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danielle

HI, TONITE I HAD A SALESMAN CALL TO MY DOOR ABOUT SKY DIGITAL I TOLD HIM, I HAD SKY SO WE GOT TALKING IN GENERAL AND HE TOLD ME AND REMEMBER HE HAD NO SELLING TO DO TO TRY GET ME TO SUBSCRIBE TO SKY BUT, TO CUT A LONG STORY SHORT HE INFORMED ME THAT 'UTV' HAD AGREED TO COME ON SKY AT THE END OF THIS MONTH..............

Indeed.
I didn't know sky had resorted to door to door sales??
I would have thought that was the preserve of Companies that are doing badly and need a leg up??
Anyone else know of Sky having door to door sales people??
How come all tease threads are in capital letters??
Methinks a mail to Orla at UTV is called for;)
Where is Charlie Slane, these days when we need him most
mm

Ozzie

I got Sky last October via a door to door saleswoman. (Wexford area). It's a very good way of getting people who are in two minds about Sky, as I was. It was installed within 10 days and I haven't looked back. It'd be great if UTV came, as it's the only channel I miss. (Used to be with Chorus).

Oz.

carrolls

Danielle
I think we have heard all this before.:o
I don't think switching on the caps lock makes it any more believable.:mad:
Two months ago I got slated by someone for being
similarly negative. Two months later I have been proved right.
Danielle, Next time record the conversation on a
pearlcorder and make it into wav file and post a link to it.
Or get it in writing and make a JPG file of it.

ihatemushrooms

Sky are out there alright, I was at a presentation they gave recently on Interactive TV and the future, blah blah. They did mention that they had set up offices in Dublin to manage a network of dealers promoting the products door to door. Most of their interactive stuff is going to be premium rate for messaging, polls etc. In the UK they also offer yahoo and Demon email on the platform.

Mossy Monk

keep UTV away. give us HTV instead

Originally posted by Mossy Monk
keep UTV away. give us HTV instead

Much as I like UTV-I far prefer HTV-It's like home from home:)
probably 'cause I grew up with it and never saw UTV till college.
mm

Tony

Originally posted by ihatemushrooms
Sky are out there alright, I was at a presentation they gave recently on Interactive TV and the future, blah blah. They did mention that they had set up offices in Dublin to manage a network of dealers promoting the products door to door. Most of their interactive stuff is going to be premium rate for messaging, polls etc.

Where and when did this take place?

Regards Tony

Mossy Monk

Originally posted by madman


Much as I like UTV-I far prefer HTV-It's like home from home:)
probably 'cause I grew up with it and never saw UTV till college.
mm

i only ever had HTV with the exception of the time i had Cork/Irish Multichannel which is now Chorus :eek: :eek: and they carried UTV with a terrible picture included for free. how nice of them

ihatemushrooms

For Tony,

Presentation was to the IAB, it was held at the end of March. It started out as a presentation on advertising opportunities on Digital Tv but evolved into a heads up on Skys planned activity in Ireland for the coming year. There were a couple of speakers from Sky and then a couple from leading advertising agencies in Dublin. Very general stuff really

Tony

Originally posted by ihatemushrooms
For Tony,

Presentation was to the IAB, it was held at the end of March. It started out as a presentation on advertising opportunities on Digital Tv but evolved into a heads up on Skys planned activity in Ireland for the coming year. There were a couple of speakers from Sky and then a couple from leading advertising agencies in Dublin. Very general stuff really

Thanks for the info

carrolls

That would have been an interesting event to attend

dmeehan

indeed!
i dont suppose there are any similar events planned for cork??

Saruman

Was that the presentation where TodayFM's "Bertie" did the "coz i got sky!" song? Cool song! hehe

anyway door to door is a logical step.. i saw a sky digital stand in our local supermarket.. no freebies though... sigh..

ihatemushrooms

Wasn`t the one with the song, unfortunately as its excellent:-) The name of the guy that was giving the presentation was Mark Deering, Sky are based in Baggot street if I remember correctly. maybe they could tell you about any proposed presentations. Hope this helps

Tony

Originally posted by ihatemushrooms
Wasn`t the one with the song, unfortunately as its excellent:-) The name of the guy that was giving the presentation was Mark Deering, Sky are based in Baggot street if I remember correctly. maybe they could tell you about any proposed presentations. Hope this helps

Last office I was in was Hugenot House on Stephens Green and that was to take down their satellite dish as the owner was building a penthouse on the roof, so I asked them what were they going to use for demo purposes to which they replied "oh thats ok we have cable" The irony of it all

Regards Tony

Charles Slane

Originally posted by madman
Where is Charlie Slane, these days when we need him most
mm

Well I was on holidays in Portugal for a week, where I was surprised that their local cable company had BBC1, 2, Prime, World, News24, Granada, Channels 4 and 5, Sky One, News, CNBC, CNN, UK Gold, Bravo, History, Discovery, Nat Geo, Cartoon Net, Boomerang, MTV, about thirty other European channels (including some very watchable late-night Dutch programming ), but most interestingly(apart from the Dutch programming), RTE1 arrived on Tuesday !!!!

And I still managed to get a tan !!

These were all on analogue cable. What a service !!

So Sky Digital have taken to knocking on people's doors to get more business ?? Honestly, I go away for a week and the world turns upside down!!

They'd be far better off sorting out the digital Beebs, ITV, and Channel 4 (and Channel 5 for that matter, while we're at it).

ShaneOC

I'm just back from Mallorca myself where as expected 99% of the pubs had Sky Digital. Unfortunately the introduction of UK TV has heralded the introduction of UK weather. It was crap. Speaking of crap, channel 5, eh???

Originally posted by Charles Slane


Well I was on holidays in Portugal for a week, where I was surprised that their local cable company had BBC1, 2, Prime, World, News24, Granada, Channels 4 and 5, Sky One, News, CNBC, CNN, UK Gold, Bravo, History, Discovery, Nat Geo, Cartoon Net, Boomerang, MTV, about thirty other European channels (including some very watchable late-night Dutch programming ), but most interestingly(apart from the Dutch programming), RTE1 arrived on Tuesday !!!!

And I still managed to get a tan !!

These were all on analogue cable. What a service !!

Thats all either highly illegal or we are all being taken for mugs!
I suspect both to be the case...
Shane and charlie away from the boards the same week on reconnaissance for ICDG:D
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DMC

Originally posted by madman
Shane and charlie away from the boards the same week on reconnaissance for ICDG:D

Cheques in post, lads.

You must feel like Mary Wilson away from the Four Courts and following Bertie instead

Summat illegal in that fortuitious reception of those channels Charles !

Charles Slane

Originally posted by DamoDMC
Summat illegal in that fortuitious reception of those channels Charles !

Hugely so !! But I wasn't complaining. The reception was crystal clear on every channel.

tombenjr

Has anyone else hear about UTV being
available to ROI Sky Digital and or maybe
received a e-mail from Orla or got some info
from another Sky Salesman?
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