Sky Picnic Plans Delayed On Terrestrial TV
Sky has announced that it has put off plans to introduce a pay TV service on digital terrestrial TV.
Launching Picnic on terrestrial TV would have seen Sky’s current free channels on Freeview replaced by Sky Sports 1, Sky Movies and with Sky One sharing space with offerings from channels such as Discovery and Disney. Sky also planned to use MPEG-4 compression to offer Sky News 24 hours a day. The channels would have been viewable on a subscription basis using a Sky Picnic set top box.
The delay in launching Sky Picnic has happened because Ofcom has yet to approve the Sky Picnic service while it is still awaiting the results of an investigation into the pay TV market. These results are expected to be published in 2009.
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