News - Sky Sports News to ditch Freeview and go pay-TV-only

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Subscription revenues will drive editorial investment, says Sky.

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[bradyjames]

I don't think this is a very good move by Sky. I don't think they will get many extra paid subscriptions due to Sky Sports News being in HD and only available as a paid for service. However by moving it off Freeview and replacing with Sky3+1 they are going to lose the implied free advertising of having a news channel that tempts people with paid for Sports channels on the Sky network.

From my point of view I don't really care though. I very rarely watch Sky Sports News. Now and again Sky 3 has something decent on it but having a '+1' version is just a waste of bandwidth. They would be better off running one of the cheap to broadcast Movie channels like 'classic' or 'indie' which would act as advertising for Sky and also provide a worthwhile use of the Freeview bandwidth.

[Flakvin]

That's a real shame, SSN is one of two channels I have in my Freeview favourites, that and Dave. As for Sky3+1, who even watches Sky3??

Wish they'd remove Sky News from the Freeview line up, that channel gets worse by the day.

[Brewster0101]

That's a real shame, SSN is one of two channels I have in my Freeview favourites, that and Dave. As for Sky3+1, who even watches Sky3??

Wish they'd remove Sky News from the Freeview line up, that channel gets worse by the day.

I agree that Sky News could do with being dumped on freeview. BBC News is alot better and less dramatic.

I don't watch Sky Sports news but I know alot of people who do and they don't have any interest in sky TV. I don't think moving this channel is suddenly going to make all the freeview viewers pay aleast £18 per month to watch it again.

Sky 3 is a waste of time, money and space. Sky would be much better of putting some decent programmes on this channel if they are interested in viewers , sky 3 + 1 is a waste too. Talk about choking up the limited bandwidth with complete rubbish.

Would be good if Ofcom or the government stepped up and stop sky broadcasting from choking the freeview network.

[Lee H]

I'm not bothered really at all about this news.

The reason for this is the fact sky sports news has ADVERTS all the time and if you watch the channel for an hour, I'm sure you see more adverts than actual news.

BBC score centre is just as good on the BBC systems, especially at the weekend for live score results, so I'll not miss this channel one bit.

Bye Bye sky sports news - take your extended ad breaks and don't hit the door on the way out

[g8ina]

what lee said

[Powderhound]

To be honest, I've never got why people are prepared to pay through the nose for Sky and then have it peppered with ads.

[bignev]

Sky Sports was handy to keep up with the footy,say. But there's always the BBC red button!

[aidanjt]

To be honest, I've never got why people are prepared to pay through the nose for Sky and then have it peppered with ads.

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I don't mind either a subscription model, or an advertising model, but having both is like having your cake and eating it. I just hope rupe greeds himself out of business. Because when on-demand IPTV hits mainstream, Sky is in for a world of hurt.