Sky to offer "Freeview RIVAL"

BBC Radio 6 News 10.30am

"BSKYB to offer a "Free To Air" rival to the Freeview service with 200
Radio and TV channels for a one off £150 pounds"

I suspect someone has got the wrong end of the stick somewhere as I
doubt it will be Free To Air but will require some form of FTV card

I also suspect many of those 200 channels will be Radio and Shopping
channels

Chris

On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 10:34:13 +0100, Chris
wrote:


BBC Radio 6 News 10.30am

"BSKYB to offer a "Free To Air" rival to the Freeview service with 200
Radio and TV channels for a one off £150 pounds"

I suspect someone has got the wrong end of the stick somewhere as I
doubt it will be Free To Air but will require some form of FTV card

I also suspect many of those 200 channels will be Radio and Shopping
channels

Chris

someone pointed out this article which is probably the source

http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcas...234697,00.html

Only channel mentioned which isn't already FTA (CNN, BBC, ITV News) or
FTV (ITV1, ch4, five) is ITV2

On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 10:43:17 +0100, Chris
wrote:


Only channel mentioned which isn't already FTA (CNN, BBC, ITV News) or
FTV (ITV1, ch4, five) is ITV2


Thinking about this more I suspect this more about being a rival to
"Top Up TV" than Freeview, after all it is in Skys interest to get
more people on Sky Satellite Kit then offer initially attractive
introductory offers to try out Sky 1, Movies, Sport etc and try and
get people hooked

On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 10:43:17 +0100, Chris
wrote:


http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcas...234697,00.html

Only channel mentioned which isn't already FTA (CNN, BBC, ITV News) or
FTV (ITV1, ch4, five) is ITV2


As I expected looking at the original Press Release from Sky below the
Guardian has completely made up the information that ITV2 would be
included as there is no mention of which channels would be included at
all except that a FTV card will be provided for ITV1, Ch4 and five

http://tinyurl.com/2s9v5

Chris wrote:

http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcas...234697,00.html

Only channel mentioned which isn't already FTA (CNN, BBC, ITV News) or
FTV (ITV1, ch4, five) is ITV2

I can't see ITV-2 mentioned, only ITV-1 (FTV) and ITV News (FTA)

On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 12:01:49 +0100, "Mark Carver"
wrote:

Chris wrote:

http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcas...234697,00.html

Only channel mentioned which isn't already FTA (CNN, BBC, ITV News) or
FTV (ITV1, ch4, five) is ITV2

I can't see ITV-2 mentioned, only ITV-1 (FTV) and ITV News (FTA)



I quote :-

"The package will include ITV, BBC1, BBC2, BBC3, BBC4, CBBC, Cbeebies,
News 24, BBC Parliament, Channel 4, Channel Five, ITV2, ITV News, CNN
and scores of other channels, although most of these are of minority
interest such as Extreme Sports."

Although there is nothing in the Sky press release about ITV2 so I
suspect it is a Guardian mistake

Chris wrote:
On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 10:43:17 +0100, Chris
wrote:


http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcas...234697,00.html

Only channel mentioned which isn't already FTA (CNN, BBC, ITV News) or
FTV (ITV1, ch4, five) is ITV2


As I expected looking at the original Press Release from Sky below the
Guardian has completely made up the information that ITV2 would be
included as there is no mention of which channels would be included at
all except that a FTV card will be provided for ITV1, Ch4 and five

Where abouts does it mention ITV2 will be included?

mick

Chris wrote:
On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 12:01:49 +0100, "Mark Carver"
wrote:

Chris wrote:

http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcas...234697,00.html

Only channel mentioned which isn't already FTA (CNN, BBC, ITV News) or
FTV (ITV1, ch4, five) is ITV2

I can't see ITV-2 mentioned, only ITV-1 (FTV) and ITV News (FTA)



I quote :-

"The package will include ITV, BBC1, BBC2, BBC3, BBC4, CBBC, Cbeebies,
News 24, BBC Parliament, Channel 4, Channel Five, ITV2, ITV News, CNN
and scores of other channels, although most of these are of minority
interest such as Extreme Sports."

It actually says -

The package will include ITV, BBC1, BBC2, BBC3, BBC4, CBBC, CBeebies, News
24, BBC Parliament, Channel 4, Channel Five, ITV News, CNN and scores of
other channels, although most of these are of minority interest such as
Extreme Sports

mick

On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 12:13:13 +0100, "mick"
wrote:



Chris wrote:
On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 10:43:17 +0100, Chris
wrote:


http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcas...234697,00.html

Only channel mentioned which isn't already FTA (CNN, BBC, ITV News) or
FTV (ITV1, ch4, five) is ITV2


As I expected looking at the original Press Release from Sky below the
Guardian has completely made up the information that ITV2 would be
included as there is no mention of which channels would be included at
all except that a FTV card will be provided for ITV1, Ch4 and five

Where abouts does it mention ITV2 will be included?


I quote :-

"The package will include ITV, BBC1, BBC2, BBC3, BBC4, CBBC, Cbeebies,
News 24, BBC Parliament, Channel 4, Channel Five, ITV2, ITV News, CNN
and scores of other channels, although most of these are of minority
interest such as Extreme Sports."

Although there is nothing in the Sky press release about ITV2 so I
suspect it is a Guardian mistake

On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 12:15:00 +0100, "mick"
wrote:



Chris wrote:
On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 12:01:49 +0100, "Mark Carver"
wrote:

Chris wrote:

http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcas...234697,00.html

Only channel mentioned which isn't already FTA (CNN, BBC, ITV News) or
FTV (ITV1, ch4, five) is ITV2

I can't see ITV-2 mentioned, only ITV-1 (FTV) and ITV News (FTA)



I quote :-

"The package will include ITV, BBC1, BBC2, BBC3, BBC4, CBBC, Cbeebies,
News 24, BBC Parliament, Channel 4, Channel Five, ITV2, ITV News, CNN
and scores of other channels, although most of these are of minority
interest such as Extreme Sports."

It actually says -

The package will include ITV, BBC1, BBC2, BBC3, BBC4, CBBC, CBeebies, News
24, BBC Parliament, Channel 4, Channel Five, ITV News, CNN and scores of
other channels, although most of these are of minority interest such as
Extreme Sports

mick


Well they must have updated it after reading my Post then !

I have the page opened on my web browser where it def says

"The package will include ITV, BBC1, BBC2, BBC3, BBC4, CBBC, Cbeebies,
News 24, BBC Parliament, Channel 4, Channel Five, ITV2, ITV News, CNN
and scores of other channels, although most of these are of minority
interest such as Extreme Sports."