KEITH T. DENNETT | New South | CONTACT
It’s all systems go at Kayo this morning, as Australia’s most reliable sports streaming service races to prepare for the footy season.
While a crack team of grounds people put the finishing touches on the NRL field being installed at Allegiant Stadium in Vegas, back home it’s understood Kayo is struggling to get its network firing at full capacity.
Renowned for delivering a streaming service that falls over whenever a light breeze picks up, Kayo says this year they’ve enlisted the help of a crack team of IT experts so customers can get through a whole set of six without the service dropping out.
Speaking to Tom Glitch, head of Kayo’s Digital Performance Unit, the Murdoch owned streamer has invested more this year in their technical support.
“Sure we haven’t had a reputation for delivering seamless service the last few years, we were averaging more drop outs per game than the West Tigers.”
“But this week we put a call out on a local university notice board, and we’ve hired three lucky IT students to come onboard as free interns and help us fix the servers in the basement.”
With news only weeks ago that Kayo has jacked up the price of its premium package to $40 a month, customers are already teeing off on the streamer.
“Yeah I love paying a round of beers each week to Kayo in exchange for a footy stream that’s got less resolution than an old Panasonic TC-14S1R.”
“Once upon a time sport was accessible to everyone, but now that most codes are putting it behind a paywall to drop a bit more shrapnel into Rupert’s bank accounts, it’s way better.”
“Plus their Super Saturday ads are awesome and really funny!”
