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Post by Big Chungus on Dec 15, 2018 4:27:56 GMT -5
Since I haven't had the sports channels is well over 10 years this will be the first time I've watched Raw live on TV in forever, since Mix is a free channel. Kinda interesting too since Vince is returning.
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Post by Alice Syndrome on Dec 15, 2018 4:37:54 GMT -5
TIL that darts are for more then just bar shenanigans. Yeah, pro darts did basically spawn out of the bar game though, so until the late 80s it let the players drink and smoke during the game and it got a really bad rep. The attempts to clean it up and protect the player's earnings actually ended up in such an argument that the top 14 players at the time split off into their own tournament (which is by far the bigger one)
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Post by facethatrunstheplace on Dec 25, 2018 20:32:36 GMT -5
Sky Sports Arena has become Sky Sports Darts for the next few weeks during the World Darts Championship, so RAW and SmackDown will be moved about during this period. If you have them on series link, make sure you pay attention to these notes... RAW December 17th Sky Sports Mix - 1am Sky Sports Action - 10pm (repeat) SmackDown December 18th Sky Sports Action - 1am Sky Sports Action - 11pm (repeat) RAW Christmas Eve Sky Sports Mix - 1am Sky Sports Mix - 12am Boxing Day (repeat) SmackDown Christmas Day Sky Sports On Demand - 1am Sky Sports Mix - 10pm (first repeat) Sky Sports Action - 10pm 27th (second repeat) RAW New Year's Eve Sky Sports Action - 1am Sky Sports Action - 9pm (repeat) SmackDown New Year's Day Sky Sports Action - 1am Sky Sports Action - 10pm (repeat) Thanks for posting this but like I said in another thread I can't find it on any been the sky sports channels. And it hasn't been added to sky sports on demand yet. So I'm watching last week's Smackdown which I missed the beginning of.
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Post by avenger on Dec 25, 2018 20:54:31 GMT -5
Sky Sports Arena has become Sky Sports Darts for the next few weeks during the World Darts Championship, so RAW and SmackDown will be moved about during this period. If you have them on series link, make sure you pay attention to these notes... RAW December 17th Sky Sports Mix - 1am Sky Sports Action - 10pm (repeat) SmackDown December 18th Sky Sports Action - 1am Sky Sports Action - 11pm (repeat) RAW Christmas Eve Sky Sports Mix - 1am Sky Sports Mix - 12am Boxing Day (repeat) SmackDown Christmas Day Sky Sports On Demand - 1am Sky Sports Mix - 10pm (first repeat) Sky Sports Action - 10pm 27th (second repeat) RAW New Year's Eve Sky Sports Action - 1am Sky Sports Action - 9pm (repeat) SmackDown New Year's Day Sky Sports Action - 1am Sky Sports Action - 10pm (repeat) Thanks for posting this but like I said in another thread I can't find it on any been the sky sports channels. And it hasn't been added to sky sports on demand yet. So I'm watching last week's Smackdown which I missed the beginning of. Sky On Demand is live on Sky, but only catch up if you've got cable. Menawhile they are showing the same basketball match live on three different channels, including Sky Sports Action.
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Post by avenger on Dec 25, 2018 20:59:06 GMT -5
Obviously, UK darts has got to be more than just throwing darts at a board right? Well in terms of the "athletic" competiton side, it's literally just throwing darts at a board, yeah. Albeit at a very impressively high standard. Fascinatingly though, the growth of darts as a spectator sport has borrowed heavily from pro wrestling - ostentatious walk-ons, silly star nicknames and encouraged audience participation. It also taps into something that British crowds are naturally good at; dressing like a traffic cone and getting drunk for an extended period of time. I'll leave it there because I'm probably digressing into Off Topic (can we have a darts-watching club thread? ) but stars of other sports (such as Snooker) are outwardly very unhappy with their administrators' failure to harness TV and live audience revenues like Darts has. It's intriguing to watch unfold across different sports and we owe much of it to the production values of Vince McMahon The guy that runs the darts, is the same guy that runs the snooker. But one of the reasons that the darts has picked up is the atmosphere. And the atmosphere literally consists of thousands of people who can't see the board having a backwards and forwards chant battle with a different part of the crowd, while paying as little attention to what's going on in the game as is possible. Snooker has attempted to run a tournament with the darts style of allowing people to drink and shout out and chant, and funnily enough, the players hate it (most of the top ones don't enter), and it's not very popular among snooker fans.
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Post by avenger on Dec 25, 2018 21:02:40 GMT -5
When you say that's the only reason... it's actually a great reason. Given how competitive the market is for broadcast rights to sport, the fact the WWE can offer hundreds of hours of programming every year, puts them in a great position. Sky have lost La Liga, the Champions League, major golf and tennis events in recent years. Any decent boxing event is on PPV. They can ill afford to lose the volume, regularity and in-built fanbase that the WWE has. The only thing that puts a halt to that, again, comes down to simply about trust. You have to remember, we were pretty close to getting the WWE Network for around £6 a month on its UK launch and that was only because they wanted to call Sky’s bluff about giving them a new deal. A deal that was made redundant when WWE only promoted their stuff through the Network and made buying on Sky Box Office completely redundant outside of if you were a bar organizing a screening. Even with that amount of content and demanding exclusivity of Main Event, you’re not going to be a USA and turn around and offer more money when you’re already not getting much back outside of something to fill the gap on slots nobody is watching to start off with. Not to mention that Sky's biggest concern is whether they can make a profit on it. In other words, how much advertising can they sell? I only watch the live ones, but most of the advertising space is taken up by paid adverts, rather than trailers for other Sky shows.
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Dec 25, 2018 23:00:25 GMT -5
But one of the reasons that the darts has picked up is the atmosphere. And the atmosphere literally consists of thousands of people who can't see the board having a backwards and forwards chant battle with a different part of the crowd, while paying as little attention to what's going on in the game as is possible. Are there dart smarks that give out to this type of crowd? "YOU SHOULD BE PAYING ATTENTION TO THE BOARD, WHY ARE YOU THERE IF YOU DON'T WANT TO WATCH DARTS?".
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Post by avenger on Dec 27, 2018 17:34:40 GMT -5
But one of the reasons that the darts has picked up is the atmosphere. And the atmosphere literally consists of thousands of people who can't see the board having a backwards and forwards chant battle with a different part of the crowd, while paying as little attention to what's going on in the game as is possible. Are there dart smarks that give out to this type of crowd? "YOU SHOULD BE PAYING ATTENTION TO THE BOARD, WHY ARE YOU THERE IF YOU DON'T WANT TO WATCH DARTS?". That's literally me at home while it's going on.
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