Sports Oracle (Sky Sports News)

Member Name: Leon_W

Product:	Sky Sports News
Date:	20/09/08 (50 review reads)
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Advantages: all the sports news at the push of a button

Disadvantages: none

Sky Sports News is a 24 hour news channel dedicated to the world of sport, and the 'crack team' of news readers delivers this with great diligence. Breaking the most up to date stories as they are released, basically these guys will break any big news before the back pages with generally more truthful results.

The best thing about the channel is that come free with most freeview box packages. Or you can purchase it if you use Sky along with their other sports channels.

During the week the show is hosted by two newsreaders, which will read the sports news and break any new stories throughout the day.
On the right hand of the screen is a handy graphic that will show you all the league standings for near enough every football league in Britain. Top goalscoring charts and other interesting stats.
Along the bottom of the screen is a scrolling banner. Displaying all of the previous sports stories of the day. This is great for a quick glimpse at the news, and means you don't have to sit all day to wait for the presenters to report it.
The layout of the channel is very easy to process. Everything is clearly defined and not confusing at all.

Saturday, the channel turns into a complete guide to the day's football action from 12am-5.30pm. My favourite, Gillette Soccer Saturday!
Hosted by Jeff Stelling and a host of ex pro's mainly, Matt Le Tissier, Charlie Nicholas, Phil Thompson and Paul Merson, giving their opinions on how the day's results will go, based on the stats. As a football fan, I love to hear the honest opinions of the ex pro's on this channel, which can also lead to mass debate between them all, makes for great football viewing. It certainly makes me excited to see how the day's results will pan out.

This show is not without it's humour also, whether it be a bungling Chris Kamara, out on an outside broadcast at some obscure football ground, or the rapier whit of Jeff Stelling in the studio, they always seem to have a laugh, and you can tell that they genuinely enjoy the job they are doing.
Once the games are underway, results from all the leagues in the country are shown in the right hand graphic, and a vidi printer type graphic takes form on the bottom of the screen, showing all of the latest goals as they come in.
The guest panel of ex footballers are all equipped with headphones and a screen showing them various games from the premier league, which they in turn report on as incidents occur. Goals cause an uproar in the studio, after a while of watching you'll become acustomed to each ex pro's screams of joy when a goal has gone in, then you'll be able to work out for yourself in advance who has scored!
Jeff Stelling directs all this from his chair behind his own desk, smoothly running from outside broadcast reports to back in the studio when major incidents happen. Its like organised madness in a way, but makes for very exciting viewing indeed. The guy is also a fountain of footballing knowledge too, constantly dishing out the in depth stats as if he's known them all of his life.

For me, this program typifies saturday and sport in general. The coverage of all sport but especially football is great. If your into sport and you dont already know about this channel, then where have you been? You are missing out a sporting oracle here!
Soccer is saturday is simply brilliant, before this channel came along I was checking the scores on teletext! It gets you in the right mood to enjoy your sports filled saturdays, whether your going to the game or just wanting to watch the action packed coverage, you've got to give this a shout!

Summary: can't fault this channel. just watch it and catch up with the day's events