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This needs renaming as its very misleading.
Sky Sports News is a channel, this is just video from the Sky Sports website.
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The description for the add-on is clear that it is the videos from the website. The add-on is named Sky Sports News because the videos are clips that air on the live broadcast. I don't think that the name is misleading as the content is from Sky Sports News, the description is there in the first post and will be there on the UI once the plugin is submitted to the Kodi repository. As of right now I have no intention of renaming the add-on, but I will take it into consideration before I submit it to the repo.
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Many thanks for your work, this is a welcome addition to my other sports related addons.
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2018-06-17, 21:18
(This post was last modified: 2018-06-17, 21:19 by Lunatixz.)
It's up to the individual developer how they name their plugin... If however this plugin were to be submitted for repository submission. I would recommend changing the plugin to "Sky Sports". In Order to free up "Sky Sports News" for future development for that specific news feed.
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I'll change the name then, since I plan to submit it to the repo...
However, I'd like to point out that skysports.com is the same website used by Sky Sports News. The video clips are from the Sky Sports News editorial team, and often times the clips are directly from their editorials on the live news feed. The reason the website is not called skysportsnews.com is because Sky decided to encompass all their Sports channel via one domain name, but that doesn't take away from the fact that the clips are from SSN. It's very unlikely there will ever be an add-on with a live SSN feed since the channel is a premium channel and is only offered via Sky Go online, which at the moment seems to be behind unbreakable DRM.
In short, just because the url of the website doesn't have the word "news" in it doesn't take away from the fact that the clips are from Sky Sports News.
I'll push an update tomorrow mid day GMT with the new name.
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Youre right, However the channel isn't so much a news channel anymore, it's effectively a rolling 24 hr advert for sports events that Sky have the rights to broadcast, with a little bit of news thrown in.
A few years ago Sky news was behind a paywall, not anymore.
It's not out of the realms of possibility that SSN will take the same path.