Sky Sports News going subscription only

[Simster]

SSN is one of those channels I leave on in the background when there's nothing else on and I want background noise.

Me too. Although Soccer Saturday is decent enough.

 

[Trigger]

Will it be a stand alone pay channel or part of a package (i.e. sports package or news package)?

 

[TonyW]

I've heard a rumour that TESCO are going to start to charging for vegetables soon - the bastards!!

 

[Stoo82]

Did ANYONE read the first sentance in the artical?

 

[strings]

Did ANYONE read the first sentance in the artical?

That is is only being pulled from freeview? I think a few people missed that.

The only time I have watched SSN this year was to see England vs. The Platinum Stars.

 

[beorhthelm]

Tend to find t'interweb - especially the BBC - much quicker.

exactly. apart from Soccer Saturday and during the transfer window, it doesnt provide any meaningfulll content anyway. im not sure why they are bothering, but then im not sure many will care.

 

[Giraffe]

It's only going from freeview. Most people I suspect already pay for a sports or news package so get this anyway?

 

[adrian29uk]

Who needs Sky anyway. I have enough on Freesat.
I don't pay these bastards for HD either, or Eurosport.

I get Eurosport for free on my other box. Unfortunately its german eurosport, but you dont need to understand anything if your watching football.

I get BBC HD free and ITV HD free. If you downgraded your Sky to just the free channels would you lose BBC HD AND ITV HD

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

That's a lie Tom, your always watching 'Hogan Knows Best' and 'Brooke knows Best'!!! Infact you watch the most shit out of anyone I know.

i don't think i've watched either for atleast 2 weeks! certainly not since the world cup started

 

[RM-Taylor]

HOLD ON a second, people need to read the article first. For the past year Sky Sports News has been available only via the sports and/or news & documentaries packages on Sky Digital - therefore you're subscribing to the channel. I think on Virgin Media it's available in the L and XL packages - yet again you're subscribing to the channel.

It's been known for months that Sky are withdrawing Sky Sports News, Sky News and Sky Three from Freeview due to BSKYB launching their own version called Sky Picnic which will be a basic number of channels available each month for a fee, i.e. the subscription thing they have on Freeview.

 

[clippedgull]

I get BBC HD free and ITV HD free. If you downgraded your Sky to just the free channels would you lose BBC HD AND ITV HD

No. or Channel 4 HD or 5 HD (launching soon)

 

[Scampi]

Tend to find t'interweb - especially the BBC - much quicker.

As for calling itself a news channel...

The BBC can be incredibly slow to update the sports pages with anything outside the "big" events. It does a good job but isn't up to the minute, and besides my PC isn't always on, much quicker to flick on the tv than wait for my ageing Dell to crank into life.

 

[adrian29uk]

No. or Channel 4 HD or 5 HD (launching soon)

That's really bad. Sky should at least offer their customers BBC HD and ITV HD, if they do not wish to subscribe anymore. I think Sky are shooting themself in the foot here.

More and more people are slowly finding out that you don't need sky at all to watch HD. The people who are not so clued up seem to think Sky has their own satellite when in fact in most cases all you need to swap the skybox for a normal freesat box to get and bingo, you get the freesat channels + HD channels FREE.

 

[clippedgull]

That's really bad. Sky should at least offer their customers BBC HD and ITV HD, if they do not wish to subscribe anymore. I think Sky are shooting themself in the foot here.

More and more people are slowly finding out that you don't need sky at all to watch HD. The people who are not so clued up seem to think Sky actually own the satellite, when in fact if you just replace your skybox with a normal freesat box you will get all the free channels again + HD.

You question was, would you lose the channels?! And I said No!

 

[adrian29uk]

You question was, would you lose the channels?! And I said No!

Sorry about that.

 

[adrian29uk]

That is is only being pulled from freeview? I think a few people missed that.

The only time I have watched SSN this year was to see England vs. The Platinum Stars.

I missed it too lol. Even so, if you not bothered about losing some things from Sky, Freesat is a good alternative.

 

[ben andrews' girlfriend]

Nooooo, how am I going to watch Soccer Saturday now?!

 

[Withdean Wanderer]

Bollocks.

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

That's really bad. Sky should at least offer their customers BBC HD and ITV HD, if they do not wish to subscribe anymore.

Sky don't charge for BBCHD and ITV1HD because they are free to air on satellite.

 

[seagullsdaz]

fucksake pissed off bout this