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Freely TV

mkderby — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 20:39:58 GMT

Well been with sky for 19 years. Saddens me that today I gave my notice in. Firstly the price has gone from 38 to 62 a month. Retention got it to 46 a month. Well I did a TV audit and 95%of the time I watch the free to air channels, so after a couple of months of research I went to freely. I git a nice new 4k TV for £350.and now subscription free TV. It's amazing. And no monthly cost Sky I would have paid over £1400 in fees in 2 years. I fact I am. Going to buy another new TV for the bedroom and I am still quids in. Sky sort your product out and look after your customer who have supported you for many years. I have no TV aerial and so freely is a good substitute for me. Take care all and if you want to save money you know what to do.

Re: Freely TV

TimmyBGood — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 18:01:45 GMT

@mkderby wrote:
Sky sort your product out

In what way? If the content on FTA television suits your particular needs then you've made the obvious decision: someone who wants, for example, new HBO series or Premier League football is going to stick with Sky.

Re: Freely TV

Marlu-Nyu — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 22:40:39 GMT

@mkderby wrote:
Well been with sky for 19 years. Saddens me that today I gave my notice in. Firstly the price has gone from 38 to 62 a month. Retention got it to 46 a month. Well I did a TV audit and 95%of the time I watch the free to air channels, so after a couple of months of research I went to freely. I git a nice new 4k TV for £350.and now subscription free TV. It's amazing. And no monthly cost Sky I would have paid over £1400 in fees in 2 years. I fact I am. Going to buy another new TV for the bedroom and I am still quids in. Sky sort your product out and look after your customer who have supported you for many years. I have no TV aerial and so freely is a good substitute for me. Take care all and if you want to save money you know what to do.

So £19 in 2006 is worth £33 in 2025. Sky also needs to pay licence fees, news broadcasters, live presenters, sports rights, etc. At thinking like that, £68 is not too bad.

An alternative you could have gotten is Sky Essential TV. This gives access to channels that are "free-to-air channels*", their catch-up and streaming services. On Sky Stream, this is only £15 month (2 year min term). This is only £180 per year.

So, you could have gotten TV for less that the price 19 years ago.

(* includes RTÉ and TG4 channels in Northern Ireland)

Re: Freely TV

Timelord2018 — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 00:59:19 GMT

Sky Essential TV does come across as designed with HBO Max launch in mind (since Sky bundle agreement isn't exclusive)

Re: Freely TV

Timelord2018 — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 09:27:02 GMT

@TimmyBGood wrote:
@mkderby wrote:
Sky sort your product out
In what way? If the content on FTA television suits your particular needs then you've made the obvious decision: someone who wants, for example, new HBO series or Premier League football is going to stick with Sky.

Not really a good example , would become a co exclusive with HBO Max until it naturally expires from Sky at a later date (this is how the current output deal works for post 2020 shows until that runs out)

Sky this year have acquired something like 5 US shows, 3 are from NBC Universal, 1 each from Sony and Fifth Season along with Sky Originals you can see the direction of travel whether that's value for money is another matter.