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Sky announced on 15th september that they would be closing Bravo (and its sister channels) and Channel One (formerly Virgin 1) to make room for other channels after its acquisition of Virgin Media Tv (now referred to as the Living Tv Group). It was said that Challenge will fill the slot left by Channel One on free to air systems. Sky is yet to announce the exact date of closure or what will replace these channels. I just thought this should be included in the articles timeline and if reference is needed just google it, it was big news. <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/78.105.206.251|78.105.206.251]] ([[User talk:78.105.206.251|talk]]) 17:53, 9 October 2010 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot--> |
Sky announced on 15th september that they would be closing Bravo (and its sister channels) and Channel One (formerly Virgin 1) to make room for other channels after its acquisition of Virgin Media Tv (now referred to as the Living Tv Group). It was said that Challenge will fill the slot left by Channel One on free to air systems. Sky is yet to announce the exact date of closure or what will replace these channels. I just thought this should be included in the articles timeline and if reference is needed just google it, it was big news. <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/78.105.206.251|78.105.206.251]] ([[User talk:78.105.206.251|talk]]) 17:53, 9 October 2010 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot--> |
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== Standard Sky Box == |
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It is said in the sky timeline that the Sky+HD box is the only box that sky sell, however this is inaccurate as if you go on to the sky website and attempt to join sky you can choose which box you want and you have a choice between a Sky+ box or a Sky+HD box, the announcement that Sky made in January 2010 actually said they would only sell Sky+ boxes and that customers could upgrade to Sky+ if they so desired. |
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BSkyB is not a subsidiary of NewsCorp
According to the BSkyB company report (see [1]), BSkyB Holdco Inc. is a subsidiary company of News Corporation, but "Holdco" only owns 35% of British Sky Broadcasting Group. This means that British Sky Broadcasting Group plc. is itself not a subsidiary of News Corporation. Marknew 14:14, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)
That's not true. A company can be purchased through a number of means, while the parent company controls less than 50% of common stock. Preferred stock is the easy way; BSkyB might have special voting rights attached to its preferred stock. Another possibility (the most likely in my opinion) is that they purchased more than 50%, absording BSkyB, and then sold stock. Also, you must understand that it is possible that 35% is an interest in which no coalition can really form to beat it in voting decisions.--User:naryathegreat | (talk) 17:04, Apr 24, 2005 (UTC)
- Yes, but it isn't a subsidiary. It is an associate. I have changed the article.
Sport and movies
This article needs to explain the role of the above as key drivers of Sky's business, but as I don't even have a television, I am not qualified to write about that.
- Yeah right, that's what they all say to the TV Licence people LOL Smoothy 16:21, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
HomeChoice
BSkyB has not bought HomeChoice although it is rumoured to be considering a bid.--Barracg 11:55, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
Home choice is now Tiscali t.v.
SKY around the world
The SKY TV has subsidiaries in various parts of the world.. example: www.sky.tv.br is good idea quote this?
This is not the case.
These are subsidiaries of News corp and not BskyB. When News corp brought there stake in Bskyb they started satilite tv sirvices such as Sky Itali.
Logo Images
Someone semms to have Removed or edited them nuff said 909RER 15:24, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
- They added them all as blank. I've removed them for now. --Dean Earley 19:59, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
NPOV
This reads like an advert, or at least glosses over the large scale criticism that it is destroying sport ... Duke toaster 17:09, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
Why?
Why does it say butt so much?
Probably some vandal.
Concering comments added re Virgin Media and BSkyB spat...
The 'doubted the value' comment comes from a direct mail flyer BSkyB sent out in the UK
The first few line of this read :
"Virgin Media appears to have doubted the value of the TV you love and has dropped Sky One,Sky news and Sky Sports News..."
and continues with the 68% claims already mentioned in the article.
The print flyer does not seem to mention the contract row (which is to be expected) ShakespeareFan00 13:00, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
really badly written article, virgin cant take sky to court for witholding the channels, as they decided not to pay the price sky wanted wether this was a fair price is really the issue
This piece of crap article doesn't even have a lead sentence saying what BSkyB is...
It jumps straight into financial and audience figures (not really lead material at all), doesn't even tell us that BSkyB is a broadcaster or any of it's history. WP:LEAD should anybody wish to work on it. (Pse don't tell me to fix it, I can't do everything and sometimes it's nice to just read articles... although invariably not so nice as they're generally as crap as this one or worse!) --kingboyk (talk) 23:14, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
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BetacommandBot (talk) 05:52, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
Proposed page
I am proposing a "History of Sky TV (or BSky/Sky Digital etc) idents", much like the BBC page. It would have examples of Sky's channels, corporate looks of the time etc. Your thoughts? Malpass93 (talk) 20:57, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
Initially, was Sky free of commercial breaks?
I vaguely recall that one of the promotional points of Sky when it was first established was that you would pay a subscription and in return they promised not to run commercial ad breaks. Is this true, and if so, when did they make the radical change of running ads? 86.42.119.12 (talk) 02:47, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
Criticism section?
doesn't this need one? sky rape you several times. they not only make you use their own equipment and fitters. they also charge subscription, have way too much advertising and on top of that use pay per view! while at the same time they stiffle home grown programming (what little they do is done on a shoe string budget). and effectively they don't even have to pay for alot of the big shows and movies they have because they practically are fox. their news is biased and right wing. oh and they have also almost single handedly ruined english football. what i have just said barely even scrapes the surface 86.165.69.61 (talk) 18:46, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
- In my humble opinion, separate criticisms sections are almost universally a bad thing. They serve as nothing more than a way to push a particular point of view. If every single one was scorched from Wikipedia, the project would be infinitely improved. Pit-yacker (talk) 20:20, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
National Geographic Channel co-owned by Fox, not Sky
On the official website of National Geographic Channel UK, the FOX logo is seen at the bottom of the home page. See here: http://natgeochannel.co.uk/
Also, on the Ofcom website, the address listed is almost identical to FX.
NGC licence: http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/tvlicensing/cs/42.htm
FX licence: http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/tvlicensing/cs/865.htm
Kieranthompson
Technics of broadcasting
I have two questions: 1, what kind of technics British Sky Broadcasting uses broadcasting (interaktive) Sky TV? examples: VDB-T, VDB-H, wimax, 3G streaming, MBMS...? 2, How can they provide the 2 way communication? For on demand services you need back stream. (e.g. VDB-T, VDB-H are one way)
Can Anyone tell me the structure of the system? Appreciate.. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.3.64.198 (talk) 21:32, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
This Needs A Constructive criticism section
As it stands there is nothing in this article in one place evaluating the good things and the bad things about BSkyB could someone do this I cannot as I do not have sufficient knowledge in the area in question thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 03jmgibbens (talk • contribs) 07:28, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
[Bold text] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.129.80.212 (talk) 14:28, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
- There is a bit of a problem with WP:NOTAFORUM here, but in case anyone wants to add this to the article, the interactive services work by contacting Sky through a standard telephone line. See [2] for more details. --♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 16:02, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
Why is the Old Sky logo being used?
The old logo for Sky which is coloured blue, is heading the page. The new one should be at the top, while the old one should replace the new ones place (so essentially the old logo should swap places with the new logo). Also, has anyone got a .gif of the new multicoloured logo Sky is now circulating? If you go on to Sky's website[3], you can see it briefly before the thumbnail pictures of news stories come up. If we can get this, then I think this will be a much better logo to use at the top. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Benten10X (talk • contribs) 19:40, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
- The logo being shown was the new one, as you replaced it with the old version, I have reverted this change. -- [[ axg ◉ talk ]] 19:51, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
== sky Analog line up == from 1993
1 RTL 2
2 RTL Television
3 TV3 (Sweden)
4 Eurosport
5 Vox
6 Sat-1
7 TV-1000
8 Sky One
9 Teleclub
10 3 Sat
11 Filmnet +
12 Sky News
13 RTL 4
14 Pro 7
15 MTV Europe
16 Sky Movies
17 Premiere
18 The Movie Channel
19 ARD - Das Erste
20 Sky Sports
21 DSF
22 MTV Europe
23 UK Gold
24 JSTV
25 N3
26 Sky Movies Gold 26 TV Asia
27 TV3 (Denmark)
28 CNN International
29 n-tv
30 Cinemania
31 TV3 (Norway)
32 Documania
33 ZDF
34 UK Living
35 The Children's Channel 35 The Family Channel
36 Sogecable 3
37 TNT/Cartoon Network
38 QVC
39 West 3
40 Sogecable 4
41 Country Music TV 41 The Discovery Channel
42 Bravo 42 The Adult Channel
43 MDR
44 Galavision
45 Bayern 3
46 Nickelodeon
46 TV Asia
47 Blank
48 S3 (SWF/SDR)
sky Analog
BskyB announcement regarding channel closures
Sky announced on 15th september that they would be closing Bravo (and its sister channels) and Channel One (formerly Virgin 1) to make room for other channels after its acquisition of Virgin Media Tv (now referred to as the Living Tv Group). It was said that Challenge will fill the slot left by Channel One on free to air systems. Sky is yet to announce the exact date of closure or what will replace these channels. I just thought this should be included in the articles timeline and if reference is needed just google it, it was big news. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.105.206.251 (talk) 17:53, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
Standard Sky Box
It is said in the sky timeline that the Sky+HD box is the only box that sky sell, however this is inaccurate as if you go on to the sky website and attempt to join sky you can choose which box you want and you have a choice between a Sky+ box or a Sky+HD box, the announcement that Sky made in January 2010 actually said they would only sell Sky+ boxes and that customers could upgrade to Sky+ if they so desired.