Sky UK Wikipedia. For a wider corporate history and profile, see Sky plc. Sky UK Limited formerly British Sky Broadcasting and BSky. B is a telecommunications company which serves the United Kingdom. Reloaded-2.jpg' alt='Watch Sky Force 3D Online Sky Force 3D Full Movie Online' title='Watch Sky Force 3D Online Sky Force 3D Full Movie Online' />Watch Horror movies online at BoxTV. Browse your favorite movies in Horror Genre Movie listings sorted by movie genre. Every Horror Movie and Films you might be. Sky provides television and broadband internet services, fixed line and mobile telephone services to consumers and businesses in the United Kingdom. It is the UKs largest pay TV broadcaster with 1. It was the UKs most popular digital TV service until it was overtaken by Freeview in April 2. Its corporate headquarters are in Isleworth. Formed in November 1. Sky Television and British Satellite Broadcasting, Sky became the UKs largest digital subscription television company. Sky One is a British general entertainment channel operated and owned by Sky plc, available in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Sky One launched across Europe on 26. Following Skys 2. Sky Italia and a majority 9. Sky Deutschland in November 2. British Sky Broadcasting Group plc changed its name to Sky plc. The UK subsidiarys name was changed from British Sky Broadcasting Limited to Sky UK Limited, and continues to trade as Sky. Sky UK Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sky plc, with its current company directors being Andrew Griffith and Christopher Taylor. Griffith acts as the Chief Financial Officer CFO and the Managing Director for the commercial businesses division. HistoryeditOriginseditThe present service can trace its heritage back to 1. BSky. Bs predecessors Sky Television plc and British Satellite Broadcasting encrypted their respective film channels Sky Movies and The Movie Channel which required viewers to get decoding equipment and a subscription to watch the channels. After the two companies merged, subscribers could get access to both channels, and later the sports channel Sky Sports also became encrypted. In the autumn of 1. Premier League for a five year period, from the 1. ITV were the current rights holders, and fought hard to retain the new rights. ITV had increased its offer from 1. Sky.Force.1.27.jpg' alt='Watch Sky Force 3D Online Sky Force 3D Full Movie Online' title='Watch Sky Force 3D Online Sky Force 3D Full Movie Online' />BSky. B joined forces with the BBC9 to make a counter bid. The BBC was given the highlights of most of the matches, while BSky. B paying 3. 04m for the Premier League rights, would give them a monopoly of all live matches, up to 6. Murdoch described sport as a battering ram for pay television, providing a strong customer base. A few weeks after the deal, ITV went to the High Court to get an injunction as it believed their bid details had been leaked before the decision was taken. ITV also asked the Office of Fair Trading to investigate since it believed Rupert Murdochs media empire via its newspapers had influenced the deal. A few days later neither action took effect, ITV believed BSky. B was telephoned and informed of its 2. Premier League advised BSky. B to increase its counter bid. BSky. B retained the rights paying 6. On Digital1. 4 for the rights from 2. Following a lengthy legal battle with the European Commission, which deemed the exclusivity of the rights to be against the interests of competition and the consumer, BSky. Bs monopoly came to an end from the 2. In May 2. 00. 6, the Irish broadcaster Setanta Sports was awarded two of the six Premier League packages that the English FA offered to broadcasters. Sky picked up the remaining four for 1. In February 2. 01. Sky bid 4. 2bn for a package of 1. This represented an increase of 7. The move has been followed by staff cuts, increased subscription prices including 9 in Skys family package and the dropping of the 3. D channel. Sky MultichannelseditIn September 1. BSky. B launched Sky Multichannels which was the present digital platforms analogue predecessor. Sky Multichannels was a subscription package that gave access not only to Skys own channels but also those of third party broadcasters. The service started on 1 September 1. It was based on an idea by then CEO Sam Chisholm and chairman Rupert Murdoch of converting the company business strategy to an entirely fee based concept. Watch Kung Fu Panda 3 Dailymotion. The new package included four channels formerly available free to air, broadcasting on Astras satellites, as well as introducing new channels. The service continued until the closure of BSky. Bs analogue service on 2. September 2. 00. 1,1. Watch River Of Darkness Streaming. Sky Digital platform after its launch three years ago. Some of the channels did broadcast either in the clear or soft encrypted whereby a Videocrypt decoder was required to decode, without a subscription card prior to their addition to the Sky Multichannels package. Within two months of the launch, BSky. B gained 4. 00,0. BSky. B reach 3. 5 million households by mid 1. Michael Grade criticised the operations in front of the Select Committee on National Heritage, mainly for the lack of original programming on many of the new channels. Launch of Sky DigitaleditBSky. Bs digital service was officially launched on 1 October 1. Sky Digital, although small scale tests were carried out before then. At this time the use of the Sky Digital brand made an important distinction between the new service and Skys analogue services. Key selling points were the improvement in picture and sound quality, increased number of channels and an interactive service branded Open. Sky Active, BSky. B competed with the ONdigital later ITV Digital terrestrial offering and cable services. Within 3. 0 days, over 1. BSky. Bs decision to give away free digiboxes and minidishes from May 1. In addition to most channels from the Sky Multichannels package, Sky Digital launched with several new channels that were exclusive to the digital offer. The switch over from analogue to digital proceeded relatively quickly. In Q3 1. 99. 8, there were 6 million multichannel TV homes in the UK i. BSky. Bs analogue service. BSky. Bs digital service surpassed the analogue service in terms of subscribers in late 1. By June 2. 00. 0 the service had 3. BSky. B 8. 9. 88 million subscribers across all platforms. This substantial growth reflected BSky. Bs 3. 4 share of viewers in multi channel homes up from 1. BSky. Bs analogue service ended in October 2. Sky. By June 2. 00. Skys direct to home satellite service became available in 1. Europes first pay TV platform in to achieve that milestone. Confirming it had reached its target, the broadcaster said its reach into 3. UK represented an audience of more than 2. The target was first announced in August 2. Skys direct to home service. Media commentators had debated whether the figure could be reached as the growth in subscriber numbers elsewhere in Europe flattened. The Daily Mail newspaper reported in 2.