Sky Italia

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Sky Italia S.r.l.
Company type Subsidiary
Industry Telecommunications
Founded31 July 2003;21 years ago (2003-07-31)
Founder Rupert Murdoch
Headquarters
Milan
,
Italy
Area served
 Italy
San Marino
Vatican City
Key people
Andrea Duilio (CEO)
Products Direct-broadcast satellite OTT streaming television broadband provider MVNO
Parent Sky Group
Subsidiaries NOW S.r.l.
Vision Distribution (joint venture with Cattleya, Wildside, Lucisano Media Group, Palomar and Indiana Production [1] )
Website www.sky.it

Sky Italia S.r.l. is an Italian satellite television platform owned by the American media conglomerate Comcast. Sky Italia also broadcasts three national free-to-air television channels: TV8, Cielo, and Sky TG24.

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Pay TV services on the Sky Italia satellite platform are broadcast on the Hot Bird satellites at 13.0°E and are encrypted in NDS VideoGuard.

History

Sky Italia was founded on 31 July 2003 by the merger of TELE+ and Stream TV. [2]

On 28 June 2010, Sky Italia changed its brands and logos, making them identical to the BSkyB ones.

On 1 October 2010, Sky activated its first 3D channel, Sky Sport 3D, available without any extra cost to the Sport pack subscribers. The very first event Sky Sport 3D aired was the 2010 Ryder Cup. On 25 December 2010, Sky launched another 3D channel: Sky Cinema 3D, airing 3D movies, available for free for Cinema pack subscribers. These channels were replaced by Sky 3D on 6 September 2011, and then closed on 16 January 2018.

Tom Mockridge, the then head of Sky Italia, replaced Rebekah Brooks as chief executive of News International after she resigned on 15 July 2011. [3]

Andrea Zappia replaced Tom Mockridge as CEO on 1 August 2011. [4] On 7 October 2011 Sky Italia announced it reached the 5 million subscribers benchmark.

Following News Corporation's split into two on 28 June 2013, to create two separate companies, 21st Century Fox (the re-branded News Corporation), and the spin-off company New News Corp, the 100% stake held by News Corporation in Sky Italia was retained by the re-branded 21st Century Fox.

Following media speculation, on 12 May 2014 Sky Italia's sister company, BSkyB, confirmed it was in talks with its largest shareholder, 21st Century Fox, about acquiring 21st Century Fox's 57.4% stake in Sky Deutschland and its 100% stake in Sky Italia. The enlarged company would be likely to be called "Sky Europe" and will consolidate 21st Century Fox's European digital TV assets into one company. [5] [6] The sale was announced on 25 July 2014, which was subject to regulatory and shareholder approval. [7] The acquisition was completed on 13 November. [8]

In 2016, Sky Italia created Vision Distribution, a film distribution venture with five Italian production companies: Wildside (owned by Fremantle), Cattleya (backed by ITV Studios), Lucisano Media Group, Palomar and Indiana Production. Since the beginning of August 2019, Universal Pictures, Sky's corporate cousin via NBCUniversal, has handled theatrical distribution for Vision's releases in Italy. [9] On 20 January 2020, Vision launched their international sales arm, Vision Distribution International. [1]

Since October 2018, Sky Italia, as well as Sky UK, Sky Ireland and Sky Deutschland, is controlled by Comcast.

On 1 October 2019, Maximo Ibarra replaced Andrea Zappia as CEO. Maximo Ibarra, however, had already left Sky Italia on 30 June 2021.

On 16 June 2020, Sky Italia launched Sky Wifi, its ultra-broadband service.

On 6 September 2021, Andrea Duilio started as the new CEO of Sky Italia.

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Sky HD and 4K HDR

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Sky Box HD (Pace)

Sky HD is the brand name of the HDTV service launched by Sky Italia on 20 April 2006 in Italy – during the 2006 FIFA World Cup – to enable high definition channels on Sky Italia to be viewed. The service requires the user to have a Sky Box HD (distributed by Sky Italia), and an HDTV with HDCP enabled.

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My Sky HD (Amstrad)

A HD PVR decoder called My Sky HD was launched on 26 May 2008 (on 20 December 2008 was sold a particular edition designed by Fendi in favour of the international organisation Child Priority).

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Sky Q Platinum

On 29 November 2017, Sky launched Sky Q Platinum, a set-top box enabled to view programmes in 4K HDR and to use the multiscreen wireless service.

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Sky Q Black

On 2 July 2018, Sky launched Sky Q Black, a set-top box identical to the Sky Q Platinum which enables the 4K HDR service but not the multiscreen wireless.

Here are the channels available in HD:

TV31 channels Sky TG24 HD, Rete 4 HD, Canale 5 HD, Italia 1 HD, Sky Uno HD, Sky Uno +1 HD, Sky Serie HD, Sky Serie +1 HD, Sky Atlantic HD, Sky Atlantic +1 HD, Sky Investigation HD, Sky Crime HD, Sky Arte HD, TV8 HD, Blaze HD, MTV HD, Classica HD, NOVE HD, 20 Mediaset HD, Cielo HD, 27 Twentyseven HD, Real Time HD, Giallo HD, DMAX HD, Eurosport 1 HD, Eurosport 2 HD, Horse TV HD, Gambero Rosso Channel HD, Food Network HD, Sky Nature HD, Sky Documentaries HD, Discovery Channel HD, Discovery Science HD, History HD, Motor Trend HD
Cinema11 channels Sky Cinema Uno HD, Sky Cinema Due HD, Sky Cinema Collection HD, Sky Cinema Family HD, Sky Cinema Action HD, Sky Cinema Suspense HD, Sky Cinema Romance HD, Sky Cinema Drama HD, Sky Cinema Comedy HD, Sky Cinema Uno +24 HD, Sky Cinema Due +24 HD
Sport10 channels Sky Sport 24 HD, Sky Sport Uno HD, Sky Sport Football HD, Sky Sport Arena HD, Sky Sport Collection HD, Sky Sport Tennis HD, Sky Sport NBA HD, Sky Sport F1 HD, Sky Sport MotoGP HD, Roma TV
Calcio11 channels Sky Sport 24 HD, Sky Sport Serie A HD, Sky Sport Football HD, Sky Sport HD (channels from 251 to 257), Lazio Style Channel
Kids1 channel Cartoon Network HD
Primafila7 channels Sky Primafila 1 HD, Sky Primafila 2 HD, Sky Primafila 4 HD, Sky Primafila 6 HD, Sky Primafila 8 HD, Sky Primafila 10 HD, Sky Primafila 12 HD
Optional Channels4 channels DAZN 1, DAZN 1+, Milan TV, Inter TV

Logos

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31 July 2003 – 3 September 20064 September 2006 – 27 June 201028 June 2010 – 25 September 201326 September 2013 – 1 July 20182 July 2018 – 13 September 2020in use from 14 September 2020

Channel Packs

Sky Italia offers a range of channels that are grouped into:

Sky TV

Sky Kids

Sky Sport and Sky Calcio

Sky Cinema

Optional Channels

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  2. ↑ "Communicating Europe: Italy Manual" (PDF). European Stability Initiative. 19 May 2008. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 June 2014. Retrieved 23 November 2014.
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