It's not really ISP news so I'll put it here, but Ofcom's latest news details what Sky would like to do with its Freeview TV channels:
. Having new LOST and BSG episodes on Freeview would be very good.
However that's probably not the case and I suspect that the new proposals are only about channels in name rather than content, for marketing reasons. I don't want to see SkyNews24 gone either, I much prefer SN24 to the BBC which I frequently find to be politically biased and imbalanced on some reports in general, but that's my own opinion.
We already lost the ABC1 comedy channel (scrubs ftw) and next somebody will probably pull UK History too (just me saying that) to make Freeview feel pointless.
Now it's unclear whether the Movies and SkyOne channels would contain identical content to their bigger brothers, I'd be surprised if they did because it'd kill some of my need for Sky at homeSky currently provides Sky News, Sky Sports News and Sky Three on the DTT platform on a free-to-air basis. Under the proposal, these channels would be replaced with Sky Sports 1 and, in the evening, Sky One (including an hour of Sky News content) and Sky Movies SD1. Sky would use the remainder of its capacity to retail two further channels from third party providers in the daytime: a factual channel and a children's channel.
Development of further services continues to be a matter for discussion between the two parties concerned.
Sky and NGW require consent from Ofcom before they are able to implement their proposal. The proposal raises various issues which Ofcom must consider, in particular in relation to its impact on competition.
However that's probably not the case and I suspect that the new proposals are only about channels in name rather than content, for marketing reasons. I don't want to see SkyNews24 gone either, I much prefer SN24 to the BBC which I frequently find to be politically biased and imbalanced on some reports in general, but that's my own opinion.
We already lost the ABC1 comedy channel (scrubs ftw) and next somebody will probably pull UK History too (just me saying that) to make Freeview feel pointless.























