Worst News Ever

[Rich]

BSkyB has announced that Sky Sports News is to become a pay-TV channel, after eight years of being available on Freeview.

Sky said the move would allow the channel to benefit from "continued growth in subscription revenues".

The move would take place "later this year", Sky added. From then the channel will only be available via Sky, Virgin Media or Talk Talk TV.

The 24-hour sports news channel will be replaced on Freeview by Sky 3+1.

"Sky Sports News has been a great success over the last 12 years and we have big ambitions to make it even better," said Barney Francis, managing director of Sky Sports.

"As part of a subscription service, customers can look forward to expanded coverage and the launch of Europe's first HD sports news service."

Source:BBCNews

Fuck Sky, Fuck Rupert Murdoch

The Jeff Stelling drinking game will never be the same again

[METALMAN]

what the fuck? are they going to be making us pay for sky news next? dicks.

[King Ellis]

Didn't they try this a few years and the people who control TV or whoever blocked it?

[Rich]

What ever happens I am outraged.

OUTRAGED!

[Dynamite]

How will this work with Sky? Only Sky Sports subscribers get the channel? If so, I echo the outrage!

[Mick]

what the fuck? are they going to be making us pay for sky news next? dicks.

If Rupert Murdoch had his way, he'd make you pay for accessing ANY online news.

[EddieG]

He'd make you pay for freeview

[Rich]

He'd make you pay for freeview

Its on ocassions like this I wish we still had the option to negative rep.

That was awful Eddie, truley awful.

[Hobo]

Why the fuck would you want to watch Sky Sports News in HD?

[METALMAN]

ali douglas

[GA!]

But Sky Sports News is, except for Soccer Saturday, one big advertising channel for their sports package. It makes no sense.

[Rich]

I am going to start Rich Sport News in protest!

And all it will be is one big advertisement for my package

[Baddar]

Millie Clode in HD? Of course I'd want to watch it.

[Blue Rosler]

But the drinking game is amazing

[Noah]

Ask the average person on the street in Australia what they think of Rupert Murdoch.

He wouldn't like the answer.

It's one of the main reasons why I always cringe when he's on the simpsons being portrayed as an aussie larrikin.

[Lineker]

mmmm. Millie Clode.

I do miss Sky Sports News.

[ZJ Penn]

Just can't see that working. The majority of SSN viewers are people who can't afford to, or simply don't want to, pay for Sky. I can see it moving back within months.

[Crybaby Bunting]

They probably noticed that their audience for Sky Sports News FAR outweighs Sky Sports subscribers.

And yeah, once they realise that their gamble didn't pay off they're going to have to move it back else notice that LESS people are subscribing to a sports channel if there aren't even adverts going for it ¬_¬