Originally Posted by Brucelles 
Well, without a sky subscription all you get are the free to view stuff, but that is a lot. Mostly rubbish, but still a lot.
Read this and see if it helps :
Free-to-view Satellite TV in the UK
This is the free-to-view channel list:
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remember, these are FTV (require a sky box and sky viewing card of some kind, even expired ones)
a slightly shorter list of FTA channels (viewable with a non-sky box) is here:
http://forums.hexus.net/1232310-post8.html
may be a few months out of date