Sky Italia
Sky Italia Srl
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legal form | Srl |
founding | 2003 |
Seat | Milan , Italy |
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Number of employees | 8000 (2013) |
sales | € 2.33 billion (2016) |
Branch | media |
Website | sky.it |
Sky Italia | |
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TV station ( Srl ) | |
Program type | Pay TV |
reception | Cable , satellite and IPTV |
Image resolution | ( Entry missing ) |
Start of transmission | July 31, 2003 |
owner | Sky Plc. |
executive Director |
James Murdoch (President) Andrea Zappia |
List of TV channels | |
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Sky Italia is the largest pay TV provider in Italy and is operated by Sky Italia Srl. Sky Italia emerged from the merger of the two pay TV providers TELE + DIGITALE and Stream TV . The broadcast started on July 31, 2003. All programs on the platform can be received via satellite ( DVB-S , Eutelsat HotBird 13A, Eutelsat HotBird 13B, Eutelsat HotBird 13C ) and, in Italy, also via IPTV . Officially, the program offer can only be subscribed to in Italy.
In the course of the merger with BSkyB and Sky Deutschland to Sky plc. Sky Italia introduced a new logo on November 13, 2014.
history
In 2009 there was a dispute between Sky Italia and the private television company Mediaset, which belongs to Silvio Berlusconi's media group . As early as 2008, Berlusconi, in his role as Prime Minister at the time, decided to double the taxes on pay-TV subscriptions, which was seen as an attack on Rupert Murdoch's broadcaster. Mediaset refused to advertise Sky Italia on its free to air channels; three of the company's channels refused to sell advertising time to Sky Italia. Sky then changed its encryption so that it was possible for all Skys HD customers to receive all free-to-air channels, including the Mediaset channels. Silvio Berlusconi then described Sky as an "enemy" and his son and Mediaset deputy boss Pier Silvio Berlusconi spoke of a "war" with the broadcaster.
The media group News Corporation (now 21st Century Fox) then filed a lawsuit against Mediaset for distortion of competition. Mediaset launched a free satellite program to compete with Murdoch in the pay-TV market.
Data
As of March 31, 2012, the platform had a subscriber base of 4.94 million subscribers (with an estimated viewership of approximately 14 million). The market share in November 2011 was 11.21%. Sky Italia is one of the largest pay TV providers in Europe .
Encryption
Sky Italia, like Sky Deutschland and BSkyB , uses the Videoguard encryption system , which was developed by NDS - a subsidiary of News Corporation . Until April 2004, Sky used the SECA Mediaguard 2 encryption system .
Programs
Sky Italia's offer includes a wide range of channels with different topics or target groups: films, sports, entertainment, news, documentaries, music, children, young people.
These include:
- approx. 90 themed channels (entertainment, children, news, documentaries, music, etc.)
- 35 premium channels (films, sports)
- 28 pay-per-view channels, including 7 in high definition
- 60 channels in high definition
- 8 channels that can be booked in addition to the existing subscription.
- Interactive services
Sky packages
Sky TV
- Automoto TV
- AXN HD
- AXN +1
- AXN Sci Fi
- Bike Channel
- Cielo HD
- Class CNBC
- Classica HD
- CNN
- Comedy Central
- Comedy Central +1
- Crime + Investigation HD
- Discovery Travel & Living
- DMAX HD
- DMAX +1
- Dove TV
- Eurosport HD
- Eurosport 2 HD
- Fox HD
- Fox +1
- Fox Animation HD
- Fox Business
- Fox Comedy HD
- Fox Crime HD
- Fox Crime +1
- Fox Crime +2
- Fox Life HD
- Fox Life +1
- Fox News
- Gambero Rosso HD
- Lei
- Lei +1
- Man-ga
- TV8 HD
- MTV HD
- Nat Geo People HD
- Real Time HD
- Real time +1
- Sky Atlantic HD
- Sky Atlantic +1 HD
- Sky Arte HD
- Sky Meteo 24
- Sky News
- Sky Sport 24 HD
- Sky TG 24 HD
- Sky TG 24 Eventi HD
- Sky TG 24 Primo Piano HD
- Sky TG 24 Rassegne HD
- Sky Uno HD
- Sky Uno +1 HD
Sky Famiglia
- Animal Planet
- Baby tv
- boomerang
- Boomerang +1
- Cartoon Network
- Cartoon Network +1
- DeA Kids
- DeA Kids +1
- DeA Junior
- Discovery Channel HD
- Discovery Channel +1
- Discovery Science
- Disney Channel HD
- Disney Channel +1
- Disney Channel +2
- Disney in English
- Disney Junior
- Disney Junior +1
- Disney XD HD
- Disney XD +1
- Disney XD +2
- Explora HD
- Hip Hop TV
- History HD
- History +1
- MTV hits
- MTV Music
- MTV Rocks
- Deejay TV
- Nat Geo Wild HD
- Nat Geo Wild +1
- National Geographic HD
- National Geographic +1
- Nickelodeon
- Nickelodeon +1
- Nick jr
- Nick Jr +1
- Rock TV
Sky sports
- Roma TV
- Sky Sport Uno HD
- Sky Sport Football HD
- Sky Sport Arena HD
- Sky Sport 24 HD
- Sky Sport F1 HD
- Sky Sport MotoGP HD
- Sky Sports NBA HD
- Sky Sport Golf HD
- Sky Sport Serie A HD
HDTV
Sky Italia began broadcasting the first four HD programs in May 2006. These included the channels Sky Cinema HD, Sky Sport HD, National Geographic HD and Next HD. In the following years, the number of HD channels on offer was further expanded. Today 58 HD programs are broadcast via Sky Italia (as of February 8, 2012). Of the 12 stations in the "Cinema Package", 10 broadcast in HD ( simulcasting ).
Station logos
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Federal Agency for Civic Education: bpb.de - Media Database - International - News Corp. Ltd. In: www.bpb.de. Retrieved November 15, 2016 .
- ↑ Economy: dispute between Murdoch and Berlusconi goes into new round - N24.de . In: N24.de . ( n24.de [accessed on November 15, 2016]).