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Sky Sports to launch new racing channel
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Sky has confirmed it’s to replace At The Races with a new Sky Sports Racing which will be available to “every Sky TV customer in the UK and Ireland at no extra cost”. Also available in HD, the new channel will bring live racing from over 650 UK fixtures, “as well as high quality exclusive…
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Comcast tables formal take-over bid for Sky
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Fox’s £18bn bid to buy Sky is currently being scrutinised by the UK’s competition regulators who’ve made a preliminary ruling that its take-over of the UK’s largest pay-TV firm would not be in the public interest due to Mr Murdoch’s control of News UK. Options have been tabled which would guarantee the editorial integrity of…
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Sky Mobile now offering 4G tablet plans
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The network is offering what it claims to be “the UK’s lowest monthly prices with no upfront costs” on some models and says customers will be able to roll-over unused data every month.
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Sky signs Italian fibre broadband deal to boost pay-TV operation
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Sky’s Italian business has singed a “long-term” that gives it access to Open Fiber’s fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network, allowing it to offer a fibre-only TV service via its Sky Q set top box.
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Stellan Skarsgård and Emily Watson join Jared Harris in Sky Atlantic’s Chernobyl
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A co-production between Sky and HBO, the drama will star Skarsgård as Boris Shcherbina, head of the Bureau for Fuel and Energy of the USSR, and appointed leader of the government commission on Chernobyl in the early hours of the accident.
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Sky commissions second series of Britannia
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The nine-part series told the story of the emotional and physical power struggles between three tribes: the Druids, Celts and Romans, who battle for the heart of Britannia.