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17-09-2008, 4:20 PM
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Sky abandons Freeview pay-per-view plan, blames tardy Ofcom
Sky has abandoned plans to introduce a subscription service on the Freeview terrestrial TV platform. The project was first mooted in February 2007 and amusingly dubbed Picnic.
The proposal was that Sky's channels on Freeview (Sky News, Sky Three and Sky Sports News) would be replaced with higher-value encrypted channels (Sky One, Sky Sports 1, Sky Movies and a shared Discovery/children's channel). read more » |
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17-09-2008, 6:31 PM
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Re: Sky abandons Freeview pay-per-view plan, blames tardy Ofcom
Good, they alread have their own platform, Freeview is about being free and not hogging the space up with sub. channels.
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17-09-2008, 6:43 PM
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Re: Sky abandons Freeview pay-per-view plan, blames tardy Ofcom
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Good, they alread have their own platform, Freeview is about being free and not hogging the space up with sub. channels.
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i completely agree with you there, lets keep freeview free!
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18-09-2008, 7:19 AM
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Re: Sky abandons Freeview pay-per-view plan, blames tardy Ofcom
Well done Ofcom. Keep those greedy sods away from our free to view TV.
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18-09-2008, 8:15 AM
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Re: Sky abandons Freeview pay-per-view plan, blames tardy Ofcom
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Good, they alread have their own platform, Freeview is about being free and not hogging the space up with sub. channels.
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And Top-Up tv is...? |
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18-09-2008, 9:46 AM
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Re: Sky abandons Freeview pay-per-view plan, blames tardy Ofcom
A waste of bandwidth, built on a dodgy unreliable platform?
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19-09-2008, 4:56 PM
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Re: Sky abandons Freeview pay-per-view plan, blames tardy Ofcom
Top up tv is a waste with only shared part time channels.
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Re: Sky abandons Freeview pay-per-view plan, blames tardy Ofcom
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i completely agree with you there, lets keep freeview free!
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20-09-2008, 6:25 PM
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Re: Sky abandons Freeview pay-per-view plan, blames tardy Ofcom
Ofcom 1 - Sky 0. I am glad that Sky didnt expand its greed roots on Freeview.
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