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The British-based broadcaster Sky (with operations in the EU and elsewhere) has decided it doesn't need to keep attaching satellite dishes to the walls of its customers' homes.
The BBC reports:
The pay TV company already offers some programming online on its Sky Go and Now TV* services and through Sky boxes.
Sky said offering the option was a "major development" that would let it enter new markets.
It hopes that making its hundreds of channels more widely available will increase both revenue and profits.
Italy will be its first market to get all Sky channels online, followed by Austria, with the UK expected to follow later this year or in 2019.
Sky is not proposing to stop broadcasting by satellite. The move will allow customers who cannot have a dish or do not want one to get Sky, a spokesperson said. A Sky box will still be required.
The company's move is a response to greater competition from the likes of streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon.
*Now TV is an internet-based, subscriptionless pay-TV service. Established 5 years ago, it's wholly owned by Sky.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Friday January 26 2018, @04:47PM (1 child)
The only channel I was much interested in was the Sci-Fi channel, they changed it to SyFy when I had Satellite for a short period of time. The vast majority of it was junk, if that was any indicator of the other channels. You hardly missed anything. I got more entertainment watching Hogan's Heroes (Over the Air) during my lunch hour in College.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 3, Insightful) by FatPhil on Saturday January 27 2018, @12:40AM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves