BBC on Sky Digital

I know it is only on test, this must be a way of gradually introducing the service. But when it does appear fully on the EPG, I for one will be doing cartwheels.
When/if BBC News 24 appears, I'll be wanting to see the ABC World News with Peter Jennings. That means all top 3 american channels' news porgrammes will be available to me.
Tom Brokaw still wins, tho <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START --><img src="../www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/smile.gif" ALT=":)" OLDREF="http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/smile.gif"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END-->

Does anyone rather want to watch CNBC than National Geographic? (on NTL) I for one would. Cant stand the channel <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START --><img src="../www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/frown.gif" ALT=":(" OLDREF="http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/frown.gif"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END-->

I must say you have a very strange BBC service Gopher. A BBC service that carrys ADS "Very Strange"

It seems BBC1 & BBC2 is all we'll get. There will not be BBCnews24, BBCchoice, BBCknowledge according to the report by ICDG today. I think it's rite too coz when bbc emailed a response to me, they only mentioned BBC1+2. Ah,well. Be worse if it were vice versa. God, can't wait until Apr1! <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :hat --><img src="../www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/pimp.gif" ALT=":hat" OLDREF="http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/pimp.gif"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END-->

Who's Ronan? I'm Will if you were refering to me. Check out todays news on ICDG site to see what i was on about. I think they could be on the right track coz neither BBC or Sky said we would get these channs. We just assumed! I would like News24 and Knowledge tho. Also would like C4 and C5 but no word of them coming on at all! Grrrr! <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :hat --><img src="../www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/pimp.gif" ALT=":hat" OLDREF="http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/pimp.gif"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END-->

By ads I mean previews of upcoming programmes.

I have the bug for News 24, cos I watch it in at work every day. I work for a certain ISP, and for 15 minutes every hour, News 24 is played out live (then that 15 mins is repeated for the rest of the hour. It's good to catch a long countdown sometimes, mostly only 10 second jobbies. Its available from <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/&quot; OLDREF="">news.bbc.co.uk/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> and click on "BBC News 24 Bulletin".

If News 24 is not going to appear, then why not BBC World? I know BBC World does not appear naturally on Sky Digital, but if News 24 is aimed solely at a UK audience, then we'll be the only place in the world who does'nt get a 24 hour BBC News channel. BBC World would be advantagous for the BBC to broadcast to the ROI, cos its the BBC with ads. but that wont happen, as the BBC would have to encrypt the channel for UK audiences, cos they should'nt be watching a BBC channel with ads! It would be very hard and pointless to do, because the target audience is so small (only ROI)I dont think we would mind having BBC World, ads and all *that* much.

I just want a BBC News channel. N24 preferably, but I'd take BBC World no problem.

Which raises another question. Radio 5 Live is encrypted on Sky Digital. Please????? (its available on NTL again, after a month away in September!)

Damien. <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.iol.ie/~teilifis/&quot; OLDREF="">www.iol.ie/~teilifis/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> (and I don't work for IOL/Esat <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START --><img src="../www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/smile.gif" ALT=":)" OLDREF="http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/smile.gif"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END-->

Hi all,

I very much doubt whether any programmes will be blocked on the BBC. Surely if this happened the cable companies would have to do the same thing? Remember fewer people will be watching on satellite. RTE may block programmes in the North, but there wasn't already someone there sending RTE, at least not officially (if your discount overbroadcasting).

It also occurs to me that it will be interesting to see if/how much Sky will increase prices to cover copyright payments. Maybe we have been too harsh on Chorus/NTL on value for money. If there weren't paying copyright fees to the BBC/C4 maybe they would have had a much bigger selection of channels!!

Best regards,
John McD.

There will be a few programmes blocked by the BBC. The reason that all programmes were/are available on other platforms is because it was more difficult to block them. Certainly the BBC couldn't block them directly as that would have affected domestic UK broadcasts. I hope there isn't a price hike, though since Sky have an interest in having ONE/TWO available, hopefully the increased business they will get will make up for the copyright they have to pay. Also bear in mind that the BBC has probably only sold Eastenders to RTE for terrestrial rights - they may still retain the DSat rights to it in Ireland. I won't be surprised if News 24 isn't available - Sky really don't like this channel and want to see it closed down.

Any news ?, or was it just a technical fault that we got clear BBC for the last 2 days, nothing at all in the clear today.