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Strange SKY scheduling

between sky onc and sky tuo (November 2005)

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OH
ohwhatanight Founding member
I was flicking around the SKY family of channels and decided to watch Man U's Greatest Goals on SKY onc
In an advert break I was flicking around and noticed that Sky tuo were showing Football Idol.

I was in a quandry what do I watch? I wanted to watch both !!!!

Why have Sky scheduled two programmes of similar genre against each other within their own family of channels?

ITV2 never show a soap opera when ITV1 does where they seem to schedule ITV2 programme around 'gaps' in certain genres from the ITV1 schedule. You look at X-Factor scheduling for the last few weeks on ITV1 and ITV2 and you can see that someone has sat down and taken care that you can watch XFactor on ITV1, Ant and Dec on ITV1, X Factor results on ITV1 and THEN Xtra Factor on ITV2.

Sky don't realise that their own channels aren't in competition with each other and need to offer different types of programming genres to maximise viewers!

I know someone will say that one is a repeat and the other programme will be repeated but that is not the exact issue here - it's POOR scheduling!
SE
Square Eyes Founding member
Isn't the problem with Sky Onc, Tuo, Thrcc that they all appeal to the same audience, ie. young male. There isn't much distinction in the lineup. Tuo & Thrcc are simply a timeshifted Sky Onc (18 months later in Sky Thrcc's case)
MS
Mr-Stabby
The scheduling is rather odd.

For example Sky Two were showing "Ross Kemp on Gangs" tonight, and were also showing it on Sky Three barely half an hour later.
OH
ohwhatanight Founding member
I still haven't worked out where Sky three pops up.

On Freeview it's still called SKY Travel even though I've rescanned numerous times.

And now on NTL I got Sky Three and Sky Travel Extra!

But going back to the subject - it can't be hard to schedule the odd piece of sport away from each other on the sky channels? 85% of the rest of the schedule is very similar and non-sport!
LO
lovin_it
I would say both Sky One and Sky Two were scheduled together, but on more of an automated basis, for example... a programme which TXs on Friday at 8pm on One would get repeated on Sunday at 8pm on Two, regardless of what it was.

So you occaisionally get clashes of genre purely because its done in this way.

The scheduling of programmes on Sky Three is entirely separate, it's basically a channel for Freeview only.
ST
Stuart
If there are clashes of genere then Sky assume that you must have access to all 3 entertainment channels (ie DSat) and are therefore pushing you towards Sky+ to resolve the conflict of interest.

Sky Two operates as a "Sky One +2 hours" for Star Trek episodes at the weekend, and as little more than a "+24 hours" for the rest of the time.

Sky Three just shows a selection of programmes from 12+ months ago, regardless of whether they clash with a similar programme on the main channel. It's a running advert for SKY after all, which is why it is FTA (even on DSat!)

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