SKT Sky Network Television Limited.

[Benny1]

Yeah totally get that. The other day I was at my sister in laws place and tried to use MySky. It had been a few years since I had used it and initially I was stumped! Took a while to navigate the UI.

I primarily use Vodafone TV to get the best of both worlds. VTV is certainly not perfect and I would like to see some more UX improvements...but it is much better than MySky imo.

I subscribe to Starter + Entertainment for $51.49/month (no MySky fee as I own the VTV box).
I also have NEON (which I can use on the VTV box along with a range of other apps) for $9.99/month under the Spark deal.

Then I have SSN for $24/month on a super special. Unfortunately VTV does not have the SSN app yet. I happen to have an appletv which I use - but would otherwise Chromecast.

So right now my total sub fee to Sky is ~$85/month. When my SSN next renews at the ‘normal’ rate my total sub will go up to ~$95/month. That works out to about $3.12 per day...less than a cup of coffee and money I am more than happy to spend on a huge range of quality content that I can watch when I want and how I want to.

Important to point out though that a Sky Box customer with “The Works” including MySky would pay ~$120/month. That is only 82c per day more than I am paying and they have all of their content on one platform plus the added benefit of SkyGO which is actually a really good app now.

I can see why satellite is still a compelling offer to many, with the added benefit of live sport being truly ‘live’ (our coverage is delayed by up to a minute on SSN which can be annoying if your mates have satellite and give away spoilers).

I assume you have an unlimited broadband plan as well for streaming?
If you factor that in compared to a mysky+ box with starter,entertainment and sports + a basic fibre plan and the gap closes even more

[mistaTea]

I assume you have an unlimited broadband plan as well for streaming?
If you factor that in compared to a mysky+ box with starter,entertainment and sports + a basic fibre plan and the gap closes even more

Yes true. But I think a lot of people (myself included) would still get an unlimited plan even if I got MySky.

With other OTT providers plus working from home flexibility I would take unlimited fibre anyway.

Meant to say earlier, VTV does have a cool option in the settings now where you can tell the box to only show channels that you are subscribed to.

So when I do navigate the TV guide I don’t see the Sky Movies, Sport, specialist channels etc. Makes it much easier to see the channels I do pay for when trying to find things to record and series link.

[Dlownz]

Wonder who brought that huge parcel of shares 35 million shares for $5.86mill at. 168 on close. Ps no takeover talk Ogg

[Baa_Baa]

Wonder who brought that huge parcel of shares 35 million shares for $5.86mill at. 168 on close. Ps no takeover talk Ogg

It was after close and didn't affect the closing SP for the day $0.171.

[mistaTea]

Wonder who brought that huge parcel of shares 35 million shares for $5.86mill at. 168 on close. Ps no takeover talk Ogg

Christ! That is ~2% of the shares outstanding.

Ogg is going to have a stiffy all weekend...

[LaserEyeKiwi]

Wonder who brought that huge parcel of shares 35 million shares for $5.86mill at. 168 on close. Ps no takeover talk Ogg

I haven't been following SKT that long, are these sort of transactions common? 2% of the company changing hands in one trade? According to the top 20 shareholders list in the last annual report there were only 7 institutions holding more than 2% of shares.

[mistaTea]

I haven't been following SKT that long, are these sort of transactions common? 2% of the company changing hands in one trade? According to the top 20 shareholders list in the last annual report there were only 7 institutions holding more than 2% of shares.

Not common at all. A heavy volume day would be around 6M-8M shares.

As of late typical trading days are around 2M I think.

Someone keen to buy up large.

Someone else keen to sell out large too.

[Ogg]

Wonder who brought that huge parcel of shares 35 million shares for $5.86mill at. 168 on close. Ps no takeover talk Ogg

Put through trade, so two clients from same brokerage firm.

Hope it's not Peter from Black-Crane getting 'paper hands' and selling back to UBS. I think he's been overweight in this ever since the death placement last year. His fund has held for exactly one year now and 16.77 is close to his average. Maybe he's taking some risk off the table.

Who would buy that many though? There's been hardly any institutional buying/accumulation on this stock for some time now. Who would be sick enough to chuck in $6m like that.

Maybe it's some stealth buying from a takeover firm as it was late on Friday when everyone's gone home. Good time to do it after an earthquake and lockdown.

As I've always said, once these $100m bonds are paid off at the end of the month and the company is debt free, SOMETHING HAS TO HAPPEN. Either Sky is being taken over or it's taking something else over - either way something will happen! Hoping for the former because I'm getting sick of posting here!

[Baa_Baa]

Not common at all. A heavy volume day would be around 6M-8M shares.

As of late typical trading days are around 2M I think.

Someone keen to buy up large.

Someone else keen to sell out large too.

Just be quietly encouraged that some party is happy to have made some nice profit and some other party is anticipating making a nice profit. Big party’s as well. What’s not to like eh?

[LaserEyeKiwi]

doesn't look like the market is buying any sort of takeover rumour.