SportXChange

Infoanon

After its no show today the latest is that SportXChange will start on Wednesday - apparently shall be on 421 on UPC/NTL from then

barnicles

Yes that is correct

mike65

yay even more chaces to loose money.

Mike.

abraxas01

Guys
Just FYI, checking my TV this morning and Sports XChange is available, but on 417, not 421.

mike65

Just watched a bit. One room. 3 men and a lot of chat I suspect.

Mike.

paulm17781

Is it as good as BuzzTV? :rolleyes:

abraxas01

it's not all bad, brazilian league football highlights available.

barnicles

Sky 456

patrickmooney

Not a fan of this channel, come on UPC, give us some decent entertainment or music channels. Do they listen to it's customers at all?

paulm17781

patrickmooney wrote: »

Not a fan of this channel, come on UPC, give us some decent entertainment or music channels. Do they listen to it's customers at all?

Is that a rhetorical question?

barnicles

Anybody watch it?

Mossy Monk

It doesn't work for me on Sky. Constant breakup but as it is the only channel to do this I am not bothered about realligning the dish.

mike65

Tis grand, needs some tweaking - one the US presenters is a bit LOUD!

But anything with Lydia Hislop popping in is fine by me.

Mike.

barnicles

works fine for me

barnicles

patrickmooney wrote: »

Not a fan of this channel, come on UPC, give us some decent entertainment or music channels. Do they listen to it's customers at all?

If you want more channels get sky;):D:)

Blackwall

patrickmooney wrote: »

Do they listen to it's customers at all?

You need to ask that question :rolleyes:

paulm17781 wrote: »

Is that a rhetorical question?

Exactly

Of course they don't, the give away to that is them taking channels off and not replacing them and by putting the likes of DCTV and Buzz Tv on and expecting us to consider that as replacements for the loss of other channels.

CO19

Blackwall wrote: »

You need to ask that question :rolleyes:



Exactly

Of course they don't, the give away to that is them taking channels off and not replacing them and by putting the likes of DCTV and Buzz Tv on and expecting us to consider that as replacements for the loss of other channels.

What !! you don't like Buzz TV :eek: my god, that's a great station I'm so glad it's been added :rolleyes:

patrickmooney

barnicles wrote: »

If you want more channels get sky;):D:)

Yes, great response, I might just do that.

patrickmooney

So this channel only lasted some 6 months. Did a rescan of channels on UPC digital and noticed we'd dropped one. Coudn't figure out what it was until last night and now confirmed:

It has been confirmed today that SportsXchange (SKY 456) has ceased broadcasting. The channel now shows a message saying "Goodnight and god bless form the SportXchange"
It also states on screen "RIP SportXchange - Crunch Credited"

The struggling sport news channel was known for having rights to broadcast Brazilian soccer and the Coppa Italia.

In a telephone interview this afternoon the distressed sounding SportXchange MD blamed "the current economic conditions and competition".
He went on to say "It is with great regret that i have been left with no choice other than to cease broadcasting. In this tough economic climate, struggling advertising and low viewing figures have forced us to end. We are very proud of SportXchange and it is a terrible shame"

It is feared that this is the first of several low budget broadcasters to buckle under the pressure of the credit crunch.


SOURCE: OLIVER LIDDARD/SportXchange

paulm17781

patrickmooney wrote: »

It is feared that this is the first of several low budget broadcasters to buckle under the pressure of the credit crunch.

I hope BuzzTV can weather the storm. :rolleyes:

Now UPC, can we have some real channels please?

celticfc

Believe it or not SportXChange was actually a half decent channel.

They had a number of live games and had a good "soccer saturday" style updates show for the premier league complete with in-running betting details.

I'm sad to see it go.

paulm17781

celticfc wrote: »

Believe it or not SportXChange was actually a half decent channel.

I'll take you word for it. How it died and BuzzTV is still going is beyond me. Perhaps the cost of being on Sky killed SportsXchange?