Competition
Freesat from Sky is a competitor to the BBC and ITV's Freesat service which also broadcasts from 28.2°E and 28.5°E and the DTT service Freeview. fSfS has eight free-to-view of the main channels which are not available on Freesat (see above) and a large number of free-to-air channels are not directly listed in the Freesat EPG and need manual tuning to receive them. It is also possible for Sky Box Office events to be ordered via fSfS. The process is more complex than it would be if the customer subscribes to Sky. To order events, the customer would have to phone Sky providing credit/debit card details in order to gain access to an event.
fSfS has over 240 free-to-air channels on its EPG, (which do not require either a viewing card or a Sky receiver to watch). Include Bloomberg Television, Travel Channel. Compared to over 180 free-to-air channels on Freesat EPG. with the remaining free-to-air channel not available through the main EPG and needing manual tuning by the user. Freeview digital terrestrial television has to over 50 free-to-air channels service and cannot be manually tuned into the free-to-air channel available. fSfS also pre-tunes the boxes to the correct regional services of broadcasters who offer regional services such as the BBC, ITV and Channel 5. which on Freesat requires the user manually to enter their postcode during set-up for these correct regional services.
Conversely, there are some TV channels that are on Freeview but are not on the Sky EPG at all. The channels in question are The Big Deal, Blue Kiss TV (Blue Kiss TV was removed from Sky on 12 October 2011 but continues on Freeview) and Top Up TV Anytime downloads.
Many adult-category channels on Freeview (such as the SmileTV channels) are simulcast on adult-category channels on Sky, but frequently have different channel names and broadcast times.
Other Freeview channels can be received on satellite, but may be subscription-only on some or all satellite locations, and therefore cannot be received via fSfS. Namely, these are 4Music, Yesterday, Dave, Dave ja vu, Really, and Quest.
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