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17-09-2008, 4:20 PM
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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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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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Originally Posted by marty2005  Good, they alread have their own platform, Freeview is about being free and not hogging the space up with sub. channels. | i completely agree with you there, lets keep freeview free!
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18-09-2008, 7:19 AM
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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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Originally Posted by marty2005 Good, they alread have their own platform, Freeview is about being free and not hogging the space up with sub. channels. | And Top-Up tv is...?
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18-09-2008, 9:46 AM
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A waste of bandwidth, built on a dodgy unreliable platform?
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19-09-2008, 4:56 PM
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Top up tv is a waste with only shared part time channels.
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20-09-2008, 6:53 AM
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Originally Posted by rude-dog i completely agree with you there, lets keep freeview free! | well said  | |
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20-09-2008, 6:25 PM
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Ofcom 1 - Sky 0. I am glad that Sky didnt expand its greed roots on Freeview.
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