No HOYS on terrrestrial TV :( - seething

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Just got the H&H e-mail update; apparently NO HOYS on "ordinary" TV this year.

All you can get it on is the Sky Sports channel.

FFS :(

Gosh I remember in my (long ago) youth being allowed, just occasionaly, to stay up late and watch the SJ competitions. A pleasure totally denied to today's Pony Club youth plus all the rest of us.

I'm going to write to the Beeb...... not that they'll take FA notice, but am SO flippin incensed about this.

C'mon peeps, lets all write in dammit.
 
GGGGGGrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr it seriously pees me off that sky get all the flippin rights to show it, I used to be allowed to stay up and watch the show jumping as a child its where my love of show jumping comes from.

Im lucky enough to be going for the day Thursday, but would like to have seen some on the TV as well.
 
So much sport is confined to Sky though, it doesn't really surprise me. I mean, even something as popular as the premier league isn't shown on terrestrial TV!
 
MiJodsR2BlinkinTite said:
Oh lucky you being able to go to it, I've never been, somehow never got round to it plus its a bit of a long way from here, and would've loved to have been able to sit down with a glass of somminck and enjoy it on the Box.

Flip flip flip........ plus lots of rude words which can't be said on here :(:(:( (storms off in a huff)
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I am very lucky to be able to go, its my mums treat, we go on a Thursday every year. But yes i agree it would be nice to be able to settle down on the sofa with a drink and watch it.
 
I used to love watching it on the telly when I was little, such a shame it's not available to so many nowadays.
 
I don't think I have ever seen HOYS on the TV, its definitely not new, very sad though!

Still, you can find streams of sky sports online...
 
Yes its a shame that HOYS isn't on the beeb or wherever on terrestrial, but I have SKY at home and actually think they do a very good job. It is on the four nights from Thursday to the close on Sunday and you get the highlights of the main class of the afternoon, all the pony club evening competition live, the scurry racing and the two main classes on the evening performance. They take you behind the scenes, show the demonstrations and don't just interview all the top stars, but the up and coming stars of the future. SKY have had the rights for at least the last five years and put in quite a lot of money to show it whereas to be fair, on the beeb you were lucky if you got the puissance and one other class. Television is a very different beast these days and saying that the beeb should be showing everything isn't going to happen, unless its the football. Most people have some type of pay per view tv these days, so I say pick one that shows a lot of equestrian sport, which SKY doesn't seem to do too badly with in my opinion. PS I don't work for SKY just think they do ok!!
 
Its one of my happy childhood memories, being allowed to sit up late with my Dad and listening to Dorian Williams commentating on the likes of David Broome, Ted Edgar and Mike Saywell et al. Chainbridge anyone!!! It was one of the highlights of my year back in the day.. Agree with the poster above though, I do think Sky do a fantastic job and they do show far more of the show than the Beeb ever did.
 
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windseywoo said:
whereas to be fair, on the beeb you were lucky if you got the puissance and one other class.
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Oh no, they used to show lots of it on terrestrial when I was younger and it used to be on the telly, many more than one class plus the puissance. I used to end up watching the dog agility and everything, it was class, something I'd never see otherwise :D

(I still remember the santa sledge thing as well, happy days :D)
 
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Can't remember HOYS being on the beeb ever tbh.

Although SKY show it it wasn't even listed in the tv schedule at the weekend and I eventually found it burried on Sky Sports 4 so a lot of people with sky sports only have 1 & 2 package so still won't see it.
 
BBH said:
Can't remember HOYS being on the beeb ever tbh.

Although SKY show it it wasn't even listed in the tv schedule at the weekend and I eventually found it burried on Sky Sports 4 so a lot of people with sky sports only have 1 & 2 package so still won't see it.
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You're clearly not old enough, it was on every year in the 70s at least, I was allowed to stay up and watch and remember my faces Eddie Macken and Boomerang and also my other fave horse Ryans Son. It was an enormous treat as it was on after the evening news which was unfeasibly late!
 
Capriole said:
Oh no, they used to show lots of it on terrestrial when I was younger and it used to be on the telly, many more than one class plus the puissance. I used to end up watching the dog agility and everything, it was class, something I'd never see otherwise :D

(I still remember the santa sledge thing as well, happy days :

Is the Santa Sledge thing not Olympia?
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If you have a friend or family member with Sky, get them to add you to their Sky Go thing and you'll be able to watch it!

I love my brother much more now I can take shameless advantage of his tv channels ;)
 
MyBoyChe

I rode Chainbridge many moons ago at Hull Show!

I am peeved that HOYS aint on the Beeb, I won't have Sky, but remember great coverage...and the likes of Vibart, Simona, Uncle Max and of course the great littleun, Stroller. I had a soft spot for Corunna Bay, as Dorian always commented on his common head!
Happy days.
 
hackneylass, you lucky thing, he was one of my all time favourites, along with Tigre, Psalm and the fab little Stroller. I confess I pay for the full Sky package + Racing Uk as I just cant do without my "fix" of all things horsey.
 
Awwwhhh......... some of you on here are as old as me :) coz you can remember watching HOYS on TV; but in my case it had to be AFTER I'd done all my homework (which was, naturally, done accurately and in a flash so's to be allowed to stay up and watch it), AND provided it "didn't make me too tired for school the next day" (naturally, I was as fresh as a daisy:)).

Yes, I remember Eddie Macken and Boomerang, plus Harvey Smith, David Broome, Caroline Bradley, etc etc. All heroes of that age. By god those were the days.......
 
MagicMelon said:
Dont see why BBC cant run it on red button even :( Im not about to pay bloody Sky a fortune (rip off!) for the VERY occassional horse event to be shown.
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Probably because they can't compete with the money that sky offer to show it, and sky wont shell out for broadcasting rights for a minority if its on bbc too



I hate that equestrian sports are barely on tv, but i dont shell out for sky and evidently from this thread enough people feel the same, which makes it fairly obvious why its not on terrestrial tv because there just isnt the demand for it!
 
Bucks Fizz said:
I think this may be the only event I have ever voluntarily watched on sky sports!

Sky coverage hasn't been too bad actually, pleasantly surprised :)
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Same here! I watched most of last night's coverage and was pleased by how much non-showjumping was shown. It was a real treat to be able to see some of the Woodlander Farouche demo and the Prince Philip Cup is always great :D
 
MagicMelon said:
Dont see why BBC cant run it on red button even :( Im not about to pay bloody Sky a fortune (rip off!) for the VERY occassional horse event to be shown.
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There's a fair bit of equestrian sports shown on sky. They show Spruce Meadows for example and then you have Horse and Country TV which has heaps of stuff. Sky have fantastic coverage of HOYS, Olympia, Hickstead and RIHS. The only thing I really dislike is those two commentators!! All the coverage is also on in HD which is just fantastic.

If you have basic Sky you can just add the channel on for a month at a time. Sky is expensive but we go without other things to have it.

No - I don't work for them (pity, maybe I'd get a discount!!!). LOL.
 
MiJodsR2BlinkinTite said:
Awwwhhh......... some of you on here are as old as me :) coz you can remember watching HOYS on TV; but in my case it had to be AFTER I'd done all my homework (which was, naturally, done accurately and in a flash so's to be allowed to stay up and watch it), AND provided it "didn't make me too tired for school the next day" (naturally, I was as fresh as a daisy:)).

Yes, I remember Eddie Macken and Boomerang, plus Harvey Smith, David Broome, Caroline Bradley, etc etc. All heroes of that age. By god those were the days.......
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Me too :)
I remember watching it at my grandparents farm...my grandad always had it on. I used to sit on the hearth next to the open fire and watch it eating tray toffee :)
 
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