Sky Sports News going subscription only

[CHAPPERS]

Sky Sports News to go pay-only | Media | guardian.co.uk

 

[murraymints4brighton]

Well they can f*** off! How many people are genuinely going to pay over the odds for Sky just to see that Sam Matterface look all smug, for obvious reasons...

However the joy's of Stelling and Chris "oh it's a goal Jeff" Kamara may be to worth it.

 

[Curious Orange]

Do they ever actually have any news on SSN anyway? Who cares if David Beckham sprains his haircut, and do they really want hours on it?

 

[The Large One]

Dreadful channel.

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

the only time i really watched it was

a) when i was REALLY bored and wanted to be numb in the mind
b) soccer saturday


don't watch that much tv anyway, so no point getting sky/virgin, and certainly not worth getting it just because i can't get SSN any more

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

As long as its in the news packages then Im cool with that having dirty sky and all.

 

[¤DãŃn¥ §êãGüLL¤]

WHAAAAAT

Now what am I gonna put on when I'm bored

 

[Jimmy Grimble]

Idiot TV for idiots.












Unless Natalie Sawyer or Millie Clode are on.

 

[Jam The Man]

This decision will FAIL

 

[strings]

Its OK - they are replacing it with Sky 3+1, so now you will never miss Traffic Cops.

 

[Acker79]

There goes my hopes of sky getting crown jewels and airing them on the terrestrial tv via freeview sky sports news.

Is sky one/two/three still available on freeview?

 

[Man of Harveys]

I've never watched it before, other than briefly when flicking channels. Now I'll definitely never watch it. Cool.

 

[ROKERITE]

I spend hours watching that station. It's THE place I go to find out football news, and transfer deadline day will never be the same again, to say nothing of Saturday afternoons with Jeff and the rest. It'll be back to BBC on the red button which is a poor substitute.
But then it's not life or death and I'm sure I'll survive their decision; it certainly won't persuade me to subscribe.

 

[B-boi]

the only time i really watched it was

a) when i was REALLY bored and wanted to be numb in the mind
b) soccer saturday


don't watch that much tv anyway, so no point getting sky/virgin, and certainly not worth getting it just because i can't get SSN any more

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.

 

[Acker79]

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

 

[Scampi]

Dreadful channel.

I disagree. May struggle for actual news at times, but does a job and can be useful to switch on and get the sports headlnes if you don't have time to wait for the sports slot on the regular news channels.

 

[sten_super]

Seems a very strange decision to me. I can't imagine that Sky genuinely think that SSN is going to pull in subscribers; I think they are just taking as much off freeview as possible. Do they have a legal obligation to use that frequency to publish some Sky content? Can't think of any other reason that they'd bother putting Sky 3 +1 on there...

 

[seagullsdaz]

Gutted!!!
When is this happening? It doesn't say when!

 

[The Large One]

I disagree. May struggle for actual news at times, but does a job and can be useful to switch on and get the sports headlnes if you don't have time to wait for the sports slot on the regular news channels.

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

As for calling itself a news channel...

 

[Billy the Fish]

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

Same as, I rarely actually watch it but it's great to have on in the background as you can learn all the transfer, injury news and scores whilst doing something else.

Bit shit to take it off freeview though