Okay, it's Tuesday. And I'm in mourning.
Recently, our digital TV company was taken over by Richard Branson's Virgin Media group. Unfortunately, they've been in an increasingly bitter turf war with Rupert Murdoch's BSkyB company over their jockeying for power in the industry. Lots of stabbing each other in the back, dirty tricks and increasingly bad tempers.
And, just weeks after the takeover, they started fighting over negotiations to continue to show SKY TV channels to Virgin Media customers. We've had these channels for years, you understand, without any fuss. But now...they failed to come to an arrangement, spent most of the time blaming each other and with the current contract running out...as of midnight last Wednesday, BSkyB unceremoniously pulled the plug and we found ourselves watching blank screens where SKY's channels used to be. (Though not for long. They were promptly replaced by 'witty' zingers from Branson, like renaming the Sky News channel 'Old Sky Snooze'. :rolleyes: )
Including SKY One.
SKY one is where 99% of the big US hit shows premiere.
Including SG1.
So, come this evening at 8pm - with just two episodes of SG1 to go - instead of recording Stargate, I'll be bereft and watching nothing.
Guess I'll be hitting mininova come tomorrow morning!
Anyway, just wanted to share my misery. And a big fat raspberry to Branson and Murdoch.
LabRat
ETA: 9.27 pm. Watch LabRat sob quietly into her Irn Bru. And, yes, I
was sad enough to actually go check if Sky One had come back on at two minutes to eight, even though I knew it wasn't going to be there...
