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cheekyangus 28-07-2020 12:18

Sky seemingly moving forward with Sky Arts going FTA
 
​My interpretation of two license tweets today reported by @ukdtt​ is that the removal of the Pick+1 Freeview license and the addition of a Sky Arts one means Sky are moving forward with Sky Arts going Free-To-Air.

https://twitter.com/ukdtt/status/1288047809061584896​

https://twitter.com/ukdtt/status/1288047810580021250​

Presumably this will happen on Freesat as well as Freeview.

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Update: Apparently Sky Arts is launching on Freeview in September according to this article (by a 3rd party).

https://theluxereview.com/2020/07/28...​​

RichardCoulter 28-07-2020 15:51

Re: Sky seemingly moving forward with Sky Arts going FTA
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by cheekyangus (Post 36044877)
​My interpretation of two license tweets today reported by @ukdtt​ is that the removal of the Pick+1 Freeview license and the addition of a Sky Arts one means Sky are moving forward with Sky Arts going Free-To-Air.

https://twitter.com/ukdtt/status/1288047809061584896​

https://twitter.com/ukdtt/status/1288047810580021250​

Presumably this will happen on Freesat as well as Freeview.

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Update: Apparently Sky Arts is launching on Freeview in September according to this article (by a 3rd party).

https://theluxereview.com/2020/07/28...​​

Great find. Is Pick +1 on the temporary mux?

cheekyangus 28-07-2020 17:32

Re: Sky seemingly moving forward with Sky Arts going FTA
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 36044924)
Great find. Is Pick +1 on the temporary mux?

Pick+1 was closed/removed (from one of the temporary multiplexes) either about two days before the closure of the COM8 temporary multiplex was announced or about two days before COM8 was closed. I can't remember which.

Sky have 3 months to use the channel number (92) from that date, I think, under the rules.

They'll probably swap channel numbers with Challenge (46) I'd imagine.

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Articles about Sky Arts going FTA as mentioned by BenMcr, nialli, and SonicMaster respectively on the VM Changes thread.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-r...o-air-bbc-four

https://www.theguardian.com/media/20...from-september

https://www.skygroup.sky/en-gb/artic...to-air-channel

cheekyangus 29-07-2020 00:24

Re: Sky seemingly moving forward with Sky Arts going FTA
 
Spot on Digital Spy wrote the following re: Sky Arts going Free-To-Air.

"The launch date is September 17th according to Phil Edgar Jones, Sky Arts Director, who has just been interviewed on Talk Radio."

cheekyangus 24-08-2020 18:11

Re: Sky seemingly moving forward with Sky Arts going FTA
 
The official Sky press release about Sky Arts change.
https://www.skygroup.sky/en-gb/artic...m-17-september


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