Are you part of the problem or part of the solution?

[TheSandman]

SKY are going to lose a hell of a lot of subscribers over the next few years, it's another monthly direct debit bill that many can ill afford.

They seem to have started out in just the opposite direction. 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11604048

BSkyB reports rapid customer pick-up
UK broadcaster BSkyB added 96,000 new customers in the three months to 30 September, leaving it just shy of 10 million in total.          Analysts had predicted an increase of only about 69,000 subscribers.
Total revenues were £1.53bn ($2.41bn), a 15% rise on a year ago, as customers took up a broader range of services.

Just read that, amazing.
I couldn't have been more wrong.

Digital Switchover I guess?

[Dr Butler]

If it wasn't for cricket i'd have binned it a while back.

Like he said. Although I may think about getting rid after the Ashes.

Same here, but the wife loves shit like "my tumour is bigger than my breasts" type of programmes. 
I go on a crawl round the village pubs..

[Chris Harte]

From that BBC article above:

The broadening uptake of the media company's product offering pushed the BSkyB's "average revenue per user" - an annualised measure - up to £514, from £469 a year ago

That's more than the cost of my season ticket. In fact, both those figures are.

[Dante Lavelli]

I am currently traveling around central america and (excluding the World Cup) watched about 10-hours of TV in seven months.  Have I missed it.  Nope - not slightly.

However, I now have an absolute addition to the internet.

[Simon Ward]

Ditched Sky when we moved house about 6 years ago, kids were getting addicted to the Disney Channel and I was watching too much crap football (I can watch ITV4 for that and it's free). Since then I have been really glad I did as I can't believe that one man, Murdoch can wield so much power in our country.

[taylorsworkrate]

Sport is a huge part of my life.  As much as i may dislike Sky for their contribution to the current state of English football, i couldn't do without watching Cricket, Golf, Rugby, The NFL etc etc live on a regular basis.

[Chris Smith]

As I've argued on other threads it's not Sky that is ruining football it is the Premier League. They've pimped the game out to the highest bidder and if it hadn't been Sky it would have been another broadcaster, the money might not have been as much but the pissing around with fixtures would have been just the same.

I've got Sky and don't see that changing as long as I'm working.

[DB]

I actually don't watch much footy. The missus watches it more than me - will be watchinng this winter for the Ashes though....

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

I stopped SKY about 6 years ago. Murdoch hasnt had a penny from me since.
If I want to watch a game, I will go and watch it in the pub or watch it for free on the internet.
I pay for my season ticket and  the odd away game so I put my money in.
This afternoon I fully intend to watch the Sunderland game in my local and it wont cost me a penny.

[UK Redsox]

If you don't like the media running football and the players wages spiralling out of control you know what you gotta do.

What exactly do you mean regarding "the media running football" ?

Is it just the changing of kickoff times or is there more to it than that for you ?

[Concrete John]

I stopped SKY about 6 years ago. Murdoch hasnt had a penny from me since.
If I want to watch a game, I will go and watch it in the pub or watch it for free on the internet.
I pay for my season ticket and  the odd away game so I put my money in.
This afternoon I fully intend to watch the Sunderland game in my local and it wont cost me a penny.

Yet Murdoch will charge the pub you drink in for the Sky TV, so the money you spend having a beer or two in there will partly and indirectly go to him.

[TopDeck113]

No. 

I will avoid giving my money to Murdoch directly, if I can possibly help it.

But, I guess, the hypocrite in all of us, doesn't prevent me heading off the pub when there is a Villa match I want to see.

[dcdavecollett]

I was going to point out what an anti-union, tax-dodging, racist scumbag Murdoch is, but then I realised i didn't want my phone tapped, with the police refusing to do anything about it...

[CJ]

Never have and never will.  I have enough trouble finding anything to watch on Freesat channels without having to trawl another hundred channels full of crap. Not really interested in watching other football outside Villa games.  The only thing I miss and which really pisses me off is some of the big golf and cricket events, but no way will I part with my hard earned to the likes of Murdoch.

[TheSandman]

As I've argued on other threads it's not Sky that is ruining football it is the Premier League. They've pimped the game out to the highest bidder and if it hadn't been Sky it would have been another broadcaster, the money might not have been as much but the pissing around with fixtures would have been just the same.

I've got Sky and don't see that changing as long as I'm working.

Yes but if people don't subscribe to or watch this broadcaster...

And it's not just the kick off times (which wasn't overtly mentioned in the OP) it's the astronomical wages being paid to the players due to the TV money that are ruining or perhaps rooining to coin a poor pun the game. If a broadcaster offered less money there might be fewer incidences of players getting head-spinningly ridiculous wages.