SHERGAR

can anyone update us on the loss of sky tv in the calpe/moraira areas.we lost ours last weekend and have been told that the spanish tv have bought the rights to all sky channels.our supliers say they have their lawyers looking into it and hope to have the service back soon.

snikpoh

Isn't this just a repeated thread?

Who was your supplier?

I have friends in Calpe who have a Sky subscription (from UK) and it's still working fine.

You may find that your supplier was 'rebroadcasting' the Sky signal. This being illegal, they have been closed down.

Splatt

Hi Shergar, hope all is well with you both!

Our Sky TV is fine, are you on a different rebroadcast system though?

We used Base satellite and found them rather good BTW,

Ste.

valenciatim

As you have mentioned "my suppliers", it's fairly safe to say that you were on a rebroadcast system and not using your own dish. If that is the case, as the rebroadcasters were acting illegally they have been closed down, and you will not get it back in the same form. The only way to legally get sky is with your own dish.

The Guy

sky tv, or rather the satellite transmissions at astra 28 that carry the majority of UK TV including bbc and sky, have been working fine and will never "just cease" broadcasting - 8.5million sky customers and the other few milltion that watch freetoair satellite by the likes of freesat, may have something to say about that.

a major rebroadcaster was visitied by the guardia, no official reason has not yet been given , but rumour suggests more "tax issues" than rebroadcasting. howver, other rebroadcaters hava also removef the key sky channels (like sky sports) just incase they get visited for "copyright infringment" - rebroadcasting channels without permission from the channel owners.
it does appear that a loophole in the "system" does allow for the retransmission of "free to air" tv channels like BBC, ITV and C4, but not channels that require a encryption viewing card (that Five and SKy subscription channels) need.

the rumours of spanish Tv (i take it you mean canal digital + the spanish pay tv operator) are just those in my opinion, just rumour. i have not found any officaial announcement of this inany of the press or business sections - dont you think it strange that they give this info to a local spanish newspaper and not announce it to their shareholders...?? also, sky do / may not have the permission of the programme makers or sporting bodies (the Fa, FIFA, dare i say WWE!) to resell their right to other broadcasters. for example, the ryder cup is already on canaldigital+ Golf channel, and canaldigital+ would have bought exclusive spanish tv rights for this privailge. TVE have exclusive premier league rights...sky cannot allow it channels to go to another "satellite provider" without buying the spanish rights from the programme makers, who would be unlikey to grant sky the rights and this would contravene the exclusive deals thay they already have other spanish TV companies. if TVE and sky UK were to be showing the same footie match, then Sky Spain would not be able to, due to the exclusive contract, and would have to show alternative programming or sdisplay a "screensaver" for 3 hours!! many of the channels, programmes, movies and sports are already on canaldigital+ (they have their own version of sky movies, sky box office, nat geo, discovery channels),so it would be pointless duplication - although i dont think any spanish station shows cricket! also, i dont think there is enough space / capacity on the satellites used by canaldigital+ to carry many more channels without serverly compromising quality of the broadcasts.

they may have some deal to do a "sky sports news" channel, as this (normally) does not show live sports, and so rights would not be an issue with this channel, in the same way the sky news and bbc news can be broadcast around the world.

vox populia

On Tuesday of last week the Guardia Civil raided TELMICRO properties in Torrevieja and Algorfa, broadcasting equipment and computers from both offices were impounded and the area's sealed off!!! Check it out in www.costablancanews.es

Fred James

We know that - Try reading the Telemicro thread on this forum.