Sky is to preparing to cut some 1,000 jobs in the latest round of redundancies to hit the UK media industry. The satellite pay-TV company, which employs around 26,000 individuals in the UK, is seeking to reduce its workforce by about 4 per cent during 2024. The cuts will come mainly affect technicians who install […]
DAZN, the sports entertainment platform, has announced that the DAZN app will go live on Sky UK’s platform in 2024, sitting alongside other streaming services such as Prime Video and Disney+. Sky customers will be able to sign up to DAZN’s service on Sky Glass, Sky Stream and Sky Q, giving access to a range […]
At an immersive industry Upfronts on November 30th, Sky Media, the advertising arm of Sky, revealed a number of advertising initiatives and innovations to a senior agency audience. Hosted at the ‘Frameless’ interactive gallery in Marble Arch, Sky Media Managing Director Brett Aumuller and his team shared their advertising vision and plans for 2024. Amongst […]
Sky has starting rolling out new features to Entertainment OS, its Sky Glass and Sky Stream operating system. Entertainment OS 1.2 brings viewers a new way to ‘manage all’ their curated Playlists, a faster way to ‘Restart’ any TV programme or film, and a new ‘continue watching’ rail for Netflix content. And with the Women’s […]
QVC, the video commerce retailer, has successfully launched its linear TV channels on Sky Glass and Sky Stream, promoting a range of categories and products. Included in Sky’s 600 channels range, four new QVC HD channels have been launched on the platform: QVC HD, QVC Style HD, QVC Beauty HD, and QVC Extra HD. The […]
A report in the Sunday Times newspaper, quoting sources within Comcast-owned Sky, suggests that while Sky Glass has been recognised as being a “good innovation”, sales are below expectations and not enough to see Sky’s UK broadcasts migrate from satellite to a ‘dishless’ streamed Internet and 5G. According to the report, the manufacturing costs behind […]
My5, the broadcast VoD service from Channel 5, is now available on Sky Glass TVs and the Sky Stream service, bringing viewers live and on-demand programming from Channel 5. To launch the app, users can simply say, “Hello Sky, open My 5”, to their Sky Glass or “My 5” into their voice remote, or find […]
Sky is rolling out new features to Entertainment OS, the Sky Glass and Sky Stream operating system. Entertainment OS 1.1 will bring Personalised Playlists, a new ’Play’ voice command to help viewers play what they want to watch even quicker, more ways to find content from favourite actors and directors, as well as enhanced Bluetooth […]
The Amazon Music app is now available on Sky Glass, Sky Stream and Sky Q with millions of songs and albums, thousands of playlists, and latest releases to listen to, all via the app. To launch the service, Sky users can simply say “Hello Sky, open Amazon Music” into their Sky Glass or “Amazon Music” […]
Streaming service discovery+ is now available at no extra charge to all Sky TV subscribers. Sky Q, Sky Glass and Sky Stream customers can sign up for discovery+ as part of their monthly Sky TV subscription, saving £6.99/€6.99 a month. Sky TV customers who are already have the 12-months discovery+ Entertainment pass will now be […]