Anyone Know Date Sky Contract to Force C4 by Sub Only Ends

hi ..

like many hundreds of thousands of licence fee paying folk in the Uk who
watch freesat channels on a standard (non sky) satellite reciever. i sadly
miss the advertising based C4 lineup including E4 !

I gather that the only reason we cannot currently get C4 and other related
channels is because Sky has a contract which apparently lasts until 2008
which allows it to effectively stop me (and everyone else watching Freesat )
from watching it .. SO MUCH FOR ME EVER HAVING A SKY SUBSCRIPTION IN MY
HOUSE!

sorry to shout but i do feel quite resentful about this!

Does anyone happen to know the exact date when the heavy Sky shackles fall
off C4s advertising based channels lineup ends

tia

p

On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 21:31:33 GMT, "p" wrote:

Does anyone happen to know the exact date when the heavy Sky shackles fall
off C4s advertising based channels lineup ends

Channel 4 could go FTA any time they want to, but at the moment they
need the encryption because going FTA would mean they could be picked
up in Ireland, where they don't have rights to a number of their US
import shows.

C4 is now available on Irish cards but a number of US programmes are
blacked out for this reason. If they went FTA they would have to stop
showing those programmes completely.

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"Zero Tolerance" wrote in message
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On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 21:31:33 GMT, "p" wrote:

Does anyone happen to know the exact date when the heavy Sky shackles fall
off C4s advertising based channels lineup ends

Channel 4 could go FTA any time they want to, but at the moment they
need the encryption because going FTA would mean they could be picked
up in Ireland, where they don't have rights to a number of their US
import shows.

C4 is now available on Irish cards but a number of US programmes are
blacked out for this reason. If they went FTA they would have to stop
showing those programmes completely.



No they are contracted - they did a deal to get out of paying sky EPG fees
so it is their own fault.