On January 25, BBC News wrote that Sky, the British company also present in Italy with the satellite television of the same name, “intends to make all its channels and content available online, allowing subscribers to give up the satellite dish”. BBC News also wrote that Italy would be “the first country where all Sky channels will be accessible via the internet”. The news was picked up by various Italian newspapers and sites and in some cases it became erroneously “Sky says goodbye to the satellite dish All programs will be online”.
In reality, it is not certain that all Sky channels will be able to be seen online by 2018 and certainly Sky does not “say goodbye to the dish”. Sky Italia is just thinking of adding to the already present vision via antenna the possibility of seeing its channels via the internet. Sky Italia then made it known that there is no certain date. Both abroad and in Italy, Sky already allows you to see a lot of content in streaming, thanks to Sky Go and (in a different way) Now TV. However, these platforms do not include all channels, and have some limitations related to the type of tool you use to watch the programs: if you want to see live broadcasts on TV you must necessarily have an antenna.
To watch channels on TV, but via the internet, you will need a decoder, and some of the most recent ones can already potentially allow this type of connection. When the time comes (but it is not yet known when it will arrive) Sky subscribers (who currently number 4 million and 678 thousand) will therefore be able to choose whether to continue watching the programs via satellite or whether, with the right connection, to watch them via the internet.
