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  • Sky highlights on demand growth in latest results

    Sky highlights on demand growth in latest results

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    Almost 3.5m Sky TV boxes are now capable of accessing on-demand content according to the firm’s latest results. The UK’s largest provider of pay TV says 642,000 additional homes connected their Sky boxes to the internet in the three months ended 30 September 2013, taking the total to 3.4m. The company has been highlighting its…

  • BT strikes Sky Movies deal for Vision and YouView customers

    BT strikes Sky Movies deal for Vision and YouView customers

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    BT has struck a deal to offer the 11 Sky Movies channels to its TV customers. The channels and catch-up content from them will be available in standard definition to BT TV customers with either a YouView box or the latest Vision + box and BT’s Infinity fibre broadband. For customers with regular BT broadband…

  • Sky confirms The Blacklist UK airdate

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    The Blacklist, one of the most anticipated US dramas of the year. will debut in the UK on October 4th, courtesy of Sky Living HD. The series stars James Spader as ex-government agent Raymond “Red” Reddington, now one of the FBI’s Most Wanted fugitives. Having evaded capture for years, he suddenly arrives back in the…

  • Ofcom refuses to grant BT access to Sky Sports

    Ofcom refuses to grant BT access to Sky Sports

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    BT’s YouView customers are unlikely to gain access to Sky Sports 1 & 2 for the foreseeable future after Ofcom refused to grant BT an interim order awarding it access to the channels. BT has asked the regulator to investigate Sky for “an abuse of dominance” after the two companies failed to agree a carriage…

  • Review: NOW TV Box

    Review: NOW TV Box

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    We look at SKy’s new NOW TV BOX, a £9 gizmo which allows you to stream content from Sky Sports and Sky Movies as well as selected 3rd party services such as BBC iPlayer and Spotify.

  • Sky adds 34,000 new TV subscribers

    Sky adds 34,000 new TV subscribers

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    Sky added 34,000 new TV customers in the last quarter, taking its total TV customer base to 10.4m and cementing its position as the UK’s largest provider of pay-TV services. The additions are revealed in the firm’s results for year to end of June which were published on Friday. The TV gains cover both its…