SKY SPORTS SACK ANDY GRAY

The recent furor over an anti feminine comment made by commentator Andy Gray has only heated up further. It has been heavily criticized and outright met with strong reaction from all ways. The scandal had the leading commentator for Sky Sports passing derogatory comments on a women linesman Sian Massev. This was during an official match up that the commentator went on to make a rude remark. He stated if the female linesman understands the offside rule. As a leading football pundit from Sky itself, the celebrated commentator had to face mass flak from the public and on a global platform at that.

This apart; Gray is also a part of the World phone-hacking scandal. Either ways all eyes were then set on the man himself, Rupert Murdoch. This was as to how would he react to the situation and how severe he will be on Gray. The drama only added up all the more when Gray publicly apologized for his rude comments and stated that it was said in pure jest and not to be taken seriously. So much so that while made those comments he thought that the mike wasn’t on.

But then even more action erupted within the house of Sky itself as it became a matter of choice between Sky Sports and Sky News. As a news channel, Sky News had to cover the story the way it had happened even as Sky sports tried to cover the incident. The Sun also came up with a juicy story based on the scandal even as the newspaper itself is also owned by Murdoch. For once there were some heated exchanges being exchanged between the sports wing and the news wing of the channel even as Sky news felt it would go ahead with broadcasting the video of the incident. The reporter Andy Burton, who was also present with Gray at the time, has also been suspended by Sky Sports. In the mean while Gary is out of Sky as well.

But all this is not going to affect Sky's coverage of the Premier League even as the deal was won by the broadcaster for a massive sum of £1bn plus dollars. It will be on till the year of 2013. Talking of the other broadcasters, it was BBC that gave as much as £173m for a highlights deal while ESPN simply had to do with one of the six live packages.

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