{"id":1982,"date":"2007-06-26T10:23:24","date_gmt":"2007-06-26T10:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2007\/06\/sky_on_freeview_2\/"},"modified":"2007-06-26T10:23:24","modified_gmt":"2007-06-26T10:23:24","slug":"sky_on_freeview_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/sky_on_freeview_2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sky on Freeview &#8211; Ofcom Announces a Consultation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today Ofcom has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ofcom.org.uk\/media\/news\/2007\/06\/nr_20070626\">announced<\/a> that it will conduct a public consultation into Sky&#8217;s proposal to replace it&#8217;s Freeview channels with three pay channels on DTT.<br \/>\nAs regular readers will <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/weblog\/archive\/002074.html\">recall<\/a>, this proposal came as a counter measure to Setanta who will have Freeview, and also acted as a nice distraction for the launch of Virgin Media.<br \/>\nAnyway, now Ofcom has determined that a public consultation will take place in the autumn, with a statement in the new year.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m guessing that Sky will be a little frustrated at this outcome since it gives Setanta a few months to build their business.<br \/>\n[UPDATE] Sky <a href=\"http:\/\/media.guardian.co.uk\/broadcast\/story\/0,,2111863,00.html\">isn&#8217;t very happy at all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Ofcom has announced that it will conduct a public consultation into Sky&#8217;s proposal to replace it&#8217;s Freeview channels with three pay channels on DTT. As regular readers will recall, this proposal came as a counter measure to Setanta who will have Freeview, and also acted as a nice distraction for the launch of Virgin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}