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Cheers mate, tried again and working now ... happy days!

Thanks I did try that but it didn't work .... I'll try again though as it might save me the dosh!

Cheers!

Am I right in thinking that TG was in a private plane crash after one of the GPs and his father was on board too? I hope he wins as he brings genuine excitement to the GPs. On a separate not, although I don't like him, it was good to see Nicki Pedersen back in a final and I hope we'll see more of him in future as he does add entertainment to the GPs, even if it usually is for the wrong reasons!

Absolutely correct Young51! Think something is being lost in the translation here if you'll pardon the pun. I think she'd do great job for SKY and viewing figures!

Que? Think you're misunderstanding where I'm coming from here ... I was being complimentary!

She really is! Perhaps we should have a whip round and get her some English lessons and she could go on SKY next year ... then weekly GPs next!

Thanks to everyone for the help ... contacted SKY and unfortunately I have a problem with my SKY box ... gonna cost me £65 call out charge. Perhaps it would be cheaper to learn Polish and might be worth it as the presenter is much better looking than Keith Huewen! Justbitv isn't an option as it doesn't work on Safari and I'd need to install Firefox. Thanks again everyone for the help!!

Is that Sky Sports 2 with the US Open? When I press the red button nothing happens.

Hi SuddenSam15 ... I'm a SKY HD customer ... any help you can give gratefully accepted!

Is it just me or is anyone getting this on SKY at present? Fed up watching on t'internet ... my Polish isn't up to scratch ... and the 'war office' wants to know why I keep looking at adverts for a Russian wife! Help!!!!!!!!!!!!

From a financial POV this would be impractical . For SKY to close for example, a Polish website, would be a legal mine field with far reaching implications for the internet as a whole. It would take years, probably go to Brussels, and would cost more than it's worth. And if they did close it, a new site would open up next day in a non-EU country. SKY make money from advertising. Although they'd never publicly admit it, they want to show advertisers an appealing audience figure, whether or not these people have subscribed is neither here nor there in the grand scheme of things. In a similar vein, you can walk into almost any pub in the UK and 'buy' a SKY card that allows you to watch without subscribing. How much effort have SKY put into stopping this? Not a lot! Again in the grand scheme of things, if viewers are watching SKY rather than BBC they're happy. Occasionally SKY will claim to be changing your SKY card to stop this practice. This is done in the main, not to gain more subscription money, but to demonstrate to those people honest enough to be paying to watch, that SKY takes their business serious and will not tolerate the non payers.

We are simply now seeing the start of 'TV' viewing of the future. In ten years time or less internet TV will be huge. Personally I sometimes watch GPs on my laptop whilst watching TV in the same room. I can watch a TV programme with the family and interrupt this with one minute's racing. I'm sure I'm not the only one. One of the flaws with the argument that declining viewing figures directly correlates with a reduced interest in GPs is that this takes no account of the quality of the product SKY delivers. SKY have kept the same basic format and commentators/analysts, hence this is another potential factor. Non-hardcore speedway fan viewers may not be watching the programme, rather than the GP as it could be a case of 'same old, same old'. Jeff Scott chose to respond to my posting about transmission time by belittling it. Transmission time is a significant factor in TV viewing figures. A prime example being late evening news. Just look at how ITN changed News at Ten to 9pm and then reverted back to 10pm. This happened for various reasons. Transmission timing is key to viewing figures. A little known 'trick' employed by satellite companies is the timing of TV breaks. Have you ever been watching a programme, the adverts come on and you switch over to another channel and the adverts are on there too? Sister channels deliberately do this. Yes, I appreciate this is not the same as absolute transmission time, but it demonstrates how important timing is.

Well Jeff unlike you I don't have a pre-conceived personal agenda that I'm working to and/or a single, self opinionated point of view of people who at least try to improve speedway. They don't hide behind a keyboard critiquing it, they have the entrepreneurial spirit to aim higher. The tone and content of your reply was exactly what I suspected it would be ... but thought I'd put to the test! Thank you. You really should show more respect to the people who buy or could potentially buy your books. PS ... Having been involved in brand marketing and advertising for over 30 years I do have a wee bit of knowledge of what can affect TV ratings and despite the stand point you write from I have seen little evidence of a valid, impartial and credible argument from you on this "catastrophic further collapse"!

Sorry Jeff I remain to be convinced. We are not comparing apples with apples. You cannot ignore the fact that the world cup was on at this time. That has an impact on viewing figures, not only from a perspective of direct competition i.e. simultaneous broadcasting, but time available to watch TV. In other words, "only X amount of sport allowed on the TV in our house today".There would be world cup parties and barbecues. A 5pm start means there is less latent viewers available as 5pm is a time when people could be returning from an afternoon out or getting a meal ready. An evening start means more people are available to watch. The weather in both years is also a factor have you considered this? More factors need to be considered before a valid and impartial conclusion can be drawn.

Why not?

There's a joke in there somewhere...

LOL!! How's the holiday?

Deserves an MBE for services to speedway!

I can remember him at Paisley and Coatbridge in the 70s.

Just remembered the vendor in the white coat shouting, "Speedway Star, Speedway Mail". At the start of the meeting he stood at the turnstiles, then during the meeting he walked around. Best bit though was at the end of the meeting when he had copies of the Star from years back on the floor and he sold them cheap!

I'd forgotten about them. I used to see these when I mingled in the pits after meetings in the hope of getting an autograph or for some strange reason some of those perspex "visors" thingys which were held in by bulldog clips on the end of helmet duck bill. Also miss Daytona boots and real bull horn handle bars.

Why? The armed forces are legal organisations, so why should they not be able to promote themselves?

Does it really matter who sponsors a speedway meeting/rider/race? Any sponsorship is good sponsorship and we should be showing gratitude for it!

Takes a big man to do what you've done CMV06 .... respect to you!