Absolute Disgrace...

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http://www.techradar.com/news/telev...to-leave-freeview-become-a-pay-channel-697160

BSkyB has announced that it is taking Sky Sports News off-air for those who watch it on Freeview, replacing it with a time-shifted version of Sky 3. Sky Sports News is one of the most watched channels on Freeview, having been on the platform for eight years launching with Sky News and Sky Travel. Sky News will be the only survivor of this line-up once Sky Sports News stops broadcasting free to air, as Sky Travel was replaced with Sky 3 in 2005.

3's a crowd
To fill the space, Ofcom has announced that Sky will be adding Sky 3+1 to the roster. Surprisingly Ofcom believes the change "would not unacceptably diminish the capacity of the services broadcast to appeal to a variety of tastes and interests".
We're sure that sports fans up and down the country would have something to say about that. According to the Guardian, BSkyB is changing Sky Sports News into a subscription channel, so that it can give it a HD makeover. This is certainly in line with Sky's HD plans – earlier this year, Sky News was the first news channel in the UK to go hi-def. The changes to Sky Sports News come after Sky was forced to reduce the wholesale price of its channels. This led to Virgin Media announcing recently that it has reduced the price of its Sky package in a bid to entice consumers to cable. In turn, Sky has revealed that it is buying the channels that Virgin owns, including Bravo. There's no date as to when the channel will go behind a pay wall, other than 'later this year'.

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Fcuk off Murdoch!
 

Ok it's not the biggest disgrace in the world right now, but i'm gonna miss my sky sports news. I could happily sit and watch it all day. I mean, seriously, have i got to pay now to watch Georgie Thommo, Charlotte Jacko, Natalie Sawyer, Millie Clode and to a lesser extent Alex Quinn
 

Murdoch and Thatcher. Imagine those two [Poor language removed] dying on the same day and the party that'd happen?
 

Bumping this.

So August 23rd, if you only have freeview, you won't get sky sports news anymore. No more yellow-bar, no more Gillette Soccer Saturday, no more fit news readers aka Georgie Thommo, Natalie Sawyer. Fcuk Off Murdoch
 
Cena_is_an_Evertonian said:
Bumping this.

So August 23rd, if you only have freeview, you won't get sky sports news anymore. No more yellow-bar, no more Gillette Soccer Saturday, no more fit news readers aka Georgie Thommo, Natalie Sawyer. Fcuk Off Murdoch
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So is it in the sports or news packages or do you have to pay seperately just for SSN now? I have Sky but I ain't paying £5 a month for SSN no matter how much I watch it through principle.
 
Basil Fawlty said:
So is it in the sports or news packages or do you have to pay seperately just for SSN now? I have Sky but I ain't paying £5 a month for SSN no matter how much I watch it through principle.
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I assume it comes with the sports package anyway, just freeview viewers missing out.
 

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