons ad-nauseum. Every break it seems to be on... Now we get a message ON SCREEN underneath the Sky One "DOG" during all of primetime saying the same thing???? How many times do we need to be told??? Yes! We know! Ricky on Sunday on The Simpsons - WE GET IT!!!!! Turn the bloody thing off! Thanks for listening, Simon Ough A rather annoyed Sky One viewer. The only thing they would care about is; "please cancel my subscription immediately. Reason for cancellation is the advertising on screen overwriting the program you are showing" Absolutely, if even 1% of their subscribers rang and cancelled with the same reason Sky would get the message. Even better if everyone did it the same day! |
Sky finds new way to advertise during programmes
"Brian Wescombe" wrote in message ... "Tumbleweed" wrote in message ... "Simon Ough" wrote in message ... I have sent this to Sky's "Viewer Relations" department this evening.... Dear Sky, We get the bumpers during the ads for Ricky Gervais' appearance on the The Simpsons ad-nauseum. Every break it seems to be on... Now we get a message ON SCREEN underneath the Sky One "DOG" during all of primetime saying the same thing???? How many times do we need to be told??? Yes! We know! Ricky on Sunday on The Simpsons - WE GET IT!!!!! Turn the bloody thing off! Thanks for listening, Simon Ough A rather annoyed Sky One viewer. The only thing they would care about is; "please cancel my subscription immediately. Reason for cancellation is the advertising on screen overwriting the program you are showing" Absolutely, if even 1% of their subscribers rang and cancelled with the same reason Sky would get the message. Even better if everyone did it the same day! It occurs to me that phoning just to whinge is more effective since it ties up their phone lines even if only for a few minutes, which means people cant get through to order. An email or letter costs them nothing to read and inconveniences no one there. -- Tumbleweed email replies not necessary but to contact use; tumbleweednews at hotmail dot com |
Sky finds new way to advertise during programmes
Tumbleweed wrote:
It occurs to me that phoning just to whinge is more effective since it ties up their phone lines even if only for a few minutes, which means people cant get through to order. An email or letter costs them nothing to read and inconveniences no one there. -- Tumbleweed email replies not necessary but to contact use; tumbleweednews at hotmail dot com have you tried ringing sky recently? -- Paul (Take my hand, I'm standing right here) ------------------------------------------------------- Stop and Look http://www.geocities.com/dreamst8me/ |
Sky finds new way to advertise during programmes
Tony wrote:
I have emailed them, a very angry email. I sent them this... Dear Sky, I am extremely unhappy about your new text adverts during programmes on Sky One. I don't mind the little sky one logo but those text adverts go halfway across the screen and are unacceptable. I have pay for sky+ and multiroom, people pay enough for sky services without having to be subjected to adverts DURING the programmes. Its bad enough paying so much for Sky but to have my viewing distorted by RICKY GODAMN GERVAIS is really taking the yellow liquid stuff - in the politest possible way of course. Please rethink this policy and change it back to the way it is so viewers like myself can enjoy viewing again. P.S. Ricky Gervais is not even very funny, he is even less funnier as a text message. |
Sky finds new way to advertise during programmes
On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Tumbleweed wrote:
The only thing they would care about is; "please cancel my subscription immediately. Reason for cancellation is the advertising on screen overwriting the program you are showing" I can't cancel immediately - the whole family is eager to see Ricky Gervais on the Simpsons! -- Stephen Chadfield http://www.chadfield.com/ |
Sky finds new way to advertise during programmes
Stephen Chadfield wrote:
On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Tumbleweed wrote: The only thing they would care about is; "please cancel my subscription immediately. Reason for cancellation is the advertising on screen overwriting the program you are showing" I can't cancel immediately - the whole family is eager to see Ricky Gervais on the Simpsons! -- Stephen Chadfield http://www.chadfield.com/ Personally I couldn't give a crap that he's in the show. Although I like him a little I fail to see the hype and have never watched the Simpsons for the guests. -- Paul (Take my hand, I'm standing right here) ------------------------------------------------------- Stop and Look http://www.geocities.com/dreamst8me/ |
Sky finds new way to advertise during programmes
In article , Mike Henry wrote:
It's interesting that there are so many complaints this week, far more than the other occasions. Despite it being - by Sky's standards at least - the most subtle one of the lot! It seems that frequency of the advert (number of times it is used) is more annoying that how much of each programme it covered was ruined? Surely not? maybe its the actual programmes being affected that increases the level of annoyingness/complaints, as I hadnt seen any of those before because I dont watch Malcom in the Middle whereas I did watch Sky One tonight for Battlestar Galactica, and so obviously saw the new DOG and wasnt too happy about it. although in consideration, were getting off quite lightly it seems :) AW |
Sky finds new way to advertise during programmes
Tumbleweed wrote:
It occurs to me that phoning just to whinge is more effective since it ties up their phone lines even if only for a few minutes, which means people cant get through to order. No, phoning earns them money as they charge you 8p a minute to talk to some Indian graduate who is being paid 8p an hour to answer the phone. If they get really busy on the phones they'll just employ a few thousand more, and make even more money. In fact they could one day make more out of the complaints phone line than out of subscriptions. -- Digibox problem? : A reboot solves 90% of these. The Sky Digital FAQ: http://tinyurl.com/8vef5 UK TV overseas: http://tinyurl.com/6p73 BBC reception questions? ; http://www.astra2d.com/ Fed up with on-screen logos? : http://logofreetv.org/ ---- Only the truth as I see it. No monies return'd. ;-) |
Sky finds new way to advertise during programmes
In news:[email protected],
Stephen Chadfield typed almost using sensible wording: On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Tumbleweed wrote: The only thing they would care about is; "please cancel my subscription immediately. Reason for cancellation is the advertising on screen overwriting the program you are showing" I can't cancel immediately - the whole family is eager to see Ricky Gervais on the Simpsons! Don't hold your brreath. It's crap much like the rest of the Simpsons they produce nowadays.. I've seen it. |
Sky finds new way to advertise during programmes
awavey wrote:
In article , Mike Henry wrote: It's interesting that there are so many complaints this week, far more than the other occasions. Despite it being - by Sky's standards at least - the most subtle one of the lot! It seems that frequency of the advert (number of times it is used) is more annoying that how much of each programme it covered was ruined? Surely not? maybe its the actual programmes being affected that increases the level of annoyingness/complaints, as I hadnt seen any of those before because I dont watch Malcom in the Middle whereas I did watch Sky One tonight for Battlestar Galactica, and so obviously saw the new DOG and wasnt too happy about it. although in consideration, were getting off quite lightly it seems :) AW I look forward to watching Battlestar Galactica every Tuesday but had to turn it off last night as I couldn't put up with the Simpson's banner stretching across the screen. The way Sky is heading we will be lucky to see any of the programs hidden beneath a barrage of on-screen advertising. Became so incensed that I phoned to cancel my subscription, I'll rather wait and buy the dvds. Got through to the accounts department and they offered to reduce the monthly subscription for three months but if thing do not improve I will be cancellng it. JB |
Sky finds new way to advertise during programmes
"Paul Heslop" wrote in message ... Tumbleweed wrote: It occurs to me that phoning just to whinge is more effective since it ties up their phone lines even if only for a few minutes, which means people cant get through to order. An email or letter costs them nothing to read and inconveniences no one there. -- Tumbleweed email replies not necessary but to contact use; tumbleweednews at hotmail dot com have you tried ringing sky recently? Yes. Thats why it would inconveience them, but you'd need to call free phone and on hands free as not to get too bored. -- Tumbleweed email replies not necessary but to contact use; tumbleweednews at hotmail dot com |
Sky finds new way to advertise during programmes
"Jomtien" wrote in message ... Tumbleweed wrote: It occurs to me that phoning just to whinge is more effective since it ties up their phone lines even if only for a few minutes, which means people cant get through to order. No, phoning earns them money as they charge you 8p a minute to talk to some Indian graduate who is being paid 8p an hour to answer the phone. If they get really busy on the phones they'll just employ a few thousand more, and make even more money. In fact they could one day make more out of the complaints phone line than out of subscriptions. Its the opportunity cost of someone giving up who might have ordered they are worried about. And they really do not want to employ more people. But I take your point. is there a freephone no for sky? -- Tumbleweed email replies not necessary but to contact use; tumbleweednews at hotmail dot com |
Sky finds new way to advertise during programmes
"Mike Henry" wrote in message ... However, that said, I do MUCH prefer this latest way "version 3" of doing it... http://xs77.xs.to/pics/06163/20060414-smaller.jpg To Sky's old way a few days ago "version 2": http://xs77.xs.to/pics/06163/20060409-vroom.jpg Version 2 was presumably created because not enough of us complained about this "version 1" - which remember was animated as well: http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs60&d=05514&f=malc-ruined-01.jpg It's interesting that there are so many complaints this week, far more than the other occasions. Despite it being - by Sky's standards at least - the most subtle one of the lot! It seems that frequency of the advert (number of times it is used) is more annoying that how much of each programme it covered was ruined? Surely not? Well the difference is that V3 is permanent, whereas V1/2 were temporary Loz |
Sky finds new way to advertise during programmes
Tumbleweed wrote:
"Paul Heslop" wrote in message ... Tumbleweed wrote: It occurs to me that phoning just to whinge is more effective since it ties up their phone lines even if only for a few minutes, which means people cant get through to order. An email or letter costs them nothing to read and inconveniences no one there. -- Tumbleweed email replies not necessary but to contact use; tumbleweednews at hotmail dot com have you tried ringing sky recently? Yes. Thats why it would inconveience them, but you'd need to call free phone and on hands free as not to get too bored. -- :O) not to mention being able to switch off that annoying tune. -- Paul (Take my hand, I'm standing right here) ------------------------------------------------------- Stop and Look http://www.geocities.com/dreamst8me/ |
Sky finds new way to advertise during programmes
^^artnada^^ wrote:
In news:[email protected], Stephen Chadfield typed almost using sensible wording: On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Tumbleweed wrote: The only thing they would care about is; "please cancel my subscription immediately. Reason for cancellation is the advertising on screen overwriting the program you are showing" I can't cancel immediately - the whole family is eager to see Ricky Gervais on the Simpsons! Don't hold your brreath. It's crap much like the rest of the Simpsons they produce nowadays.. I've seen it. I will say there are odd ones, Future-Drama for instance, which fail more times than they hit the mark, but some of the newer ones have bristled with classic humour. I'm about 50/50 on this -- Paul (Take my hand, I'm standing right here) ------------------------------------------------------- Stop and Look http://www.geocities.com/dreamst8me/ |
Sky finds new way to advertise during programmes
Edster wrote:
Stephen Chadfield wrote in message On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Tumbleweed wrote: The only thing they would care about is; "please cancel my subscription immediately. Reason for cancellation is the advertising on screen overwriting the program you are showing" I can't cancel immediately - the whole family is eager to see Ricky Gervais on the Simpsons! When is it on? Ha ha ha seriously, this sunday. I don't know about the rest of the tv papers but TV & Satellite weekly are making about as big a thing as they would the queen popping into Albert square. -- Paul (Take my hand, I'm standing right here) ------------------------------------------------------- Stop and Look http://www.geocities.com/dreamst8me/ |
Sky finds new way to advertise during programmes
"Stephen Chadfield" wrote in message news:[email protected] On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Tumbleweed wrote: The only thing they would care about is; "please cancel my subscription immediately. Reason for cancellation is the advertising on screen overwriting the program you are showing" I can't cancel immediately - the whole family is eager to see Ricky Gervais on the Simpsons! -- Stephen Chadfield http://www.chadfield.com/ Ricky Gervais, who is this burk anyways! Zetec |
Sky finds new way to advertise during programmes
Zetec wrote:
"Stephen Chadfield" wrote in message news:[email protected] On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Tumbleweed wrote: The only thing they would care about is; "please cancel my subscription immediately. Reason for cancellation is the advertising on screen overwriting the program you are showing" I can't cancel immediately - the whole family is eager to see Ricky Gervais on the Simpsons! -- Stephen Chadfield http://www.chadfield.com/ Ricky Gervais, who is this burk anyways! Zetec The guy from The Office. I didn't find the program funny, though 2DTV's ripoff of that dance he did with the little asian lads was funny. -- Paul (Take my hand, I'm standing right here) ------------------------------------------------------- Stop and Look http://www.geocities.com/dreamst8me/ |
Sky finds new way to advertise during programmes
In message , Simon Ough
writes I have sent this to Sky's "Viewer Relations" department this evening.... Dear Sky, We get the bumpers during the ads for Ricky Gervais' appearance on the The Simpsons ad-nauseum. Every break it seems to be on... Now we get a message ON SCREEN underneath the Sky One "DOG" during all of primetime saying the same thing???? How many times do we need to be told??? Yes! We know! Ricky on Sunday on The Simpsons - WE GET IT!!!!! Turn the bloody thing off! Thanks for listening, Simon Ough A rather annoyed Sky One viewer. I wonder if that will make the Sky mag, next month :-) This times star letter was a classic, someone had written in saying how much their family loved the mag, they'd even enclosed a picture with colour-coded book-marks for all the stuff they wanted to watch, and highlighted various entries, LOL. -- Sean Black |
Sky finds new way to advertise during programmes
Sean Black wrote:
In message , Simon Ough writes I have sent this to Sky's "Viewer Relations" department this evening.... Dear Sky, We get the bumpers during the ads for Ricky Gervais' appearance on the The Simpsons ad-nauseum. Every break it seems to be on... Now we get a message ON SCREEN underneath the Sky One "DOG" during all of primetime saying the same thing???? How many times do we need to be told??? Yes! We know! Ricky on Sunday on The Simpsons - WE GET IT!!!!! Turn the bloody thing off! Thanks for listening, Simon Ough A rather annoyed Sky One viewer. I wonder if that will make the Sky mag, next month :-) This times star letter was a classic, someone had written in saying how much their family loved the mag, they'd even enclosed a picture with colour-coded book-marks for all the stuff they wanted to watch, and highlighted various entries, LOL. -- Sean Black Yeah, I love the ones that say "Oh I wish someone would put annoying reminders at the top of the screen for programs which aren't on til next week!" and the reply goes "As luck would have it this is exactly what we have started doing!" I think it was when they started putting those settings for reminders on previews, a 'letter' requesting the same exactly as they appeared. -- Paul (Take my hand, I'm standing right here) ------------------------------------------------------- Stop and Look http://www.geocities.com/dreamst8me/ |
Sky finds new way to advertise during programmes
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 08:10:07 +0200, Jomtien wrote:
No, phoning earns them money as they charge you 8p a minute to talk to some Indian graduate who is being paid 8p an hour to answer the phone. Which is remarkable since Sky's call centres are in Scotland. -- |
Sky finds new way to advertise during programmes
"Zero Tolerance" wrote in message ... On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 08:10:07 +0200, Jomtien wrote: No, phoning earns them money as they charge you 8p a minute to talk to some Indian graduate who is being paid 8p an hour to answer the phone. Which is remarkable since Sky's call centres are in Scotland. Re-routed to India as you can tell (especilly if you mention snow on your satellite dish!) Great to have a conversatin on hearing some voddo doll answer and say "Hello, I'm ringing over the *Get Sky for free on your PC* offer on Ebay" Always seems to be a long pause so after some indian mumbo jumbo meaning "Eh?" , "Alright then, how about this crack for the Sky viewing card...Where can I get it from?" |
Sky finds new way to advertise during programmes
Edster wrote:
Paul Heslop wrote in message Yeah, I love the ones that say "Oh I wish someone would put annoying reminders at the top of the screen for programs which aren't on til next week!" and the reply goes "As luck would have it this is exactly what we have started doing!" I think it was when they started putting those settings for reminders on previews, a 'letter' requesting the same exactly as they appeared. Dear Kathy and Claire, please make Sky put reminders on screen telling me when I should eat, otherwise I might starve to death. :O)) -- Paul (Take my hand, I'm standing right here) ------------------------------------------------------- Stop and Look http://www.geocities.com/dreamst8me/ |
Sky finds new way to advertise during programmes
Zero Tolerance wrote:
No, phoning earns them money as they charge you 8p a minute to talk to some Indian graduate who is being paid 8p an hour to answer the phone. Which is remarkable since Sky's call centres are in Scotland. Strange then that there should be so many Indians working there. -- Digibox problem? : A reboot solves 90% of these. The Sky Digital FAQ: http://tinyurl.com/8vef5 UK TV overseas: http://tinyurl.com/6p73 BBC reception questions? ; http://www.astra2d.com/ Fed up with on-screen logos? : http://logofreetv.org/ ---- Only the truth as I see it. No monies return'd. ;-) |
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