MySky, My Saviour
Those who are a certain indeterminate age will recall with fondness the days when live international sport was first televised.
Keep in mind that at the time a rugby test match would be scheduled and the TV schedules would simply have a blank TBC.
No promotion, no advertising, but if you’re a good boy we might just televise the test match live.
The concern of course was that the administrators didn’t want to cannibalise their attendance – they hadn’t cottoned on to the fact that they could make more money from selling the TV rights.
Anyway, having set the scene, you will now understand (or even recall) that in the days of 1 or at most 2 TV channels there wasn’t wall to wall coverage of sports. Live sport was a treat whenever it was on TV.
So that meant when live sport was on TV late at night, it became an event.
Thousands of NZers would stay up or get up to watch the FA Cup or the Rugby League knockout final. It didn’t matter who was playing it was live and lights would shine throughout the night as we glimpsed insights into sports that seemed a galaxy away.
Fast forward to last weekend and in addition to all the free to air TV, Sky and other broadcasters provide round the clock TV entertainment. In Sky’s case, there’s 4 dedicated channels for just sport.
So Sunday morning, I got up like the good old days to watch:
- the ABs v Wales live
- the Kiwis v Pomgolia live
- and catch up on the other results over night
The good old days aren’t as great as I remember them. From now on, it’s MySky for me … or it will be once I work may way through the waiting list.
Live sport is great. Live sport on MySky is even better.
The days of sitting around a wee 14″ TV with shocking reception where you could hardly see the ball doesn’t feel that long ago, but when when I watch the cricket at home on a 42″ TV I realise how far we have come.
I reckon the best way to experience a test match in New Zealand (if you can’t be at the match) is listening to it on radio sport while painting a fence or doing some other ’summer task’. Nothing more kiwi then that!