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Is Sky UK Cardsharing coming to an end – some channels now unavailable!

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Is Sky UK Cardsharing coming to an end ? During this past week, people using cardshare systems to access their Sky pay channels, have been losing some of their channels. Channels including: Sky Atlantic (but the +1 service looks to be fine at the moment!) Fox +1 TCM Eurosport 1 Eurosport 2 are currently showing […]

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Sky and Discovery reach agreement

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Discovery and Sky have reached an agreement that will see Discovery’s channels continue to be available on Sky, including Eurosport. The negotiations went down to the wire, with the announcement of an agreement coming just four and a half hours before the channels were due to come off Sky. Sky had said on Friday that […]

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Deadline day: Sky and Discovery close in on 11th hour deal

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Deadline day: Sky and Discovery close in on 11th hour deal Sky and Discovery are closing in on a last-minute deal to save the likes of Eurosport and Animal Planet from the UK’s screens. The two media giants are in the middle of an embarrassing spat over the future of Discovery’s channels on the Sky […]

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Sky may lose Discovery channels..some Questions and Answers

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Sky may lose Discovery channels..some Questions and Answers What is changing? From 1 February, Discovery Communications’ portfolio of channels are unlikely to be available in Sky TV packages. Which channels does this include? In the UK and Ireland, this includes DMAX, Animal Planet, ID, Eurosport 1, Eurosport 2, Discovery Shed, Discovery Home & Health, Discovery […]

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Sky customers could lose Discovery/Eurosport/Animal Planet/TLC from next week

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Discovery Networks International is threatening to pull all of its channels from Sky following a carriage dispute between the two media giants. If left unresolved, it would mean that channels such as Discovery, Animal Planet and TLC would disappear fro…

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Sky Card Share Operator in UK Court

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Sky Card Share Operator in UK Court A landscape gardener who earned more than £120,000 via a Sky TV scam might have cost the broadcast giant a whopping £4.8million. In what’s known as an illegal code-sharing scheme, Gavin Gray obtained decryption details for the network which allowed non-subscribers to view premium channels such as Sky […]

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Sky Christmas Gift

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Sky Christmas Gift Sky have a Christmas Gift for their clients this year. To access your gift you need to visit sky.com/thankyou and access your “My Sky” account. For example, you may get 3 months free access to Sky Box Sets, if you do not already subscribe to that service (and, if you live in […]

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Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox makes bid for Sky

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Sky has confirmed that Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox is making a bid for the pay TV giant. 21st Century Fox already owns nearly 40% in the company. It’s Rupert Murdoch’s second recent attempt to take full control of Sky, after a failed bid during 2010/2011. After a period of negotiation, the Independent Directors and […]

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Sky starting to replace older Digiboxes boxes

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Sky starting to replace older Digiboxes boxes As mentioned in a previous blog post ( HERE ) Sky mentioned in their Annual Report that they intent to move all their customers from SD and older HD digiboxes to newer digiboxes. One reason for this is beca…

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Motors TV to leave satellite

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Motors TV is set to leave satellite TV in early 2017. This is due to Motors TV being bought by Motorsport Network who plan to have the channel only available “online”. This will also mean another channel leaving the “Freesat From Sky” non subscription viewing card service. With the rumours that another channel on this […]

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Sky Sports audience down 19%

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Viewing figures for Sky Sports’ live Premier League matches have dropped by 19 per cent this season. Despite already having aired headline clashes such as the Manchester derby, Arsenal vs Liverpool and Chelsea vs Liverpool this season, Sky Sports has seen viewers drop by nearly a fifth on last season. The rise of illegal streaming […]

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Sky Q adds split screen for sports

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Sky Q adds split screen for sports Sky is introducing a set of new features designed to enhance viewing for sports fans. On selected events, Split Screen Sport is one of the new features being made available to users of the new SkyQ box – with viewers to be able to watch two live streams […]

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Sky NOW TV prepares to launch in Spain

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Sky is to launch its streaming service NOW TV into the Spanish market, the first territory where it doesn’t have a satellite operation. NOW TV launched in the UK in July 2012 and versions have subsequently been rolled out in Germany and most recently Italy. It runs on a streaming box produced by Roku, in […]

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Sky UK want to reduce number of SD boxes in use

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Sky is planning to further reduce the number of standard definition only set top boxes as part of an efficiency drive. The move, outlined in the company’s latest annual report, will enable Sky to move forward in utilsing newer broadcast technologies, including the more efficient DVB-S2 and MPEG4. A similar move has already been completed […]

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