topic TV Essentials Sky Atlantic in Sky Q

TV Essentials Sky Atlantic

Grace1973 — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 12:03:20 GMT

Hi there, my bill is so high and as I live on my own, it seems crazy. Does anyone know if you still get Sky Atlantic if you drop to TV Essentials on a Sky Q box? All info online seems to suggest yes, but guy from sky I spoke to on the phone said you don't. I'm wondering if this is true before I make decision. Thanks

Re: TV Essentials Sky Atlantic

PandJ2020 — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 12:04:17 GMT

No. You only get 'free to air' channels.

You need Signature for Sky Atlantic.

Re: Sky TV Essentials Details

nigea99 — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 12:22:29 GMT

@Grace1973 wrote:

Would you tell me can you get Sky Atlantic on TV essentials with sky Q? Thanks

hi @Grace1973

No, unfortunately not - you only get the 'Free to Air' channels via the SKY Q essentials - SKY Atlantic is not Free To Air

SKY Q essentials is not the same as the recently announced similarly named package only available on Glass/Stream called Essential TV

It is unfortunate that SKY have reused the essential name for a package that is dfifferent

Re: TV Essentials Sky Atlantic

Ellie_TV — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 12:07:00 GMT

@Grace1973 wrote:
Hi there, my bill is so high and as I live on my own, it seems crazy. Does anyone know if you still get Sky Atlantic if you drop to TV Essentials on a Sky Q box? All info online seems to suggest yes, but guy from sky I spoke to on the phone said you don't. I'm wondering if this is true before I make decision. Thanks

TV Essentials on Sky Q does NOT include Sky Atlantic. You only get access to the free-to-air channels with this package on Sky Q.

Sky have recently introduced a Sky Essential package for Sky Stream which DOES include Sky Atlantic but this is a very different type of service to Sky Q and is fully streamed so relies entirely on broadband rather than a satellite dish.

Re: TV Essentials Sky Atlantic

Grace1973 — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 12:18:35 GMT

Thanks for taking the time to reply, really appreciated!

Re: Sky TV Essentials Details

Grace1973 — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 12:19:48 GMT

Thanks, very much appreciated!

Re: TV Essentials Sky Atlantic

Grace1973 — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 12:20:37 GMT

Thanks, really appreciated!

Re: TV Essentials Sky Atlantic

lettice — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 12:25:00 GMT

As mentioned above.

It only offers free to air channels.

The full list of available channels can be found in link below. That site is updated regularly.

For Sky Q essentials package, available channels are listed as the Free-to-air and Sky Q Lite (TV Essentials)

Link here

Re: Sky TV Essentials Details

Grace1973 — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 13:07:10 GMT

Thanks for taking the time to respond! Appreciated 👍🏻

Re: TV Essentials Sky Atlantic

TimmyBGood — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 13:40:31 GMT

@Grace1973 wrote:

All info online seems to suggest yes, but guy from sky I spoke to on the phone said you don't.

Unfortunately many online sources, including the Google AI response, are horribly confused by the really silly choice of name for the new streaming product from Sky and its overlap with a much older satellite television option that has no subscription channels.

https://www.sky.com/help/articles/tv-essentials

https://www.skygroup.sky/en-gb/article/sky-launches-essential-tv-bringing-together-sky-netflix-and-discovery-for-15-a-month

Re: TV Essentials Sky Atlantic

Dermot224 — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 12:43:21 GMT

I have Sky Essentials on stream but

can only acceas Sky News on Sky Go. Anyone else with same problem.

Re: TV Essentials Sky Atlantic

PandJ2020 — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 13:03:34 GMT

@Dermot224 wrote:
I have Sky Essentials on stream but
can only acceas Sky News on Sky Go. Anyone else with same problem.

Do you have HD sub?

Re: TV Essentials Sky Atlantic

Dermot224 — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 13:11:40 GMT

Sky stream does nit require hd sub

Re: TV Essentials Sky Atlantic

PandJ2020 — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 13:17:33 GMT

@Dermot224 wrote:
Sky stream does nit require hd sub

Ok, but you did post in the Sky Q forum... (Try posting in the Stream forum https://helpforum.sky.com/t5/Sky-Stream/bd-p/sky-stream)

Sky Go seems more 'relaxed' on what channels will be displayed, i.e. it will show a HD channel without a sub on Q.

Re: TV Essentials Sky Atlantic

alfista — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 12:18:58 GMT

Strangely, I can get SKY News if I select channel 501, but not if I select SKY News from my "favourites".

Re: TV Essentials Sky Atlantic

nigea99 — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 12:29:04 GMT

@alfista wrote:

Strangely, I can get SKY News if I select channel 501, but not if I select SKY News from my "favourites".

Is the channel in your favourites the HD Version ?

Re: TV Essentials Sky Atlantic

alfista — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 16:11:25 GMT

Yes, so I've now changed that to the non-HD.