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Sky To Launch All Channels On Broadband Next Year As Rising Sports Rights Bite
- The Guardian, Friday, January 27, 2017 6:36 AM
Sky is to make its full TV service available without the need for a satellite dish for the first time, as it looks to stem customer defections to rivals, such as BT. The pay-TV giant, which had an 18% plunge in profits at its UK business in the last six months of 2016 due to spiralling Premier League rights costs, said it would launch the broadband-delivered service next year.
