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Sky abandons Freeview pay-per-view plan, blames tardy Ofcom

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Old 17-09-2008, 4:20 PM   #1
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Post Sky abandons Freeview pay-per-view plan, blames tardy Ofcom
<p>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. </p>
<p>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). <span class='read-more'><a href="http://www.homecinemachoice.com/blogs/team_hcc/sky+junks+freeview+ppv+plan">&nbsp;read&nbsp;more& nbsp;&raquo;</a></span></p>
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Old 17-09-2008, 6:31 PM   #2
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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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Old 17-09-2008, 6:43 PM   #3
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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.
i completely agree with you there, lets keep freeview free!
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Old 18-09-2008, 7:19 AM   #4
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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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Old 18-09-2008, 8:15 AM   #5
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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.
And Top-Up tv is...?
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Old 18-09-2008, 9:46 AM   #6
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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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Old 19-09-2008, 4:56 PM   #7
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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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Old 20-09-2008, 6:53 AM   #8
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i completely agree with you there, lets keep freeview free!
well said
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Old 20-09-2008, 6:25 PM   #9
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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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